Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-29
LETTER FROM SARATOGA.
Cecl1e Of the Season-The Great Racs-Gay.
eies-Improvements and Growls, Etc.


Correspondence of The Evening Start
SArATC "a, August o.
"Sarat1ga againsc the feld!' cried a group
on the grand stand as the last red 4 W fell on
the August meeting and closed a racing season
In which everybody told everybody else that it
was jolly, because all the favOrites had been
beaten, and the climax of hilarity had been
capped by the glorious Longfellow being dis
tanced. There ives but one in all the vast
throng that occupied those long rows of terraced
seats and dotted the lawn in front of them, that
did not involuntary c'ap his hands and Join in
the wild excitement as HeImbold came flying
up the quarter s, etch on the last eighth of the
Ior-th rile-and he was party by the name of
sold nan Harper" the owner of the animal
With he POET name. The old Kentuckian
brushed up his dingy felt hat, took his hands
from under his Kentucky jeans coat, and, fear
ing that his spectacles deceived him, attempted
TO brush away the vision, which was too real.
that he new king of the turf was fast handing
over his ;eptre to a worthier claimant. The
details of this great race your readers have
doubtless seen. Not one hundred of the thou
sands who witnessed it expected such a re-
suit, aud The odds Of four to one did not
md so many tfEe1s even as one would imagine
1here were a lew heavy betters, ike Mo. rissey
and othe.j, who nd seen Lone fellow Is three mile
run at L ong Branch, and felt quite rfdent
that he had not the "bOttOm"-to use a turf
wOrd-tO hold up on another mile II is certainly
not true rat i ong. elbow was sold out. Helm
bold had never been put to the endurance, but
these excellent judges staked their faith and their
money on his 81 )ttom," end they won. Morris
sey's winnings were estimated, Oh the track, As
high as fi,y thousand, but thirty thousand dol
lars will probably prove more correct cst.Ip ate
eho oil Al.
havoc, hundreds not having enough left to buy
,icket for home. Yesterday, Mr.. Harper and
LOngfellow, his constant companion, in and out
of the sable, leit .Jr WOodford coruty, in a box
spring car, FINISHED v til bc-rels of Kentucky
oats, and Kentucky water even. Doubtless no
one went away filed with so much regres, though
all cried pleasant Vo,e! to the grand old sand,
Swallowed in the beau iIul outline of Vermont's
green hills, and decorated as it has been for
seven days with the fashion and beauty of con-
tinent. Well may any group cry "Saratoga
against the feld in contrasting the fiC ID tide of
this brilliant season, with it, balls and hoI and
drives and races, and displays, with the Ieaden
hue that hsngs over 'lesser lights"
Three bells have been gwen tbs week at the
leading hotels in addition to the nightly hons
That at the Congress is voted superb affrir
while The fancy dress one of the Grand Union led
said that il Is that there is such gathering
of handsome ladies. The rich dressing is ex-
pected as a mater of course, but grand display
of beauty is not always a matter OF course. The
dressing was magnificent Mrs. Commodore
Vanderbilt, who is a tall and graceful brunette,
was attired in a long rain white satin striped
srenadine, high corsage with point L. &c trim
mings and diamond necklace. Another haud-
some dress, worn by Mrs. S. /. Johns On, of N
Y, was maroon and white satin striI ed, court
train over a beautiful maroon satin petticoat
with two rows of point lace beaded with the same
colOred satin skirt looped en- pdnier, corslge low
with maroon colored satin trimmings. point lace
neck and sleeve trimmings, and with elegant
diamonds. The hair was arranged Marie Antoin-
e,te style ard powdered. These are mere speci-
mons OF the tOilettes.
1t IS stated that it has at last been positively
decided to rebuild the old United .tates Hotel
burned several years ago, and TO male il first
c'3cs IN all respects. which viii take about a
million of dollars. The Grand UniC has cost
more than that, and the Congress counts up as
il stands about two-thirds of a million. A hand
pine city hall has been erected on the site of
the old Columbian. With some thirty smaller
hotels, and hundred or more boarding houses,
the town bad not accommodations for the rnsh
that came " 9TH the hot weather, Pud some New
York capitalists feel assured of a profitable in-
yestment in a new hotel. Sever III very hand
some summer residences have been built here
the past year, and contracts have been made for
more neat year, among them one by Fernando
Wood. The cottage life feature of Newport is
rapidly being inaugurated.
yeTs.l complaint. A party of Washingtonians
who have been making tour of the Likes and
the Canadas reeite long list of grievances
especially after they crossed the line ard found
him indigenous At one hotel they where sub
jeCted to all kinds OF petty annoy ances until thew
paid out the usual fees and then only halfserysce
was rendered. Atone fthe Lake Geor.e horses
this nut ance was so intolerable md The inso-
lence so general that they picked up and leIs
only to find at Congress Han, Saratoga, that this
class virtually controlled the house. They do
not know now whether - bear the nresent or "A .
TO other places and evils they know not OF. Thai
writer IN the September GALAXY who saws
that in Sour locomotive summer experience, the
PERPETUAL anticipation o. insolence is almost
worse than the thing 4 self," had better try his
hand with the high toned watering place hotel
clerks and the walters, who are their equal He
will be glad enough to get off with his antici-
pations.
Senator Cameron and his family are here, ard
the Union hotel grounds. Gen. er1ill and family
ofWashington; Deputy Commissioner Williams:
Senior Roberts, the Spanish Minister: Admiral
Powell and family; Miss Grundy, of Tae CapttaI.
Paym aster John Cunningham and other W ash.
'1etonisrs, are among the arrivals in town for
the last day o. two
Potter Palmer, the A. T. Stewart of Chicaoo.
is at the Congress with his family, and makes
gorgeous display that dazes some of thnse New
York merchant princes He has been recently
married. Mrs. p. appeared at the Congress hop
in pink, corded SILK, long train, low corsage,
overskirt Of point lace, with diamond necklace
and pendants, and with short sleeves closed win
die mond loops. h4 ~
Extensive preparations are making for the
regatta between the English and America crews
on SARATOGA Lake next month, KRITRFR