The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-26
Opening OF tine Fashionable Summer SeasoI
The Bohemian Gentry Abroad.

vertising columns. Moreover, the fact Of such
| opening is to be realized from the volume of
letters we daily receive inviting us to become
the welcome ''deadhead" guests Of some sensa-
tlonal or unobruslve watering place. For an
example of the latter we submit the follow
ing. II is dated at
OCEAN HOUSE, - BEACH, Me-,
June Il, 1871.
This DAY send Won local paper with an editorial
article descriptive OF this house. shall feel pie sed
TO nave you read It, And | particularly desire to
book You room or two either Tor a long or short
PERIOD In this house. Your bills while here Will be
nothing; for your presence here VIII be OF great
dement, 10 US, while know you would ENJOY so.
ourn here This beach Is said to be by all odds the
finest on the entire coast. partcu arlv desire to
have you come, If only for q day. but snail feel
greatly pleased IL you could make 1t convenient TO
remain Q long time. Come aid try Yankee hospl-
tally. our advertisement Is IN your paper. II en-.
rirelv and absolutely impossible to come yourself,
shall be glad TO see representative. But your own
presence would preferable.
Trusting to have itsfacrOry reply soon, that
may secure good front room, yours very truly.
Now, while we are really glad to witness
the suspicious prospects for a successful
season at all our fashionable watering places,
we must protest against the humiliation which
some managers of these places would heap
upon respectable members of the press by
sending invitations like the above. We say,
while we are pleased to know that such
unexceptionably popular summer resorts as
Long Branch, Cape May, Saratoga, Newport,
Niagara Falls, White Mountains, Catskill Noun
tains, with their White Sulphur Spring House !;
Lake George, West Point with its happy Coz
zening; the Highlands of Navesink, Schooley's
Mountain, New London, with its Pequot
House; Sharon Springs, Lake Mahopac,
Chittenango Springs, New York; Bergen
Seneca Lake, with its Watkins Glen and its
ever Pleasant Valley, rich in the juices of
its vineyards and the deliciousness of its
| atmosphere; Long Island, with its Rockaway
and its Far Rockaway beaches, its Bath Cot
tage, its Bay View, its Neptune House
at Woodsburg, its Coleman, Canarsie, Peco-
mic, Greenport South Side and other houses
Staten Island; Orange, New Jersey, with
it's Heaths Mountain House, Lockley House,
its Huguenot Springs Hotel, its Mountain
Retreat House at Balmvile; Englewood Park
House at Perth Amboy; Passaic, with
it's Acquackouonck House; Keyport, with its
| Clffwood Springs and Pavilion Hotels; Mon
| treal, with its Ottawa House, and-but we
can scarcely recall at this moment the num-
berless other places in our own vicinity
the attention of the public has been
called through the proper channels
gratifed, as we are, to learn that all
these and many other summer resorts and
summer boarding places are in fair way
of doing q prosperous business the pre-
sent season, we must repeat our protest
against the system in vogue at some of the
places of fashionable recreation of 'dead-
heading" newspaper men, many of whom, no
doubt, are of the bogus Bohemian genus,
whose illusions are better calculated to bring
discredit upon fash ionable resorts than money
into the pockets of the proprietors. A popu-
| lar and we'll regulated summer hotel needs
no puffery Of this kind. 1t will stand
| or fall upon its merits. The HERALD
neither asks nor will its proprietor knowingly
allow its representatives to accept subsidies
of this or any other kind from hotel keepers,
railroad or steamboat companies, nor from
| any other source in which the great public
| have to pay their way, as every honest class
of the community is obliged to do. We are
| opposed to the entire free ticket system, root
and branch, including Long Branch and all
! other branches where fashion, fun, funds,
| frivoity or fanfaronade are expected to con-
gregate during the sultry summer solstice.
Every respectable member of the
press should join us in putting down this
reprehensible ''deadhead" practice, and thus
of the United States to that dignifed and
| independent position which its power and
| influence enttle it to demand.
Hence we caution all hotel keepers, all
| managers Of places Of summer resort, all rail-
road and steamboat people, to be cautious how
| they throw out free bait to parties represent
| ing themselves to belong to the HERALD. AS
the grand motto of the American people is
"Pay as you CO." no one should unnecessarily
be exempt from its application.
| GERMAN SAENGERFEsT. This will be a
great week with our musical Germans. The
| twelfth annual festival of the Northeastern
Saengerfest, which practically commenced on
Saturday evening last and with great enthu-
siasm, Notwithstanding the ''pitiless storm, Z"
will be continued from day to day, day and
| evening, in one form or another, till Wednes-
day and Thursday next, and these two clos
ing days will be devoted to grand picnic in
Jones Wood. The programme for this day
will embrace o matinee at Steinway Hall, with
its numerous prize singing societies. assisted
by an orchestra Of fifty Of our best instrument
talists, under the direction OF Carl Bergman,
and o monster concert in the evening at the
Skating Rink. Truly our harmony loving
Germans know how to enjoy themselves.