New-York tribune., 1871-08-08
SUMMER RESORTS.
SARATOGA,
WHO ARR THERE AND WHAT THEY DO-A NEW
SPRING,

WHO hRB THERE AND WHAT THEY D0-A NEW
SPRING.
SARATOGA, Aug. 5.-Thc first question of the
day at Saratoga is "Who has arrivedi" To keep one
sef informed in regard 10 the arrival and departure o
fashionable noted people, even to find ones friends
among the crowd Is labor of small difficulty, for The
number of visitors here is rapidly increasing. and the
faces of tho landlords have lost the somber look they
wore few weeks ago. and have rcgaincd their wonted
smiles Tho pazzas of tho great hotels filled with
people, who chat and laugh and discuss the days sensa
ton the street Is lively with promenaders, the brilliant
shops throngo with purchasers the paros and ball
rooms arc alive every evening with brilliantly dressed
people, and hops and balls and masquerades every night
keep the wheels OF fashion revolving.
The poor Indians" moro fortunate than the pleasure
soekors have here found resting place for The soles OF
their weary feet having permanently built their lodges
in wood adjoining Morrsscys Clubhouse. It's to he
hoped that their morals will net suffer from too near con
tact with wickednoss In its most attractive form, and ar
rayed in all the splcndOr Of gded robes Tho races be
gin again next week, and with them will come the Gus
tomary crowd of fast horses and EAST men, But tho
stay OF these people Is short for IA the races are
over this class OF people suddenly disappear again. much
TO the relief of the majority. who come here for
health and pleasure. Never since tho war
which was the OF sudden fortunes, has
there been 40 little display OF the shoddy Gle
ment in Saratoga lifo This ia doubtless explained
by the old adage shat "Rchcs have Wings" for those
who climb as rapidly TO tho pinnacle of fortune soon
grow gddy aud spend easily acquired fortune as
quickly as they it, Still one may chance TO sit at
table opposite rotrnd New-York Tammany Alderman
who scarcely write his name. OF all the people
one meets the Summer resorts the Ignorant owbred
| suddenly rich, are the most disagrceable
The first masquerade OF the given last week
at Congress Hail. and upon Tuesday last the second took
place at the Grand Unon--tho ballroom on each occa
/ Ittt in we
too few in number to give the affairs pleasant though
they wero the character Of masqueradcs. Among the
| guests were tho poet John G.. SAKE, Commodore
Vanderbilt, Gov Hoffman, Sheriff O'Brien oi
NewYork, Judge Low. the Hon. John Fltch
and Paymaster Cunningham of the Navy
In costume the "Hcathen Chinee" was introduced TO
| "old Mother Hubbard" "Mcphistopheles" courtod a
fair Polish maiden; and dangerouslookinS youth
who represented an Irshman" after the invariablo
manner Of masqueraders and went about with his shl-
lclah under his arm was doubt, bte NOR to GOV
Hoffman.
Among titled foreigners who at Saratoga this sea-
son are Sir Henry and Lady Parks, London; Baron de
Rvas and family from the Queen of the Antilles Count
Janon of the Italian Legation, Washngton Lady Carter
and daughter Montreal and many others Saratoga seems
to have great attractions for the clergy despite Its I'M
puted rivoty and wckednes and one may find upon the
register the names of Bishop Lynch of Charleston Bishop
Wood of Philadelphia, Archbishop McCloskey of New
York the Rev. M i. Grer, ID. D.; the Rev. j. C. Neyn
Missionary to China; Dr. NJ. L. Hobrook, and others.
Last night the chdrens grand masquerade and fancy
dress ball long anticipated, took place, and no pct
tier sight could imagined than the saloon abazc with
light and thronged with little people How their little
faces shone with gee! There Scotch lads and las
ses geno and fair the lovers who inspired the muse
of Robert Burns; there little peasants from Nor
mandy, with tn r high pointed caps resting upon thick
treSses filed with youths sunshine; there were pretty
Swiss shepherdesses with simple crooks in their
tiny hanns, and Italian bandits whose faces
were utterly any of wickedness to
induce believe in the traditional good qualities and
innate nObeness OF Robin Hood and others of his way OF
living; little fellows in blue and white called themselves
Jolly tars" declared their invncblo devotion to the
Stars and Stripes and there were soldiers who never
dreamed of scars, and little girls who commenced their
"bclleship" thus early by wearing skirts trimmed
with tiny silver bells, which tinkled musicaly rs
their wearers went floating through the dance.
Ont doors the rain falling In torrents, vivid light
ming parted the sOmber clouds and loud peas OF thunder
reached the throng In the ballroom Among the s
| tinauished people present Commodore Vanderbilt
and family, Gov Clatn OF Massachusetts Col sandord OF
NewYOrk Senator Buckingham Of Connecticut, Senator
Osborn OF Florida Senator Robertson OF South Carolina
Horace f. Clark Augustus sche, = IL. Cmtten1en, Geo
| Opdyke, and B. +. Beekman OF New-York Brig g-Gcn.
Sherwood, Col Babbtt, and Judge rage OF ONO Judge
Spencer and John Grouse OF Syracuse, aud President
| White of Cornell.
Saratoga rcjoces in the discovery Of another new
spring which has revealed Itself upon the od indian en-
public about month. Its qualities are said To par
take both Of those OF the old Congress aud the new
UathOrn Springs-nOt quite salt the later and yet
possessing more saline matter than the former