New-York tribune., 1872-08-19
NOTES FROM SUMMER RESORTS.

A Long Branch correspondent insists that
tbe surf there does not roar but Sybartic
Injurious Incidence Of repOse from toll" Is the poysya
bic method OF recreation at Hampton Park 80 NISit'
ors TO the seaside should beware OF limitations Stonng
ton. Conn. claims TO have the genuine Atlantic. -
The number Of visitors at Saratoga Mount Desert Lake
Mabopac and among the Catskils Is said to DO mucn
smaller than in former seasons. - conhdng Jour-
nal ventures on the hazardous assertion that thero
are but few improper characters at Long
Rroncb this season." - The Sweet Chalybeate
Springs in Allegheny Co., Virginia, have $50 visitors
One ia inclined to wonder how that State escapes gen.
eral nundatiOn from its countless springs Each new
week brings out the OF some unknown before 10
many Northern ears The visitors to Mauch Chunk
and the noted Swiohbaok Railroad are expected to num-
ber this year nearly $1,000. otsego Lake, made IA
nous in Coopers novels is said to contain an indgen
ous speces of bass. Agassz declares 1t different from
ANYTHING he has heretofore 1t is described as be-
ing delicious eating. The people OF Martha's VINE
ward are fearful according toa printed letter from one
OF them OF not being able TO maintain their most TO
markable moral character the presence OF so great
a number of Summer visitors. The annual camp-meet
Ing is their principal reliance.
Tn the utter dearth Of something TO talk about the
place espondents beginning TO unearth
the early history OF their respective resorts is TO one
NJ these nduarans that the world is indebted for the
announcement that Bartholomew Gosnold landed at
Nantucket in 1902. Rye Beach has enjoyed sensa
tion in the shape OF "a pretty and stylish young
lady" (marred) who followed to Rye Beach, as she has
done before to other places, tall young man OF ee-
CANT appearance-a wealthy lawyer Of st. Johns, N.
b." and attempted to persuade him to elope
with her. No doubt to the great disappointment
OF the other visitors she failed In her object. - The
facility for giving dreadful to all things American
has dubbed a beautiful sheet of water in Northern
Michigan Higgins's Lake 1t is 10 miles In length, ana
from one 20 five In width Is without ines but has an
outlet formed by the large springs within It, visitor
saws that till within few months, this lake has never
been seen by other than Indians, surveyors, aud
landlookers" Could an Indian have named it " Hig
gnsf"
The tournament came of at Saratoga as announced
but seems hardly to have been an unqualified success
The horses were many Of them unmanageabe, and the
rain which has little regard for persons, medieval or
otherwise came down in the most practical There
was much riding prancng and spearng OF rings by
Johns and Williams in and costume with helmets
There were, Of course speeches, which no American
gathering OF whatever size importance, or purpose,
could forego There police as knights never have
shown much respect for statute laws There were
Judges orators, n poet; marshals with aides
in pink sashes and yellow sashes and blue
sas hes and divers other ornamental people In the
evening coronation ball. and the lady chosen
by the successful knight crowned "Queen OF Love
and Beauty in manner that altogether medieval.
There was also some dancing strictly in accordance with
the most approved methods OF feudal times, only inter-
rupted by the stoppage the music the spirit OF the
Nineteenth Century having penetrated the band to the
extent Of a refusal TO play after IL O'Clock, when they
not paid to do SO. Commodore Vanderbilt was an
attentive spectator. We are not told whether he was
amused