The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-21
WATERING PLACE NOTES.

Chauncey shaffer ana wife are at the Union Hotel,
Saratoga.
Reverdy Johnson, OF Maryland, still sticks to
the Union Hotel. saratoga.
Sheriff Matt. T. Brennan and family are at the
Gregory House, Lake Mahopac.
Another hotel is to be built at Saratoga. near the
Eureka and White Sulphur Springs.
1t is recorded that Cozzens Hotel at West Point
Is doing unusually well this season.
There were over five hundred arrivals ut Sara
toga Springs on Saturday and Sunday
The cottage OF Mrs. Colt, widow of Samuel, the
pistol man, at Newport, Is valued at $4,000
Judge Bowling, of this city, is in the enjoyment
Of excellent health at the Union Hotel, Saratoga
The story Is kept alive among the ladies at Long
Branch that Tom Murphy's son is to marry Nellie
Grant.
Uncle Daniel Drew sticks to his rooms in the
Ocean House, at Long Branch. like o burr to
sleeps back.
The members of the New York Yacht squadron
are TO have hop at the Sea View House, Oak Bluffs
Martha's Vineyard.
Governor John A. Dix will leave his Summer
home on Long Island the last Of this week and re-
turn to the capital.
Congress Hall at Cape May is to have another
wing added, which will accommodate one hundred
genteman-no ladies admitted
tary OF State OF New York, arrived at Saratoga
lassweek and took rooms at the Union Hotel
Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Me-, Is so crowded
with Summer resorters that the school house aud
church have been opened to furnish lodgings at
night.
part OF Howland's Hotel, Of Long Branch, was
built before the war OF 1872, and shows marks of
cannon balls from British irigate which ran close
In shore and gave the settlement salute.
General Frank p. Blair, Jr., of st. Louis, Is at
Clifton Springs, in this State. He will remain
there another month"; attending to his health,
which he believes Will be permanently restored.
Three hundred acres OF land fronting on the
ocean near Sankaty light, Nantucket Mass, have
been purchased by company OF New York gentle.
men for the purpose of planting another summer
resort.
Atlantic City, N.J.. is on an island ten miles
long, and varying in width from half to three.
quarters OF mile, and is only Ave feet above the
level OF the ocean. It's winter population Is $500;
summer. from Ii, GOO to 10000
lady from Pennsylvania spent two weeks
among the fashionaoles at the Grand Central Hotol
Saratoga, and when the time for departure came,
to the utmost horror OF all the other ladies' IL was
found she had only one trunk.
A spring has been discovered near Lake Ma
hopac, in Putnam county, N. Y, which has been
found to contain constituents similar to those OF
Congress Spring, and now Lake Mahopac wants
to enter the list of water places as q rival to
Saratoga.
William Wilson Corcoran, the Washington
banker; United States senator Henry G. Davis, OF
West virginia the rebel General Joseph f. John
son, Ex-Governor Randolph, OF New Jersey; Gen.
eral W. II. F. Lee, son OF General Robert Z. Lee;
General Gusts Lee, General elmer and family, OF
Georgia; General d. NJ. Barringer, formerly Minis.
ter to Spain, who is improving In health; George
Brown, OF the Chicago Times; william Writ Henry,
grandson OF Patrick Henry, and about thirty other
Generals are sojourning at the White sulphur
Springs, West Virginia.