New-York tribune., 1873-05-14
THE SUMMER RESORTS.
SARATOGA


PATuATION OF THE SPRINGS.
irRou AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEl
SARATOGA, May 10.-EverybOdy Is preparing
for the formal opening the 1s proxmo. though the
season win not fully begin until the early part oil july
The Summer at watenngplaces is compressed nova
days between the sth 10th OF that month ana the
beginning of August and strangely enough too since
the temperature frequently higher and the amos-
phere moro Oppressive IN the six weeks from June to
July Is than during the remaining six weeks Of the
torrid term.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPENING
Not only are the hotel-keepers and cottageowners
Furnishing painting, and refurnishing the numerous
tradcsmen in Broadway putting their shops in order
and employing their best ingenuity TO tempt the coming
soourner paying twice thrice what the gewsawS
offered worth. Even the nomadlc Indians. VINO are
shrewdy suspected Of being dyed and disguised natives
OF Tpperary are getting ready in the outlying SUBURBS
their nexhaustih.o supply of moccasins bircn-DoAes
bead-bags and all the rest Of their familiar uunPe''
The club-hOuses-,he modish euphemism ior gahDnns
densare extending their webs for foolish Mes anu n
welknown high priest OF faro has large expectations OF
an abundant fatuity next Summer. The noted drVo 10
satoc Lake ia now repairing, and will be In better
condition than has BEEN The renowned MOON Is
setting his little to rights, and laying in vast stocK
OF potatoes for future frying. Your correspondent 49,
however sufficiently hereto in vegetables not 10 hke
Moons fried potatoes, which suggest 10 MS Paiae ooSen
chips sOothed with olive oil.
This plaoe has been called the Baden-Baden OF
America which it suggests only by contrast. The little
town in the valley Of the Schwarzwald is topicauy de-
hghful while this village with its single street and
fat and surroundings is not in the least inviting
Howbeit. there are those who, fancyug they find
hyenc benefit in the various springs see tho vicinity
through the sparkling Why persons dock here
every season is not to read either In the stars or in
common sense. But they do. and that is enough for
landlords and lackeys, shopkeepers and blacklegs'
mantuamakers and adventures. Indications thus FAR
favorable very good season, even better than
the last when estimated that over 10000 persons
came here TO drink the waters, most Of them after
little experience preferring champagne and coSnao.
THE HosTELRIEs
Tho Grand Union Breslin Gardner, said to be the
largest Summer hotel in the land Gt has ample accom-
nodatOns for 1900 persouS is renovatng and mproV-
ing from cellar to roof It's owner, Alexander T. Stew
art will probably spend upon from 100000 TO $15oOOO
and he expects make it the most comfortable and at
tractve public house here anywhere else The Grand
Union will hardly be ready for visitors before the 10Th
prOXimO though painters, mechanics, and upholserers
are doing their have open by the lst One OF
the desirable additions the building OF bathroom In
connection with sleeping aparment-at least II is
80 asserted must believe what he hears at these
resorts unless he would become thorough Pyrrhonist
Congress Hail. H. II. Hathorn Co., has space for 1900
guests being entirely of brick is of the coolest
and most substantial of public houses for Summer re-
sorts. The Grand Hotel Major Vim. W. Leland, Will
contain 600 persons conveniently, AMI 1900 on pinch
Formerly the Grand Central it has been almost entrcf
made over and claims have all the modern improve
meuts The Clarendon Charles f. Leland proprietor Of
the Delevan at Albany has rooms for about
400 persons. and is one of the quetest ana
pleasantest of the Saratoga inns. Mr. Leland has eX-
pended SIS 900 in divers improvements An entire
wing has been added 10 the American, Mccartney Co..
and its present capacity Will lodge nearly 500 guests
rrhfs vvifl, no accommodate
ing some go persons open. Such small houses
the Continental. Eagle, Broadway, Waverly. Washing
ton and Everett, initiating the examples OF the
larger hotels. and unsparing in applying the paint
pot and gbrush that they may bid old patrons
and new friends welcome by the approaching 1st The
leading houses have engaged bands for the season.
Bernstein, with his trained musicians, will be at Con-
gress Hail. Mollenhauer at the Grand Union, Parlotti
at the CLARENDON, and Gilmore, Of Jubilee fame, it Is
said at Grand. Gilmore has also been set down for
Long Branch; but musicians according 10 the news
papers, have difficulty IN being at several places at
one and the same tme Gilmore will doubtless be able
to distribute himself the Springs and the sea-
side
The races TO be run in August expected 10 be OF
unusual interest Many of the best horses entered on
the Pimlco course, at Monmouth and Jerome Parks,
will take part here in the trial for speed The arrange
ments are as yet incomplete though 1t Is known that
the purses will large and that Of the best stock
in the country will start Among the horses named are
Harry Bassett Helmbo,d, Tubman, Monarchist True
Blue Tom Bowling, Joe Daniels, Wizard and $50 others
Itis thought that the cottages will not be in as much
demand this season as heretofore; not few who have
formerly occu pied them having decided Vienna
The hotels however will probably be full especially
during the races, and through the month OF August:
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Grand Kopha Of
Railways, win, az usual be domcied at Congress Hail.
where he will divide his leisure time between wagons
and whist Alexander T. stewart, MS rival IN Wealth,
will be quite early at the Grand Union, in order that he
health demands Henry n smith. the prominent Walt
IT. Speculaor, f. g. JafIav and Horace b. Clanln the
great dry goods merchants, VIM Butler Duncan George
Opdyke and James Brown, the prominent bankers;
OakeY Hail. MantOn Marble, VIM. H. HurlOut john
DaIy Dre Parker. Sayre and CarnOcban, the Rev. E. H.
Chaplin Vim. b. Shattuck. Judge DAILY, ex-Judge Bar
Eens will spend IT IS expected the whole part of the
at the Springs The visitors this Summer prom
Canadians Mexicans Gubans. South Americans have
engaged rooms at the hotels so that Broadway here will
bear faint resemblance 70 the great Broadway at the
mouth OF the Hudson The propretors Of the public
houses that their average business is mucharger
than il any other watering-pace, and that they will
have this fully 1900 more visitors than they had last
There s unquestionaby, secret fascination in Sara
tORa, as IS shown by the thousands who rush hther
every season. IN spite OF the absence OF visible nduc
1t is not the waters for few women, and no
men drink them, after the first week IT is not the
you have gone to the lake and returned, you have
hausted the driving sensation IL is not Broadway, for
broadway is as hot lonely and monotopOus street as
can be found even 6y dill gent scare hing 1t is not the
society for that is miscellaneous and often uncertain.
H. cannot be the gambling for. II human testimony can
be believed, everybody you meet expresses aversion
to the vice. What IS it, theni Is it the and womenf
1t must be they II not she atractor they are certainly
the attracted None OF them TO know exactly why
they Gomez but the OF their coming is the coming
OF others They that Saratoga is popular and
they aid tOswe itspopnlary They are sure OF crowd
here the hight OF the season. and the average man
and woman are drawn 10 a crowd simply because il is
crowd Saratoga has been center Of folly and extrava
gaDce OsteDtatOn and clothes for great many years.
ana likely such in the future even 10 deepen and
expand.
WATERING-PLACE NOTES.