The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-16
WATERING PLACE NOTES.

WATERING PLACE NOTES.
Il. L. Powers, OF the Grand Central Hotel in
this city, is stopping with Major Leland in Sara
toga.
Maryland is to have watering place. which
will rival so the projectors say, Long Branch and
Cape May 1t is to be located at Berlin, In Worces
ter county, on the eastern shore, along the beach,
The site is In view OF Phoenix Island lighthouse,
and about one hundred and eighty-nve miles from
Baltimore. Hons William T. Hamilton and George
r. Dennis, the two Maryland United States Sena-
tors, with party Of thirty or forty capitalists,
went down last week to settle all the prelmina-
res and DIX the spot for the erection of o large
hotel.
Mr. william M. Evarts Is sojourning at New
port
Bathers at Long Branch and Cape May should
keep their thoughts continually on the dangers Of
the undertOw.
Ross winans, OF Baltimore, has just finished
splendid palace at Newport.
Mr.. s. c. Thompson, President OF the First Ma
uonal Bank Of this city, Ia ct Martha's Vineyard,
Mass.
children's ball will be given this evening at
the Grand Hotel Saratoga.
Mr.. Israel 7. Hatch, OF Bufalo, is at the Clar-
endon Hotel, Saratoga Springs
Sidney Dean, OF the Providence (R. ~ Press, il
at Congress Hall, Saratoga
Colonel Jerome Bonaparte and Nine. Jerome
Bonaparte are at Newport. The former drives q
splendid tandem.
An EFFORT Is to be made to make the high lands
at Hyanns, on the south side OF Cape Cod. Mass,
Summer resort.
Ole Bull and wife. Of Norway, are at the Sea View
House. Martha's Vineyard.
The widow OF General Robert r. Lee has engaged
quarters for the Summer at the White Sulphur
Springs.
Fify-two licenses to sell liquor were granted in
Newport in one day last week.
Wash. Mclean OF the Cincinnati Enquirer, is at
the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga.
Miss Charlotte Cushman Is very popular among
the poor OF Newport.
The newspapers published ct the prominent
watering places are the Sarato0tan and Sentinel at
Saratoga Springs, the Netos at Long Branch, the
Ne,os at Newport, the ocean Wave at Cape May,
the Reutear at Atlantic CITY, the Gazette at Niagara
Falls and the Seaside Gazette at Vineyard Grove,
Martha's Vineyard.
The Warehouses de Noaillcs, Madame Jerome
Bonaparte, Mrs. Lor1ng Andrews, Mrs. Colford
JONES' Mrs. J. Marion Sims and Mrs. De Peyster are
leaders OF the fashion in Newport this season.
Ex-Mayor A. Oakley Hall has been invited to de-
liver his lecture on "Love, Marriage and Divorce"
at Saratoga Springs. very proper place.
The watering-place letters are uncommonly dull,
stupid, trashy, senseless and uninteresting this
season. The regular correspondents seem to have
fallen into letharglc state, and the Bohemians
have evidently had their hotel supplies very much
reduced.
The administration will not leave Long Branch
for the Adirondacks until the last week in August
Mrs. Grant does not like the Generals English
carriage. She says 1t Ii Q story too high.
The steamboat landing at Cape May is now the
favorite drive, and those old resorts, Diamond
Beach, Fishing Greek and Cold Spring. are totally
neglected and almost forgotten.
Admiral Porter is at Newport.
There are nineteen hotels and lao cottages at
Cape May.
The Governor General OF Canada will pay two
weeks visit to Long Branch next month.
very young guest arrived ct the Stockton
House, Cape May, on the 4th, 1t being Its first ap-
pearance anywhere
Lake Side is a new watering place on Lake Erie
IL Is situated on o promontory running out between
the lake and Sandusky Bay.
Providence paper states that Mrs. Senator
sprague invites clergymen, schoolteachers and
common people to oil the eighty rooms OF her home
at Newport.
There are about twenty Japanese Summering at
Saratoga. They say they like the place, but they
have no occasion to drink the water.
Among New Workers at watkins Glen may be
mentioned the family Of ex-Mayor c. Godfrey
Gunther, OF this city.
The tide Of Summer travel Is setting toward the
breezy Berkshire hills.
Gilmore and his band are soon to be one OF the
attractions Of Saratoga.
Charleston Is. CO. papers say that Survan's
Island, upon which stands Fort Moutrie, ia des-
tined to become the Long Branch OF the South as q
Summer resort.
new steamboat, the Major, carries guests
between Portsmouth and the Isle OF Shoals this
Summer.
Watering places along the south shore of Long
Island are becoming popular Islip has many visi-
tors from New YORK.
Seven Springs, "high up among the hills of
Orange county" Is q cool, quiet and pleasant re-
sort this Summer. Three dollars day ''pays the
bill.n
Minnequa Springs, in Bradford county Pennsyl.
vania are 500 feet above the level OF the sea- and
are surrounded by mountain scenery Of unsur-
passed grandeur.
The Rev. George II. Hepworth, with an elegant
yacht at his disposal, will spend the month of July
at the Isle or Shoals. John q. Whittier and J,ret
August.
Since the middle OF June 1000 colored walters
have passed through Virginia to the Northern sum
mer resorts and watering places.
Mr.. George william Curtis has gone TO his sum-
mer home In Ashneld, Mass, whittier his family
preceded him some weeks ago.