Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-15
wATERINe.PLACE NOTES.

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Thirty.two trains now arrive at anC
depart from Saratoga Springs daily.
Ocean blue is the fashionable color
this season at all the seaside resorts.
The majority Of Cape May cottagers
have arrived and settled for the summer,
Snow and ice can be found in the
Caiskill Mountains all the year round,
The Sans souci spring, at Ballston,
New York, spouts forty-fve feet in the
air.
There are about a dozen villas at New
port valued at from 100000 to $780,
600 each.
Mrs. Jessie Fremont and daughter are
at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga
Springs.
A great number of Canadians find
summer sojourning places along the sea
coast Of Maine.
Many complaints are being made
about the dilapidated bathing houses at
the Branch.
There are lords and counts, and bar
ons and dukes, and foreign ambassadors
enough at Newport to fill hotel.
The hotels on the south side of Long
Island advertise Spanish mackerel
catching as one Of their attractions.
West Point celebrated the Fourth in a
very handsome manner. The cadets pa
raded, music, dancing, fireworks, etc.
At the Sulphur Springs, in West vir-
ginia, there are fourteen springs con-
tanning different kinds and qualities of
water.
Since the opening of the Long Branch
hotels the "Sad Sea Waves" have got
to be quite jolly again. Good for the S.
S. W.
The steamers going up the Mississippi
now are crowded with passengers, mostly
tourists aud pleasure.seekers, bound for
the cool regions of Minnesota.
The healing properties Of the waters
of Sharon Springs, in Schoharie county,
New York, have been satisfactorily
tested by thousands of inyalids.
Handsome equipages are daily in
creasing on Bellevue avenue, Newport
tandems, dog.carts and equestrians are
included. The scene is we're lively and
brilliant
A great many Connecticut people seek
their summer enjoyments at Oak Bluffs,
in Martha's Vineyard Sound. A num-
Der of neat cottages have been built
there.
All the small Jersey villages near
Long Branch are overruH with seekers
of summer board, who hope to combine
cheap prices with the gaieties of a large
watering place.
Canonicut Island, in the Narragan-
sett, has been purchased by party of
New York gentlemen and divided into
villa sites. 1t is intended to be made a
fashionable summer resort.
The ladies at the fashionable watering
places have entirely discarded the CHG
non, and will not, it is said. at least dur
ing the summer, submit to revival OF
that uncouth fashion.
Lake Ronkonkoma is forty-eight miles
on the Long Island railroad from New
York. 1t has beautiful location in the
heart Of the island, and for comfort and
quiet is not excelled.
The citizens of the City of Magnificent
Distances, legally known as Washington,
D. c., mostly rendezvous at Cape May
during the summer. Sixty recently ar
rived there in one day.
The system of feeling servants, we regret
to state, has already commenced at the
Long Branch and Saratoga hotels. This
is an abuse annually growing greater.
It can and should be abated. 1t is stated
that many servants are hired by hstel-
keepers with the understanding that they
consider their fees are equivalent to a
regular salary.
Newportis supported mainly by mil
ionaircs and solid citizens. Saratoga
Springs can boast Of more of the cod
ish aristocracy than any other place.
Long Branch takes the bulk of the pol
ticians and oifice-seekers. Round Lake
n Rensselaer, County, New York, is
noted as being a temporary resting
place OF Methodists. Cape May takes
he bulk of the citizens of Washington
Who leave the capital for the summer.
The Jews 60 to Bath, Long Island, and |
Keyport, N. J.