The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-09-25

us A4NaBCrs m mafhet fAlaHs w thN
hundred tlousaal strangers wbo yearly
visit the place and saunler through i's
beautiful streets, some every season buy
lots ard build cottages, and thus The vii
lage grows In wealth aud numbers and
spreads oat on every side; while the gen
eral business Of The town Keeps pace with
it- property. Outside Of the large cities,
there are no towns where real estate
bears so high q valuation as in those Of
fashionable watering places or resorts
Wealth Il not satisfied with common
comforts. but beauties aud sdorus, and
by It's expenditures enriches rs ueighbors
and lho community, and elcvates the
standard of csthetie taste and require
ment among the people.
During the past 1.-TWO years Saratoga has
expended much money ia providing fine
drives for its guests One avenue 10 the
lake, four miles long, has been widened
from common country roadway TO a
broad avenue Of one hundred feet, with
two tracks turnpiked and grayeled, and
q row Of elms between the tracks, aud
rows Of trees outside each roadway. This
was done at q cost OF $50, 900. There are
several other avenues opened, equal IN
beauty, though through less expensive
district, ....
Saratoga has forty hotels aud numerous
public aud private boarding houses--in
all sufficient to accommodate $4,000 Wis.
itors at one time. Its hotels are the
largest in the world, and some descrip-
ton of few Of the largest may not be
uninteresting.
Congress Hall has front on Broadway
of 4l6 feet, with two mammoth wings,
each 800 back; has accommodations for
/ 900 guests
The Grand Union Hotel embraces a
space of seven acres IN extent, with a
street frontage of 1864 feet; six stories
high. The capacity Of this house is said
to be greater than any other in the world.
Some idea of It's size can be formed from
the following statistics; Length of pi-
azzas, one mile; halls, two miles; car
peting, twelve acres; marble tiling, one
acre; number Of rooms, eight hundred
aud twenty-four; doors, one thousand
| four hundred and seyenty-four; win
dows, Que Thousand eight hundred and
ninety-one. The dining room is two
hundred and fifty feet by fifty-three feet
and twenty feet high, aud win aocommo-
date at one time 200 people.
The Grand Hotel is five stories high,
and has a frontage of $50 feet, and by far
reaching wings encloses quite park. II
has $50 rooms The dining and hop
rooms are 200 feet leng. Entertains 700
guests.
The United States Hotel, in size and
elegance, surpasses any other hotel on the
globe. 1t has a street frontage of 900
feet, and a row of parlor cottages 5l6
feet long-all of the rooms in suites; but
| the speciality of the house is in private
parlors, Of which there are sixty, with
from three to five sleeping rooms and a
bath room and water closet attached to
each. There are 1,l0o rooms In the
house, of which 76S are bed rooms Ball
room, 1ls by 81 feet and 20 feet high.
Dining room, 2l0 by 81 feet; parlors sc
by 80 feet, and two of "a by 81 feet. The
lot cost $3.50, 900 and the hotel 81 100000,
and will be fully completed for next sea-
sons travel.
The Clarendon, Columbian, Grand,
Grand Union, American, United States
Arlington and Holden are built on five
consecutive blocks on same street, and
Congress Hall fronts the Grand Union
These are the largest hotels In Saratoga
and bring 1000 fashionable people into
one colony.
The gaiety Of life and briliancy Of the
scene we leave gosspers Of fashionable
life 10 describe.
JACKSONVILLE.
Jacksonville, Fla, aspires to promi
neuce as a fashionable winter resort Il
has no mineral springs or other specia
attractions to induce people OF fashion tC
make II their winter residence except ili
climate, and the softness of its climate i,
commop TO all Florida and the gulf coas
Of all the Gulf States. Jacksonville owe
its present prominence as a winter resor
to its accessibility and greater accommo
datons for guests. All this may b.
changed in short time by the enterprise
Of some other town.
Tallahassee has the attractions Of variet
scenery, beautiful hills and plcasan
drives, aud the uncommon attention Civ
en- by ms people to the cultivation Of flow
ers and beautfying their gardens an,
grounds.
Fernandina has beach drive Of twen
! ty miles, unequaed In the United States
I and It's people are energetic aud more 4
he feared as competitors, perhaps, thar
the people Of amy town in Florida.
St. Augustine has a national reputation
i As the oldest town Of the country, aud
quaint little city that must be visited II
! old fort, and military barracks, and Gem
I eteries, aud fine sea wall, and ruins, an'
narrow streets, together with several fn
/ orange groves, make il very interesting
! 10 travellers: sud were II no, for tia
, fearful TocOi horse railroad and pou
, hotel accommodations, the Ancient Cit
i would be fayoite resort Unhspply
! ls people never have been wide-awake r.
sro stnpidly inert-and there is little Z