The New York herald., 1874-07-17
THE REGATTA POSTPONED.
An Unruly Southeast Wind Ruflles
the Waters of Lake Saratoga.
Vast Multitudes Disappointed-The Race
to Come Off To-Day.

noon at five O'Clock. Since early morning the
wind has been blowing fresh from the northeast,
causing the whitecaps to dance merrlly over the
entire expanse OF the lake. and it was deemed
hazardous for the crews to venture out in their
fragile boats. After postponement OF two hours.
Cornell, Williams, Wesleyan and Harvard padded
up TO the starting point, but were quickly COM
PEELED to put ashore and free their shells OF the
water they had shipped. consultation was then
held in the Columbias house and the decision as
above given was arrived at
EXPECTATION
The morning broke warm and cloudy and al.
most every human being in Saratoga imme-
diately looked at the sky. at leels little
SOFT" said Commodore Brady, 'as If there
was going 10 be little sOutherly rain.n The ear
lest hours OF the day saw people, bedess many Of
them all night, str0lling on Broadway and throng.
ing around the springs thckly tnat the hotel
servants and towns olks with pitchers and pads
conld scarcely draw their customary Quantum OF
water. Strange people be they who are sucked
on chaybeates and for all their days drink cathar-
tics lor household beverage. The Old inhabt lnt
go by the name OF sold salts, ana are little more
than magnesia bottles.
"Right Off for the laKe!" say all the voices IN the
air, with strong Vermont acccnt-"Saratoga
Lake, right away!' For everybody with a pair of
mules, pair OF wheels or an Old buggy is here
from forty miles around, ready to hire out Yes.
terday. even at the Freshmen race, they
charged S. head, $25 for little
old Dearborn, and during the day many a
man recovered the whole price OF his pair,
harness and new vehicle. To-day their expecta.
tiOns were little short Ofpayng or their mortgage
or building a brick house. Even hay wagon
venturing into town yesterday was dIspossessed
OF its load Tor $50, and filed at 81 a head with
about fiity college lads, netting the lucky farmer
hundred odd dollars. to his great surprise. The
schedule OF prices agreed upon between the livery
and team people and the Regatta Association OF
Saratoga was practically done away with as the
tOwnsiolks would not take mankind at fifty cents
head while the rustics readily obtained IS. But
some
STURDY OLD sARATOGIANs,
like W. r. Brown, Superintendent of Congress
Springs. resented the breach OF faith by turning
out their teams and pacarding them, ''ro the
Lake and Back for Ten Cents" Nothing
was more romantic than the ride over the
five miles of dirt road. with water tanks
at every few rods Tor sprinkling, the smell
Of pines, the prospect of two mountain
ranges, the thrifty fields Of wheat and potatoes
and the long array of pedestrians and wagons
seen climbing the long ridges OF the way, so that,
from one high point on the road, every moving
thing could be seen from the brow OF Saratoga
Hill nearly to Moons. Thousands of walkers,
elegant spans, dog carts, furniture carts, carry
alls, riders, made the procession. Some were
singing, some guying, others gallOping, some de-
mure. and mounted police. wearing yellow badges,
carefully patrolled the way. 1t is inevitable, how.
ever, that railway be run to The lake from the
village, and probably the Rensselaer, and Saratoga
Railway will TANK the same before next year.
Saratoga has had more visitors during the week
past than in the whole regular season. From the
President down the "seven ages OF man" are here
visble-al the forms OF life commerce and station.
1t is a long week OF Derby Day.
wednesday night was as fine presentation OF
University life as OXFORD or the Latin Quarter ever
and alumni in the hatbands, cockades ana rib
bons OF their alma mater, fairly OverpOwerlng the
enormous number OF spectators, and the rolicking
songs OF the Yale Gee Club poured through the
open windows or the Town Hall, and then the
same club, followed by long procession OF Yale's
men, marching down the streets with songs fled
up into Congress Hall as IL to serenade the Presi.
dent. But the college man, nowadays, is a stick
ler for his earnings.
'.Why don't you sing one Of your airs while the
people up there In the grand stand are waiting for
the gun to be fired ?'' said gentleman to Yale
chorster.
we VIII, kituly,' sbiu LHc SLuucHV, WllUOub re.
serve, "prOvided We are paid for it,"
Other students were coquetting. seeking to room
with more fortunate acquaintances who had beds,
noddng on the piazzas in chairs or visiting the
springs In multitudes and with careessLess OF
stomachic consequences. drinking OF every source.
A few huzZas. acknowledgements shouts, pe-
cuiar to colleges-brOke the stiffness of the warm
night as bands OF lads from friendly colleges passed
on the street, and Princeton's victory in the
Freshmen race was the theme OF no little wonder
and speculation.
"Hal you Yankeesn cried one 'to-day, for the
first time you met the Middle States and lost your
colors. Twenty-Five years you have been racing,
and these Jerseymen, who have just learned how
to pull-on a canal at that for they have no river
wipe you out the first time they see you.'
The Jerseymen, so called, were conspicuous by
the little OF the Jersey blood in them.
The stroke, Nicoll, who was the vigor and master
OF the crew, hailed from the city OF New YORK.
Two were western men, from Ohio and Iowa, and
one came from the most southery point, probably,
OF any rowing man in both days regattas-Camp-
bell, OF Washington, d. G. The feeling was decidedly
in favor OF the vlctOrs everywhere. Their modesty
the old and OF late somewhat diminished
CELEBRITY OF NASSAU HALL,
the splendid Scotch and Irish stock which has
immemOrially sent its sciOns to Princeton, and
the clean fair, gallant way in which they shot the
homestretch and "spurtcd" TO victory by a con-
joined spirit, gave the older college men an idea
that alter while, when the John Hopkins College,
the University of Virginia, Ann Arbor and the
western schools come to these regattas to com.
pete, the names OF Harvard and Yale will be heard
less boastingly.
ADVICE FROM SPORTING MAN.
1t was deemed advisable 10 drop In on Mr.. Nor
rissey about ten O'Clock, as the unquestioned
sporting encyclopedia. He was found in his care
less, greyish white suit, with tanned olive skin
and beard of lustrous black, as usual. He said,
without hesitation -
''It's my opinion that if you mean TO bet you
take lem IN this Order:-First Harvard. That
crews been timed, and has made the course in I'm.
2ss., which Is not as good as either Columbia or
Wesleyan, but her men have got more experience.
Tney stand evencr. They are better seasoned and
they are the best to rely on. Next would take