Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-17

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would do the most good when they drink il. but
1 noticed rudy Senator Anthony and our own
ex-Mayor Berret, the handsomest man at Sara
toga-or anywhere else-drinking their three
matutinsl tumblers as If they needed it. don't
suppose that either of them ever had occasion
to know of the existence of q liver In their in
ternal combinations. Other Washington faces
see here, as Mr.. William Stickney, Mrs. Snead
of the Louisville Courier Journal: Miss AustiRe
Snead, of The Capital and New York World, and
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend, who Is supplying
the picturesque and graphic side of the boating,
racing and other " events" at Saratoga for the
New York Herald, and finds time to interview
Tilton, Moulton and the rest exhsustivey for
the Chicago Tribune, to the disgust OF the be-
hind-hand reporters of the great metropol-
itsn journals
WHAT is IMPEUDRST FOR A YOUNG LADY AT
SARATOGA.
Scene, Hdthorn spring, (cdh1rtic.) Time. 6 y.
m--Mater Families, touching the shoulder Of
her est.)-"Surey, Emma, you are not SO
imprudent as to take another glass. You have
an engagement o-night, remember"
WHAT Is PROPER ON SUNDAY AT SARATOGA
Scene, piazza Of "Grand Union"-Young lady
to her mOther:-"Mamma, Mr.. Trsvers has in
vited me to 60 out TO the stables to- morrow to
zee the horses; will it be proper to 60 Sunday
at Saratoga"
ANOTHER YOUNG LADY TO ANOTHER YOUNG
LADY.
al ought to write to mamma to-day, but one
can never find time to do anything at Sara
tOga.''
A GRANGER sAMPLING THE SARATOGA WATERS
BY THE JOB.
On Sunday the people of the country about
Saratoga come to the village to see the sights
and fortfy their livers to stand another week Of
fat pork and hot biscuit. Sunday afternoon
walked down to what is called High Rock
Spring; and, guide book IN hand, was admiring
the genius of the artist who could, from this %
inch wart OF stone, with its thin stream OF water
ooziDg over the rim, evolve the picture Of a
colossal mountain OF rock, with q NIagarian
flood spouting from its crater, when a CON-
fortable-looking young granger couple came up
and began to gulp away at the trimming tum-
blers jerked out, three at q dip, by the smart.
jockey capped boy inside the rail. Then the
young woman took seat on the circular bench
skirtiDg the pavilion, with some emotion Of face
disaI probatory Of the taste Of the water, while
he advanced and said:
"Mister, can yeOu tell us baow many more
springs there are daown this vally? We've
drunk tew glasses apiece at eleven springs and
are about full up"
On reference to the guide-book with its re-
markable green-tinted "Msp of the Village of
Saratoga Springs" was able to give the in
formation that they had probably sampled the
Geyser Spring, Washington Spring, Crysta
Spring, Columbian Spring, Congress Spring
Hamilton Spring, Hathorn Spring, Putnam
Spring, Pavilion Spring, Settler Spring, and
High Rock Spring, and had before them the
Empire Spring. Star Spring, Red Spring, Sara
toga ga" Spring, Union Spring, Brook Spring,
hinnehaha Spring. White Sulphur Spring, Ex-
celsior Spring, the Ten Springs
"Hold on" said the young man at this point
"thatI dew. Eff We kin git aout OF Saratogy
with aour present forty four glasses it'll be a
geDteel sufficiency."
Joshua" said the young woman reproach-
fully from her seat on the bench, "Yeou told
me there were but four springs in ALL"
oval, yes, Jane, so did )" admitted joshua"
but who'd'er thought there wus thirty or forty
Of the darned things"
Come, les CO." said Jane, getting up from
the bench; and they started off at right angle
from Spring Valley, up the hill leading to Sar-
at0ga's broadway"
BOY WITH NINE HUNDRED HATS ON MS
MIND.
They have phenomenal boy to mind the
"Grand Union" dining roam hat-rack, to see
that no mistakes occur. In powers OF memory
and locality he beats " Blind Tomu or "the
Lightning Calculator" In the height or the
Saratoga season, with from nine hundred to two
thousand hats on his mind, he has never been
known to make a mistake. White hats, brown
hats, black hats, SLOUGH hats, stove-pipe hats,
straw hats, No. SIS, No. SIS, No. los; hats with
black bands, magenta bands, blue bands, or
green bands, it Is all the same; he has never
failed to have in his hand the right hat for the
right individual at the exact moment OF emer.
gence from the dining room. He is not super
cilious or proud about his gift. When compli-
mented upon his powers OF memory he does not
answer in words, but smiles melancholy smile,
as If the sword were too sharp for the scabbard.
Lake George.
Saratoga is situated upon too fat country to
have much of the grand or picturesque element.
1t has q lake, but that with its low shores L.
pleasing but not striking. 1t has nothing sub
lime about 1t but the fried potatoes at Moons
or the stewed potatoes at Myers. But Lake
George, with its bold, mountainous shores and
picturesque islands and nsrrows, is near enough
to supplement Saratosa's wants in this respect.
The pleasantest route, and the one took, is by
rail to Whitehall, Lake Champlsin steamer to
Ticondernga, stage five miles across to the foot
or Lake George, and steamer to .he head of that
a. m, enjoy the best points of view of the most
picturesque portion of Ohamplain-the noun
tain margined narrows from Whitehall to Tt
conderoga, and also see Lake George at its best,
passing up the length of the lake by daylight
and reaching Caldwell. and good quarters at
the fort William Henry Hotel" in season for
tea. This trip, full Of keen enjoyment, has
been very much described by tourists. AMI
hasten on.
THE FADING STAGE DRIVER.
One thing we missed; the usual pause at Fort
TicoDderoga and maguiloquent descriptive ad-
dress by Captain Barker, owner of the stage
line, OF the capture of tb at fort by Ethan Allen
"in the name Of the Great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress" The stage owner is not
eloquent any more. He sees his occupation
gone. The Delaware and Hudson canal com
pany are building . railroad, connecting Lake
Cbamplain with Lake George, and which will
supersede this five miles OF picturesque staging
as well as the charming steamboat trip from
Whitehall to Ticonderoga. This railroad be-
tween the two lakes will wind round the his
toric Mount Defiance at 100 feet grade to the
mile until it reaches Lake George $50 feet
above ChamplaiD. A great ruck of travel will
be thrown upon Lake George when this rail-
road is completed; and the troat in that consid-
eIably fshed water will have . yet harder time
Of 1t.
WHAT GOOD HOTEL DOES FOR LAKE GEORGE
As usual the Fort William Henry Hotel,
owned and conducted by the Messrs. Roesselle
aT ~rs-