The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-17
BENT ON SEEING THE REGATTA.

H - AAh past pAA OSLVSh y huIkluk
crowd had gathered at the Rensselaer,
and Saratoga Railroad Depot,
BENT ON SEEING THE REGATTA,
surging Is the right word to use in
that connection. There was an uninter-
hitting swaYing and tossing, pushing and
lsmming at that depot for one solid
hour. At last the train twenty-six
cars long-pulled out from tho station,
and shortly alter 8 O'Clock the adventur.
ous crowd found itEeltat the "springS."
Saratoga isA
VILLAGE OF HOTELS,
interpreted with elegant private resi-.
dences and fine business houses. The
place Is much larger than most persons
who have never seen It would take 1t to
be. The home population Is somewhere
between six and eight thousand.
II seems to me that nearly oil the vii
famous parasites the larger cities can
spare have conferred at Saratoga. Impu-
dent boot.blacks crouch behind the shade
trees on Broadway and watch for their
prey. When stranger happens along,
never thinking Of danger, hall dozen Of
these ragged. dirty.tRced urchins will
make q simultaneous spring at his legs,
and hold him till they can persuade him
that his boots are rusty and that they
will Shine EN- up" 81 starving rates
Cabmen, with an inch and q half Of fore
head, and gingerbread clothes, garnished
with gorgeous brass buttons, bow and
scrape and act obsequiously to you, and II
you do not feel like riding with then, they
will break the third commandment into
email pieces, and then reVel In the hal.
lucination that they have done you so in
jury which you will carry with you TO the
grave. Right opposite the Grand Hotel,
some individual, who halls from most
anywhere in the wide world, has pitched
q tent and offers 10 exhibit 1.-THE renowned
prodigy, Wicked Ben,' the Educated
Log, from California" A banner attach
ed to the center.pole flsunts in the breeze
and bears the saddeniDg news that this
fellow has afflicted the springs with his
presence for three seasons. From morn
ing till night the proprietor Of that hog
will tell any one who will listen to him,
how the brute will "plsy game OF cards
equal to human being; tell your age and
the time Of day by your watch, add, d.
vide, &c" That swine may be very in
tellectusl-he may be q psychological
phenomenon-but don't think his keep
er ought to speak so fl2tteringly Of hun
in public. A man displays bad taste
when he eyerlastingly talks about family
matters.
And go Ii goes. Saratoga resorts To
every expedient imaginable by which
money can be drawn from the pockets Of
unwary strangers. II you can "come
down with the dust" you arc all right
and very popular; you cannot, your pres.
ence in the Town is not desirable. A man
pays from $21 10 $28 per week at the
hotels, and even then the insolent walters
expect him 70 grant them subsidy for
dong their duty by serving him. Ifthese
Saratoga waiting darkies do not reform
pretty soon they will find themselves on
the highway to Congress About the
hotels there Is enough noise to IN.
string the strongest nerves. Add up the
buzz Of tongues that never tire, the screams
Of Infatuated clerks at lazy porters, the
rattle OF trunks as they are tumbled pro-
miscuously over the floors, and you will
have an aggregate Of sound that Is every
thing but harmonious,
WHAT DO THEY Do'AT THE sPR1EGsi
Everything Is subservient to fashion
The visitors eat at fashionable hours, veal
fashionable clothes, and in every trivia
act Of every day life kneel before the al
tar that the tickle goddess has reared
Three fourths OF the fGbituGs drink some
thing 9 great deal stronger than spring
water, too. If the Ohio women woulC
only visit these famous watering places
during the summer they would have ar
elegant opportunity Of trying their powers
Of persuasion on someof the strong mindI
oil their own SEX Saratoga is also the
great matrimonial market OF the country
Foolish young women put themselves up
4 at auction, and are carried Of by the mar
who have the largest bank accounts, TIT
most good looks, and the least common
sense. The bellies Of "the Springs" havC
established a reputation for beauty thI
world over, but Tor the life Of me l car
not tell how. As general thing they
are lauguid, angular, and wretchedlI
homely. They dance, firb and drinh
wine the greater part Of nearly every
night Of the season, and when the tint
comes to 60 home they are almost ready
10 topple into the doctors hands. Con.
sidering the way in which they violate
the laws oil hygiene, 1t Is q wonder tina
some OF them are not sent home by ex
press. But such : thing never happens
About one.hali Of the visitors are sicl
folks In search oil health. One thing
however, ID very remarkable about thei
cases: among all that immense amount O
illness there Is no mortality. II visito
would die occasionally, Just Tor the SAX
Of breaking the monotory, this bad healtl
plea would not look so much like sham
ri GAMBLING ~.
IL the fashionable way Of stealing OF Sara
togG: Fortunes by the dozen are mad
, and lost every summer In this way
! Wealthy "sports" have great aspiration
TO "break" the "tiger" Of the place, 70
, they have only Rhetted his appetite 70
more victims. The women bet heavil
on the raced and know as much abou
pools" as the men do. Mrs. John Nor
rlssey, during tho regatta week, sludie
; The situation and made all her ben O
l"ColumbiA."
Morrissey was tho principal agent
getting the. college boys 10 Saratoga. II
had an eye 10 business. That IegStta wa
: the means Of attracting over half q mil
] lion Of dollars 70 the place, and the In
/ hAhitRnts who shared In the hRrYeat oVg
) their leader double debt Of thAnks an
, gratitude. did not see the inter- cole
/ gilte race. Along with 80, 900 others wa
disappointed twice by poStponmentS, an
, altar that tho ll0ht anddenlv ahnna In n