The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-01
SEASIDE AND COUNTRY.


Mount Desert, Me-, should be taken Inc the
regular course.
the Croton Lake Hotel, near Mount Kisco, West
chester, Is now open.
Mrs. c. B. Hossack, OF this city, has arrived at
her Newport residence.
The Sound View House. City Island, westchester
county, is Q new resort.
The new Suffolk Hotel on Peconic Bay affords
pleasant place for visitors.
The Seven Springs House, Monroe, Orange
county, N. Y, win open June 15
The Train Mountains are descendants OF Mount
Washington; You descend by rail-
Pequot House, New London. Colonel Crocker pro-
prtetor, viii open on the 10tn OF June.
Saybrook has distractions to It's prosperity
in the way OF dams likely to break forth.
The grand old elms in the court OF the old United
States Hotel, Saratoga, are still nourishlng.
For the nrst tune in ten years New York dailies
will be sold at Saratoga this year at five per
copy.
.Sara-Toga is gay and coquettlsh; nevertheless
she entertains Sara-Ph unawaresn says an ex-
change.
The family OF John N. Courtney, OF No. West
Fittynrst street, Will occupy their country house
OF Idlewild, on the Hudson. early in June.
Hon. Thomas B. Carroll, OF Troy, has offered
donation Of valuable books to Saratoga for q
AULuly 0Au PioVuAO kohOiy, uue bAV VuAu8C uoS ~
building In which to place them.
"One OF our quasi summer residents, whose fam
lily puts on airs,'" says the Newport Ne,cs, mot
only fails to pay store bills, but leaves the family
servants without remuneration"
The clifford House, head OF Plymouth Beach,
Mass. "a new structure, capable OF housing 800
guests) opens June Is; Mr.. }, V. Robbins, late of
the Grand HOTEL is the proprietor.
As an evidence that the hotel proprietors appre-
ciate the benefits Of early advertising to I'LL their
houses, we may state that The HERALD OF Sun
day, May II, contained cards Of seventy-ive
houses.
The Hatfield House, Messina Springs, st. Law
renee county, N. Y, will open this week. This q
popular Northern resort, visited by the cite OF
Canadian society," owing to Its proximity to the St.
Lawrence River.
A. L. Briggs, OF the Grand View Mountain House,
Catskills invites sinners and Christians alike to
climb 5000 feet into the upper air ana .see him"
to the tune OF 50 per day or 50 per week. 1t is
about as near the heavenly bodies as many will
ever get
West Point cadets are looking forward to the
summer season with anxiety and eagerness readily
understood by all save susceptible young ladies.
Examination comes in June, then white trousers,
then encampment, and hast. but by no means least,
the weekly hops.
Saratoga, Newport, Cape May and Lake Mahopac
have local journals; but with the exception OF the
Herald at the Lake. as well might you attempt to
natcn game chickens from billiard balls as to find
any summer gossip IN them other than what they
hatch from these columns.
Among the hotels that offer superior accommo-
dations are the Irving House, Cambridge, N. Y,
now open; the United States at Long Branch, to
open June Is; the Lake Side House, Newburg.
IA IN Fort ar.
ingt0n, and the La Tourette House, Bergen Point.
J. M. Herrlck and family, OF No. East Twenty
sixth street, and Mrs. Z. M. Block and family, OF
East Twenty-ninth street, have secured rooms at
Thompsons, Lake Mahopac General Ferrao,
Joshua s. Cooley, Mrs. Augustus Purdy, OF No. $50
Lexington avenue, and F. NJ. Jones, OF No. As West
Twenty filth street, with their families, will also
be found at Thompson's.
1t rests largely with the hotel proprietors at tho
watering places whether they Will have crowded
houses or not this season. Those who early ad.
vertise reasonable rates OF board will almost Ger.
tainly get all the guests they can accommodate.
Strange to say many OF the landlords forget TO
mention even the State In which their houses are
located or the means OF reaching them.
The Hygiene Hotel, Old Point Comfort, is now
open. The Van Doren House, Washington, N. j.,
is open. The Webster House, CatskiHs, is also
open. Among the other hotels that OFFER supe-
perior inducements are the Englewood Park Hotel,
Perth Amboy, N. j.; the Lakeside House, Newburg,
N. r.; Jenkinson's Hotel Highlands N j.; the
woodsburg Pavilion, Rockaway; the Addison
House, Middlebury, VT; Chamberlin House, Rah-
way, N. j.; Canadarago House, Richncld Springs;
Forest Lawn House, Cold Spring Harbor, n. j.;
Hamilton House, Green Lake, N. j.; leighton
House, Newman Springs N. j.; Neptune House,
New Rochelle; Pavilion Hotel, Keyport STANDARD
House, White Plains, N. y; Southside House,
Great South Bay L. l., and the south oyster Bay
House, south oyster Bay L. l.