The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-07

accept this, and has SO declared In procla-
nation. The Right Centre hesitates. Hest
fancy is danger The Republic under Mac
Mahon is the only escape from the Empire or
new revolution.
summer Rest 1T tho Country Resorts.
Hotel life during the summer season has
become fixed custom in this country, and
from tho 1st Of June to the LIST of October
all the leading resorts are crowded with visit
orA In country like ours this is inevitable.
City life is so exhausting that tho country is .
necessity. and the country as yet affords few
opportunities for summer recreation except
through the facilities furnished by the
hotels. Fortunately these are as ample as
they are varied. Not only at such noted
places Of resort as Long Branch and Newport,
but at hundred little hooks on the Sound,
both on Long Island and in Connecticut and
along the coast all the way from Cape May to
Eastport, are there facilities for sea bathing.
! Not in the Adirondacks and the White
Mountains alone, but OF many other places in
New England, New York, Pennsylvania and
Virginia, are there splendid opportunities for
enjoying mountain air and mountain scenery.
Saratoga has charm of its own, and it
has more and better hotels than any
Western city. Newport, the chosen home
Of summer cottagers. is also well provided with
hotel accommodations. Every interior town
or village which has anything in the way of
natural scenery to offer to visitors has also its
summer resort. If the American people under
stand any one thing better than another it is
how to keep hotel. The grand hotels Of
Europe are not to be compared with those of
America, and within the last ten years almost
every town and village in the country with
summer attractions has built its grand hotel.
This fact is becoming generally recognized by
city people, and the annual exodus to Europe,
once SO fashionable has greatly fallen of in
favor of summer rest at home. All the hotels
with well founded pretensions to comfort, not
only at the well known resorts, but at the
quieter and more remote retreats, have fine
prospect for business this season. Within the
next fortnight most of them will be open, and
most Of them well filed with guests. Perhaps
the fact that the scale of prices has been low
pect but, to whatever it is DUE the result is
satisfactory, for there is nothing that our
people need 80 much during the hot months
as rest.
Rest in the city is of little value COM
pared with recreation on the seashore and in
the mountains. 1t is change Of air and scene
which make the summer vacations so bene-
fetal. And fortunately the railroads bring
the seashore and mountain almost to our
doors. To the railroads and the telegraph,
and the application of steam to navigation,
we owe the magnificent hotels which dot
almost every hillside and make our summer
life so delicious. Indeed, 80 used have we be-
come in few years to these new-found lux
uries that we can scarcely imagine what life
would be without them. And yet it is plain,
even to the dullest imagination, that without
railroads and steam vessels the imperial city
of New York would to-day be a slowly grow
ing seaport town. There would be little sum-
mer rest and few summer resorts. Saratoga
would still be as far away as Chicago now is,
and the Western prairies more distant than
the Golden Gate II men and women went
to ''the springs" it would be that the de-
crepit might drink the waters and talk old
fashioned politics about tariffs and rev.
the youngsters firted in the decorous
ways Of our grandmothers. Society would
be stirred by few scandals, and there would be
no apocryphal Counts Cherami to win and
waste the hearts of American girls. Newport
would still be the old port of the East India
men. It would take week to get to Wash
ington, where there would be dull Congress
untainted by Credit Mobilier scandals and
currency expansion jobs, and no magnificent
avenues or even board of public works.
Everything would be slow and old fashioned
even to society, and the other cities and towns
would exist in themselves instead of being,
as they now are, suburbs of New York-the
summer resorts of the metropolis, with mag
nifcent hotels for city people and magnificent
drives for metropolitan equipages. All has
been changed, however, and the whole coun-
try has become pleasure ground for the
town; in few days the city will be emptied
into the country, where there are the fresh
air and wholesome living and real Injuries SO
much required by city people, and for the
sake Of which every city man pants for the
water brooks of mountain and valley.
| The Pulpit To-day.
Among the topics chosen to-day of peculiar
interest to ladies is that on which DR.. Miller
will talk this morning-''The Mother-in-Law
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