The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-11

long pTostrated the daughter OF one Of the great
villa, In which are Invested Sl25,0sO, at Newport;
racing stable, exalted connections and culture
| and physical enjoyment Out OF many children
this one only seemed 20 drooD under the suns OF
maturing w0manhood. For her the sea air
not sva,ea are xas brougs aroma \" Ncw
YORK bJ stea er, special directors car ran
down to Albany and lay oy the pier, mat sne
might be carried 10 It's comfortable divan on a
litter; ROW all the family Is gathered at the hotel
the sons. with tneir tutors, watching around tnis
life. The robust rowers from The lake 20 by that
great hotel UNCONSCIOUS that within IL are chords
that are struck by Gay and nigSt other than by
pleasure ana Iasnion.
VISIT TO THE CoBBLER.
AS to fashion. II Is DOW an old and rare belle.
went 70 a shoemaker's to-day 10 have cruel peg
driven down in my shoe heel pile OF ola boots,
slippers and shoes was knee deep around the
They don't throw away their old shoes as they
'No, sir. never saw so much cobonn' in Sara
toga In all my life."
A. t. STEWART AND REAL ESTATE
stopping, also, at the o1lce OF Leading real
Ing iai win .ide sSe country over sreatiy.H II
hope So" he SAID, "for, leaving out A. I. stow.
arts expenditure. we haven't employed $780, oCo
Saratoga. We are ali waiting now for the
money 10 gel into those hotels and find It's way
back TO the producers and resident tradesmen TO
help us through next winter. The money
clrculates very slowly through these pro-
ossses.n Mr.. Stewart mas about $l,5o6oOO
invested In Saratoga in actual cash. lie mas
not only bought nearly the entire square from
BroAdway back to the railroad, excepting some
little obstinate DTS, out he has purchased on the
opposite side OF Washington street, so AS TO pre-
cude tRe American and the United states hotels
from extending, and he has taken half OF Norris
sey's high lots. opposite the Clarendon, in Con-
gress Spring square. TO all who congratulate him
IL finished" Finally, he has opened a branch OF
his dry goods house here, with some twenty
store Is, perhaps, forty by Sixty feet IN dlmen-
sions, with columns wire frames TO stretch rich,
windows anord such vie WIS OF iaces and ribbons
ana chidren's suits tAat the mouths OF the ladies'
water. The Protestant Episcopal church, wAicn oc-
cuples nook OF THIS square, was offered $25, 600
by Mr.. Stewart and the hewn stone and mate
rial OF the buidIng, II they would move II
to another site ana allow him to extend
hi+ great new wing across the premises. They
stuck out for $27,50o; he then built around tue
cnurcn, raised MS blind brick walls against its
Sides and moved the old cottage row back 10
within about thirty feet OF the choir. The cnurcn
vestrymen say they could net have accented his
oner, as new site would have cost them $4,000.
Mr. stewart, like all active. opulent men, with no
great family TO provide Tor, proceeds In mis- in
yes msnts very much by accident. He was q
creditor OF the Lola and. to save his $50 COO in
100000 since on the edifce, nearly doubled Its
capacity. and he still meditates additions. This
hotel has an exceptional history in Saratoga; it
is the only hotel the nre has spared; and part OF
the old trent, removed In 1868, was built In IS03
ola in tue knowledge OF men. In 1865 the United
States Hotel, In 1866 Congress Hall, In 1871 the
OOlCnpldn and three Others and In 1874 the
Grand Central Hotel were swept away by fire.
The Union might as well have oecn. iOr nothing
remains oflts former wooden grandeur except the
OLD sign OF Putnam aud the wolf and an IRON sun
DIAL. Mr.. Stewart Is notable Tor his attention TO
mnutt8 and his equal health. He VIII leave
among ais manv monuments local fame In this
Valley OF geIa the person OF the greatest for
tune WAC ever added TO It's architecture and be-
lieved in It's eternal iuture All the great improy-
ers OF Saratoga have been strangers, natives
to the spot. tseraoly efficient spirit OF assist
ance is rendered by the men of means IN the VII
art from nA 10
but the first impetus comes from Without.
The people have Quilt themselves elegant
Town Hall. The early settlers had the forethouQht
to make their main street wide ana encourage
the long-armed elms to grow In It, But the springs
capital; the racing park ana the Great noeis have
been built on bonds raised In the cities; tue club
house, made in q piece Of swamp, has ABSORBED
$340, 900, with It's accessories.
JOHN MORRIsSEY AND LITERATURE.
John Morrissey is now yea GUS patron of lltera-
ture ana wants n library here. says Jonn:-
THAT library Is necessity Tor the rising gen.
Grafton ana to keep people OF culture among US.
We can't live on horses and regattas alone
Every one oil them Nine Muses. must De taken by
the hand and set on his, her or lts feet. The age
| has to progress tremendously"
sEwgRING SARATOGA.
The present year has been slgnallZed by the lay
ing Of costly main sewers In the solid rock under
lying saratoga village, ana by the subsection OF
the lake to an excellent ROAD along The lake shore
for a distance OF eight miles, IN many cases ex-
pensvely cut down steep nils and across abrupt
headands. Frank Leslie mas put Il steamer fifty
two feet long on the lake, called for himself. Next
provement, about the merits winch there Will
be general DISCUSSION. The park around the Con
gress aud Columbia springs eleven dcres) Will be
enclosed anu tickets OF admission required from
visitors and those springs prohibited to the riff-
ran OF servants, rustlcs and ldlers, VINO keep The
clipper boys busy ali day without reward or gratl-
tude, prevent botting ana turn costly piece OF
private property into common. Tns plans
Tor the extension are already prepared by
Freaerick Law Olmstead, ana contemplate a
grand arched entrance with side offices; "a series
Of architectural trslllses within; a grand drink
around the Congress W.
to the Columbia spring and TO the ladies' pavilion
lake, wltn music pagoda IN the middle an
island n deer lodge, and arbors Tor conversation.
As many as 10, 800 glasses of the water nave been
drunk OF a morning, at which rate. charging only
ten cents a glass; the Springs weua realize above
$780, 900 season. the capital OF The company is
$1,000 900, Ihou2h 1t was purchased at The close OF
the war Tor 100000. John MorrisseJ says tney
have been threatening to close this park Tor six
years, and Will not do 1t now. lie, however, OIL
tered $500O00 Tor the property In 1870, meaning to
enclose t with cottages aud Duud u hotel ana
great business bazaar upon IL. Hon. James M.
Marvin says 1t viii be enclosed, and commends 1t
on the Ernund that the springs are now overrun
by idlers and pests.
THE STRINGS OF SARATOGA.
me original proprietor OF all the springs or
Saratoga was RIP Van Dam, buchanan, who got
All Indian grant In 1TO3; but the Indians did not
relnqulsh the site Tor siXtyseven years or At toe
brink OF the Revolution. Perhaps IL was Rip Van
Dam, and not Rip Van wnklc. VINO TOOK the mys-
ferrous drink OF the springs and mad a long sieep
while they were settling this title; for 1t is sui
very somnolent place. The days often not,
but the nights are Lcthean. DICK scouten, Dutch,
built the first MOTEL In 1771: twelve years laer
General Pnhp schuyler, father-in-law OF Alexander
hamilton, built The first eSidencc. In IVA John Ar
mold, OF Rhooc Island, built the second holcl; and
then the earliest guests heard The guns oil Stlwa
ter, where another Arnold was charging BurgOrne
The centennial OF that great victory soon 10 come,
October II, 1877. AT that time Saratoga was one
log tavern, unfinished log house, potato
patch. sixteen Indian nuts, many dens OF rattle
snakes an one spring, the hlgh Rock, WITH its
singular tufa walls, which have been thousands
OF years forming. The wolves moose, elk ana
panther were ~ through the tangled cane OF
the marshy valley. In Nasnugton's first term
the father OF stephen A. Douglas, Ben Douglas,
kept the Balston spa log tavern, eight miles rom
Saratoga and Zen Rsley, also If Vermont, kept
the ola Saratoga log tavern. That year Governor
Gilman, OF New Hampshire, discovered the Con-
gross Spring, the real creator OF Saratoga. High
ROCK spring would never have mad tho uni
vcrsal popularity TO do so. For seventy-thrre
years 1t has dubbed up rom the womb
oil the rock. In eleven years 1t stimulated
Gideon Putnam 10 build the first large
hotel; by 1881 It attracted railroad tmther from
schenectady; III lo23 Jonn Clarke, an ola soda
water seller OF New York, began TO bottle and
export the Most the subsequent