The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-11
S AR A T OG a.
Fashion, Filtration and Frivolity
at the Springs.
The Hotels, the Lake and
the Bands.
THE REGATTA AND THE RACES.
Gossip About Past and
Present.
THE REGATTA AND THE RACES


Despite the reassurances or the hotel people
Saratoga is behind the average OF visitors this
year, taking the week through. One OF the three
great hotels here, and that not the ne west, has
been notably empty and Its clerks gentlemen OF
leisure. Some attribute this TO the record or
gentleman, not far from the proprietorshp, on the
Civil Rights bill, OF which the public desires his
establishment TO have the full benefit. Others say
that his rashness 10 protect his mineral spring by
prohibitory duties on foreign waters, the great
ana only proposition OF his legislative career,
ultlmaied badly, looking trine ike greed and
Credit Mobilier. You know that many men are
slain by an impression In the air. not struck
vlstby, but by sort OF social spinal meningitis
weakened out Yet, dare say before this season
is half through Tho hotel Hlppocrates will swarm
like the rest with fashion, as full tide floats
everything over.
There Is but one new hotel this year, and with
It's appendage on this side or the lake, two hotels
the White sulphur hetel on the farther shore OF
Lake Saratoga This costly enterprise was the
work OF Conkling, the driving man OF the town
and principal operator in It's real estate. Heaven
knows where Saratoga might have been hut for
That lake. Last year 1t carried this watering
phase alone among hundreds, through the panic
by accommodating the regatta. The proprietor
OF the Potato Shaving House there, one Moon,
became so detested for his petty rapacity. that
when he had fenced on part OF his grounds ana
sold tickets to see the regatta there, the public
spirit OF Saratoga revolted. They determined
that Moon must set ana something more
luminous arise on the waters of tho Kaya-
dressero. Moon should be q Jerseyman, yeL
perhaps he was created here TO teach Jersey
That one clutch Of nature makes tho world skin
hint. To-day be advertlses card, as follows,
which shows clearly enough that a long course OF
isolated mendacity is renpng Its reward in being
ignored by map makers and patrons.
protest against the spurious aud deceitful decoy
crews and ali se points Of Interest," on LAKE
sna Iep rut IF s
points OF interest on the Lake. and urtherm re- that
the patrons q Saratoga and The public generally And
lam am WILING 70 leave tne public to decide and caution
'' '' paying ''' money ''' '"'' ''Gfi g. MON.
That map was not evidently made out by tho
light OF the Moon. The above merely means that
Mr.. Moon, after the colleges OF the country were
brought to Saratoga uuder certain municipal
promises, saw fit to prove an exception TO his
townspeople and covet the immediate half dollar
instead OF a respectable consonance with his fol !.
low citizens. They have got Moon now where
Hubert had King John:-
Ny Lord. they say FIVE moons were seen tonight
-Four Of them were fixcd, and the nth did whiri
About the other four Ill wondrouS motion.
The nlth In this case IL c. d. Moon, reRretting
from penurlous reasons, that he did not stay fixed
last year on his word OF honor. The drive from
Saratoga to the lake. much improved, with q
separate, broad path made all the way
for pedestrians, avoids Moons and descends
to new hostelry at tho lake side
called the Briggs House. Here all the steamers
which tow the many elegant, chair-iurnisned,
canoped barges start as the omnibuscs arrive
across the lake. The steamboat passes through
the stakes which support the college bannerets
and mark out lanes OF water for each crew-these
stakes were driven by public enterprise last winter
through the ice, at an expense OF $1,000. Passing
many boat crews houses, also erected by the cit-
zens, $3.50 5000 each, the boat and barge turns
Snake Hill ana comes IN SIGHT OF the White Sui
phur Springs Hotel, a quaint rather than elegant
bit oil elephant-ro DIED architecture, with q COOL
green sward before It, ana WOODS, green bluns
covered with pine, walks and trotting and rid
ing paths behiud it. Right beside the hotel is a
fine white sulphur spring, known there many
years. Thirty years ago the Albany Regency
erected hotel there, which burned
down. Now the spring has been drawn into
Follow drum OF cedar and covered with rustic
cedar canopy, and an elegant bathhouse, itself q
hotel and dormtory, placed adjacent to It. A hun.
dred peopls can lodge here. The cost was
$4,000. This Is the bes. outlet yet found to Sara.
toga village. Not lar from this hotel Is saltwater
battle field. From the cool front porchcs Of the
house tho college crews are seen rowing; In the
distance are the soft, green Greenfield Mountains
and close by is Snake Hill. This latter is the
Round Top OF Saratoga Lake. rocky bun bare
from the waters edge to the height OF ten to
twenty ieet and above is grove OF larch and
pines, very dense, 10 the height of perhaps eighty
or 100 feet. This hill mas no bond on the open
lak eg n n Nan NJ rad
far above the summit; summer house. gayly
roofsd with red and white, is at she south nd,
ABOVE preciplca OF barren whitsh rock. The
OF the hill Is about 400 ieet long; its width 800
feet
AT THE LAKE
went out to the lake last night (rhursday), at
six O'Clock. Mr. jerks, OF Brooklyn, VINO haa lust
graduated at Yale, told me that his college mates
were somewhat less confident this u ear than In
1874, when they believed they had sure thing
One OF their boys had broken his leg and his
place had TO be supplied; another bother was
about their boat. When We walked into Yale's
boathouse in Moons grounds 1t was vldent that
the latter trouble was somewhat serious.
THE BANDS.
This year all The SaraIo ga bands play on the
plazzas; tney have so mucn piazza now that IL
must be utilized; so the music comes NJ from mo
grass parks and makes the immense length of the
verandss resound. At the Union Hotel there
every day attend TO the music. An tine other
bands are proportonarely well attended. TIE
lnvallds then limp cut; the SICK open th~Ir
Windows; the music ascends thronan the frees
in almest visible harpsicnO or mist oil melody
breathing, sighisg. expressing uyIng, ana the
sensuous worship OF the muse Is seen on every
lace.
There is plenty OF material mere for legend and
drama equal 10 the best OF lrvlug's or Sardou's,
ana the play saratoga was q very Rauzy iIlu.
sion or real saratoga; for in the village Tor in
valids there Is mucn reality. Go out t. the old
graveyard on the ralrsad track and see the stones
set up TO those who uied mere, having dragged
themselves IRON dlstant lands, believing that
Saratoga was the III Dorado, the living waters.
THE HEAD WAITER.
The greatest Ol heaa walters IN this country
Robert thompson, a colored man OF signal inde.
penaence anu good sense, Is now In the CLOSING
stages OF an active, II humble lie. lie Is tue he ad
water at tho Grand Union. Many years ago, when
the National hotel at Washington was IN It's PRIME
ne was the grand marshal o, It's hundred Walters
lie came TO saratoga with the Lclands, con unued
under BresUn, Is dying now OF consumption, and
wnen tney say, Boo go on take the summer
1or yourselL" the prido OF the Vlrginlan IN the
negro ahswers;-"No, ~! dc rlgat mere, II
l mus, wnere ] nave worked.n 1hls man as
member oil the Council OF the District OF Columbia