New-York tribune., 1875-07-13
THE COLLEGE REGATTA.
THE SIGHTS AT SARATOGA.

WHAT CAN BE SEEN OF THB CRKWS All ihh
LAKE.
IFRoM sTAFY CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRibuNEI
SARATOGA July 1l.-There is no contagion yet In
this at,nospbere The number of college students
who are speeding hither having dofed the scholastic
gown for the saow or slaty duster is constantly
increasing and every train brings more Of the fve
hundred particular friends Of each of the one hun
dred Young men who To pull an oar for glory ana
a silk flag within the next week. But they are not
numerous enough yet to fake the town by Storm III
is the same old Saratoga still, only little more
crowded: the same overtlresscd and Overfed commu-
nty filled with splendid hotels built on what ought
to be called the paraelogam plan and blessed with
health-givng springs, to which few visitors habit
ually resort Exactly why people come to Saratoga
or why, when they have come, they do not take
the first train that leaves, has always seemed one
of those mysteries which not even eternity
itself would reveal. nor any fellow ever ma
ont: but its solution is apparently found in the fact
that people who do not want to do anything are APT
to seek a place where there is nothing to do. The
occupations of this transient city are not arduos
Eight hours of piazza practce-four in pronenading
and four in sitting d0wn-precede and succeed the
three important epochs of the day Amid this huge
and Indifferent population the college boy only ap-
pears element; in day OF two more he
will be in the vocal majority. and cause all the rest
Of us to wonder whether after all, one ought not 10
be grateful long for their services III delaying
sound and whether his bronchial tubes are not OF
brass. So far the collegiate element has broken out
in color rather than in sound Hat-bands or marvel
ous chromatic contrasts and checkered patterns ro
settes necktios and buttOn-hoe ribbons declare the
affiliations of the wearer and excite feminine curos-
ity. The girls adopt them. of course, and 90 about
with tie most bewitching little signals, tucked INTO
their dress with greater candOr than the eau
tious lirt who is reported to be making
cockade of all thirteen collegiate colors. Men OF
years wear them, tOO and grave gentlemen go ABOUT
bearing their college ribbon and ,her society badge
with AZ much pride doubtless filled their boylsh
breasts quarter of a century ago 80 far there Is
no temptation to hurrah, because there is no one 10
hurrah with There is no difficulty of repressng
ones enthusiasm. if one dared to indulge III
sncb an emotion in the neigh borood of the walters
These stately beings chill every pulse of youth
within me. That magnificent creature, in whose
eyes lost caste forever to-day by taking soup sec
Ond time verify believe antedates Harvard College
itself He never supplies with the simplest
article without seeming cast into his action an IN
sinuatiOn that much the larger part OF my LIE IS stl
before me- and that this is only my twenty y-rst or
twenty-second season. AS for parchment. his com
pexion surpasses any diploma in existence and II ls
not to be wondered at that he looks down upon edu-
cati0nal institutions of less than two centuries
standing
SOCIAL POPULARITY OF THE COLLEGE BOYS
But the rest of mankind are not so Indifferent
The college boys the subject of competition on
every hand With the reporters this is altogether
too calm a word. The representatives of llcentlous
press have so ceaselessly badgcrcd them that they
have all unanimously voted the fourth estate bore
ia position of things that will be exactly reversed
bor, tbaVe in a few yea
lature and county Offices. Other attentions how
ever have been less persistent, and all these marks
of favOr-I even saw to-day cOachman proudly adj
iusting the Columbia blue and white on his whip
have not been without their effect on the collegiate
delegations. They know that tho social world is all
before them where to choose, and the knowledge Is
far from being unpleasant Some of them, too, have
a vague expectation of the Presidency written upon
their faces that is interesting to those who
have ceased TO hope for it. If the
heads of all of them should be turned by
social popularity it would be surprising for the
favOrs they receive Unprecedented and remark
able Gentlemen four five hundred times az hand
some as the collegiate yOungman are passed
by-and here speak from personal knowledge-in
quiet disregard in preference for ribbon. whose
combination of colors would put a solar spectrum out
Of Joint.
NEw-YORK DIGNiTARY AND vIOE-PREsDENT
WILSON.
There are all sorts of men here. There are two
cent editors and two-penny politicians These are
the men who sign their names very large indeed on
the hotel register who are i'll the habit of signing 1t
rather mOdestly mt home, and very family indeed
promiss0ry note The old hotel habtues are here peo-
pie who have lived in these and NewYork hotels year
after year. and generation after generation. One of
them is a seuli-judical dignftary of Ncw-Yorl, who
has been spending his summers here for
the last twenty years. because at his hotel
"they cook Fl n so NICE At the last hotel IN New
York. which he has reached in his perpatetic search
for place where they also " cook fish nice,' his
standing order tn the waiter is Call me Judge
when you speak to me, and speak up loud ~ He
passed by just now, and growing audibly about
the damp pavements. when feminine voice called
him sweetly. Judge" He stopped. The most
spicuous of the lifting nOtabilites is YicePresdent
Wilson. who goes about with the air of a who
has made up his mind to be cheerful. even if the
Administration il heaving bricks at HIM. As Mr..
Wilson crossed the court of the Grand Union with
two gentlemen. and smiled twice while crossing. it
instantly became apparent that his visit Of pro-
found political signhcance But could be
found, not even Mr.. Wilson. who knew what it
JOHN MORRiSsEYs DEVOTION To The CLASSIC Ian
GUAGEs.
Mr. John Morrissey is here, ought 10 he. In
fact he must be here, or this incident which comes
from q Trustworthy source. viii be irretrievably
ruined. Mr.. MCTissey is reported 10 have said the
other day. IA lie leaned his powerful frame up
against the hotel. and bit off the end of his cigar,
that no was afraid that in this contest of muscle
matter might got mind in chancery, and the wants
OF the intellect might be Overlopked and that it
might come TO pass-and here his voice Is said
TO Lave trembled with emotion-that this new found