The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-09-14
The Season at Saratoga.

Saratoga, in the summon. than in any 9th
er spot in America, at least. OF all wa
tering places it is, indeed, the chief and
most permanent Mountain and seashore
resorts come and go like the fashions.
They are every where, and innumerable.
The supply and variety wait on tickle
market. But there is only one Saratoga.
The mineral waters here find no competi-
ton elsewhere, and are the basis OF Sa.
ratogas popularity and permanenco as n
summer resort Indeed, not even Europe
furnishes watering place of such emf.
nence and universality. The baths and
water, over there, are but series OF spc.
cialties while Saratoga is as universal
as dyspepsia aud as cosmopolitan as cos.
tivtness Thus in two respects it is
without rival among all watering
places in the numbers and variety OF the
people whom it brings together. and in
the eXtcn and magniicence Of its hotels.
1t draws from all classes and sections of
the Union More than Washington even
in winter, Saratoga is in summer alike
the social and political Congress of the
nation aud the gathering around the
well named Congress spring, during the
morning, is democratic representation
Of the great democracy Of the wcrld
Millionares from New York and Boston,
rebel and federal generals from South and
North. bellies of the old families of Stuy-
vesaut square aud the latest Pacific min
ing camp, country squires and Wall
street speculntors, iat Catholic priests and
lean dyspeptic ministers from country
parishes where they have six siud7 OF
cake and as many Of swcatmeats at their
society tea hockmcu, servant girls black
and white, rags and lace. diamonds and
brass, else does the great
American nation meet and mingle on
moro royalty equal terms.
The season is now fairly at its height !;
beginning with June. it extends to Octo.
ber, but this mid month OF last July aud
first August i, the eliminating period.
The local paper estimates that there were
between $4,000 and 10000 strangers
here last week. | should say that this
was third if not half too many, and
tnst, save on thr exceptional days, like
those Of the regatta or the races. five or
six thousand is n fair estimate of guests
Of the town TIE mammoth hotels
United States, Grand Union and Congress
Hall which are the great social centres,
hold about hall of these The rest are
scattered widely through the numerous
minor hotels aud the big and little board.
ing houses all over the village 1t is
doubtful If there were ever more people
here than there are this season ; and the
permanence and continued growth of the
place as summer resort were never bet
ter assured Half or two.thirds of the
visitors stay for at least a fortnight,
which is the shortest time for a thorough
and benefi cent experience of the waters ;
many make a summer of it but from
three to four Thousand are coming and
going all the time, and a week must be
the full average of the populations of the
great hotels Save two or three dozen
permanent guests, our hotel has changed
ito cnmnanv at, lanst, twiGA wi'hin ~"
The American big hotel system has its
elimination and glory in the three have
named Either of them will hold more
people than any other hotel in the world
and together they will lodge and feed
over three thousand persons without
crowding The Grand Union, indeed
alone fed an average Of two thousand
person during three days. week before
last. and has had thirteen hundred lodg
ing guests on its books during the mos
of last week while the United States
with its thousand rooms, has come only {
little short of these figures Each il
built around lawn of between one an(
two acres, planted with large trees, an(
laid out with walks and flower beds
Each has its free ball room, opened
nightly with music, and each its dali,
morning or afternoon concert of instrI
mental music on its broad interior piazzas
that alone furnished a promenade of
quarter Of mile. asked Breslin, man
ager Of the Grand Union, if there was an
limit to this sort of thing None, he said
but in the comfort of the guests them
selves That, he thought, was pushed t
its bounds at 1900. Another trial 0
these mammoth communistic caravansa
ries is the free use made Of them by out
siders. As said, they are the socia
centres Of the whole town, and guests {
other hotels and boarding houses pour int
their parlors and crowd their piazzas an
lawns, mornings and evenings, frequent
3 to the displacement and discomfort c
their own boarders Said a fine lad
, whom we were accustomed to meet on tn
: piazza promenade at the Grand Union
II live up to Mrs. Jones's on the hill, br
= | show myself here" They manage th
thing differently at the foreign watering
Q places, and on the whole, must thinl
better. There the hotels confine then
selves to limit of, say, two hundre
guests each, but there is a common socii
= center provided at the springs or bath
10 or in a mammoth conversation hall, wit
II large parlors and concert rooms and re
taurants and groves, erected at public {
Is in other associated expenses, and mai
tanned by common charges. At the
Il pl4 aes, morning and evening the who
population assemblies to hear music,
dance, eat ices. chatter, promenade, fir
P and, until the late reform, to gambl
:. Something Of this sort is in embryo her
70 indeed Tho proprietors Of Congrc
:; : spring propose to make their beautif
Is grounds adjoining it somewhat more e.
IT olusive,-to erect large building up'
them for music and meeting, with ADM
t..oo o,lr H. t;otat