The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05
SARATOGA IN AUGUST.
The Season as 1t Has Been and as II
Is at Present.
BITTER RIVALRY AND COMPETITION
The Hebrew Question and the Cottages
Privileges.


SARATOGA, August 8, 1877
| The month Of July the worst month, from O.
nancia point Of view Saratoga has known. This
is confessed by all, now that IN August the
getting better But from the Fourth Of July till the
strike trouble was settled Saratoga and the iandlorda
were "blue" together u
THE RIVALS
| Now that the is "pung up" somewhat the
rivalry between the two mammoth houses-the Grand
Union and the United Statess intense and bitter and
Is carried into the most trivial details Each house
counts the ''arrivals Of tho otnsr published In the
local papers, and each house, Il Is said, resorts TO
'evcry imaginable device, even the manufacture Of
namos to swell the list This rivalry extends TO the
attaches Of the various hotels here. There 10 deadly
loud between Msssrs. Reilly ana Arcan, the Opposition
"dancins and Of ceremonies" OF the
Grand Union ana Congress Hall; whine there is love
lost between Stub tho musical director Of The States"
and Napier Lothian tho leader Of the band the Grand
Union
The Clarendon HOTEL having luckily neither dancing
master band, out OF this triangular fight, aud
doing perhaps, In proportion, better than any oil the
larger hotels.
THE HERREw QUESTION
is still agltated at Saratoga Like Bapauo's ghost,
will not down. 1t shoulders, but s by no means
t,nguished. An attempt was made few days since
by some hotheaded Hebrews TO revive the agitation In
peculiar shape. A thousand one-sheet posters were
TO be ordered on which 10 be printed some dis.
paraging statements with regard to the Grand uniou
Hotel; while other posters were to be issued in ths
advertising interest Of Congress Hall, the house te
which the Hebrews have transferred their allegiance.
and which probably contains more respectable and
wealthy Jews than any other hotel on this CONT
nept vi present Such the scheme, but It vas not
Endorsed by the proprietors of Congress Hail. nor by
any int uental portion Of the Jews, and when Judge
Hilton notified, through Messrs Clair Wilkinson,
all parties concerned thai any who tried to njurs
his business would be proceeded against 70 the full ex
OF his purse und Of tho law tho hotheads subsidized
Many OF the Jewish ladies resent tho implied insult
their and do not much deign 10 tread on
| the sidewalk Of the Union, but promenade on the
other side of Broadway. Several Jews on the con-
traryare daily the piazzas OF the Union
and this date there two resident guests Of the
| Union who ara Hebrews, at least wore Hebrews
month ago at Long Branch
| There is an autagonistic feeling developing this
season between tho cottages and tho hotels Not long
ago some correspondent wrote to q Western paper
that il very foolish for persons to come and pay
the PRICES asked lending Saratoga hotel when for
one-third of the money they could board at cottage
and then attend II they chose, without any extra ex
pense Nil the hops ana offered by these large
hotels This idea Of having all the privileges OF
guest without any OF the expenses did not strike the
hotel proprietors at all favorably and SO thcy com
bined together not to allow the cotagers TO attend
their concerts their hops unless personally invited
by some friend among the guests. THIS rule has been
enforced and trouble has been already expe
rieEc cd OF course many g cottagers" who are most
respectable, and some Of them wealthy people. ara
ince nsed but rulo the guests OF tho hotels seem
| pleascd-tha ARRANGEMENT gives them more room and
| chance.
TIE FEMALE
prepondsates at Saratoga to larger degree compare.
lively than before. ID safe 10 say thsre are
three females to mae.
Tins has had the effect of rendering women In.
| dependent and ss-reliant As there ara not enough
men TO look alter them they look alter themselves.
Ladies drive out together or alone Ladies promenade
even In the evening, around the hotels together or
alone. Ladies' 60 to the hops together and dance to-
getne Parties OF ladies take together and pay
their own bills. Surely this is
NEW PHASE OF woxAS's RIGHTS
Certainly II seems conducive to morals, tor never
| has a season been so respectable" as this. Mrs.
GIundy has cause to be shocked The old lady has
every for congratulation. Tho balls or hops
here strictly reyie The utmost NORGE de rigeur
is enforced There full dress, true but
Is full aecorum No person is permitted IN the ball
room without ticket, and tickets are gwen
fully and conscicntously. motel clerk dis.
charged in tho early part OF the season for issuing
WHO erred on the other SIDE, absolutely refused to al
low u prominent guest Of another house to enter the
ballroom simply because could produce seer.
tilcao OF standing" satisfactory 10 the ciork.
Apropos OF dancing 'the German has been intro
ternoon feature Of society" There Is rivalry iu this
AS In everything else this season, and the opposi-
tom hotels give opposition "Germans' at the same
hours
spite the surface orthodoxy of society, however,
there is the usual undercurrent Thore Is large
number OF grass widows ana advcntuicsscs and there
has already been one case Of backmal by a white
female
Oi course, there Is great deal or interest felt
in The races but IL manfests itself longer bolster
ting against his own horse. Appointments New Yorker
lost ST. 900 single race. leading book-makcr is
puU ,H,s
There ia comparatively little growing this season.
pav there IS Kept as far as possible shrouded in mys.
terry. young New Yorker, the son Of
retired merchant : credited with having won
lied with being ''smart" enough to ''and her
husband out and 10 have i0sisted upon retaining his
winnings as her pin money.
MATTERS AT THE LAKE.
People do net ride out TO tho lake they did for.
creased the rivalry between Moons amt Myers two
lake houses is intense There is also disscnsion bc
properties. Mr. Leslie Is entertaining at Interlaken
iarsey Mrs Ann s. stephens is ami nS his guests
making very deightfal excursion.
''rHE AMUSEMENT SEASON.
at Saratoga may be said to have opened; Miss Abbott
travelling crcus Master shannon, tho boy orator,
has gwen several entertainments; there have been
several wandering magcians who have exhibited, ana
Miss Kellogg is 10 give concert next week.
At the concert and ball held al tho United states
Hotel last Thursday night the following gentlemen
acted as committee Of arranRcments:-william H.
Vanderbilt. Marshal .. Roberts, f. s. Sanford, Judge
Bedford Judge Bixby, Admiral Livingston, the Lori
lard Brothers, George A. Osgood, Samuel BowIes
Chauncey N Dcpcw, OK Senator James o. 5rep Judge
Benedict Judge Fitch, X. b. Cutting, Senior MantilIa,
Spanish Minister and others Of almost equal note
while among
THE BALL
were Nine. Mantlila, superbly attircd In white Paris
muslin, edged with very deep vacpciennes lace over
white silk valenciennes lace sleeves Miss Echman, OF
New York, IN black velvet with cream colored silk
cvcrdrcss; Mrs Frank Leslie, In gray silk Miss
shumway, of Connecticut, in blue silk; Mrs Ruther.
lori oil New York. Ia black satin, and Miss Brown, oil
Schenectady, in white satin.
Such is the record OF the week just closed. Tho cur
rent week promises even gayor record, of which