Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-10
SARATOGA.
The Changes that Hare Taken Place-Hoc
the Springs are Doctored.
Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.

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Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
There are many things in Saratoga to
make one feel that mans career is mutable.
Yonder is Charles Leland, proprietor of the
Jones, wife of the artificial tooth maker,
S15OO00, including his alterations. He
made large annual sums until Mr.. Hathorn;
see ng that most of the great hotels had
been burned by fire, raised money OH cou-
pom bonds and put up tie majestic Congress
Hall. To that new place the tickle crowd
fiocked, and Mr.. Warren LeIands Union
hotel, opposite, felt the opposition and sue
cumed. Mr.. Hathorn made money rapid. !,
and concluded to run for Congress and was
twice elected; at a cost OF 100000 to his
parse. Then came competition from the A.
L. Stewart estate, which had bought out the
Lelands, and Mr.. Hathorn failed. Mean
time Mr.. Hathorn's predecessor in
Congress, James NJ. Marvin. raised
over 100000 and put up
the great United States hotel. 1t was driven
into bankruptcy in year by the great addi-
tons the Stewards put on their hotel, which
involved corresponding grandeur at the
States. Marvin saved himself and his clerks
at sacrifice of $4,000 to his stockholders
There being already four great hotels, it
| arose in the mind of Mrs. Donohue to
build fifth one, to be called the Windsor
She spent $65,0O0 in this charming idea,
and ruined herself, and Judge Hilton had to
take the house and greatly extend and open
| 1t. Another genius of the place now built
for $25O,OOO large hotel called the Grand
Central. Fire followed its construction, and
| it disappeared like theatre scene. How
ever, MIR. John Morrissey concluded to have
an European hotel and vast casino. He
raised 1t where it stands, palace club house,
! then rushed into politics, spent his winnings
and died next TO intestate. A Mr.. Bachelor
who had married the rich Miss Cook, con-
Guided to build the finest house in Saratoga
with beautiful, tapering towers
donles, etc. It involved him to thai
extent that he had to take an
appointment as judge in Egypt, and after
being rented for $1,000 year few years
the Bachelor mansion closed it's doors upon
nc tenant a Mr.. Conkling, brother in law
OF Bachelor, also took the improvement
feeling, and built road along u rocky lake
to a sulphur spring, where he raised a fine
| sylvan hotel. Mr.. Conkling soon passed ir
| big chips. Next, Mr.. Johnson, superinten.
dent of the Congress spring, decided to put
ms earnings into new hotel, to be called
the Arcade, and to take a partner. IN one
season he had the experience and his partner
the hotel. Finally, the political ring of Sar
atoga. smitten with the improvement idea
oeclded that Water-plpe, sewers, ETC.. must
be put down, and the little village was
bonded, and the men in the ring seemed tx
prosp unawares. What is tie lesson of all
this cleaning out? Merely cathartie. Ih,
springs all flow as before to clean out ole
systems, and Saratoga is lovely for her hu.
man experiences.
/ TRICKS OF TIE SPRINGS PEOPLE.
/ Speaking to-day to a gentleman who ha
been for g generation associated with tn.
bottling and distribution Of mineral waters
OF Saratoga, he said:
There is good deal of trickery in boil
the analyses and the composition of thes
waters. Salt is added to the waters of tn
Star, Empire and Excelsior springs. It wa
proved by foolish attempt of the Law
rences to patent their device of adding tar
tartic acid and salt by an injecting apparatus
AS to the analysis, I can show you by thi
book that the Congress Spring claims ,
wholly different analysis now from what i
did IN 1847. They foot up 597,943 grains
OF mineral contents in 1847, and admit 5.O7
parts OF carbonate of lime. At present the,
leave the total the same, and make the per
centage of carbonate of iron only .O75 grain
oEmerely trace. The fact is, iron iniure
these waters in their cathartic quality, great
y stimulating the drinker and swelling biz
head. It is an object with the spring owner,
to say as little about iron as possible
The Congress Spring is not salten as it
companion property, the Empire, is TIL,
Congress property has a mortgage of NOR,
than $50. 900 upon it, and has to earn $50.
600 year to make 5 per cent. on its capital
The Excelsior spring has made its proprie
tors comfortably off, and the Geyser sprins
has proved little fortune. The Hathor1
spring is the sole residue and sustenance q
Congressman Hathorn after he had built an1
been ruined by the Congress Hall hotel
He found little water of salty tastf
trlckling out of hole he had dug in thu
cellar of his dancing hall. Tearing that up
the Hathorn water was found flowing from ,
| rift IN the rock. ind the last time he tubed f
| the cost was $4,000. 1t flows two gallons :
minute, or nearly 500 pint bottles an hour
! OF $4,000 pints round day. He sells so,