Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-16
LETTER FROM SARATOGA.
Who Are There. and What They Are
Doing.

LETTER FROM SARATOGA.
Who Are There. a.d What They Are
Doing.
Special Correspondence Of THr Evrsrxe STAR
SARATOGA, August IA, 1854.
THE CROWD INCREASING.
The meeting OF the Bankers Association here
this week, In addition to the permanent attrac-
lions of the place has assembled large crowd,
and many notable persons and the hotel parlors,
piazzas, and even the bathrooms. recall the most
brilliant spectacles of which they have been the
scenes In the past.
ENTERTAINMENTS
More and more each year is cottage nfe
enjoyed at Saratoga, and as the number of those
who keep house here increases the number OF
private entertainments grows also. None given
this year have been very elaborate, but they
have all been the more agreeable on that
account.
Last Saturday evening again there were two
much-crowded hops. one at the Grand Union.
and one at the United States hotel That at
the Grand Union hotel especially was a most
unqualified success. There were not only In
Vulnerable very elegant toilets seen. but many
dancers also. and q most distinguished COM
pany. Since most OF the ladies who purposed
going to the hop dressed before supper, the
dining room during that meal and the large
drawing room, afterwards were respondent with
laces, satins yelvets and diamonds worn to COM
ply with the full dress regulation. which ex-
cludes all not in evening toilets from the ball
room. The best place to see these toilets how
ever. was In the parlor, as most of those wear
ing them kept their seats while I'm the ball
room and all could not sit In the front rooms
Mrs Macarthur. OF Washington, wore very
line black Brussels lace over cherry satin. She
wore diamonds that night, but sometimes wears
necklace brooch and bracelets of large anne
thysts In antique setting. Mrs Warner Miller
wore pale blue silk, embroidered In white. Mrs
James I" ellsworth. wife of Representative wads-
worth, wore white China Grape trimmed with
Turkish embroidery. One OF the prettiest girls
present was a young school girl. Miss Ida
Smith. of New York. who is here with General
and Mrs. Thomas Crittenden, both Of whom are
SO well known in Washington.
PERSONAL MENTION.
On Saturday Senator, Mrs. and Miss Miller. OF
California, left here to visit Lake George. the
White Mountains and Newport This is Miss
Dora Miller's first visit to the summer resorts
On the Atlantic coast. Hitherto she has passed
her summers In California or Europe The tour
now in progress is taken solely for the pleasure
OF the young lady. and is rather hurried, as her
father must return to California i'm September,
where he will engage In the republican cam
paign Mrs. and Miss Miller will accompany
him to the Pacific coast. Before coming to
Saratoga they spent ten d9ys at Long Branch
where they were entertained by Gen. and Mrs
Grant, and saw Mrs. Sartoris before she and her
children sailed for Europe. Mrs. Sartoris went
at the oft-repeated request of her husbands
father, who is devoted TO her
1t was something of a coincidence that both
the United State Senators named Miller with
their wives, should have arrived at the same
hotel at Saratoga, within few hours of each
other, and have left near about the same time
for, although Senator Warner Miller and his
wife have often been here, Senator Miller OF
California, and his wife have not been at Sara
toga since soon after their marriage. When the
two couples left, each went In different direc-
lions. Senator and Mrs. Miller, OF New York,
fastened their departure so as to meet Senator
and Mrs. Logan at their home at Herkmer.
Before leaving here Senator Miller, of California,
made pilgrimage to Ballston, at whose college
he was graduated.
. Col. Walter Evans the commissioner of inter-
Hal revenue, who was here for a week with his
wife and daughter went last week TO visit Lake
George, and returned here this week.
Col. and Mrs. McCauley left here on Thursda,
for Washington.
Admiral Rhind and his wife have cottage on
the road to the Geyser spring.
Admiral and Mrs Mullaney are here.
Ex-Gov. Hamilton, OF Maryland, is also here
with his wife,
Among others well known In Washington who
have been here this week are ex-Secretary Nc
Culloch, ex-Controller Knox, Mr.. John Flagg,
formerly legislative clerk of the Senate, and Rev.
DR.. Newman.
J. A. Dumbert and wife. A. A. Wilson and
wife, Miss NJ. Wilson, A. L. May, S. NJ. Leach
are here from Washington.
MUSICAL DRESSES.
The old nursery rhyme which described q
woman with rings on her fingers and bells on
her toes" adding that ''she shall have music
wherever she goes" is now outdone by the Sar-
atoga belle, who wears flutes in her ruHles,
bugles in her dress trimmings, and an "accor-
deon' skirt This is solemn fact Those
NVh dxrnl
color should point out the harmony in the
above.
HOW TINE Is KILLED.
The crowds at leading springs every morning
are now very large. / am reliably informed that
between halfpast six and half past nine a. m,
daily, nearly four Thousand persons go to each
of them.
Mount McGregor attracts a majority Of the
visitors to Saratoga, who at least once during
their stay take trip thither on the charming
little railroad cars, which, several times each
day, climb to Its summit and returns. 1t takes
forty minutes to ascend, on account of the heavy
grade, and the necessity for great care in rum
ming the trains. Seven hundred more persons
went up there in July, 1884, than in the same
month last year.
THE REIGNING QUEEN.
Every day ladies go to call on her majesty OF
the turt-Maud S. Mr.. Vanderbilt has five
other horses in the same stable, three of them
being carriage horses and the others his fast
team, AlGine and Early Rose. The stable Is a
very plain one, but scrupulously clean The
stall in which Maud s. was standing when I
called had a window opposite the gate Of en-
trance, and the partitions on each side between
hers and the adjoining stalls were covered with
blankets. She had on her neglige $50 to speak,
cover or white linen goods blocked off with
blue lines and trimmed with blue. suppose
that color was chosen. as she may be considered
hnxf
shade that Titan loved to paint"-sorrel She
was nosing around amid the straw on the floor
OF her stall. just like any common horse might
do. and seemed to be looking for something
perhaps her diamond earrings. Why should She
not have diamonds to wear against the part OF
her bride nearest her ears. 1t would cost no
more. possibly though the money would be ex-
pended in different way than Calgula spent
on his horse. lncitatus. and | suppose Mr.. VAN
derbllt must be richer than that old Roman en-
peror was, and surely Incitatus could not COM
pare with the great Maud S. Miss GRUSDY.