Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-13
AZ THE wArERINe P1AcEs.
The Old Time GaIeties Showing a FAN.
ing on This Season.

passed into strange hands, that until the
new elements that are to make society
there this summer are well fuse,
and blended, little or nothing can 20 on
The ''royal and imperial families Of Astol
and Vanderbilt as tAey were impertf
nently named last season, are conspicu.
Gus by their absence. The doors of Mrs.
Paran Stevens hospitable mansion. which
were forever turning on their busy hinges
viii be closed to her friends this season
There viii be no charming dinners at Mr..
c. G. Baldwin,s. Lady Vaudeville, Mrs.
GrisWold Gray, Miss Yznaga,
eric Stevens, Mrs. Edward Cooper.
Mrs. Lloyd Bryce and the Misses Hewitt
are all among the absent. The arrival OF
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, who is ex.
pected TO sail about the middle of this
month direct for Newport in his Yacht
Namouna, will make a stir in yachting as
well as social circles and may give rise to
little temporary gayety. The hotels are
all open at Saratoga, and 5000 or 4. OOO
people come and go daily, but emptiness
in the midst of vastness is the only idea
conveyed to the visitors mind at the
present moment. At the United States
there are but handful of people as vet.
The life is rather a rural one at present.
excursions to Mount McGregor and to the
lake for trout dinners and woOdcock sup
pers being the chief diversions.
SARATOGA Is, DURING ITS SHORT SUMMER
MONTHS,
a great political centre, a racing and
sporting focus, meeting place for every
scientific and professional association
throughout the country, and a rallying
point for tourists from every city in the
Union. This year the Baltimore hounds
are to be hunted there and several stables
Ofracers are now in daily training. Sara
toga is, in short, place apart, unlike
any other watering place on the face of
the earth, and, while it is distinctly ma
tional and American, it's floating popula-
ton is made up of representatives from
every part of the civilized world. Lenox,
which is the autumn Newport, is expected
to suffer as many changes IN her social
world this summer as her prototype by
the sea. Mrs. Hartman Kuhn, one of the
oldest residents of Lenox, and whose
hoGse was one of the most delightful
III the village. has closed it and
gone to Europe, and Mr.. and Mrs. David
Lydig, who are among the oldest habitues
of the place, are living at Garden CITY.
The enlarged hotel viii probably bring an
influx of new people, who will introduce
with the primitive simplicity which has
hitherto been Berkshire's great charm.
Long Branch is similarly afflicted with
Newport, though there are, of course, as
in the case of the latter named Mecca, a
few well known people. Among them are
Commodore Garrison and Gen. Grant. 1t
is conceded by the Commodore's friends
that his health has improved since his ar
rival, although he is still feeble, and his
xrOfno oluvauG ha hand
He seems cheerful and resigned to his
financial losses, to which he alludes freely,
but more as if it were relief to him that
the crisis had come at last, and he no
longer had the dread of it hanging over
him, than as if he felt any bitterness
about his lost fortune. Mrs. Garrison
also bears their pecuniary losses with
cheerfulness. She has never been an eX-
tfaYagant woman, and since her hus-
bands losses has made up her mind to
retrench wherever possible. The cottage
at the Branch was settled on her when it
was built in 1881, and now she will sell it
as soon as she can. If sold this season,
the family will probably take rooms at the
West End Hotel. Mrs. Garrison's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall, are expected to
Join them soon.
COMMODORE GARRISON WAS ON INTI-
MATE TERMS
with his wife's father when she was a
little girl, and has always been fond of
him. Last summer he would not permit
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall to stay anywhere
but in the cottage with him, but they
have never lived with him in New York.
He and Mr.. Randall play cards together a
great deal. In the evenings during other
summers since Commodore Garrison has
had a cottage, Gen. Grant and
he, Mr.. Randall and G. W.
Childs, of Philadelphia, played euchre
together nearly every evening,
sometimes at the residence of one and
sometimes at that of another. This sum-
mer it is understood there will not be the
old intimacy between the Grants and Gar
risons, the latter having lost by the fail
ure of the former. OF course the ladies of
the family will not be estranged by this.
Not only Commodore Garrison, but his
father-in-law, Mr.. Randall, lost by the
failure of Grant & Ward. The Commo-
dore had Endorsed to the amount of $780,
600 for Col. Fred. Grant, and had to paw
it. One OF the subjects which was fur
1iishing food for talk when / left Long
Branch to return TO the city was a rumor
that Gen. Grants creditors lately seized
his horses. Apparent confirmation
of the rumOr is found in the
fact that the General is often seen in the
afternoon driving in his wife's open car
riage with her and their daughter and
one or more of his grandchildren, instead
of in a light buggy behind a
fast trotter alone or with a gentleman
friend, or driving a rapid steed alone. the
manner in which he was Oftenest seen
riding in the old days, both in Washing
ton wnen he was President and on the
hard shell road at the Branch. Even
when he had the coach and four in Wash
ingtOn he was seldom seen in it, and once
while he was President (duriug the cleo
toral commission in 1879, l heard him
say how he loved to get out with his fast
horse on one Of the quiet roads outside of
Washington, and E.unlimber' his steed
and hear the clatter of the swift moving
hoofs on the road.
Mr.. Warner, to whom Ferdinand Ward
first made an assignment, is Gen. Grants
next door neighbOr. Mr.. Warner paid,
it is said by one who ought to know,
100000 for this cottage little while be-
tore the great failure began.
THERE HAVE BEEN RUMoRs IN WALL
STREET
for some time past that Russell Sage, the
veteran dealer in puts and calls, had been
seriously affected in health by the terrible
mental strain to which he was exposed
during the recent Wall street panic, one
of the incidents of which was run upon
Mr.. Sage of several days. duration by the
holders of his privileges. In the case of
the famous operator the strain was not
mental alone, but financial as well, mas
much as he was obliged to pay out over
ST, 900, 900, several millions of which was
a dead loss. The story that Mr.. Sage's
losses, together with the excitement
of the ordeal through which he passed,
and the threats of personal violence
made against him had combined to shatter
his health, were at first denied. Yester-
day, however, it was semi-officially an
nounced that Mr.. Sage was suffering
from serious nervous prostration, and
that his physicians have ordered him to
give up active business in Wall street.
Mr.. Sage intends, it is alleged. to obey
this mandate and to retire from active
participation in the struggles of the street.
He will begin settling up his stock
privilege business at once, it is said; but
he does not contemplate a complete with
drawal of all his interests in the railroad
and other enterprises in which he is
associated with Mr.. Gould. Mr.. Sage is
IA years of age, and a millionaire several
times over. His health had been good,
considering his advanced age, until the
recent financial troubles. Mr.. Sage was
confined to his house for several days
after the panic by an attack of nervous
pr0stration. A few days ago he went to
Long Island for rest and recuperation,
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