The Washington critic., 1886-07-17

visitors to see its many objects OF interest.
and the special attractions provided for
each day, including street pagsants, such
as witnessed IN New Orleans during the
Nnrdi Gras festivities.
Leaving Albany at $50 In the morning,
our little party Of two reached Saratoga
after little more than an hours ride on
the Delaware aud Hudson Canal Company's
Railroad, spent the day there and arrived at
Lake George by the same road before .
o'clock In the evening, making, as | said
above, four places Of interest visited at
leisure In thirty six hours.
AT SARATOGA.
The United States at Saratoga was look
ing specially attractive when / passed
through the village OF many springs and big
hotels, en- route here. l saw at the morning
concert ON its rear piazza many persons
who are well known in Washington. Mr.. and
Mrs. Washington Mclean are most pleas
antly situated in cottage at the UnitedStates.
Mrs. Hazen joined them there on the 9th.
Mr.. McLean's health is constantly improv-
ing, and he looks very well. Mr.. and Mrs.
John II. Mclean, with their baby, are keep
ing house on Circular street at Saratoga,
near the Windsor and Clarendon
hotels, as they did last year, but
Mrs. McLean's parents, General and Mrs.
Beale, are at the United States. General
and Mrs. Beale visited Mrs. Grant at Long
Branch just before going to Saratoga.
Mr.. Francis, the ex.U. S. Minister to
Portugal and other European countries,
has also been at the United States with his
family and party OF friends, and Miss Dill
Ion OF New York, who passed last winter
with Senator and Mrs. Mcpherson In WASH
ingto,, is spending the summer at the
same hotel.
Miss McCeney was at Saratoga last week
80 f.t. IL. al,
Cunningham Of Troy, who occupied Mrs.
sargents house on Farragut Square, In
Washington, last winter. They have now
gone to the Spring House at Rlchlleld
Springs, and Miss McCeney is with them.
Ex-Minister Francis last week took the la
dies above named and others with his own
party on a special car to visit the hotel on
top Of Mount McGregor.
MRS. A. T. STEWART
is looking as young this year as ten years ago
when l. first saw her, and is apparently In
excellent health. She moved, on July 1,
into her magnificent suite OF rooms at the
Grand Union Hotel, at Saratoga, and has
with her her great niece, the wife OF Rev.
Bloomfield Wetherell, and her children.
Mr.. Wetherell, who is the rector OF mis-
sion Episcopal church in wretched part OF
New York city, breaches there each Sun
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family at Saratoga.
SENATOR M'PHERsoN's WIFE
has left her husbands farm at Belle Mead,
N. j., where she had been In May and June,
and gone to Bar Harbor, Me.
AN ANAcHRoNIsM.
A paragraph in one Of the "Town Talk"
columns OF the Boston Courier lately perpe-
trated the following anachronism: "When
Judge Benjamin Curtis was appointed to
| his position on the judicial bench, visitor
| in Washington remarked upon the youth
full appearance of Judges Gray and Curtis,
adding Il didn't know until now that there
was kindergarten attached to the Su-
| preme Court" The joke comes In on the
fact that the only gentleman named Curtis
who ever was Justice Of the U. s. Su-
preme Court was Justice Benz. r. Curtis OF
Massachusetts,, who was appointed in 1851
| and resigned In 1857, when Justice Clifford
was appointed to succeed him, and on the
death Of Judge Clifford, in 1881. Justice
Gray was appointed his successor, SO that
Curtis, with whom the paragraph quoted
represents him as serving contempora-
neously. Judge Curtis died In 1874. He
was the brother of George T. Curtis, who
each winter practices before the U. s. Su
preme Court In Washington. wondered
as much, however, as did at the above
when saw lately in a Washington paper
an account Of old and young Senators an6
those of foreign birth, which did not men
tion the name of Senator Morrill, at all
though he is the oldest Senator, or OF Sena
tor Beck, who was born In Scotland.
| Miss GRUNDY.