Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-07
AT SARATOGA.

A Morning Headquarters for Visitors
by the BubbIing Springs-HistOri-
cal Ground Tic "trip to Lake
George.
Especial Correspondence Of the JOURNAL AND
CoURIERI
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug. 6, 1886.-Do
you wish to know just who has arrived in
Saratoga during the past twenty-four hours
and whether among the innumerable throng
there be any of your friends and acquaint-
ances? Don't go from hotel to hotel scan
ming each register for the latest arrivals, but
repair to Hathorn famous springs, just off
Broadway and opposite Congress Hotel, be-
tween and 9 o'clock a: M, and you will
generally find the object of your search, for
almost everybody from the youngest to the
Oldest visits this particular spring every
morning and partakes of it's healthy spark
ling waters. 1t is really wonderful how
much Hathorn water is disposed of every
day. Not only does each one in the surging
crowd partake of numberless glasses of the
beverage, but many porters and hotel walters
are constantly having their pitchers and jugs
filed to carry to that portion of the guests
who don't believe in early rising or don't en-
joy being jostled by SO great crowd before
breakfast as daily hovers around the spring
| Enclosure eagerly reaching out for their glass
as it is raised from the bubbling, boiling
spring wells by the boys in attendance.
Each boy plunges three glasses at time into
the we'll by means of wire frames attached
| to long poles. Well, the season in Sarato-
ga is now at its meridian, and probably no
other rendezvous of gaiety and summer rec
in
| its large numbers, style, sight-seeings and
great variety of pleasure. Its resident pop
ulation is ten thousand, and in August are
added from ten to fifteen thousand guests.
No mosquitoes here, no close, sticky
salt air that abounds at most
other summer resorts and which tends to
make the season anything but one of re-
freshment and rest. Here the balmy air, the
beautifully shaded walks and the evenness of
the temperature with the many other pleas
| ant features of Saratoga make season of
| recreation here one of real comfort and a
lasting benefit to its participants.
Saratoga abounds in historic memories as
we'll. Here was fought the great battle of
October 1777, between the patriots under
General Gates and the British under Bur
| goyne. The surrender of the British here
was turning point in American history and
SO completely vaneuished was the enemy that
final success was the result.
One of the most enjoyable of the many ex-
cursions which daily occur from Saratoga is
the trip up Lake George. It is participated
in by hundreds every day. The excursionists
leave Saratoga in the morning for Fort Ii
conderoga, take dinner en- the steamer Yer
mont from thence go to Baldwin excursion
| cars, thence up Lake George to Caldwell and
| from thence via Glens Falls back to Sarato-
ga, arriving the same evening. The sail up
Lake George either of the daily steamers
| is just immense. The lake is some Sc miles
long by from % to miles wide, surrounded
| by mountains and containing large numbers
of islands, which are occupied by private
parties summers. The Manhattan club in
habit one of the most pleasant of the group,
| while on either side of the lake are located
innumerable hotels, which are usually well
| patronized during the summer months
The steamers stop at many of the landings
at the hotels on their trip up and down the
lake. Plenty of fish, such as lake trout and
black bass, abound in the lake, and can be
obtained in large quantities by expert fisher
men, especially if employing competent
guides who conduct to the lucky fishing
grounds.
The usual number of balls, park fireworks,
concerts, carnivals, ETC., have occurred here
the past week Among the latest arrivals
from New Haven are R. P. Cowles, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. G. Smith, Mrs. M. A. Waterhouse
and son. Next week quite delegation from
New Haven is expected.