Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-04
Rxnnus RRom aARAroeA.

September Starts the Summer Soj0uFns CTS H0mevwaRd With a Grand Rush- Beauties Of Saratoga En September How to Recreate in the Month of Have Been RecreatAmG i'm Saratoga Hotel Profits.
 SAR AToaA, Sept. 1.-Camp breaking has commenced and many of the great army of summer visitors have already left Saratoga for their homes, and by the third of Septem- Der it would be difficult for one who has been | in the habit of frequenting che many pleas ant streets of this village during the past I summer months, to imagine where the great
 throng of moving humanity have gone or how they could all 80 phantom like pass away, but visit at almost any hour of the day or evening to the railway stations would
 solve the mystery. There it is not so calm and serene. Almost everybody is in hurry, I all excitement in the grand rush to secure a ticket and seat in the next homeward bound train. Everybody seems as intent on departing as they were anxious to enter Sara toga few weeks ego. Oh! how intently they wait the opening of the big gate that leads l from the depot to the cara, and how 6dQety some become when informed that the train | will be some ten minutes behind time, they don't understand why it is that rail road managers can't be as prompt to have the ! trains arrive on time as hotel clerks were to Z present their bills, and thus 1t is they reason until train after train arrives and many of the
 complaining ones are swiftly conveyed away | to their various destinations. But Saratoga | finds most delightful abode for many who | take their vacations in September. In fact, | it is one of the most pleasant months in the whole year to recreate in. The numerous
 drives are highly appreciated and wonderful I as one inhales the cool autumnRl air waited | from the many distant mountains and lakes
 as he spins over the well kept avenues and roads behind @ free stopper. Especially is the ride over the boulevard \ to Lake Saratoga on clear cool September morning, more to be en- joyed than in any other part of the season, \ and there are many other features, including sail up the lake on one of the steamers, a fishing excursion, visiting to the spouting \ and other springs located only short dis tace from the center of the village, trip up ! to Mt. MeGregor, the fine view to be ob- served from it's summit, frst-class dinner, | Prohibition or Democratic drink at the Mountain Hotel, drive, or walk if you please of fifteen miles around and through | the Judge Hilton Park and the fine residen- ces and views whereabouts to be seer, ,are only | 6 few things that one can quite as satisfacto-
 rily enjoy in September as in the mid-sum- \ mer months, and generally to a much greater \ advantage. In fact, think often that this month far preferable to recreate in than the \ hot summer months, and the hotel accom- | dations are then usually more desirable.
 The races concluded the 30th in- \ stant. Gartland's military band of Troy, New York, which has discoursed fine music on Congress Park ! every day and evening during the past three months, go to other quarters September |. \ The great crowning event of the season was | the garden party which occurred on the Grand ! Union Park on Friday, 31st inst. The deco rations were of elaborate character all | through the park. A mammoth dancing pa vilion was erected in the center of the grounds ! for dancing and was occupied by children in the afternoon and adults in the evening. The ! costumes were very rich and elegant and the | affair surpassed any of Judge Hilton's former \ attempts.
 A very brilliant concert was given Monday | evening, the 27th inst, at the ballroom of the United States Hotel It was testimonial to | Mrs. Otis Redwood, Mir. Francis Walker | and MT. Wilber Gum, by their numerous admirers who had heard their Aocal talents displayed on several occasions on Congress park and elsewhere in Saratoga.
 The audience was largely composed of dis. \ tinguished guests at the hotels. Among the audience was noticed ex-Gov. English and ! wife. They were in full dress ss were many
 others present Shortly after 9 o'clock the favorite of the evening appeared on the elab- orately decorated platform and sang Ter zetto by Campana, tMadee del Somno Amore." It was finely rendered and an en- core was responded to. The second number was a piano solo by Ben Merrill from Men delssohn's "Mid-summer Nights Dream" It was exquisitely played. A quartette of Mrs. Rockford, Miss Lockwood and Meesrs. Walk CT and Gum sang the "Parting Kiss" by Pinsuti. Several other pieces were rendered with marvellous fine effect and the evenings entertainment closed with an impromptu dance in which nearly all the audience joined. MT. Knall, MT. Gum and the charming Miss McNiel gave 6 fine sacred concert Sunday ev- ening on the Congress park before @ large audience. Mrs. Whitney, who usually sings on Congress Park every season, did not participate this season, but sang in the churches on several occasions. Entirely new talent was secured | by the Park association for this summer, and | proved quite successful in some cases while | in others the attractions were far inferior to l those of former seasons. In fact, there were I no concerts that seemed to meet with the en- | thusiastie encOres, and were 50 highly spoken | of by musical critics here this season as those rendered by Mrs. Sherwood s. Thompson on I the park last summer, and many were the re- grets expressed by her hoSBof friends here | that she did not consent to visit Saratoga and participate in some of the many concerts l which have been given on the park and op
 select occasions elsewhere here during the | summer.
 Although hotel business was reported as quiet during the early part of the
 season during the past three weeks
 business here has been rushing. It is said that the United States Hotel will figure up some $60, 900 profit this season, and
 hotel is owned by the proprietor, MT. H. S. Clement, who bought the large property q
 while ago (valued at some $500, ,0e0) for 1it-
 tie over $100,000. He has had full house
 most of the season and has accommodations for one thousand guests from $3 per day up-
 ward. The Grand Union with its overflow house will take care of some two thousand guests, but has not been as full this season | as some others. The terms there are $4 per
 day upward. The United States accommo-
 dates some 200 to 1,500 guests and makes
 it's terms $5 per day and upward.
 adjoining on their park, which gre
 occupied by the higher toned society people, | who don't complain at $10 per day and up-
 wards. These cottages are finely furnished
 in suites of rooms and contain every luxury and convenience, including servants and DOT
 ter, to be found in the homes of the wealthi-
 CT class in our large cities.
 The Windsor, of the same ownership as
 the Grand Union-Judge Hilton-is very
 frst-class in all it's appointments, and Is run
 on a very quiet plan, entirely isolated from
 the other Hotels, nor designed for those !
 strumental concerts, hops, etc., it having no
 orchestra like the othor frst-class hotels mentioned, but everything in and about the hotel is quite tony, and in its quietness is very suggestive of 8 coun. try farm yard on dark night. But it is in the smaller hotels and boarding houses where the most money is made in pro- portion to the expenses incurred in their
 management, prices ranging in them from SC per week to $1.5o per day. Some of the I smaller hotels accommodate from fifty to one
 hundred and fifty guests and furnish very good rooms and excellent table at about SIG
 to $15 per week on an average. Such hotels
 are well patronized most of the season and
 the proprietors are quite well satisfied with
 their profits. Those who expect to come to
 Saratoga to spend from week upwards, will
 always find 1t to their advantage in securing good rooms, etc., at reasonable prices, to
 make their engagements sevsral weeks
 in advance, as when the rush comes
 the hotel keepers dance and the hotel guests
 have to ''pay the fiddler" The various
 mineral springs have been unusually largely Nrra% xa1 .Sn- s- -g1 H.. TAI