Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-29
THE GREAT wArEnING PLACE.


View-C0minG Social Events.
SARATOGA SPRIEGs, June 10, 1888.
Tothe Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
Since my last letter week or SO ago Sara
toga has commenced real live boom. The
hotels are about all open and many of them
already well patronized. The streets, which
only month ago were as quiet as Quaker
meeting, are to-day filed with life and as
sumo real holiday appearance.
The hotels have been thoroughly removal
ted, painted and improved, flags are fly
ing, 'busses are filed with people young and
old who have come to stay and enjoy sea.
son of refreshment and profit. The many
cottages scattered here and there in the pleas
ant village of Saratoga have nearly all been
fitted up. Among the regulars" is noticed
that of ex-0Ongressman James o. Bryan and
family. Their cottage is most pleasantly sit-
uated and surrounded with nicely arranged
grounds on the corner of Washington and
Franklyn streets, about one-half a block be-
low the Continental Hotel. While thes res
idents of Saratoga do their level best every
season to entertain and please the thousands
of guests, they propose this season to do even
better They have ''layouts'' that when
completed will be quite unique in character
and most charming in effect, and will add
greatly to the many pleasures in store for the
recreators at Saratoga Springs this summer.
For instance, it has just leaked out that there
1 will be grand Fete Champetre at Wood
lawn Park, with grand ballet corps COM
posed of society bellies and marshalled by
| Judge Henry ailton, the owner of the ex-
tensive park, and will be an imposing af
fair.
! Congress Park under its new management
doesn't propose to get left in any way by the
Il asrr1l 10 =
| crowd" To start with it is said that no park
in this country can boast more justly than
can this of the elegant natural scenery or the
l artistic arrangements of its various amphl-
theatres and other adornments, with its
i beautiful lawns, pleasant walks. artificial
lakes its kingdom of rare and sweetest
flowers and with the addition of its ever~
bubbling springs, made cool, refreshing and
| medicinal by natures bountiful benefactor,
there are to be other attractions inaugurated,
recommending in the latter part of July. A
mammoth entertainment is to be given upon
a scale never before attempted here, the
whole to be under the direction of the lead
ing society residents and visitors of the
| Springs series of Vienna and other fan
| ey dances will be given, commencing with a
| children's programme for the afternoon and
continuing with grand ball in the evening.
| The floor for dancing will be arranged to ac-
| commodate large number, covering some
| fifteen thousand square feet of space. The il
Elimination will be grand and the whole
scene magnificent and imposing in the ex-
treme. It is said arrangements will be made
for a grand stand on the park, suitably dec
Grated for the benefit of President aud Mrs
Cleveland and party, who contemplate visit
ing Saratoga this season and attending this
| fine society affair. Governor Hill and other
dignitaries will also be present. GaTtland's
| famous military band has been engaged. by
| thu. Congress Spring company for the season
will Hiao0urCa air v
and evening during the summer.
Perhaps many of our New Haveners who
contemplate visiting Saratoga this season are
not aware of the large number of springs
here, each one decidedly different from the
other: also that one of the great features of
Saratoga is its mineral baths. Among the
most popular and efdcacious springs for bath
ing purposes here are the White Sulphur, the
Red and the Magnetic springs. The Red
spring is the Oldest and was discovered in
| 1850, and was then the Indians panacea for
all diseases; and for years the cold Red
spring" has been highly appreciated
by thousands who are continually
have been healed of disorders even
when given up by the doctors as cares be-
yond their control. For all cutaneous dis
eases, eatarrh, disarrangement of kidneys and
stomach the Red Spring is highly recon-
mended. One to six glasses each day as an
alternative, and even more as a diuretic.
Usually it lie taken between meals or at bed.
time. The baths must be taken regularly
also.
The Magnetic Spring baths are wonderfully
exhilarating and very pleasant to take, and
| are most extensively patronized. The White
| Sulphur Springs at upper Saratoga lake are
| also very popular and have been the means OF
1 prolonging many lives. Two steamers
make regular trips from the head of the lake
to the White Sulphur Springs, where is To-
| Gated fine hotel in park of one hundred
acres on the east shore of the lake. From
the piazza of the hotel a magnificent view of
the lake and its surroundings can be had.
This park contains many rural cottages and
numerous fine walks and drives. The ex-
| tensive lighthouses afford ample aceommo-
| dations for both male and female patrons.
The special benefit of the sulphur waters are
to those afflicted with rheumatism or cutane-
ous diseases, many being greatly benefited,
while others have been permanently cured.
Boats and fishing requirements are furnished
| free to patrons of this hotel, and it is
said fishing Is most excellent on the Lake
Saratoga. One great trouble visitors to Sar-
atoga for the first time experience is, that
| there Ia something terrific in the spring
| waters, and why7 Just because they take
upon themselves at once the risk in sampliuR
from the whole stock to be found in the viii
lage, and they are sometimes thereby made
| to feel very uncomfortable and Immediately
proceed to condemn Saratoga as humbug
| and its waters very malarial; but generally
| they have to admit, after thorough mixing
| of the springs in their stomachs, that there is
| really something in the waters or else they
| would not act SO. They then do
secondly what should have been
| their first act-consult a physician
and learn which waters their system really
| require and then govern themselves accord
| ingly A iudicious use of the kind of spring
| waters required by the consumer is no doubt
| a lasting benefit and in multitudes of cases
has done q vast amount of good and sent
many home from their vacation season with
| a new lease of life. The whole secret of
SAratoka's great success is the unlimited sup
ply of her health giving mineral springs.
| Although given tree to all who would par.
| take of them and sent away all over the uni
| verse in barrels and bottles continually, still
| there remains an unexhausted supply. The
| temperature of the waters varies only degree
| or so in the year and is about forty-nine
4 degrees Fahrenheit. Boring is going on each
4 year, and often do we hear that new spring
has been struck way down many feet below
| the surface, and water of flavor peculiar to
| itself, clear as crystal and containing wonder
full new mineral properties is seen shooting
| way up into the air from its long hidden
| rocky ded And then again does it sound
abroad that Smith, Jones, Green or Brown
has struok-not oil, but water, wherein is
fortune for the persistent borer; but then it
real virtues contained in the new strike, and
long time to gain popularity. Springs to
get properly into good working order are
very expensive. 1t costs much to tube
them. An ordinary small tube costs
six dollars per foot. Many of the
springs are piped three hundred feet deep,
and then there are many expenses connected
with keeping the springs in good running
order that cost quite large sums of money.
The leading and most highly developed
springs are owned by joint stock companies
with almost unlimited capital. The Oldest
spring at Saratoga is the High Rock. Sir
William johnson drank of its waters in 1857
and it has retained its popularity ever since.
Taken cool and in small quantities, the High
Rock Is tonic. AS an aperisnt or oathartic,
the water should be taken half hour or 20
before breakfast and at q temperature rather
warm. The next Oldest spring in Saratoga
is the Congress, which was discovered In
1893 Gust three hundred years after
America), and Is probably as well known a.
any in the world. It is an aperient or cathar-
tic water, highly carbcnizsd~ for about eight
months in the year. Between three and four
hundred dozen bottles a day are sold. This !
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