New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-17
AT SARATOGA SPRINGS.
THE GREAT SPA DECLARED TO BE WITH
OUT RIVAL.
AN ENGLISH VISITOR EXPATIATES on ITS COS
MOPOLITAN CHARACTERIZE DECLARES
THAT WE RUSH EVEN WHEN WE AT.
TEMPT TO REST-A SALVATION
ARMY CONVENTION


United states Hotel piazza was asked We'll,
what do You think of this American reSort?' AT
first he seemed puzzled at the nQuisityeneSs OF the
interviewer but finally said: To be candid with
YOU saratoga is to me marvel in many respects,
and il has no duplicate that know Of and I've visited
about every spa the face of the globe. Every
spa that l know of has special feature char
actefisic but this place seems to combine them all.
and besides il is the most cosmopolitan summer resort
that have seen. Why it was only to-day, while
strolling about the hotels, you know, that ran
against as many as or more people that l
Glanced TO meet in various parts Of the world And
glad l TO them too. And such mineral
springs as are to be found here ] actually believe
I've drank at fully twenty of them ana the funniest
part of ii is, you see. that two Of them arc alike
that is, their medicinal properties wholly diff
fcrent; and I'm informed there almost forty
springs here. Perhaps il may seem strange to you,
but I've been passing my odd moments gathering
the little pamphlets containing the analyses which
will take home with me- After speaking of the in
MIGRATING climate, the immense hotels, the hand
some cottages and the we-shaded streets and drives,
the English tourist continued: Everybody the
other side knows of Saratoga and to visit America
ard not come 10 Saratoga would be considered
serious omission. This is my second visit and I'm
coming on again next summer. after the London
season. am told that there are now about 10000
guests here, and the best of ii is that they all
receiving their full measure of enjoyment You Amer
"a
in business; and I'm actually forced 10 believe that
Americans rush when they attempt to rest But it is
different the other sdc-at home.-
At the Town Hall last evening. under the manage
ment of Mrs. George $ Adams the wife OF Manager
Adams. of the Grand Union Hotel. theatrical per
Torrance was given for the benefit of the 81. Christina
Home, charitable institution Every seat was
served and the hall filed with of the most
fashionable audiences gathered here. Bronson
Towards great Madison square Theatre success.
Young Mrs Winthrop in four acts was given with
very fine effect, the cast including both professional
and amateur artists all of whom contributed their
vices. The cast embraced Constance Winthrop, Nina
Gleason (Of the Shenandoah" company. New-YOrli
City; Edith her sister, Jennie X. Lothian (of The
Great Metropolis company, Boston Mrs. Dick Chef
wyn, Nellie Yale Nelson of the Brooklyn Amaranth
Club Brooklyn Airs. Ruth Winthrop Annie Hyde (of
The Brooklyn Amarsnth Club Brooklyn; Maid, Edith
C. McGensey, of New-YOrk City; Douglass Winthrop,
Robert l. Cutting, jr. president of the Columbia Col
hse Dramatic Association), New-York City; Buxton
Scott, lawyer William L. Gleason of the "shenan-
d0ah' company, New-York City; Herbert Charles E.
Lothian (Of The still Alarm" company. Boston: DR..
Millbank, Frederick Nelson, (of the Amaranth Club.
brooklyn Lothian furnished the music
The dance given at the Grand Union Hotel To- night
of garden party magnitude and splondor 1t took
place in the dining roon which is 800 feet in length
and GO feet in width. This vast deliberately
decorated and trimmed, and brilliantly Illuminated.
There were fifty pieces OF music. Napier L0thianS
orchestra, stationed the west side and the
centre, furnished the dancing music while DCring'
band kindly loaned for the by the Congress
Spring Company, located oil tie piazza and sup
Piled the promenade music. Together they furnished
a flood OF music from early in the evening until the
close, a few moments before midnight. The dance
proved charming success and it the first one
Of this size and importance ever gwen IN the dining
The Salvation Army held important meeting on
Wednesday evening last. and the hall in which The
proceedings conducted containCd over 2oO per
Sons. They Represented almost every nationality on
he face Of the globe. The meeting followed street
parade Major Darlington Booth son Of the well
known commander Of the salvation Army and genera!
Of the American forces, presided, and among those
gathercd about him the platform were stan Cap
tain Jai Singh Of India; Katna iala Kana Bella ana
Abdul Ais, and others from that country. The lfn'
cipal address Of the evening rladc by Mrs. Bal
nngtOn = 10TH The HindoOs, VINO were CARRIED IN
their native costumes, left Thursday morning for
Buffalo. They will make tOur Of Canada, ana VIII
return to India by way of England III september next
4 german followed entertainment given by Mar
shall p Wilder the humoris al the KcnsnSt1n Hotel
last Thursday Coming.
Jacob II. Mabler, master Of ceremonies at congress
Hall was accorded benefit on Wednesday evening
series Of dances has been given at all Of the
hotels during the week. They very largely at
tended
II is rInored that an English syndicate has decided
20 build a railway line from saratoga springs to the
Catskills
Either concerts are becoming popular here. Sew
eral have been given during the week
The Netboli,t Ed. cJpa ians, accompanied by large
number Of summer visitors. and mahlng party Oh
over 800 excursionsts visited Lake George on Wedncs
day. The Bethesda Episcopalians Will make a similar
trip on August 20. and the Baptists on september l.
The case of Thomas Crouchcr. Of New York City.
charged with defrauding the WOrden Hotel out Of
board bill of over $780, will come up for trial here on
Tuesday next.
The United states Walters social Club will hold its
seventeenth annual ball at the Town Hall on Wcdnes
day evening next.
The Waver,y Hotel guests have INDUCED in a couple
of UNIQUE entertainments this week \ Desperation
Party" the Monday-evening attraction, and this
was followed the following evening by "a Potato
Party They simply card parties on "A large
scale and artistic and handsome souvenirs were lib
orally awarded.
The Saratoga Monument Association held its annual
meeting at the United sttcs Hotel during the early
part Of the week. 1t viii assemble here again next
year.
Mrs. H. 5. Clement p of Colonel Clement, Of
Congress Hall, was screnaded the midnight Of
Wednesday by JOyce's Orchestra, Of Newly York City,
which has furnished the music at thi, hotel for six
seasons. Mrs. Clement Acknowledged the compliment
paid her.
c. b. Templcman, the artist of New-Yorl City, who
has made some excellent pastel portraits Of Orlov W.
Chapman, Roscoe Conkling, Daniel Manning and Lady
DunlO, IS summerng here.
Marion Foster, the invalid artist, whose home was
originally at Minerva, Ohio, is again in Saratoga and
will pass the season here.
The Grip and Grapple of Great Men and Of Great
Nations is the title lecture To be delivered lere
On Tuesday evening by the Rev Duncan MacGregor,
Of Brooklyn.
For a. Mac
who is summerng here will preach at smiths BASIN
tomorrow and the following sunday.
Thomas Impett, tenor. Of Troy. has taken part n
The Congress spring Park concerts this week
Governor Hill has appointed special term Of Tie
Supreme Court TO be held here, beginning september
2, and at which Judge John r. Putnam VII presife
Robert II. Davis for many years connected win