The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-16
SARATOGA IN FULL BLAZE.
The Pretty Girls And High Stepping
Horses.

Rivalry Between Spencer Trask And
Judge Hilton-Al That Saratoga
Now Needs is The Duke of Veragua
As Resident, Mrs. Cleveland as a
Summer Visitor And Good Theatre
Cal Company-Then it VIII be Next
To Heaven.
Saratoga Springs, n. Y, July 15-Sar-
atoga's electrical lights were turned on
last week. The big hotels opened and the
piazzas flashed with diamond necklaces
and starry crescents, and twinkled with
rings and earrings. Saratoga's electric
lights" are valued at snug million, eX-
elusive of the crescents that have other
gems in them.
Fearing that the worlds fair would
harm the summer season of the Queen
of Spas, " the Saratoga hotel proprietors
have been making mighty efforts to get
people here for the season. No other
summer resort has been so enterprising
And as yet none has responded so brill
iantly to the summer call.
Saratoga has headquarters at Chicago
for booming the summer resort in the
east, and another at Park Row, New
York, to refresh the minds of New York
ers and inform foreigners just how beau
tiful this queen of summer resorts is.
The two crest attractions of Saratoga,
namely, its race track and its pretty girls,
are already "on," as the Saratoga boys
express it. The girls are arriving on ev
cry train, every day, and are driving
here horseback from the mountains;
which latter way of coming to Saratoga
is by far the most fashionable way of APP
proach. And the race track, while not in
actual operation, is in such an interesting
state of preparation that every day sees
its quota of visitors out at the track,
walking admiringly around the newly
painted grand stand and glowing with
pleasure over the superb flower figures
that have been lavishly planted to make
the Saratoga race track as handsome as
ever England's Ascot Heath has been in
even its palmiest season.
sARAToGA's MILLIoNAIREs.
Saratoga has been specially proud this
spring of its possession of millionaires
from all over the United States. They
are either personally at Saratoga, or so
largely identified with the place through
their interests in real estate, or horse
flesh, that Saratoga claims them for its
own.
Spencer Trask, the New York banker,
has just completed the handsome resi-
dence which he has been building for a
year, and is now living in it with his fam
lily. The name of the TraSk mansion is
'YaddO," and it is so immense in size,
and 50 elaborate in its interior decora-
lions that it is pronounced to be a cross
between Mr.. Standard Oil Flagler's
Ponce de Leon hotel in St Augustine,
and G. p. Huntington's mansion on Fifth
avenue in New York.
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amiable rivalry between the two million
aires, Judge Henry Hilton and Spencer
Trask. Each wants TO own the largest
private residence and park in Saratoga
Thus far Judge Hilton is ahead, for he
has upwards of forty thousand acres of
land in Woodlawn Park-snrrounding his
residence-while Mr.. Trask has less than
half that number.
Very gossipy people say that Spencer
Trask's reason for trying to abolish the
race track through his personal organ,
the Saratoga Union, was so that he might
buy the track and add it to "YaddO" to
make his property as large as Judge Hill
| toms "Woodlawn."
Leland Stanford had many interests
here The principal ones being his three
handsome nieces who are married and
who are the principal society women of
Saratoga. He gave Mrs. Lawton, the ell
dest of the nieces, three heirloom dia-
| mond necklaces when she was married,
| and has sent many hundred thousand
| dollars to Saratoga, invested in diamonds
or horses for his favorite nieces.
Lucky" Baldwin is another western
millionaire who has land and horses
| here, and who calls Saratoga his east
| ern "home, =" while as every one knows,
! the Vanderbilts have immense interests
| here, left to them from the old cOmmo-
| dore who built Congress Hall and estab-
| lished the famous Saratoga club house.
With so many millionaires hailing from
| all quarters of the United States to give
| it substance, Saratoga regards itself very
properly as the heart and backbone of
! all the summer resorts of the east.
PRETTY GIRLS AND WOMEN.
The woman with the largest wardrobe
! in the world has already made her ap-
pearance. She is Mrs. William Layton,
| of the Murray Hill hotel, New York, and
| she comes to Saratoga with forty trunks
| and as many hat boxes as Eulaie had
| when she landed on American soil. Mrs.
| Layton is a very pretty woman with red
! gold hair and big blue eyes. She has
! been married fifteen years. But she does
not look over thirty. Her special claim
| to the largest wardrobe in the world. be-
! yond her gowns, is the fact that she has
| twelve pairs of diamond bracelets
twenty diamond hat pins, and necklace
so valuable that she leaves it at home and
! only takes her four plain diamond neck
| laces with her.
! A very pretty girl who makes her de-
! but as one of the young ladies of the sea-
! son is Miss Eva Beckel, who is here with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
! Beckel of New York. Miss Beckel won
! the Herald's prize for selecting the win
ners in the Brooklyn handicap year ago,
| and for several seasons has been known
| in Saratoga as ABE Hummell's Mascot"
| She goes to the track every day, driving
in a cunning little pony cart with the gal
! liant Abe by her side, and has the post of
! honor in the timers stand, where her
| presence is considered necessary to the
! successful running of a race. Miss Beck
! ell is too young to be a New York debut
| ante But at summer resorts girls are
permitted to go fully hedged into society
| after they are 15 Miss Maud Ingersoll,
! daughter of Col. Bob, " and Miss Ethel
! Green, daughter of the late Norvin, are
two pretty Saratoga girls. And Mrs
| Thomas Nelson Page will soon swell the
list of Saratoga brides.
If the Saratoga girl has a fad quite
new with the season, it is the collection
of straw hats which are plucked quite
heartlessly from the devoted heads of her
| admirers.
The fad is managed this way. The
summer young man goes to call upon the
summer girl. He spends an evening