The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-29
AT SARATOGA SPRINGS
THE GAY WHIRL or PLEASURE
 BEGUN

At This Famous American Pleasure Resort The Drives, tho Conventions, the Gam 1 bling, the Cottages, the Hotels and the l Mineral Waters.
 | Saratoga Springs, June H-Sarato-
 ga, the veritabe footboard of the Adj
 rondacks, has again put on her beauti-
 full garments, dressed in living green, with her towering eIms, extensive lawns
 and towering mounds, the sporting springs never tiring day or night in their upward and onward course, furn- l ishing copious supplies of healthful
 mineral waters, balmy air, beautiful parks and various drives all tend to remind one that there is no place quite equal to Saratoga for real enjoyment in the vacation season. Most of the hotels are now open, including the | Clarendon. United States and Grand l Union. Special efforts have been | made by the village board of public works to put all the roads and prome- nades in the best possible condition. It must be that they have profited by Brother F. c. Bushnells recent ad- vice to the boards of authority and ! citizens of New Haven as to the paving and keeping in order of her streets. The roads here have all been made
 smooth and are properly sprinkled, not deluged with water. as in New Ha- ven, so that driving is made a pleasure on any of the avenues and, streets, and not made so suggestive by mud ill some spots and powdered fertilizer in others, as Is found in many of our New Haven streets. One very notice able feature in Saratoga this summer will be bicyclism. Large numbers may
 be seen on the streets every day and evening, rolling along" Among them are many ladies in jaunty costumes on their favorite wheels. Arrangements are being completed for variety of amusements to occur frequently during the season. A course of high class lec- lures will be inaugurated July 30, and will continue for a succession of weeks. The opening lecture will be given by Bishop John P. Newman of Omaha, Neb., to be followed by Prof George
 Frederick Wright of Oberlin college,
 and Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts of Washing
 ton, D. c. The committee having the
 matter in charge are conferring with
 other well known gentlemen of promi-
 hence to complete the course, The reg
 ular weekly ministers meeting will
 occur each week, when eminent clergy
 men of various denominations will take
 part Driving will be fully as popular
 this season as heretofore. A number of
 elegant equipages have already arrived
 and may be seen every afternoon, be-
 crint1i0c q h011t nsa1oPIF on hp o1
 leading to the celebrated Saratoga lake,
 as well as on the roads leading to Judge
 Hiltons beautiful park and grounds
 and the various mineral springs.
 The numerous cottages are fast being
 occupied by prominent families, largely
 from New York city and Albany.
 Among them we have United States
 Senator Murphy, who has taken the
 Lester cottage on North Broadway fo. the season; MT. Carlton, the publisher
 has the Shepard cottage: Mrs. Matthew Bird and family has taken the Ham ilton cottage; Harmon Hendricks and family are domiciled in Mrs. Hathorns cottage on Philadelphia street; Edward Kearney of New York, president of the l Saratoga Racing association, has ar rived at his cottage on Cottage street, for the season.
 The popularity of cottage life has in- | creased largely during the past few 1 years in this village Many new ones, some of the cottages are very elaborate, l are being built every season. Many | will be the conventions and various as- | sociations that will meet in Saratoga | during the season on account of the | superior facilities offered for holding | their meetings in the new Convention l hall built expressly for their accommo- | dations by the village of Saratoga. l The seating capacity of the hall is some | 5 ,000, it being one of the largest halls | in the country. Several conventions l have already convened here this season, beginning with the state encampment | of the c. A. R. May IA, which was fol- | lowed by the Baptists LOGO strong, Next | came the Cohgregationalists in less numbers. The state convention of | Sunday schools was also attended by | big delegations. Later on comes the United States Bar association, Odd Eel lows, the Knights Templars, with their thirty or more brass bands and gay equipages
 The gambling fraternity has come to grief here this season, their local leader, c. w. Mitchell, who was presi- dent of the village and kept the "Gilded Hall on Broadway, opposite the United States hotel last season, has been legis- lated out of office and the board of trus- tees, who were controlled by him, went 1 put at the same time. Saratoga now has a new reform board of trustees, similar to Rev. pr. Smyth's ideas of reform in New Haven. This board has a president, c. H. Sturges, Esq, who is not a. gambler, and under this new law and order league gamb- ing, etc, must be stopped. It is ex- oected that the famous Morrisey club house and restaurant will still exist, put not as an open gambling resort IS heretofore, and if other gambling places are run at all they will be con- lucted in such secret manner as not to attract the attention as they did under Mir. Mitchdl's administration. The 1ew law, allowing forty days racing, put forbids pool selling. So there will pc racing as usual, and the betting will oe conducted as at Gravesend and other 4I-a !