The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-01
NEW YORK LETTER.

ers are not advisable. in fact are consid
cred injurious in consumption and such
diseases as cancer. The promiscuous
drinking OF the waters is source OF dan
ger, even though one may be IN perfect
health. heard OF one young lady who
paid dearly for her experience in this line.
She. with party OF friends, drove to the
different springs and the young lady was
bent on sampling them all. II wouldn't
do that, Miss" expostulated the driver,
sit will make you sick sure" But
"Miss," with the unwisdom OF youth and
the insolence OF perfect health, tossed her |
pretty head and continued to mix saline |
| and alkaline, sulphur and iron waters in |
that two hours drive with superb reck- |
lessnsss. The result? Just what had
been predicted, she was 'sick, sure"
The party was broken upand Miss Head
strong was taken home, where a serious
| illness OF three months left her a weaker
but, let us hope, wiser yousg woman.
In addition to drinking the waters many
indulge in the baths, white sulpher. red
sulphur or magnetic, which are consid-
cred specifics for rheumatism, govt and
cutaneous diseases.
Saratoga, with it's 5000 permanent
population, has seemingly but two in
dustries-- entertaining summer visitors
and bottling the mineral waters which
are shipped to all parts OF the country.
To these we might add the manufacture
of the bottles used in the latter business
and the extraction OF carbonic acid gas
from mineral water. This latter business
is carried on at the Champion Spring by
Mr.. Formel.
"Mr. Formel,' said the gentleman in
charge, has been in this business seven
years, and was the first man to think OF
extracting the natural carbonic acid gas
. from the water. The spring is twenty
| five years old, and used to spout many
) feet into the air. Now we check it with
A heavy iron cap. but you can fancy how
. many fortunes went up in air in all those
/ years. We ship the gas to all parts q
a this country and Canada, in these heavy
. iron cylinders, for charging soda fount
; aims and mineral waters. oh, yes thu
d gas has weight. In the larger cylinders
IS it weighs about forty pounds and in TIT
% smaller ones about twenty. OF course
the water is worthless after the gas is ex
tracted."
The village is very pretty and one feat
= ure which challenges the admiration
10 everyone is it's magnificent trees oil elr
r and maple, lining either side OF most
it's streets, sometimes the branches NEE
u over head forming beautiful arch
IL green, which stretches far away in til
it distance The fayorite drives are throug
~ Woodlawn Park, where the air is del
81 cious with the odor OF the pines and
tx beautiful Saratoga lake. Althoue
ed Woodlawn park is the private propert
y, OF ex-Judge Hilton, where he has b
of beautiful summer home, it is throw
:" open to the public.
-, No one with a spark OF patriotism
W. his heart would think OF leaving &
hO / PoJihe ''''e
sh Drexel cottage on Mount McGregor, on
~, ~ a half hours ride from here, where lie
ere @ al Grant, the nations hero, breath
ne his last. Here everything remains as
M was on the day OF his death. even to
tHa charred embers OF wood in the open d
he place, and the visitor walks through {
ely rooms with reverent steps and speaks
,nu hushed tones.
less Another attraction in Saratoga IL
ma Indian Camp which is collection oil RI
vi! huts occupied by Canadian Indians
longing to the Iroquois and Aban'
tribes. The former are bead-workers
ice, the latter basket-makers, and on star
IN, in front OF their huts are displayed sp'
uld | mems OF their handiwork for sale. ii
of also, in a cabin somewhat better tt
10Th those OF her Canadian neighbors, DIV
iJs a French seeress, who, for the mod
ives sum of fifty cents will unfold your fut
old and disclose your past, though why
can one should pay to be reminded OF his p
al Ill is mystery which the ordinary m
nelly fails to grasp.
phin This is Madame A. Medee's sixtee
orIv summer, and she ought to be veal
eter- enough to retire for, dull as the season
one can peep into her little ante-ro
nous any hour OF the day and find three
leep, four people waiting to catch glimps
iless that unex plored country, the future;
to. her visitors are not all OF the "weal
g ,S oa sex, either. In the camp Is also pr
,fted tive merry-go-round for the children,
The other devices for Turing the nickels I
TINS ones pockets.
,utor Saratoga is deprived this year OF
rude OF her erstwhile principal attractio
other the races. While this may be good
her morals, it is disastrous to her p'
and on every hand, among the trf
that men, the cabmen and in the In
ntral Camp, is heard the same sad cry: :
when toga is not what it was. The pr
Won who come here. come only Tor what
man. Ht they derive from the waters; the.
of u not spend their money like those VIII
. ou tend the races
wants Today, however, the streets
deco. thronged owing to the republican
ritish vention meeting here. This" RENE
~, VIII a lady to me, ''isthe way it looked
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