The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-17
THE SARATOGA SEASON.


 Currency-Says Every Minister Should Preach Honest Money-Arri- vals From New Haven.
 Saratoga Springs, Aug. 14-For the past few days "Old Sol" has been on a regular picnic in Saratoga, All manner of fire escapes have been resorted to to ignore his warm embrace. A flight to the forests, mountains and lake side did not make entirely void his shining presence, and the only real consolation was when he dropped to his camp at night. way down below the distant hill tops. But a welcomed cold wave has arrived and driven our warm but not very acceptable friend to a more torrid cline.
 Since my last letter there has not been much let up in the daily arrivals. Many are now coming to Saratoga from the mountains and lakes where they have been the past few weeks; they are arriving just in time to enjoy the best part of the season in Saratoga. Garden parties, social gatherings and various kinds of amusements seem to increase in importance as the season draws near its end. One of the most enjoyable entertainments that has ever occurred at the spa will be the Floral | Fete, which occurs September 1st. It l will be very imposing affair; in the procession will appear a number of | schools and associations. Large floats are being prepared which will be deco rated in the most elaborate floral de- 1 signs. The bicycle clubs from New York and elsewhere will be largely rep resented in the grand procession. They will be led by the Olympic Bicycle band of New York This band is finely uniformed and all mounted on bicycles. A special train of cars will be run from New York to Saratoga and will bring some two thousand wheelmen, who will be in line in the floral procession. MT. | Frothingham. the manager, has ar ranged for a grand floral ball. His dance has been named 'Arcticiana' It will be the feature of the ball The parade will be on September 1st, the ball in the evening. This grand Floral Fete will be worth going many miles to l witness.
 The great council of Red Men of the state of New York convened in large numbers at Congress Hall ball room on the 18th inst, and elected their Great Sachem, Great Prophet, etc. The tribes are talking of establishing a life insurance association. The Grand Un- ion Hotel is preparing for grand Rainbow Fete and Garden concert for August 18th. The profits from the en- tertainment will be deve ted to the char ities carried on by the Saratoga ,l Bethesda Parish House.
 Bishop John P. Newman Is summer ing in Saratoga as has been his custom for many seasons. He delivered two very interesting lectures at the Town l Hall one on the 11th inst; subject, A Thousand Miles on Horseback Through the Euphrates" The second lecture was on Thursday, the 18th inst; sub ject. "The March of Civilization" The lectures were before large audiences. In an interview with Bishop Newman he declared himself in most forcible terms for sound money, and said, "it is the duty of every minister to preach honest money" and that he intended to call the attention of the one thousand ministers | III HIS CHdISt u WAdt iiC OGiiCNGd " pE their plain duty, and urge them to use their influence in the pulpit and out to defeat of Bryan and Sewall. He said further that he did not believe the Cath olics would support a candidate who countenances scoffing at the ross. In conversation with many of the leading clergymen of this country. both Protes- tant and Catholic, who are summering in Saratoga. it is found that they thor oughly agree with Bishop Newman in all he says on the Honest Money i question The arrivals at Saratoga this season seem of a better and more highly cultivated class of people than in several past summers. It is pre- sumed that the punishment of gam bling and horse racing has much to do with it. Even many of those who used to patronize the Club house and Mitch elrs, the two leading gambling dens here, and who are here this season, are fully contented to find these places closed, after finding what a good effect such course is exerting on the com munity.
 In order to secure a comprehensive and impartial view of Saratoga as it is Called the OIu6T Qdy upon ADIdudii Hummel, of the metropolitan bar, who is sojourning with his sister at the Grand Union, and asked him to give me his candid impressions of the Saratoga of to-day; Mir Hummei is Saratoga habitue of many summers.
 A Different Place.
 "Yes," said MT Hummel Sara toga is a different place, with different el- ement at the front this summer. It is more like Carlsbad, where the visitors go to secure rest and to get the benefit of the waters, and I must say that ev, : erybody I have met here seems to be perfectly contented with the change l The gambling element can very we'll be spared. I understand that there is 8 temple of chance within reach, but out. side of the municipal limits, but the 'ti. ger waits in vain for victims to come to his lair. and he is starving to death see that Mitchell advertises his Broadway place for sale at auction and I am told he has transferred his in. terests to Albany, where he is said tt have opened a fashionable barroom This looks as though he were througE with Saratoga and does not look for tht old order of things to be re-esta ablished
 But the importance of these thing. is always very much overrated, anC