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

health resort, Tor in that year John Ar
mold opened az a hotel the house built d.
Scoughteu. the latter having been driver
away by the Indians with whom N
had uuarreled.
What wonders have been effected in tn
passing of century The log inn o
three or four rooms has given place q
the most elegant and spacious hot'i II
the world; the rude buts and wigwam
of the Indians have made way Tor tn
bea atiful villas and cottages oil the pal
fac. Instead OF the howl OF the Vol ant
the scream of the panther, the sound o
sweet music mingled with gsy laughte
falls on the ear.
There are probably no such summe
hotels in the world as here, the unite'
States. Grand Union and Congress hai
being the largest. Onecan scarcely reaiiz'
their immensely. One gentleman was
heard TO remark, When | step out o
the elevator aud look down that inter
minable corridor, l find myself wishing
for trolley-ear TO take me to my room,
and a very old lady said with sigh, 1T
s,ems to me that have to walk mile
TO reach my room"
These hotels all have large inner court
wards ornamented with statuary, oeauti-
ful flower beds and sparkling fountains,
the latter lighted up at night by electric
and eolored lights. Broad pisIEas, hun
dreds of feet in length, surround the
hotels. front and rear, and here the
guests and the public generally dor the
public has free aecess-st least the we'll
dressed. well-behaved public promenade
or sit aud gossip while they listen 10 the
music.
one feature OF the United States Hotel
or the States" as il il generally des'g-
mated. which commends itself 10 those
who wish 10 very exclusive IL cottage
Wing" which consists OF suites contain
log parlor, bathroom. and from one TO
seven chambers with private veranda
facing the beautiful court. Here one can
enjoy the privacy OF a home, or, firing oil
that. can vary the monotony by ming
ling with the gsyer throng at the hotel
proper.
Ii was in one Of these cottages that
young Vanderbilt and his bride (who
have just left u.s. passed their honeymoon
Mrs. Vanderbilt, before her marriage was
frequently referred to by certain news
papers as Mr.. Vanderbits elderly hancee
which certainly does the young woman
injustice, for she DOES not look her age
which, according TO common report, is
twenty eight or thirty. While she locks
older than her husband, it is principally
because he is so absurdly boyish in ap-
pearance. As one of the boys at the
Spring expressed it. HE looks like kid
Of seventeen"
The Grand Union, az everyone knows
belongs TO the Stewart estate, having
been built by A. T. Stewart. After his
dea tn Judge Hilton secured possession
of the hotel in some mysterious manner,
but later was compiled by the courts TO
restore it TO the Stewart heirs. IL was
during Hilton's regime that the hotel
achieved notoriety by barring Jews Il ON
its portals. To know that the embargo
has been removed, one needs but a glance
at the guests as they sit on the yerandas
ar atroll throunh tho cnrri1nra
OF course the first thing on the pro-
gram after rising and dressing, is visit
to the spring of ones choice for each per-
son has his or her iavorite spring as each
has his or her fayorite physician. Along
Broadway, Saratoga's principal thor
oughfare, are small store rooms, where
water brought in bottles from outside
the village Is supplied. Here the people
sit at small tables and drink the water,
hot, cold or medium as fancy or the ply
scian dictates. Little boys and big boys
are kept busy waiting on the customers
and calling out, Zone hot, two cold, one
medium" until the words sound in ones
Signs decorate the walls bearing the
cheering intelligence IAN you wish to
drink for cents" and in some places
patrons are allowed to return after a
walk OF ten or fifteen minutes and imbibe
more of the crystal fluid without extra
charge.
Some OF the springs are situated in the
heart OF the village, in which case they
are enclosed in large building or in
pavilion. Congress Spring seems to be
the most popular OF the morning waters,
which may be due as much to the sur
roundings as to it's reputation as a remed-
ial agent. tits locatedin Congress Spring
Park and it's discovery dates back to
1892.
At the entrance to the park q fee Of >
cents is charged for which one eau drink
the water, wander at will through the
beautiful grounds and listen to charm
ing music from fine band. There is n
flag paved pavilion furnished with the
regulation chairs and tables, where yisi-
tors may sit and drink at leisure, shield
ed from the rain or sun. At "A stand in
this pavilion the water from the spring is
forced up through pipes into globular
glass receivers where it sparkles and bub-
bles in continuous flow, and from which
it is dipped into glasses for the people
standing about, or for the boys who car
~ it to those at the tables. little to
the right OF this stand is another, where
a young man is kept busy filing the