The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-30
4 GREAT SARATOGA SEASON.
Brilliant Prospects for This Great sum-
 mer Resort This Year.

mer Resort This Year.
 Saratoga Springs, May 29.-For some time past painters, decorators and ar tisans of various kinds have been bus fly engaged in renovating and beaut-
 flying the various hotels cottages,
 etc, in this noted spa, in fact the whole town has been cleaning house in
 preparation for the summer visitors.
 The street commissioners are busy re-
 pairing the roads and boulevards and
 Saratoga never presented more beau
 tiful appearance than now. A number
 of visitors have already arrived and
 the prospects for a big season is con-
 sidered to be most excellent, more so
 than for the past ten years, not only
 because the usual efflux to Europe
 will not take place on account of the
 war, but also the seaside resorts for the
 same reason will not be well patron
 ized. In fact Saratoga prospects, there
 fore will be something in the nature or
 monopoly of the watering-place busi-
 ness this year. The Grand Union hotel
 proprietors have taken up the well
 worn marble walk in front of their
 premises and have replaced the same
 with patent concrete walk which will
 be much more comfortable for pedes-
 trians to promenade over. This hotel
 has also been re-plumbed throughout,
 and is now in a good sanitary condi-
 tion. The Kensington hotel, which has
 been closed for the past several sea-
 sons, will reopen this year under the
 management of MT. Bangs of the Stur-
 tevant house of New York. The De-
 vardo hotel on North Broadway, one
 of the latest of the hotels erected in
 Saratoga, is a model of arrangement
 combined with the perfection of ele-
 gance and comfort, fine airy sleeping
 rooms with or without baths, compe-
 tent and obliging attendants always at
 hand. The immense piazzaS afford
 great convenience and pleasure for it's
 patrons during the fashionable driving scenes which occur every afternoon
 during the season. The Grand Boule-
 ward drive to the lake by way of Union
 avenue has been beautified by line of
 shade trees on the south side for the
 whole distance, nearly four miles. They
 are elm trees planted thirty feet apart. The trees on the north side of the road have also been duly attended to, which
 now make this the very improvement needed for a perfect driveway to the lake. The roadway to the golf grounds will also be placed in perfect condition. Saratoga has the finest golf grounds in the country, and every morning and afternoon the roadway to the grounds is filled with an almost continuous line of fashionable equipages. The Con-
 gress park grounds and lawns have been put in fine conditions. The large shade trees are quite fully in leaf and the whole park will soon resume it's wonted beauty. It is said to be one of the finest parks in this country.
 The Hathorn Spring pavilions and sur roundings have been put in first class shape The pure medicinal water flows | copiously as clear as crystal. Frank Hathorn (who, by the way, is gradu- ate of Yale unyersity) is constantly in attendance, receiving and giving infor- nation to the thousands who patron- ize it's health giving waters duripg the season, and to make it more enjoyable to his visitors, has engaged Doring's S Military band of Troy, N. Y., to give l concerts each day at the springs. Dor ing's band is one of the best to be ob- tained and is just now furnising mili- tary music for the boys encamped at Peekskill. The citizens corps of Sara | toga, very fine military organization, one hundred strong, have departed for | the war and are now encamped at Camp Black at Hampstead. The na- tives here are specially patriotic, as will | be remembered their fathers were dur i ing the Revolutionary war, Many have not forgotten the circumstances of the Battle of Saratoga. Many are ! the conventions, society meetings, etc, to be held here during the season com mencing early in June with the Car Builders and Master Mechanics asso- | citations of the United States B.