New-York tribune., 1902-08-24
COSMOPOLITAN SARATOGA.
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY THE CHIEF
FIGURE AT THE SUMMER CAPI-
TAI INTEREST IN RACING
AND THE CLUB


You mustn't say bohemian any more m,
dear" remarked young matron her sirIish corn,
panion, as the two sat the veranda of the Unt.d
States Hotel the other morning SURVEYING az
lively pageant that rolled along Broadway befcr.
them Cosmopolitan is the word now sBohA
nlian is associated nowadays only with greasy Iopr
haired men who dine at cheap tables d'hotes a,s
don't know where the price of the next DAYS dinn
is coming from. To be a cosmopolitan however :,
be a person of experience and breadth IN kro
both conventionaity and unconventionaIi.y ard =,
affect both the proper times; stickle for
forms and ceremonies except formal and cera
rnonious occasions; dine with prince or with a
pauper, and to be equally at ease with both.
ITS really much broader phrase than 'bohs
nian' you see and it things much mora
desira BILE carries with it, too. of aplomb
and distinction that the other lacks Yes. my dear
it is smart be cosmopolitan but to be 'bohe-
mian' is longer good form
Saratoga is cosmopolitan in more senses than one
1t more mixed. not as to race, but type
than any other fashionable summer resort in thu
country Wealth rubs elbows with mere CONNIE
tence finance consorts with chance genius sits
at the table next to obscuritys and nobodies jog-
gle the exclusive Probably in no other place IN
this country do celebrities of kind another Sc
informally conduct themselves. Nowhere are thev
so approa hle and surely nowhere do they seer,
to enjoy themselves entirely.
OF course the celebrity Of Saratoga is William
c. Whitney. 1t is pretty well recognized that tina
great boom or prosperity tnaC mas swept
Spa this season is due to him than to any,
body else. He has made a racetrack new
not only in materials. but in atmosphere Lifting
it from the sem-disrepute and the evil days into
which it had fallen he has completed the work
which he began last year, and in seasons has
raised Saratoga racing to plane which. all things
considered. equalled nowhere else this side Of
| the Atlantic And the track has been the bigges.
| possible advertisement for Saratoga. which sits
brightly in the reflected glory and takes most Of
| the profits
| Consequently. Mr.. Whitney s the best known
| man in Saratoga and is the observed the world
| whenever he is abroad And this is most OF the
| time Mr.. Whitney has cottage at the United
States Hotel. and his is a familiar figure tie
| streets of the town. 1t is not at all unusual to
! him stunning himself a street corner. after
| breakfast smoking long, black cigar. that looks
| like the kind Winnie O'COnnor. the jockey,
smokes and costs possibly half much. looking
| quietly at the passing show as contentedy as any
| other idIer of the summer morning
Nor is the hnancfer any less democratic on the
! track He has box there. but when ne Is not in
the stewards stand he often 10 be found strolrs
| about the lawn, talking horse with various ac-
/ quaintances.
The track is such beautiful place that racegoers
/ hate TO leave it, even after the days racing is
| done. and almost any pleasant day 200 or 900 per-
sons stay to watch the trainers work their horses
| some of them preferring that hour to the early
| morning Each afternoon several OF MI Whit
| news string take their gaIIops- and Mr. Whitney
| stavs frequently to watch their work, which ne
does with every evidence of interest The rest OF
! the spectators give Mr. Whitney more attention
| than they give his horses
| Mr. whitney Is also much in evidence evenings
at the Saratoga Club Occasionally he dimes there
| with his son and few friends. and after may De
seen strolling from table 20 table watching the
| NAV though he never plays himself Harry Payne
Whitney does the playing ror the family and MS
| father never loses an opportunity to watch the
| one of the cauidrons in which the social ele-
ments are mixed is the lobby q the eIrand Union non
TANKS the street gather the bookrakeTs and % h ths
! afternoon. but after dinner comes truce. and
they spend hour OF two in discussing the losses
| else II is horse ali the time for them One won
ders what they DO Eaen ne raGas 1 SSo = 70 rh
| South and Far West. where the racers run all
winter +s and 6gd She Fg tired f Of Borse al the tine
but they never do ECsFy morning Eery afternoon.
| rhev are at the track and every evening Iney oe
wall the losses or c5ieI 49, E y everv last one OF
them would have been born In Staele i al u - S
9dSock Where they hope they might s5ill hear
faintly through their long sleep the stamp u o-''
hST5s Ths G hotel io5by itself has come TO be called
| stares at everybody else- LIS ~ Srayor Nan
Senator McCarren conversng WIN I H1 y WvcE
looks on JpiiI Grant lyman who organized and
Gi9nreanzsd zinc company and now owns race
4 horses and automobiles. stroIIs oy 4j ~,
/ sibI,- urro Robert EdesOn or Robert HuHaru, WHO
s.oi' ,,Ii,t- tbs last Iays OF summer holiday
| bere before getting back 70 New erA 10y r
hearsas- Next one may see haI NaSI' L., Tf CIV ~
s said To have killed tweuty-stX men IN DoSe 10,
the wickeIest town in the West IN the Gscndrs55
~ bis any as Sheriff: Lawrence Waterbury ana
his brother Monte. the famous polo payers laLh
ing with John W. Schorr, or Pal !lWySr, s ,s r.T
later John ~ Drake, the Western spec1iaTo III ~
rrsndsr i, with Charlie" Gates son OF John W.
trjoe~ n roll the young why Wyftn winner %
tha American Derby. should win his race next Gds,
sinh
| about midnight Richard Cantield prooaol t.e
-,oe+ rsrarkahle man. next to William =. NrH--
, u, sar,Tora nresides there but in quiet and
tentatious that II one did NOT KNOW n-l
90, yor1Id not be conscious Of his presence tlele.
On AZ, evening in the height OF the season enc ny
find nearly every of consequence N SaIaeG7
IT, crowd fs SO dense about midnight tnat only q
Ierv small majority of those present can play DI
the galleries are large ana the laoeS III ' m Sorr
or5 rbs srTnper room at premium An hJ,L
fater aud the crowd is perceptibly thlnned out ~
Ia only a few nightOwlS are lett. me uiSe.s -
Elements are untangled for the day out Ine ~
morning they once more weave themselves iuI0 nv