New-York tribune., 1904-09-04
SARATOGA SPRINGS POLO.
4nnual Tournament Furnished Sir
DAYS of Rare Sport.

sarstooa Strings n Y Sept. 3 (Special.-This
week rs whole has been remarkably brilliant
for September, and there has been scarcely any
decrease in social functions or outdoor pasuHes
Only two of the summer hotels have been closed for
the season The convention rush Will begin INSIDE
of fen davs when the town will the political
centre of the State.
Colonel J. j. Perkins. of Schuylerville presided at
the meeting here this week of the Saratoga county
Veterans Association. 1t decided TO hold the
reunion at Schuylervile on October II, the ami
versary of the battle of Saratoga. The lofty granite
monolith known the Saratoga battle monument
is at Schuylerye.
The Saratoga County fair this week drew hun
dreds OF Saratoga visitors, who enjoyed the agri-
cultural horse trots. The purses aggregated SlSco
The United States Hotel walters last Sunday
evening attended a special service at Bethesda
Episcopal Church. and were addressed by the Rev.
DR.. Joseph Carey the rector. and Bishop william
d. Walker, of Buffalo.
Mrs Sarah Kenney, of Troy. spoke before the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union last Sunday.
The Kensington Hotel, OF which Henry A. Bang.
of New-York, was proprietor. closed last week. and
is In charge of a receiver, Justice w. }.
Delaney and three appraisers. Mr.. Bang has filed
petition in voluntary bankruptcy. A number of
the hotel help received from the local authorities
transportation to their homes.
The running race meeting aftermath consists of
half dozen small stables that still delayed at
Horse Haven
Ex-senator John Foley, ". B. Mlliman. ex-Tax
Receiver; J. p. Brennan D. II. Noonan, ex-Com-
missioner OF Saratoga Springs; ]. II. Burke. ex,As-
sembyman of Ballston Spa, all Democrats, and
{. b. Thomas. president OF the Saratoga Business
Mems Association, Republican, constituted
committee selected to attend the meeting Of the
Democratic State Committee in New-York 10 per-
suade 1t to choose Saratoga for the Democratic
State Convention.
The Saratoga Polo Clubs annual tournament.
which began last week and ended this afternoon.
furnished six days OF excellent sport. The contests
were for the Grand Union Hotel cups. the United
States Hotel Cup and the Hitchcock challenge
cups The principal polo players were Raymond
Belmont. +. S, Won stade r W. Smith, Victor G.
Mather, H. NJ. Sage II. W. Sage, J. G. Averill.
&. L. A Whitney Harrison *. Bird, f. *. Town
send George Curtis Treadwell and John A. Man
ming.
A valuable horse owned by Mirabeau l.. Towns.
the poet-lawyer. OF Brooklyn. who is Saratoga
cottageF. drowned in of the Yaddo ponds
on Sunday last The horse was one OF a team
valued SIG Miss Towns and "a friend had
narrow escape
The Grand Council Of Royal and Select Masters
OF the State OF New-York held their ninety fifth
annual assembly IN Masonic Temple Tuesday,
Adelbert +. Knapp president or the village.
started Wednesday evening to San Francisco, to
attend the triennal conclave of the Grand En-
campment Of Knights Templar. which begins there
on September G.
The Saratoga Citizens Corps, Captain John K.
Walbridge. Company l. I'd Regiment. National
The corps later departed for Manassas Junction.
Va, TO participate in the army manRuvres.
George Wheelock, of New-York, who for years
passed the better part of each season here, has
Robert G. Smyth proprietor OF the Windsor Hotel
The price paid $1,000
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thompson, whose cottage at
Cedar Bluff. Saratoga Lake. was reduced TO ashes
Monday evening have decided to rebuild,
The Polka Dot Club IS encamped at the Hayward
summer place at Saratoga Lake