The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-02


 BeIng Fazt oceupied-Fine Racing Programme for August eth-Fine
 Horses Arriylns-other News of the Resort.
 Saratoga Springs, July 30.
 Many arrivals are daily reported at the hotels and boarding houses. Among the recent corners from New Haven are James English and wife. who occupy d fine cottage at the United States Hotel. They were among the large number of guests who attended the opening hop in the United States ballroom few even- ings ago. A party from New Haven at the Columbian Hotel includes Mir. and Mrs. Charles H. Loomis, Miss Mabel F. Ioomis. Miss H. L. Bascom, Miss E. NJ. Bascom, Augustus s. Thompson, Henry Farrell and Bernard Farrell. Quite a large number of New Haven people are expected to arrive at Saratoga during August.
 George A. Haight, of New Haven, is at the Continental Hotel. MT. Haight is the inventor of the Maxine torpedo used by the Russian Japanese, French and American navies. A large number of Cubans have arrived al, the Everett House, which hotel is usually their summer home The racing season com- nences August 1 and continues until the 18th. An unusually large number of fine track horses have already ar rived and many more will soon be sent here. The track is in fine condition and the horses among the fastest run ners in the country. Therefore lively times may be expected for turf fan ciers A fine programme has been ar ranged for August s, Including as it does the Benewyck steeple chase, the Saratoga special and the Great Repub- lie. The special is for two-year-olds and is five and one half furlongs. It is by subscription of one thousand dollars and piece of gold plate valued at two thousand dollars There are fifty-seven entries for this contest. The Great Re- public is for three-year-olds and up- wards at one and one-fourth miles for prize of fifty thousand dollars. Prizes for other races run are from five thousand to thirty thousand dol- lars. For those who are not interested in the races there is an almost limit less amount of amusements day and night. There are the golf links, polo grounds and Woodlawn Park, a charm- ing place. reached by a magnificent drive out North Broadway. There are also the Geysers reached by trolley, the speedway completed by the village at q great expense, being the continuation of Fifth avenue and connecting with both Lake and Union avenues, the White Sulphur Springs reached by a pleasant sail up Saratoga lake, Ballston Spa, Saratoga's country seat, reached by 8 seven mile drive on fine roads. Other points are the spacious grounds of Spring Trask Yaddo Moon Lake house at the head of Saratoga lake, Conven- tion Hall on South Broadway, which seats five thousand people, Pompeiian House, or House of Pansy, on South Broadway, the various mineral springs and among them the famous Hathorn, whose sparkling waters are curative for many of the ills which flesh is heir to- where classic music is played while one sips the waters under the fine pa vilion The numerous hops that occur nearly every evening at the various ho- tels and public halls, numerous card parties and concerts in the hotel par 1ors and ball rooms all lend an enchant- nent not to be found at any other sum- ner resort in this country, as our late Governor James E. English used to say while at Saratoga every season, "Of all my experience in foreign and home re- sorts, never have I found one that could in any way in ease and comfort compare with Saratoga Springs"
 Quite large numbers of guests are ar irving at the Kensington one of the most popular and finely located hotels in Saratoga.
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