The evening world., 1905-08-07
SARATOGA
GAY UNDER A
FEMININE RULE
Thanks to Women Old Water
ing Place Has Come Into
Own Again.
ALL SEEK GOOD TIME.
Feverish Chase of Pleasure
Lend a Kaleidoscope View
Seldom Seen Here.
ALL SEEK GOOD TIME.
By Emmeline Pendennis.
Especial to The Evening WORLDLY

Especial to The Evening World
SARATOGA SPRINGS, n. Y. Aug. I.
-Saratoga has some to its WI again
and under a feminine rule.
II there is to be found a gayer resort
than the Spa of to-day. with more dash
and spirit. With more beautiful women.
better gowned. more keenly he I On
pleasure. with more money in evidence,
and more real. live men, the old-time
watering place of that earlier era
would like TO know where.
It would certainly be hard to find a
brighter pageantry than that gathered
a. the race track Saturday afternoon 10
witness the running of the Saratoga
Special, or at the dinner and supper
hours in the big dinine-room of the
Saratoga Club House. And the strange
part Of it all is that with ali its big
resorts and cottages not one had the
slightest show of being dull.
The big hotels, where our mothers
and grandmothers used to make their
pilgrimage each season with Saratoga
trunks" filled with finery. have reused
themselves from their lethacgy to the
realization that the period of their old
triumph. of which the big crystal chan
N@.AS aAtN IN ANNA SAS~
walnut furnishings bear record, has
been surpassed by the success of these
last days.
The amazing go" OF the day seems
to be mostly the work OF the women.
Every petticoated Saratogian is going
III for a good time with such good
spirits and enthusiasm that things
truly hum. And the fact that there are
o-I .-l o-o sseascH 1nnC mt
seem to hinder in the game.
The women here are, of course, of
every sort, from the Colonel's lady TO
Judy o'Grady"-from the most ex-
elusive cottager Of Woodlawn Park,
Mrs. Clarence Mackay. to the little
shop girl away or her vacation, who
plunges 10 the extent OF a grand-stand
seat and a dollar played on the hun
dred to one shots.
Quality Meets Quantity.
The hotels boast OF the elite-"women,
models Of their sex, society's true Or
nament." and others, rivals from the
point Of view of the flash and color of
0rnamentation. whose cheeks show
eyery ehade from heliotrope to rose.
Inc whose diamonds put the sc!nti!-
hating chandeliers to shame. And the
smart folk rub elbows with all these
and the American Philistines and their
Philisttne families. Those within the
sacred pale, the envlrons who llnger
Just without, and Hoi Polloi combine
at the races. at Canfeld's. and every
other common hunting ground to make
the good-rime panorama.
The races nave not once been so fully
nttanhaH DC Ga+,rJau aftar,anp Tba
grand-stand was a flower bed with It's
myrtads OF gowns of all hues and tones.
There were no empty seats in the boxes,
n the tables on that Holy OF Holes,
the club veranda, were KEEP, well filled.
Mrs. Mackay was there, slnuous and
slender as ever, wearing a mauve
costume, looking all the world Ike a
millionaire's wife and not the least like
a suburban school commissioner. Miss
Fanshawe wore an exquisite white I'm
gerle gown. So did the young debutante
In the box with Mrs. Widener, VINO
Jumped out OF her seat and waved her
programme 80 wildin when Mohawk
came in ahead that where was strong
suspicion of a secret messenger de-
apatched to the betting ring.
The lovely Southern women. Mrs.
CHM n Mrs. Mcdowell, of Ken
lucky. were two Of the best dressed
women present. Miss Fepowes and Miss
TONNES, OF BrootSlyn, the he!ress, Mrs.
Rowe, Mrs. f. L. Smith, Ms Durvea
and Mrs. p. C. Potter were some others.
And far up the line. with a symbolically
green feather In her hat was Lillian
Russell.
The ron boxes stretched a waving,
duttering sea of da!nty-hued gowns OF
faultless cut. OF hats with shlmmerlng
feathers and ribbons and flowers. all
with the touch OF the French artist aud
worn with the inimitabla grace af our
American women.
Tnese Out for Gain.
Behind rose the tiers whore the color
ing was less perfect. the texture
coarser n the STYLES less subtle. and
the interest In the ponies speeding
around the ring evidenced In the more
easor craning of the neck and the