The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17
SARATOGA AGAIN AWAKE.
READY FOR THE SUMNER GUESTS
WHO WILL FLOCK THERE.

Euxuries, Pleasures N Restfulness Of the
Springs I'm the Adirondack Foothills
Those Who Drink the waters "A Re
port for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Runs.
Saratoga Springs has fully awakened from
tho lethargy in which it spends nine months
out OF every twelve and is getting into the
full tide Of gay activity in which 1t spends
tho other three. The place where the bub-
bic water Grows is nov rolling up ite sleeves
and getting busy at entertaining the thou
sands Of summer visitors who flock there
every year.
There Is every reason to expect one OF the
most prosperous seasons in the history Of
Saratoga this year. General prosperity
fnds an instant response in all summer re-
sorts, but Saratoga is peculiarly susceptible
TO good and bad times for the reaso that 1t
Ia the resort Of people with money to spend.
Not that the man of average income may
not 20 to Saratoga and have a fine time
without ~bankrupting himself. He may and
he does-thousands Of him every year. All
the same, Saratoga is a place where the
wealthy man may go and be confident that
be won't feel himself cramped because
there are no way in which to spend his
money.
This means, Of course, that Saratoga, In
the season, is one Of the places best sup
piled with the comforts and luxuries Of life.
There Ia, in fact, scarcely any convenience
or luxury to be found at a New York hotel
that the great csravansaries OF Saratoga
do not supply.
Cav and fashionable this resort In the
Adirondack foothills undoubtedly is, but it
Is gay with a serenity and plaoidity that
characterizes scarcely any other resort
OF It's importance. The spirit Of grateful
lanRuor breathes over the entire town.
And all this despite the fact that the place
is crowded for two months, despite the great
race track, one Of the largest in this or any
other country, despite the round Of social
activity that goes constantly on.
1t was true even in the days hen Can
fields was in full and undisguised swing and
the clubhouse, with its exquisite restaurant
plainly visible through wide arches from
the sale de j;eu, where the little ball purred
musically around the spinning wheel and
finally fell lazily inc number %.
1t seems that Saratoga is to know
Canfeld's no more. CenDeld himself has
made his s., 900 900 and has enjoyed rather
more o. the iimelight than he finds to his
TASTE IN me ldst TWO ,yeSis' NoieoNei tHe
general protest that has been made against
gambling enterprises will probably discour-
age any other of the big gamblers from
trying to duplicate the famous Saratoga
Club. Gambling there will undoubtedly
be, put it will be of a quiet, unobtrusive
sort and no longer, as in the old days, a
regular nightly social function, as much
Ii part OF the days round Of pleasure as a
trip to the races in the afternoon or a stroll
to one of the springs in the morning.
With the passing Of Canfeld's establish
ment and Of Garfield himself from a position
of eminenoe at Saratoga the second Of the
two men who five years ago were, each in
his own wav, the big men of the place
has retired from influence there. William
c. Whitney was the first OF the two to 60;
but even since his death his influence is
still felt at the Springs.
The great race track was the result Of
his planning, and had he lived he would
probably have carried out other plans for