Year: 1859

Of it they can drink. We have seen an old
tlady deliberately swallow twelve glasses in


the morning before breakfast, and one dowa.
ger lady, with cork-sefew eurls on each side


of her head, who thought it was so healthy


she had drank eighteen glasses. This beats


the Germans drinking lager beer.


Another class OF people who come here are
those fashonables who cannot exist without
excitement and who come because Mrs. E..
and ID, are here, and they would not like to
be forgotten in the whirlpool of society They
drink Congress Water in small quantities, but
patronisc the Columbia Spring, believing the
iron will give extra red globules to the blood,
and thus they will have rosy cheeks. e..
Another portion of the crowd are the dys-
peptic, the rheumatic, the equity old fogies and
old maids, they Gene to rejuvenate; they drink
| everything. 20


Still another set are the old topers, who be-
lieve Congress Water sets them all right after
an eleven months perpetual spree. This class
is numerous, and can always be found in the
small hours of morning amusing themselves
by different huid, which they drink in large
quantities.


Finally, we have that class of young peo-
pie who come here to make matches they
get up early to drink Congress Water-at
least so they tell marines-but it is an excel
lent hour for Irritation, and they don't trouble
themselves anything about the Congress Wa
ter


From to 9 A. NJ. the Spa or Temple is
crowded. A gentleman computed, the other
morning, that there were nearly twelve thou.
sand glasses drank in two hours Horrors!


For our part, we think the Waters arc a
gigantic advertisement for the hotel and store
keepers, and they know it.


After drinking Congress water, then comes
breakfast. And here we have word to say
about the hotels. The habitual abuse which
IS heaped upon hotel proprietors we have al
ways found false by experience. The three
hotels here are most admirably conducted
the rooms are airy, well lighted and clean, the
proprietors are always at their post, and the
table is uneXceptionable- to those of
our best New York hotels As for courtesy
there is the smiling Putnam, always agreea-
BILE, and the dignifed Payne, who can cnlight-
en- you on every subject, from the history of
grasshopper to the analysis of woodcOck.
These are our hosts of the Union.


Then we have the twinkling-ey eyed Haw-
thorne, and the genial John McMichael, of
Congress Hall, and finally the dashing horse
man and world-lover Marvin, of the United
States. The massacrees of the chicken tribe
which these allies commit is worse than that
of SOlferino. After breakfast everybody
lounges, reads the Express, which an army of
boys rush frantically down the street with,
we smoke, we tiirt, we roll ten pins, play bill
liards, and kill time the best way possible, till
the dinner hour, after which the main street
in front of the Hotel presents one line of car
riages, there arc dashing bays driven by men
in livery, and drawing behind a cumbersome
carriage we have fine blood horses attached
to splendid coupees ready to dash forward to
the Lake, then there are light trotting wag-
ons, in fact every variety of vehicle to carry
the crowd which every evening visits the Lake.