The Daily Morning Journal And Courier

SARATOGA SPRINGS' SUMMER BUSINESS BOOMING.

Some of the New Haveners Who Are There

The Hotels, Drives, Springs, Hops, Concerts, Etc.

Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 24, 1895.—The registers at the various hotels here indicate that the most desirable rooms are fast being taken. The weekly hops are very largely patronized. The season practically opened with the first day's racing and will be at its height for the next six weeks.

Arrangements are about completed for a grand theatrical entertainment to be given on the park of the Grand Union hotel in the early part of August, in which the leading talent of the stage will take part, the whole to conclude with a hop for the children in the afternoon and one for the adults in the evening. Invitation cards for this prominent affair are fast being secured.

Most enjoyable hops occur weekly at the Clarendon hotel and are attended by large numbers of society leaders.

Congress park is looking lovely with its well kept lawns, flowering mounds and shaded walks, and is patronized daily by large numbers, who greatly enjoy the concerts given by Gartland's celebrated orchestra, while many partake of the popular Congress Spring waters.

Among the many interesting personages to be seen daily on the promenades is the Rev. L. H. Angier of Boston, who is eighty-six years of age, hale and hearty, and is spending his sixtieth season at Saratoga. He is a firm believer of the efficacy of the health-giving qualities of Saratoga's spring waters.

Some of the resident hotel men and boarding house keepers are finding fault with the reform movement in closing the various gambling houses and the dispensing with pool selling at the races, as they miss many familiar faces this season among the gambling fraternity. Still it is quite noticeable that many are the new comers who are better contented with the milder and less harmful line of amusements which now are to be enjoyed to a greater extent than heretofore here. On this account is it noticeable that the hops at the hotels are attended by a larger percentage of men than at any previous season. Of course the ladies in this respect favor reform every time.

Saratoga is striving hard to secure the next republican national convention, and leading republicans hereabouts are quite unanimous in their opinion that there is no other location so eligible as this reformed village for them to conclave in.

The electric railroad are reaping a big harvest this season from their large patronage to and from Saratoga Lake. It is a most exhilarating ride of several miles.

The sail on the lake on the steamers to White Sulphur Springs is also greatly enjoyed by large numbers every day.

The 4 o'clock drives every afternoon are great features here. Many are the gay equipages. Among them, one of the finest, that of Mr. James English of the New Haven Electric company, is often noticed in the grand pageant on the boulevard headed for the lake.

Among the prominent New Haven guests at the Clarendon hotel we noticed Governor Bowers and family and Augustus H. Kimberly and family. Quite a number from New Haven are arranging to go to this popular hotel in August.