 | GROWTH OF SARATOGA. Saratoga in 1901 |  |
GROWTH OF SARATOGA.
Saratoga now extends all along Lake Avenue to Saratoga
Lake. There are four beautiful rows of elms all the way, and it
is one of the most delightful drives in the world—so much better
than when I saw it in 1871! There is also the same kind of a
Boulevard extending over to Ballston, past the Geyser, where
they have a mammoth hotel. Moon died in 1892. His potato
trade got to be immense. Moon was ambitious, and one day
he heard Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Stewart talking about the
“eclipse of the Moon.” He made no inquiries as to facts, but
took to heart. He died happy, and his last words to Mrs. Moon
were, “Never let the Frank Wadel bottle get empty while Sam
Duncan lives.”
Mr. John R. Cecil, a most genial wit, who died many years
ago, used to tell the venerable Charles Wall that “Moon took
too many `quarters' and `halves,' and then got to be a `full
Moon' too often. He was able, alas! to make a good many
changes, but he finally died broken hearted because he could
have no `new Moons.”'
Meyers continued to shoot “kilmaroos” in
August, and partridges in September for
many years. When Commodore Vanderbilt
died he bequeathed him $500,000 with which
to build a monument to the woodcock and
black bass, which had been eaten there by
himself, Mr. Boody and Mr. Marvin. The
monument stands on the shores of the lake,
a warning beacon to black bass to keep away
from the shoals of Cedar Bluff.
Meyers many years afterwards was buried under the same
monument.
| GROWTH OF SARATOGA. Saratoga in 1901 | |