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ELI PERKINS PREACHES ON PRICES.

A good deal is said and written about watering-place prices,
but every one will admit, on sober reflection, that prices here are
less than they are in New York.

Take the question of carriages:—In New York you pay $5 for
a two-horse barouche ride around the park. Here you get a
very neat span of horses for an afternoon ride around the Lake
for the same amount, and a horse and buggy for $3. The Saratoga
liveries are certainly very neat and comfortable affairs too.
Your barber charges five cents more for a shave here, and you

pay five cents more for a New York paper than at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. You ride to the Lake and back for 25c. in an
omnibus, and over to the Geyser for 20c When we think that
the barber has only six weeks to work in, after the great expense
of coming from New York, and see the newsman's trouble and
frequent losses on newspapers—these little extra charges are
explained and justified.