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SARATOGA
CROWDS!

[ILLUSTRATION] [Description: 628EAF. Page 140. In-line Illustrations. The first image is of luggage stacked across the top of the page. Written on the box in the center is "SARATOGA CROWDS!" The second image is of a man sitting sipping a beverage with his feet propped up on the windowsill in front of him. He is watching a horse race in the distance. The caption reads, "SWELL N. Y. BOY."]

Talk about crowds! Talk about the jam at a Roman carnival,
the crush at a Leipsic fair, the seething crowds at the London
Derby, the tumult of a Nejni Novgorod fair! Why, they are a
quiet Sunday morning to this grand August huddle at Saratoga.
Old ladies, with seventeen band-boxes, are sent into the sixth
story, to occupy rooms with broken bell-ropes; and young men
in immaculate standing collars and tight boots are “colonized”
thirteen blocks away from the big hotels.

When they arrive from their quarters for breakfast they are
exhausted with fatigue—their haggard forms wilt down with
their shirt collars, and their boots are frosted with the sacred soil
of Saratoga.

Think of nice young men—Fifth Avenue beaux—spending
almost all their time in dreary pilgrimages to and from their
rooms. Think of wearing a dress suit for two miles, through crowds
of curious villagers, and then appearing at a morning Congress
Hall German, with a dress-coat frosted with the floating simoom
kicked up by Barnum's Circus.

One interesting youth,
who boasts a $75,000 income,
is colonized almost
over to the race track. He
proposes to watch the
race from the third-story
window of his secluded
dwelling. He communicates
with Mr. Hathorn
entirely by means of the
telegraph. He says he
thinks he should like Saratoga,
for he is much pleased when he comes in on an occasional
visit. The happiest being in Saratoga is

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[ILLUSTRATION] [Description: 628EAF. Page 141. In-line Illustrations. The first image is of a man's foot kicking a dog's rear end. The caption reads, "POOR BRAVE." The second image is of a monkey in a suit of clothes. He is mopping his head with a handkerchief and holding a fan that says, "CROWDS" on it. The caption reads, "HOT!"]

OLD DOG BRAVE,

the big Newfoundland at Congress Hall. Brave is
always happy and well fed when the hotel is full and
when business goes on well, but let the coaches come
empty and go full, and the
faithful old animal gets
many a kick. He has got
the thing learned by heart
now, for let the coaches
drive up full and you will see him standing with his tail wagging,
and his great honest bow! wow!! wow!!! will sound along the
corridors. But let them come empty, and you will see him with
his tail between his legs, trying to get away from the threatening
proximity of the Chesterfieldian Hathorn's boot.