GAMBLING.
More like Baden-Baden, every year, becomes Saratoga. John
Morrissey has added still another building to his old establishment,
making it a fair rival to the Kursaal at the Badens. The
rooms now include a beautiful club salon, and Belmont and
Travers, and two hundred conspicuous members of the Jockey
Club are stockholders and members. Gorgeously furnished
toilet-rooms, faro parlors, and dining-rooms, carpeted with soft
carpets and decorated with rich carvings and bronzes, hold the
blasé and allure the naïve. Last summer, twenty-five thousand
ladies visited these rooms, and this summer several receptions
will be held. The Honorable John is liked in Saratoga, because
he divides the profits of his sinning with the good people of the
village with a generous hand. A few days ago he subscribed
five hundred dollars toward sprinkling Lake Avenue. It is
dreadful to think that the descendants of Miles Standish are
some day to follow in the footsteps of the gambling Badeners,
but year by year the gilded curtain is lifted higher and higher,
until now we begin to see the beautiful figure of vice without
shrinking
