Arizona citizen., 1872-06-22

!
 bought it lately for about half a mil
 lion (not half its cost) to save himself
 from the miSfortunes of the Leland
 family, who have spread out |" too
 thin to last. The Grand Central
 Is new hotel on the eve of compile
 tion. These three structures are cer-
 tainly immense every way-they are
 more dazzling within than daring
 without. There is still a hotel short besides the burned district of the
 Central-the ugly gap on Broadway
 where the United States Hotel was,
 has no attraction but the yellow cot
 tage of the Hon. John Morrissy and
 wife They burn the town by sec
 tions to make business when "the
 season" is off. In the rear of Congress
 Hall is Morrissy's club-room-a sug-
 gestive sort of brick, said to be the
 finest carpeted and otherwise furnish
 ed house in America. The ponderous
 chested ex-M. c. is largely interested
 in Saratoga, and is to be seen lolling
 round while directing the building of
 8 pool house and fixing up round the
 lot generally. He is man of much
 good common sense, set off with enough
 of the Jim Fisk humor to make very
 companionable sort of man. Itis only
 when he takes off his hat to wipe the
 sweat from his honest brow, that you
 fully admire the hero of the P. R.
 His Roman nose went down heath the
 kunckle of the Benicia Boy, since
 which the otherwise classic face, with 1 its grisly beard and knotted brows,
 and curly black hair to match-stands
 forth like the well-battered head of
 an old buck ram. There is something
 so serio- com1c for me in case of this
 kind that am apt to finger round it
 too long. In the more merry days of "Merrie England" the ministry and
 members of Parliament patronized the prize ring, and no less a poet than Moore immortalized 1t all ill song. Morrissy in Congress, however, was l failure, 1 guess, for I never heard that he dld anything like even making an ass of himself, hence a word more and l pass him over to oblivion. Both | he and wife are liberal to the churches, and have the. prayers thereof; and the muscular Christian and boss of the
 "tiger" never lets anyone go hungry from his door. The still harder-faced old Vanderbilt makes Saratoga his summer resort, with his young wife before the foot lights and mistress hac hn ok l. | ses, fast and fashionable women are abundant, of course, but generally Saratoga is of the more quiet but dressy Christian order. The dia- monds are doubtless as cloud" in the season as report says. Its race tracks are superior, and Saratoga Lake, four miles east, is all the boatists could ask. The churches are large, the music better than the sermons, and the town-hall affords theatrical favors at intervals. There are medical in- { stitutions, with all sorts of baths and f appliances to treat the lame and halt the weary and what not, in season and out. This is destined to be the greatest { place ill America, if not in the world. Locally it is sort of neutral ground where the Puritan from Plymouth Rock, the ordinary Chris l ian or sinner from every land, and V he "son-of-a gun from Cow-bay," :, ,an meet and compare notes and be nore tolerant therefor. It is most n convenient siesta (after-dinner nap) I or the over-heated victim of that I leviPs dice -box-the Gold Room of i, Wall street-where skulls oftener go ls o the deuce than throw sixes. The | nore desperate victims are advised to a 70 to Florida, where there is the least
 usiness or excitement in the universe; where the magnificent Spaniard pros ir ected for the fountain of perpetual e. outh and everlasting leisure. n - To-day the big hotels open for {" the h eason "-the only two words in the Y aratoga dictionary. Besides moving in lonth, May here is all devoted to of ainting, securing and scrubbing; re- B' airing, replanting, repaving and all ta le rest of it. Every year, May is to le same here. All the men seem to
 3 painters by profession, and l have
 9 doubt the women practice it on the tn y; the Saratoga belle" is buchi- +o Il as butterfly" and much more Uo o 1merous and added to the coming Go .;o enagerie of July and August, the ,rI vaI