New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-29
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"Hsve You any objections 10 state what are Mr..
Coopers intentions as regards tearing down and re-
building this Fall, Mr.. BlnserP
"None In the world. On the LIST Of September Mr..
Cooper will begin to tear down tho United States.
Congress Hail. and the Clarendon. Whether he will
rebuild them not, is not definitely decided as yet
in his own mind. but may say that this depends
greatly upon circumstances. As for the Grand
Union, work upon this house will go on without
interruption or pay of the workmen."
" How many miles Of piazza will you have when
the additions are completedP
Zone million"
"How many miles of bell-wirep
After cipherng on the back of bill of fare in
an adjoining pantry for an hour two, he put his
head out and said:
Nineteen million"
"Can you give me an approximation to the num-
Der of yards of carpet which will be required to
the foorsp
Scratching his head meditatively for moment,
with fish fork, he replied:
"One hundred and fifty millions, two feet and
three inches You see particular as to details,
Sir"
"Of what material will the carpets be composed
Axmnsteri"
"No, az me: green gingham."
"Where will your china come from"
ave shant have any"
"WhO furnishes the silverV
"SimpsOn, in the Bowery."
Chow many chairs will you have IN the housep
1.-TWO dozen.o
GLOW many pianosY
"Two thousand. What do you think of thatf"
II think you lie, Mr.. Binser," mildly remarked.
And in thinking the whole interview over L have
become persuaded that he did lie all through it. ex
cept in the matter of the number of chairs, per-
haps!
One chair to three guests is the general rule at
these watering places. This scant allowance seems
strange when the tendency of human nature to
cumulate chairs is considered. Any evening, on
walking through the parlors along the piazzas in
vain attempt to find seat, you shall see numbers
of single women with wilderness of chairs around
them, reserved for coterie of admirers who never
to Here you have the last resort of ugly
women, fancy to bride tired men into cOmmuning
with them. For after being on his feet all day
fellow would sit down by the side of most anybody,
simply for the sake of being seated.
The old habitues of Saratoga are all here. Season
after season their names have appeared in The SGra
togan and in Saratoga letters, and the thought
comes to me- Do they ever die 7 Certainly they
never grow old. The venerable Commodore just
now rolled by in his carriage looking fresh he
did twenty Summers ago, and seemingly good for
twenty Summers to come. Jay Gould, too looks
young and innocent as he did in the old Erie days.
SO you see what an honest life will do for man.
Not gray spear shows in Col Sanford's whiskers,
perhaps because he shaves twice day. And found
the tall figure of yet another telegraph man, VIM.
Orion. looming above the crowd at Congress Spring
this morning just as l expected. Noticing an anx-
ious look in his eyes, stepped over and assured him
that would never patronize any opposition line so
long as my book of franks held out. True, | didn't
have any, but the promise holds just as good. Peo-
pie wonder why passes are given to favored few;
/ can explain. The moment fellow gets one of
these things he goes to work telegraphing all over
the country and putting his friends to frghtful
expense in answering. There is one independent
journalist living in Chicago who made me pay 81
for wiring in less than week, all about his own
affairs too 1t took little time to learn the
trick of it, but at last discovered that he had a
"pass" President OrtOn now confesSes to me in
confidence that whenever business is dull he gives
out these franks to chaps who would never tele-
graph in their lives if they had to pay for it, and
the idiots at once become " wire worms taking the
bread and butter out of the mouths OF half their
acquaintance in distant cities by compelling an
swers to their COMPOUNDED dispatches.
One of the firm of Brewster of Broome-st." is
here. have labored long with him to impress upon
his mind the Importance of a MENTION but he con-
tinues obdurate. l offered to do it for barouche
then L came down to phaeton, mail phaeton-a
black mail phaeton you may call it, if maliciously
dsposed-but no. Then l threatened to tell the
public that they sell buggy wagons" and most any
furniture man would willingly pay $1,000 more or
less rather than to have it set forth to the publcs
satisfaction that he sent out buggy bedsteads; but
in van-I cannot say in wain for this is not a
"Britton. chapgeful as a child at play"
1t was my deliberate intention to mention all the
distinguished persons now in Saratoga, but, finding
that there is not paper enough in town, desist.
And they come so fast that there's counting
them. Just hint to any of the many guests here
sojourning that he, she or it is not distinguished,
and see what would come of it, Certainly in the
number of arrivals there seems little no diminu-
ton so far though the thinning out time is upon rs,
according to all precedent. 1t may be that the
regatta of Friday next is the magnet. Great Cesar
what heroes these boatmen are! What thing it is
to be Z" gentleman and sculler" nowadays to be
sure! JOHN PAUL,