The New York herald., 1876-09-05
HERALD SARATOGA SPECIAL.
LAST TRIP OF THE sEAsoN-FAsT TIME WITH
HoRsEFLKsH-A CHILLY DAY AT THE
SPRINGS, AND THE SEASON ABOUT ENDED.


HoRsErLEsH- CHILLY DAY AT THE
SPRINGS, AND THE SEASON ABOUT ENDED.
SARATOGA, Sept 4, 1915
The last trip OF the HERALD special newspaper train
made Sunday. and successfully carried
out as previous Sundays OF the season. When the
papers rolled or The swiftrunnng Buocks r the
basement, counted folded and addressed several thou
sand transferred to wagons, which were rapidly
driven up Broadway and Madison and Park avenues to
tho Grand Central depot There, in tho gray morning,
stood engine No. IS, George Mink, driver and tho
newspaper car, awaiting the rattle OF the
wheels the vehicles dashed into the upper
end OF the mammoth yard. Five minutes suhccd to
transfer the bundles to the Mink's brakeman
coupled No. S. the lever was drawn and the
last HERALD special glided away from the depot leav
ing behind line Of smoke TO mark its route Under
tho bridges OF Fourth avenue into the tunnels rattcd
throwing burning cnders that in the dark tunnel
took fantastic curvugs the and extinguished
forever Tho run to Spuyten Duyvil was made on
time and the shrlll whistle, The train thundered
around curves, bridges and under bluffs, brought
out the ncwsmen to their supplies OF journals
Here they "sowed up litte and the tram passed
yera large bundles vigorously kicked rop the
platform, and alter several somcrsets they lay
as quietly upon terra lrma as the placid water
OF the Harlem that at that hour not disturbed by
II surface ripple. Leaving Spuyten Duyvil at seven
teen minutes past nvo Mink let out his engine
and for distance the tram few past towns, ham
let's ard villas at the OF tytwo miles per hour
Yonkcrs received the latest from all parts OF tho
world twenty-five minutes past five Dobbs Ferry at
thrtyseven minutes past five, Tarrytown ut fortysX
minutes past five and awaking the convicts at Sing
Sing Prison at ftyfour minutes past five AS tho train
took the tunnel with whz the depot workshops, stores
end hotels vanished to tho rear n twinklng Peeks-
kill reached eight minutes ahead OF schedule time,
and halt made await the fight Of time. Here
large supply OF papers was dropped and We were
again OF on dead heat for Poughkeepse, the second
tarrying place. AT Garrsons Cold Spring and other
points rowboats from beyond the Hudson and wagons
were awaiting the train, from which the bundles wero
transferred with the practical agility only known to the
live pewsmen. longer halt than usual was made at
Poughkcepsie arrived ahead Of time, and
at six minutes past the train left for
Hudson City 1t rolled through Hyde Park
at thirteen minutes past seven, Staatsburg at
wcnty minutes past seven, Rhinebeck at thiryseven
minutes past SEVEN Tvo at forty minutes past seven,
Catskill at two minutes to eight, and came to
halt at Hudson ut eight O'CLOCK six minutes ahead OF
time, having delivered nearly thousand papers be-
tween Poughkcepse and that point Leaving again at
six minutes past eight, all the stations between there
and Albany were supplied with tho Sunday HERALD in
time for late breakfast and for casual perusal be-
fore tho stad Inhabitants dressed for church Albany
reached at eight TO nine,
little ahead. Here bundles Tor points tho
line OF connecting roads were left well tho
usual supply OF between 600 and 500 for the enlighen
ment and entertainment OF tho Albaniaas The run
to Schenectady made IN half hour without any
unusual effort of tho engine or its driver Ten min
utes only were consumed in transferring the bundles
wagon, and the attachment thereto Of SPIRITED
team, which Tor two years had mover failed
sstng to put the HERALD IN the la DIS OF Its delighted
Saratoga readers. One hundred and ninety miles dis
tant from the Office of publication before neon
Several times the trip Of twenty-five miles
country has been made over
heavy, dusty road hot day in
two hours ana fifteen minutes hut 1t re-
NAMED tor the teams yesterday eclipse ali pre-
vous efforts Recent heavy rams had mado the soil
compact aud damp, and stiff, chilly breeze blew
hilltop aud valley along the Learning that this
to be tho last trip OF the the driver let
horses out and took hills and bridges at full gait
With four and about 500 pounds wcight Of
papers the wagon the trip made In hour and
hftyone minutes, including two stops OF two minutes
each to pcrm. the faithful horses to make The acquan
ance OF wayside pumps AT Saratoga a~.cam was in
waiting carry the bundles Lake George and other
points contiguous to this place. The discontnuance
OF the HERALD express suggests the close OF the season.
and certainly any ono who yesterday soJourned here
have concluded that tho time had about arrived
for tho settlement of bills tho packing Of trunks and
the u,tcrancc of the last goodbyos In all the hotels
fires lighted in the parors, around which hud-
died the few guests who renamed Sunday;
shawls, overcoats and muners pressed into ser
and few appeared in the streets. In the States
aud Grand Union and Clarendon quito n number OF
guests who bravo the chilly days for the OF the
water were found Congress Hall is almost empty.
and they have discharged the band The Windsor
closes to-day l learn the American has something
like one-third its usual complement whlle the Colum
bian has quite a number of select boarders and
families still shvering within its walls The chef
OF the sparsencss of the visitors Congress Hall
is that the proprctors permitted the impression to get
abroad that they had reduced from So So per
day. and took no means to disabuso the minds of tho
public. In consequence when the pubic found that
they were charged s5 they looked upon the decars.
tions of the servants and that reduction had
been made AS trick and the house has suffered more
than the other hotels that have dealt their guests
more coLscentiously. concert given in the park
last night usual. but the attendance was small; not
more than 200 300 persons wrapped shaws
coats and well mued up venturng TO leave the parlor
fires II was not quite cold enough TO freeze the breath
Of the performers as it passed through the Instruments
but all the artists shrugged and shivered between
pieces and Ionged COR the end Landlords already
beginning reduce their help and preparations
for early closing few will unless another con-
vention DO called here. close next week, whiIc tho
others will hold on until later in tho month to catch
the late comcrs and the late gocrs.
WOULD-BE TRAIN WRECKERS.
On Saturday evening last a hand car owned by the