The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-05
THE HERALD AT SARATOGA.

AFTERSoos-THE oLD-TIME PONY EXPRESS
FROM ALBANY-A TERRIBLE STORM AND
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE DRIvER-EvERY-
BODY MADE HAPPY BY THE HERALD.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
SARATOGA, August 4, 1878
Saratoga Is delightful place. But Saratoga win
out the HERALD would with all the rest OF its joys.
be realij miserable. The people who como
here. being mostly city and Of
affairs, could no more dispense with their
daily newspaper than they could omit their daily
meals glance at It's market aud trade reports ro-
assures them every twenty -four aud guides TO
some extent their telegraphic correspondents with
partners, managers and confidential clerks; in a
broader sense the newspaper keeps everybody
informed OF everything that is going on in
the world that pleasure seekers navs lett
behind thsm. adds 10 the number OF social topics,
gives variety to conversation and supplies regu-
larry rcpisnishei round Of pitered wi,ticisms.
On week days the HERALD reaches Saratoga hit.e
alter two r. ~ Even ut that hour the Impotence OF
readers ~ 80 great that the immense buAdles
discharged from the railway tram distributed
fast as hundred newsboys eau scamper through the
town. Within halt hour after their arrival the
hotel piazzis are whisened with HERALDs. which lie
in the laps OF the guests aud look they boen
visited by showers OF enormous suownakes.
THE HERALD on SUNDAY.
II IL when Sunday that readers here long for
the HERALD most and must needs walt litt.e longer
Tor II. There Is no train on Sunday from Albany 10
Saratoga, distance OF forty miles, and this
gap in railway communication would inevitably
deprive Saratoga OF tue HERALD until Monday
II The demand for It wero not SO upper
ativo or II the enterprise which brings
IL here were not 80 prompt and needless OF expense
and difficulty At the beginning Of tho season the
HERALD Sunday fast relay express starred be-
tween Albany and Saratoga, but to-day witnessed It's
York. with the supply o. tho HEsALDs on board for
sara.oga arrived = bsum's Crossing, opposite ne
Two p. M; bcrSrlh siartinl1' o. Br,en, nav.
ing the packages ~ charge. leit tIe b'S-
gaze car wsa ssm nan ana ,od put them
road wagon was harnssssd a gray and bay,
With wicked looking eyes The driver, H. A. Furman,
to tue next Jerry, where tha crossing to Albany
made ahead Of the railroad ,raia, which. as had
been iorcseep, WAS delayed ut the Hudson
River brlcge. Landed ~ albany. the team sped
through Broadway up TO the hill through State street
and out TO Washington avenue, nearly duo west
Upon tho turnpike once clear OF the pavements,
Mr.. FurMan. who Is rather iond Of his horses and
mas reputation as driver, never discredited since
u was long ago won, let them out, not INTO rush.
Ing 'rot, but into tearing g@liop The work 10 10
work, such as ben Holidays mules and bronchos
used 10 do GU the Plains. hily ANA dusty rs Il was
eeven miles were got over IN an hour.
At Stanford before u Brien had finished a glass of
water, the fresh horses trnrcs Furman
gray. Settling into tremendous tro. they kept II
up Tor while, and then were surprised 10 their turn
by tho invitation extended 70 them ior run
Tor hour or more the road relreated
under their hoos in such scurry OF dust that
the arnsrs wives along the way had 10 close their
doors against II, wondering what harum scnrum men
IRON the CITY were getting run away with at that fierce
speed on the holy sabbath. So hot was II that the
chestnut rocked aud the gray turned WINE with loan,
but the wagon came lying to tue Is an H. fourteen
miles IRON Stanford aud five IRON Albany. Al
twelve minutes alter Jour In tho afternoon OBrieu
In ecsiacics, but before he could vOcazo them
his breath was stopped ov the JERK With which the
third team pair OF chestn us-one q OF Hambe-
tonan Iineaae-staried away the race against time
now Ut It's height and under the widest kind OF
conditions.
rHUxpER, LIGHTNING AND HAIL
huge storm cloud which had been looming for
with fury right down upon the route Tor twenty MN.
utcs. A tempest ragged oil wind aud raip ana hard
wrencbed away, and the hsrsss frightened by these
sients and pelted by the haiist0ncs, needed
other urging they new along. said one Of the
the devil was amer them instead OF Martin O'Brien
VINO, climbing over tho seat and sway ing from side
HsEALDs with oioloth IRON the rsIo. The latter de.
seendsd Tor . Tow minutes in such sheets that Fur
mss could not sss his horses heads On he vent
though, heller skeiter "Hvop lal G'ansi MI
Keep It up my beauties! Go. go. 30, 60! Hip
there !"
On! there's nothing SO wild AZ a,torn;
There nothing will Keep U
As "a . road with ~ goad,
But Two strong hands to Keep them from harm.
On through Baston the wagon went, making all
the village stare except The aewsboys, who caught
the papers thrown out TO them aud went through
the village with "HRsALDl" "HRRALDP' "ner,'s is
the Sunday HERALD as the muddy wagon
aud its occupants disappeared ~ the sGeyser
Springs hard by. A. Saratoga tho Eorscs had attained
10 such gallop and were fired win the excite
mcnt Of it that there the narrowest escape from
ugly mshap. Descending q hill 10
bridge the road takes sudden turn.
Plupging down the hill the mare tossed
her neck In anger. All the grip that Furman
had could not mold her 10 tho road, and when
he did succeed In turning her just IN time TO tho
bridge instoad OF gong over the bank into tho
stream, the turn sharp as TO wrench malt the
spoKcs Of wnoes leaving just enough 10 keep
the feIloes rolling into Saratoga
ARRIVAL AT SARATOGA.
Covered with mud aBd soaked with sweat and rain
the tcam Numbered into tow at twenty past
Ave o'clock in the afternoon. Al every street corner
out went q package Of hERALDs. which, pOunced
on BY nswsbovs accordins 70 precon-
certed arrangement, was opened and divided
IN instant When tho boys ~ont shout
Ing their several ways the botel piszzy
aud balconies stretched out hundreds OF bands TO
ceve The paper. and In less than minutes the
gay HERALD was In the hands OF two thousand guests
The stands laid IN their supplies tor customers
who were out driving or ~ their rooms and ny dusk
all VINO needed tho HERALD wsro happy IN the pos
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