The evening times., 1895-08-26

amuse by telling fortunes, and one camp
of Indians, who anuse by selling trinkets.
There are excursions, walks, lectures,
theaters.
And there is the horse.
SARATOGA A HORSE HAVEN.
Opposite the dropping race track is a
shady grove. sacred to hospitality. 1t is
called 1.-THE horse haven" This might be
the name for all Saratoga. 1t is a horse
| haven and girl haven
Everybody notices here the absence Of
| athletics. The horse is the reason. Every
body drives.
| At one end of the village is Wood
lawn" the princely estate OF Judge
Hilton, and his partner, j. NJ. Hughes.
Their acres are counted by the hun
dreds, their private drives, to which the
public is freely admitted, by the doz-
ems of miles. Judge Hilton himself drives,
n sturdy figure in late middle life, with
| an iron gray moustache. Mrs. Hilton sell
dom uses a carriage, but for the convenience
| of guests dozen rigs" and twice a dozen
| horses are kept.
| At the other end OF the village Is a
similar estate belong ing to spen Ger
| Trask, the banker, beautiful with bOsky
dells, musical with tinkling waterfalls,
cool with waited spray. Here again
the drives are open to the public, and here
| too the guests of the house need never walk
| away from the deep port cochere of the
| great gray-stone mansion overlooking the
lake and fair prospect to the southeast, for
| want OF horses and u phaeton, or a pony
| and cart.
Midway of the village is the Lester
| cottage, occupied by Senator Edward
| Murphy. Hither came a fortnight ago
| the couple in whose fortunes Saratoga
| takes the deepest Mayor Hugh
]. Grant, of New York, and his bride, sen-
ator Murphy's daughter. Hugh Grant 10
rich, handsome, neither young nor old,
and was bachelor for so ma ny years that
he drove the New York girls to despair.
Now he and his bride are the most noted
couple on the street He Is as skiIlful
in the saddle as heis handling the long reins,
but the saddle horse is little used to Sara
tOga.
Another politician here is Ben Wood, of
New York, whose pretty daughter drives
handsome pair of ponies to tiny
trap. The number of young girls who drive
here is legion, and 4 pretty picture three
or four OF them make, In their white dresses
and big picture hats, apparently over
flowing in cascades OF lace and ribbons
from the high seat of a cart or jaunting car,
or the low one of a phaeton. They drive
in state, with smart tigers sitting up be-
hind, and they drive on the country roads;
and there are girls who wear the neatest
riding habits, and sit their s;eeds with an
exquisite carriage. And one wonders,
seeing them in endless procession, whether
they Will be as fat and wheezy and crusty
thirty years from now as the older ladies
one secs, and whether they VIII come to
Saratoga to drink the waters.
Before the big hotels, just before the
driving hour" which is Saratoga's after
noon sight, as the throng al the Springs
is OF the morning, the private carts stand
four deep in front OF the great hotels. They
belong to transient guests, and horses and
men iourneycd here together,
the former in their box-cars as comfortable
as their masters.
So here's to Saratoga. its horses and its
girls And may reform be to them a bles-
sing, not blight!