Evening star., 1903-08-15
new YORK GOSSIP
!" For Millionaires Only" is
the Saratoga Slogan.
LIVING COMES TOO HIGH
ESPECIALLY WHEN THE RACE
TRACK GIVES NO PROFIT.
Walking Tours From the Spa to Har-
lem Have Been Very
Popular.
LIVING COMES TOO HIGH
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. August IA. 1903.
According to all accounts. they've got
| the For Millionaires Only" placards dis
played again at Saratoga this year. Mere
pikers with few thousand dollars in their
| clothing who went up to the Spa a couple
| of weeks ago to have good time inhale the
balsam-ti -tinctured ozone. imbibe the natural
| waters and strong waters kept in bottles.
and take an occasional crack at the fiery,
| untamed ponies. are coming back to New
| York in droves. wearing that indefinable
shredded look, and with their pockets turn
| ed inside out. 1t is stated that the Albany
boats on their down trips to New York do
not have to employ regular crews of coal
beavers nowadays during the Saratoga sea-
| son. They get all of the busted race
| followers. eager to get back to New York.
| that they require for the bunkers and get
| them for nothing Considering what a real
| tiresome walk it is along the tracks of the
New York Central from Saratoga to Har-
lem. 1t is not difficult to believe this. Never
thelesS. quite a few of the stripped ones
| are taking the overland for theirs. There
are sOciologists to be found over here who
| brutally declare that these involuntary
walking tours from Saratoga to New York
| are good for the systems of male persons
! imbecile enough to permit themselves to be
possessed Of the horse bug.
|
swear eloquently that not the Saratoga
| racing. but the Ordinary-better the extra
| ordinary-expense of existing in Saratoga
| during the season was the occasion
| of their retirement from the alluring scene
| at the springs. They did not, they declare.
| particularly object to paying so and $15
per diem for tiny hall rooms in out-of-the-
| way Saratoga boarding houses. consider
| ing that part of the regular Saratoga game.
| They baked slightly when required to give
| up s. to enter the race track, but even that
did not discourage them entirely. They did,
| however. experience natural sensation of
annoyance when required, on pain of hav-
| ing their baggage detained. to pay extra
| for the sugar in their coffee, extra for
spoon wherewith to give the necessary
joggle of the ice in their high balls, extra
| for permitting their shoes to fall upon the
| floor with too resonant a thud upon dis
| rObing extra for permitting their temper
ature to rise to higher point than 30 de-
grees extra for batting their eyes more
| than seventeen times to the minute, extra
| for extra New York yellow papers that
| weren't extras. and so on. A majority of
| the returned ones reached New York with
heavy colds. These colds they attribute
| to the rapidity with which their lining OF
money was removed from them by the Sara
| togans. They say, wistfully. that it was
| of no use for them to attempt to do any
| business in race track betting ring
| thronged by such money-scorning persons
| as John w. Gates and John H. Drake. One
| of them says that he passed to a book
upon the chance of certain horse to win.
| The bookmaker gazed at the $40 note for
| a long time curiosity rampant in him, ap-
! parently. Then he unshipped his held
glasses. got the right focus. and gazed at
| the $40 note again. After While an ex-
| preston of understanding crossed the book
makers face. He passed the $50 note over
| to a bookmaker on the stool next to his.
| Hey, SOL" he remarked, heres one o
| them old-time shinplasters that you've
been a-wantin t. see. Funny-lookin' piece
O junk. amt it?' And then the other oook-
| maker passed the $50 note back to the
| cha grined piker who had handed 1T up Inn
| mediately afterward John H. brakes coal
| black betting commissioner edged up in
front of the bOokmaker and held up fOur
| fingers without saying anything.
| Twenty thousand to four thousand by
Mister Drake on his nag" calmly said the
bookmaker to his sheet writer, and then
| the man who had passed up the SO note
went and leaned against stanchion and
| felt foolish with himself
| Another of the returned ones told how,
| in a moment Of alteration, he had rendered
| one of the bOokmakerS a $40 note as bet
| upon one Of the horses scheduled to run
| The bookmaker gazed sardonically for half
| a minute at the inf1nitesmal piece of paper
change.
other side o. tn shed, Buddy" said the
| bookmaker.
| All of the returned ones unite in stating
that. up in Saratoga. the folks with some
i
| trifing monest-Injun American money as
carelessly as they would Colombian cur
| rency or Fenian bonds-good when Ire
lands free One of them tells mournfully
| OF strolling into Japanese goods eStab
| lishment, kept by a native Saratogan, just
to take a little idle peek around at the
| Japanese junk exhibited on the shelves and
| counters. He happened to push his hat to
| one side and to scratch his head. The pro-
prietor Of the emporium objected strenu-
| ously.
| 1--WE got regular Japanese head-scratchers
| here made o. tortoise-shell an they're
| on'y $3.50. If you want t. scratch your
head. why don't you buy one of 'em, stead
| O. hurtin' trade by scratchin' your head
| with your finger nails, with other customers
| lookin' on?'
Another of the returned ones says that
| in picking up glass of buttermilk in
dinky Saratoga lunch room he accidentally
| dropped the glass and broke 1t. The crash
| of the breaking glass caused a cat that
| was DOING on the counter, alongside the
| chocolate eclairs, to jump down and scam
per off.
| "Too bad" said the customer, regarding
| the broken glass dolefully. "Of course I'll
| pay for the glass; How much?' reaching
| into his change pocket.
-Four bits" replied the lunch-room pro-
prietor in an annoyed sort Of way.
Sure thing" said the customer, tossing
| a half dollar on the counter, but say, put
| me next. why?"
man, cant We see that We woke the catT
Has the Local Color.
An incident embracing many of the ele-
ments of beauty occurred on a Rockaway
Beach excursion steamer few afternoons
ago. The steamboat was crowded with
| women and children. but not many men.
out for an afternoons sea air. The boat
had no sooner showed off from her New
York pier than a huge East Side bully of
the conventional New York excursion
steamer type started in to terrorize all
hands His idea of humor, impaired to
him by the numerous crooks of suds which
he had absorbed before boarding the boat,
was to shove scared women's hats over
their heads, to pull the stools out from be-
meath them and to pick up screaming young
ones and hold them precariously over the
steamboat rail. pretending that he
about to drop them into the water. The
women screamed, the children squalled and
a majority of the trousered individuals on
the boat skunk out of sight SO as to avoid
any chance of coming into conflict with the
ruffian The officers of the boat, from the
captain down, were, as usual in like cir
cumstances in these waters scared stiff by
the ponderous muscular appearance of the