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Source: Tampa Tribune, Fla.新蒲崗迷你倉July 26--When Queen Elizabeth II showed up in Tampa a number of years ago, the town went bonkers with people trying to get invited to meet the woman at a reception at the University of Tampa. We ran stories on how to curtsy and bow and what to say if spoken to first.She was only here a few hours, and my only impression was watching her walk from the royal yacht with then Mayor Sandy Freedman and noticing the mayor was actually taller than the queen. I wondered at the time if they had a royal box for her to stand on when she spoke, just as the city had a box for the mayor to stand on in front of microphones.But I had to admit this week, whatever was wrong in England or any of her colonies was shoved aside for the baby watch. Even American TV networks all but abandoned the Zimmerman affair to give breathless reports from outside the hospital and speculate on the name of the future king.It made me wonder if this whole royal business might be a good idea after all. I mean, if we had a royal family around to get us through otherwise dreary summers, think how much better our lives would be.Of course the rub would be deciding who gets to be the American royal family.I Googled "most popular Americans" and the answer, based largely on Internet hits, was rap singer Eminem and Lady Gaga.On second thought, maybe we should just stick to watching the British version from over here.v vThe Cuban sandwich festival continues this weekend in Ybor withmini storagean attempt to set the record for the world's biggest Cuban sandwich. The plan is for several of Tampa's sandwich makers to begin building a 45-foot-long sandwich around 11 a.m., beating out last year's 36-foot sandwich created at the same spot on the Hillsborough Community College campus. The sandwich will be donated to the homeless.v vFinally, from the "I thought all eggs came from Publix" department, is a sampling of about 20,000 of you who wanted to make sure one reader who commented on the city's ruling allowing chickens inside the city limits knew about the chickens and the bees."Your reader must have been ill-informed about the birds and bees or has led a very sheltered life. During World War II many people in urban areas kept hens to provide fresh eggs. We did not need any roosters. Roosters are necessary only for fertilization of eggs, if you want to make more hens... Your devoted reader, Harry.""Inform you reader it is not necessary to have a rooster to get eggs. We have had 5-6 hens for years and get ample eggs without a noisy rooster. Kathy Flemister, Plant City.""You did your reader a tremendous favor by withholding her name. I asked my chickens how it is that they could keep laying eggs without a male around. 'HELLOOO, we don't need no stinkin' rooster to lay eggs.'... Michael Wrobel."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Fla.) Visit the Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Fla.) at www.tampatrib.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage

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Party spots and eateries are turning art patrons, inviting local artists to dress up their spacesCleopatra's head has been split down the middle.文件倉 Elvis' face has been segmented, giving him a huge Frankenstein-esque head. Plastic forks and spoons dangle from the ceiling from a light fixture while empty snack packaging suspend in a colourful light ball in a corner.Staring at these spacey sights at the hip, week-old nightspot Art Bar in One Fullerton, partygoers might wonder if they have had one drink too many. No, they are just the resident artworks.Nightclubs, bars and restaurants here have long crossed over into museum and gallery territory, by tricking their spaces out with artworks. But these days, more owners are commissioning Singapore artists to come up with edgy new works for their establishments.The idea is not new. Joints such as Kinki at Customs House and the now- defunct Majestic Bar in Bukit Pasoh Road have commissioned local artists to dress up their spaces. But it seems to be catching on, with at least seven establishments turning into art patrons.At Art Bar, which replaces Fash at The Butter Factory club, partygoers are embracing the works by local artists. At the launch last Friday night, they dressed up in similarly surreal outfits made from paper plates and wore accessories made of broken doll heads - in line with the night's "trash fashion" theme.Cleopatra and Elvis are paintings titled The Queen and The King by home-grown illustrator Kristal Melson, while the light sculptures on the dance floor, called The Ring Of Things, were done by the nightspot's creative director Bobby Luo and in-house visual display artist Aaron Han.Mr Luo, 42, also the club's co-founder, says of the underground street vibe: "It was a progression, where we wanted to take it to the next level of bar concepts, and mix mediums and styles."Four local artists were asked to create works for the bar, including visual artist Speak Cryptic and illustrators Sharul Amir and ClogTwo. The revamp took about a year, returning the club back to its early roots of being an Art Bar, when it was first at Robertson Quay.The club's in-house team - graphic designer Chad Lesch, creative manager and illustrator Eric Foenander, music director Fai Rizal as well as Han - also upcycled scraps such as spoilt headphones to accessorise the lights.Mr Luo declines to reveal the cost, but says the renovation was "economical" as the art came from items they already had.On working with local artists, Mr Foenander, 30, says: "We know these artists as we run in the same circles and they are pretty established in what they do. We didn't need to handhold anyone."At four-month-old Club Kyo in Cecil Street, manga-esque characters dominate backdrops of waterfalls and phoenixes.Using lights and other visual aids, the eyes of the characters and waterfalls give the illusion of movement when the club lights go down as the party gets started.Club owners Godwin Pereira, 39, and Ross Glasscoe, 33, of Limited Edition Concepts, brought in local graffiti artist Ceno2 to come up with five works.Ceno2, 27, whose real name is Mohammad Azlan Ramlan, stayed in the club for two months as it was being built. After the construction workers left for the day, he worked through the night, spray- painting the works free hand."We wanted something which wasn't too chi-chi, but not too street that you don't get it," says Mr Pereira, who first met the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts- trained artist at a regular art event at another club he owns, The Vault, in South Bridge Road.An admirer of Ceno2's work, he let him work on walls at The Vault and that led to the Club Kyo commission.Ceno2, who was paid a five-figure sum for his pieces at Kyo, says: "This is one of the biggest projects I have done. And for them to let me create whatever I wanted, that's the best payment ever."Besides marvelling at art while partying, you can also check out pieces while chomping on a steak.At Bistecca Tuscan Steakhouse and Restaurant in Mohamed Sultan Road, Scott Woodward's Beauty And The Beasts series of pictures featuring models posing with wild animals is on display.The Canadian photographer, who has lived here for 15 years存倉 styled and shot models in the restaurant in a day. He then worked with a digital-imaging studio and illustrator for about eight weeks after to juxtapose the leggy beauties with hairy beasts such as a boar and ram.Woodward, 38, says: "Restaurants aren't my usual clients, so... I will jump at something that pushes me to try something new. It's a bonus when diners get excited seeing it."Bistecca's managing director Megan Williamson says that buying a ready- made painting was not an option. "We wanted to introduce an avant-garde style, while keeping it warm and approachable."We went for a contemporary set of portraits that symbolises the relationship between contemporary man and animals... Something that is very poignant when customers are enjoying a fine cut of steak."And it is not just about keeping it local. Owners are working with artists who can translate the feel of the place into visuals, such as three-month-old Revolution Coffee in one-North, which commissioned artist Samantha Lo, better known as the "Sticker Lady", to put her stamp on the cafe.Lo, who was arrested last year for her illegal street art and has to perform 240 hours of community service, created a wallpaper for the cafe - a monochromatic design with surveillance cameras and the cafe's logo.Revolution owner Ajie Permana met Lo through one of his staff who is friends with her. "I would be lying if we said the decision was independent of her court case as it obviously drew visibility to her work," he says, declining to reveal the cost. "But I did feel that the nature of her work would complement the cafe and is in line with its theme."While heat, smoke and grease from open kitchens are art collectors and conservators' worst nightmares, causing damage such as fungal growth, some restaurants are skirting that problem by commissioning digitally printed murals.The owners of Izy Dining and Bar, the week-old izakaya bar-restaurant in Club Street, got 31-year-old illustrator Ben Qwek to produce an 11m-long mural on the wall that faces the open kitchen.Sharp eyes will spot familiar characters such as Uma Thurman as Black Mamba in the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill (2003) and the iconic helmet of French electronic music duo Daft Punk.Qwek, who took several months to complete the work, drew the mural on a computer and then printed it on canvas.Mr Pierre Prunier, one of the four owners and spokesman for the restaurant, declines to reveal the cost of the work. But the 33-year-old Frenchman says: "A lot of the feelings and icons within the mural were images that I grew up with."My business partners and I knew that we would share a lot of the same memories with those who recognise the characters. It's about creating that connection, which was why we wanted to have a say in what would go into the artwork."As the popularity of commissioning local art continues, club and eatery owners are looking beyond art galleries to find local talent.Moosehead Kitchen-Bar's head chef Manuel Valero found his via Facebook.Visual art collective SuperSegak - comprising Lasalle graduates Iefa Shamsir, 28, and her partner who goes by the name Lully Crooelly, 25 - took three days to create two silk-screen prints of mooseheads for the Mediterranean restaurant in Telok Ayer Street.Titled Moose In The Head and Smooth Moose, the two 1.5m-tall prints are on sale for $2,300 each.The Spanish chef, 27, who studied art and design in his hometown of Barcelona, says the works add colour to the restaurant and help local artists who may find it difficult to display and sell their work. "For such street artists, Singapore is not an easy place for them to sell their art. So we're giving some support to them."Mr Alistair Christie, an industry veteran and creative director at Molotov Creative Consultants, says commissioning art is a good way to stand out in the crowded food and beverage market.The 43-year-old has conceptualised more than 100 eateries here and in the region, including the Queen & Mangosteen in VivoCity and Tigerlily in Dempsey. "Furniture and interior decor concepts are available online to mirror. But with art, you can personalise it and it will never look the same as another."natashaz@sph.com.sg自存倉

AnhuiExtreme heat thwarts apparent suicide attemptThe extreme heat foiled a woman’s apparent attempt to commit suicide by leaping off a construction crane in Dangshan county, the Xinan Evening News reports.儲存倉 The woman passed out from heat stroke after sitting on the 30-metre crane for six hours as the temperature approached 39 degrees Celsius on Thursday. She was pulled to safety and is in a stable condition.Drunk official dies after passing out in hot carIn other heat stroke news, a Yingshang county official has died after passing out drunk in a colleague’s sweltering car, the Xinan Evening News reports. The official from the land and resources bureau was left in the car after returning from an alcohol-fuelled lunch with five colleagues earlier this month. The workers have been suspended and ordered to share the compensation payout of 600,000 yuan (HK$753,000) for their dead colleague’s family.Beijing32b yuan of public money wasted or stolenAuditors have determined that 31.7 billion yuan – or 11 per cent – of Beijing’s of 285 billion yuan public spending last year was unnecessary, The Beijing News reports. Unreported surpluses, fraudulent budget applications and projects that were never started were among the problems cited. The individuals and agencies involved were not named, as authorities said they wanted to prioritise finding solutions over public exposure.Girl, 2, dies after being thrown to groundThe two-year-old girl thrown to the ground in an argument over a parking space in Beijing’s Daxing district has died, the Beijing Morning Post reports. A man lifted the girl from her stroller and threw her down on Wednesday because the stroller was preventing him and a friend from parking his car. Police said the man who threw the child had recently finished a prison term for theft. He has been detained.FujianCompany backs down after crew-cut backlashAn employee backlash has forced a Fuzhou information technology company to withdraw a policy requiring all male staff members to get crew cuts, the Strait City Daily reports. The company boss said the policy was meant to improve workplace efficiency and make the company appear “full of youthful spirit”.Truck driver held for killing pregnant womanA Fuding truck driver has been detained after striking a motorcycle and killing its seven-months pregnant passenger, the Ningde Evening News reports. The motorcycle driver was only slightly injured, but the passenger, his wife, was crushed and her unborn baby died. The truck kept going until its driver was waved to stop by a passing vehicle.GuangdongCorruption trial of official gets under wayThe corruption trial of a Guangzhou district official accused of building a 40 million yuan property empire began yesterday, the Nanfang Daily reports. Former Panyu district urban management chief Cai Bin , 56, was exposed last year after acquiring 21 properties despite receiving a monthly wage of only 10,000 yuan. The case has fuelled outrage.Politician arrested for molesting teenage girlsA 50-year-old Jiangmen legislator has been arrested for repeatedly molesting two teenage girls, the Southern Metropolis Daily reports. Police say local People’s Congress deputy Huang Baolin lured the girls, aged 15 and 13, to hotels in Taishan and Zhuhai , where he molested them. Huang h迷你倉沙田s been removed from his official posts.Henan2 killed in subway construction collapseTwo workers died and two were injured during an equipment collapse at a construction site for Zhengzhou’s subway line No 1, the Zhengzhou Evening News reports. Four workers were buried, but only two were pulled from the wreckage alive. One veteran worker said recent rainfall and a build-up of construction materials above the equipment may have contributed to the fatal collapse.Family chain up mentally disabled man for 13 yearsA Xinye family says severe poverty forced them to chain a mentally disabled family member to a utility pole for more than a decade, the Dahe Daily reports. The disabled man, 31, started attacking family members in 2000, but his parents gave up treatment after spending 50,000 yuan on medical bills. They first chained him to a tree, but moved him to a utility pole after the tree died from his frequent shaking.HubeiEx-doctor jailed for botched abortionA former Wuhan doctor was sentenced to 10 years in jail yesterday for performing a botched abortion that left the patient dead in November, cnhubei.com reports. The ex-doctor had been operating an underground abortion clinic for extra income in addition to working full-time at a local hospital.Man stole from victims he had hit with his carA Wuhan man has been accused of carrying out a series of audacious robberies in which he caused traffic “accidents” and then robbed his victims, the Wuhan Evening News reports. Police said the 51-year-old former convict, who had drug and gambling problems, stole 1,800 yuan from a pedestrian he struck with his car earlier this month. The victim was in a coma for more than three weeks.LiaoningTibetan mastiffs disfigure owner after attackA Shenyang kennel owner has been left disfigured after he was attacked by three Tibetan mastiffs he raised, the Liaoshen Evening News reports. The dogs suddenly attacked the man while he was patrolling the kennel this week, biting his face, arms and legs. The dogs only released the man after his colleagues beat them with shovels.Girl, 12, dies after mother forces her into riverA 12-year-old Dalian girl has died after her mother grabbed her and leapt into a local river amid a family dispute, nen.com.cn reports. The pair were pulled from the water unconscious on Thursday after being discovered by a local resident. The girl died on the way to hospital, but the mother was revived after three hours of treatment.ShanghaiCake company ordered to stop drone deliveriesA Shanghai company called Incake has been ordered to stop delivering its wedding cakes by drone aircraft due to public safety concerns, Eastday.com reports. The company’s unmanned aerial vehicles have become a hot topic on social networking platforms since they conducted a 45-minute demonstration on July 15. The company argues that the drones are economically and energy efficient.Father forced daughter to kneel in sun for hoursA Pudong district father has received a reprimand from police for punishing his eight-year-old daughter by forcing her to kneel in the scorching summer heat and do her homework, the Shanghai Morning Post reports. Neighbours said the girl sweated for more than three and half hours in temperatures that peaked at 39 degrees Celsius before policemen intervened.迷你倉價錢

Source: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.迷你倉價錢July 26--Veterans themselves, entertainers helped San Dimas residents raise $6,000 to help finish the San Dimas HEROES Veterans Monument.The show sought additional funds to complete the final two marble name panels, inscribed bricks for a winding walkway, more landscaping and other amenities so veterans, military families and local residents can enjoy the Helping Establish a Remembrance Of Every Serviceperson monument in Freedom Park at the northwest corner of San Dimas Avenue and Cataract Street. The names of local military veterans, dating from the Civil War, are inscribed on the monument panels.Former Navy submariner Steve Mazan brought comedy relief to the benefit show held July 13 in the Plummer Community Building.Actor, stuntman and magician Jeff Bornstein, an Army veteran, and his naturally intuitive wife Kimberly kept 250 people spellbound with her amazing ability to read minds and see unseen objects and numbers. Army National Guard and Korean War veteran Clyde Towles directed 1940s' swinging notes played by 17 musicians and three singers, including San Dimas crooner Jim Johnson, in the Gem City JazzCats.Bill Harford, president/chief executive officer of the Inland Valley Humane Society and an Air Force veteran, served as master of ceremonies for the evening of comedy, magic, music and dancing co-presented by the San Dimas HEROESProject, city of San Dimas and local businesses. He accented his role with improvised comedy as well as serious explanations about the importance of honoring honorable men and women.Jeff admitted serving in military intelligence didn't help his ability to predict things. But he used body language, facial expressions, vocal inflections and unique twitches to "read" what spectators were holding and thinking. However, Kimberly had a 100 percent accuracy rate even when blindfolded. She told strangers their birthday month and day, amount of money in their hands, items from wallets and purses, words from single pages in a book, cellphone numbers of friends and numbers on addresses, credit cards and driver's licenses.The Gem City JazzCats, featuring lead trumpeter Ron Towles and friends from his days in the Monrovia High School jazz band, fittingly迷你倉庫started their set with Glenn Miller's "In The Mood." Miller, the big band leader who was declared missing during World War II and never found, lived in Monrovia.As soon as the music began, Claude St. Amant of San Dimas held out his hand to Janet, his wife of 26 years, and led her to the dance floor to jump and jive to the classic jazz number. Claude and Janet said they came to the benefit because their fathers, Claude St. Amant Sr. and Albert Keyger, were World War II veterans.More dancers eased from their seats as Wendy Hinkle sang "You Made Me Love You," Johnson belted an up-tempo "All Of Me," vocalist Kimberly Federoff kept rapid pace with her drumming mom Karen, and trombonist Michael Beltran, baritone saxophonist Charles Johnson and tenor saxophonist Jennifer Anderson wailed on solo riffs.Mazan has appeared on David Letterman, Byron Allen's "Comics Unleashed" and Craig Ferguson and in comedy clubs all over America. Like Jeff Bornstein, he has done several tours for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and also entertained on military bases around the United States.Mazan called laughter "a re-set button for the soul. You can let everything negative go and come back with a new perspective. Laughter lets you realize things will either be OK or get better."He put people into gales of laughter as he wondered why road signs warn about falling rocks, crossing bears and deer, and even low-flying aircraft."I'm no engineer, but if I have to watch for bear, deer, rocks and aircraft, maybe this is not the best place to put a road," Mazan quipped.He later got "sort of a standing ovation" after joking that such applause may be more peer pressure than artistic appreciation.Mazan was inspired to be a comedian after, at age 12, he snuck and saw a Richard Pryor cable special while his unsuspecting parents slept. After service as a Navy diesel mechanic aboard the USS Scranton during Desert Storm, he began his comedy career.Whether one's a soldier or citizen coping with stress, "laughter lets us see the lighter side of things," he said.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.) Visit the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.) at www.dailybulletin.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存

Source: The Santa Fe New MexicanJuly 26--New York composer and reed man Rob Mosher has found inspiration in the tiny Montana town of Polebridge (population 88), or more specifically at the upright piano in the tourist stop's mercantile.自存倉 What he's made of it is a bit of Americana that transcends period and style. This is a wonderfully simple collection of chamber-jazz pieces, beautifully orchestrated with few instruments, that come together like the sections of a quilt. Trumpeter Micah Killion's bright play holds it all together with plain-and-simple lyricism and, at times, muted effects. The disc opens innocently enough with Ken Burns documentary-style fiddle music before it suddenly twists off into atonal contrast. The following piece, "Rango Tango," is a stately affair that includes Mosher's clarinet dancing with a t迷你倉新蒲崗umpet that wants to lead. This kind of contrast continues throughout the disc, with klezmer-inspired jazz mixing with honky-tonk piano tunes and involved waltzes. "North by Northwest" opens on a beautiful blend of piano and arco bass until strings and clarinet ?add a creamy richness. Hammond B3 organ and bassoon give "Didn't Ask (Breathe Now)" a sonic depth appropriate to its thoughtfulness. "The Klesmanaughts" is a lively comedic romp that features playful clarinet and trumpet exchanges ending with a staggering unison suggestive of a drunk exiting a bar. Polebridge is a fun town, but it is serious, too -- and well worth the visit.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.) Visit The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.) at www.santafenewmexican.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉出租

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Source: Times Union, Albany, N.存倉Y.July 26--Across the centuries, denizens of Saratoga Springs displayed a taste for the carbonated life and the edgier aspects of gambling.The Spa was built upon this beguiling contradiction of healthiness and naughtiness.In its first iteration, tourists chased the therapeutic claims of its mineral waters in the early 19th century and flocked to large downtown hotels. In more recent times, magnums of champagne have been uncorked at polo matches and ballet galas or by the swells and horsey set at soirees along North Broadway's mansions in a version of Palm Beach transported north.Through cycles of boom and bust, with the waxing and waning of public opinion on the ills versus the pleasures of gambling, Saratoga has embraced the money quote from journalist Nellie Bly in the New York World on Aug. 19, 1894: "Saratoga is the wickedest spot in the United States. Crime is holding a convention there and vice is enjoying a festival such as it never dared approach before."Since the storied thoroughbred track, which celebrates its 150th year this season, opened along Union Avenue on Aug. 3, 1863 -- a humble oval known as "Horse Haven" across the street from what became an iconic gabled, Victorian-era grandstand -- the city has given in to an addiction for the two-minute, pulse-pounding adrenaline rush of horse racing.It is like a roll of the dice writ large, where a heavily favored horse can be an also-ran in front of 50,000 fans or a longshot can claim the $1 million Travers Stakes, the Midsummer Derby known as "the graveyard of champions."Meanwhile, across town in the 1870s, after betting all afternoon on the horse races, the high rollers came out after dark and gathered around the gaming tables upstairs in the Canfield Casino in Congress Park. Even for a nouveau riche 19th-century tycoon, there was nothing more thrilling than to let a bet of $125,000 (about $2 million in today's dollars) ride on a single turn of a card.Between the horses and the casino, Saratoga was a place where gambling could be mainlined around the clock.It's what drew the likes of John "Bet-a-Million" Gates to the Spa. A Gilded Age industrialist who made a fortune in the oil industry and marketing barbed wire, Gates was a compulsive gambler who bet heavily in all-night poker games.In one marathon gambling session at Canfield Casino, according to lore, he was down about $500,000 (roughly $9 million today) but he rallied after many hours at the table and returned to his Broadway hotel as the sun was rising with a mere $125,000 lost."People love the action of Saratoga. Horse racing is exciting and there's no denying that betting on the races is exciting," said Jim Melia, an associate historian at the National Museum of Racing who relocated from Manchester, N.H., to Saratoga Springs with his wife, Faith, after retiring in 2006 from a career in banking.He has loved horse racing since he was a teenager and has visited more than 100 tracks around the country."There is no place else like Saratoga," Melia said. "It's simply the best."Prior to its wicked streak, the city was put on the map by a slim scientific treatise published by Dr. John Steel in 1817, "An Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Saratoga and Ballston," which supported medicinal claims. Doctors began recommending a month's stay, with a cup of mineral water from a particular spring in the morning, a second spring in the afternoon and a third in the evening.There were more than 200 springs tapped around the city at its peak in the Victorian era, compared to 21 springs in operation today. It was an accident of geology. The remnants of shallow tropical seas from 500 million years ago were trapped in ancient bedrock below layers of sandstone and limestone sediment. When faults formed 10,000 years ago, the sulfurous mineral water reached the surface and could be collected at free springs and public pavilions -- each with a different mineral composition and a unique taste."The mineral waters were the vitamin supplements of their day," said James Parillo, executive director of the Saratoga Springs History Museum and curator of a Saratoga 150 exhibit at Canfield Casino titled "The People Behind the Track.""Some of the therapeutic claims were legitimate and some were quackery," Parillo said. "It was a tourist destination for the waters long before the track opened. The springs were free and working-class and regular people could rub shoulders with the likes of J.P. Morgan in Saratoga."Ethnically, the city was built upon the backs of Irish and Italian immigrant labor on the railroad and in its hotels, spa baths, bottling plants, textile mills and breweries. In the 1830s and 1840s, the city's west side around Beekman Street became an Irish enclave and was dubbed "Dublin." A second wave of immigration came in the 1880s and 1890s, when Italians came in large numbers and settled on the west side.The naughty side to the city's personality was kept on the down-low, indulged but not discussed. What happened in Saratoga, it seemed, stayed in Saratoga."There are very few records of what really went on here at the casino," Parillo said.The official visitor's guide to Saratoga Springs in 1887 offered this purple prose PG version: "Its mineral waters flow in exhaustless abundance from year to year. While the waters flow, Saratoga will flourish in all the glory of its splendid places."The gushing reputation of the springs grew. Bottling plants sprouted and the market for Saratoga water spread across the U.S. and to Europe. But the commercial water boom was too much of a good thing. Over-pumping depleted the springs in the early 1900s and in 1909 the state passed laws that placed limits on water extraction that rationed and protected the resource.Eventually, the novelty wore off, mineral water sales went flat and the arrival of the automobile and expansion of the railroad network opened up long-distance travel. Saratoga the tourist destination began a period of decline in the early 1900s. It needed to diversify.Saratoga's narrative is sprinkled with outsized entrepreneurs and colorful characters whose time upon the stage of America's summer place was at turns triumphant and tragic.Consider the poor sot Caleb Mitchell, a Troy native who started as a newsboy, made a fortune running illegal gambling operations and migrated north where he became village president of Saratoga Springs in the late 1800s. Wealthy and eccentric, Cale, as he was known, was a partner in the racetrack and owned a gambling hall near the track as well as saloons and bookmaking operations in Albany and Troy.Mitchell's "conduct led his acquaintances to believe that he was not in full possession of his mental faculties," according to an obituary in The New York Times on Jan. 29, 1901. Mitchell shot himself to death outside the door of the downtown office of state Sen. Edgar Brackett. Mitchell had feuded publicly with Brackett over a bill that the senator sponsored that gave Richard Canfield a virtual monopoly on gambling in the city. Mitchell purchased a revolver earlier that day and said he needed it to shoot cats. Authorities thought he intended to shoot Brackett, but since he was not in his office he walked out, became agitated and turned the gun on himself. "He fell dead on the door mat," the Times said.Others who made headlines were outsiders who left their mark with shows of conspicuous consumption and a celebrity forged 1自存倉0 years before TMZ. Some of their flashy accoutrements remain, such as the circa-1900 purple velour camisole and lacy pink lace-up corset worn by starlet Lillian Russell.There are roulette and faro tables in the high-stakes gamblers' room frequented by the likes of Diamond Jim Brady, a bejeweled dandy and raconteur who made millions as a financier in New York City. He was known for his extravagant jewelry collection and an enormous appetite -- he could consume dozens of raw oysters and a 16-ounce, 2-inch-thick prime rib in a sitting. A confirmed bachelor, Brady horsed around Saratoga with paramour Russell on his arm and tongues wagged over their larger-than-life relationship."We only found evidence that they were good friends," Parillo said.At the center of the track's sesquicentennial history looms John Morrissey, a Troy-born force of nature with broad shoulders, bearish build, bushy beard and booming voice. He grew up poor, dropped out of school and became a champion bare-knuckle boxer feared for "sledgehammer fists." The marathon slugfests in that era only ended when one pugilist beat the other senseless; one bare-knuckle epic lasted 89 rounds. Outside the ring, Morrissey was a street thug and gang member indicted as a teenager on charges of burglary, battery and assault with intent to kill.His checkered past was not an impediment to a career in New York state politics. Morrissey became a Tammany-backed U.S. congressman who later testified against Boss Tweed and was elected as a state senator on an anti-Tammany ticket.In Saratoga, Morrissey opened a gambling den in 1861 known as the Club House Casino, a precursor to the Canfield Casino, which drew the wealthy and famous, including John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant. It was a palace of decadence, with menus that included caviar, quail, vintage wines and expensive cigars. The married Morrissey had capacious appetite and he conducted public affairs with young ingenues Kate Ridgely and Lolita Fernandez.Of course, women were rarely allowed in Morrissey's testosterone-soaked boys' club. The Canfield Casino had a women's gallery on the main floor dubbed "the library," where ladies in hoop skirts, bustles, silk, brocade and lace convened for tea and pastries and to gossip, read the local newspapers and exchange tips about fashion. The museum has a remarkable collection of 1,500 period dresses, hats and shoes that will be displayed this summer.Men and women existed in parallel universes in Saratoga. Even at the track in the early eras, women were relegated to a separate area for spectating and betting. The key was to provide enough diversions for both genders to keep them returning summer after summer."Morrissey realized he needed something to keep his gamblers and their wives busy during the day because they could soak in the spa waters for only so long without getting bored," said Allan Carter, historian at the National Museum of Racing and co-author with Mike Kane of a new book, "150 Years of Racing in Saratoga."Morrissey advertised thoroughbred racing at a trotting oval known as "Horse Haven" he leased on the north side of Union Avenue near today's Oklahoma training track. The first race on Aug. 3, 1863, just one month after the bloody Battle of Gettsyburg, proved a popular diversion from the the gruesome reports of the Civil War. More than 15,000 spectators arrived on foot and by horse-drawn carriage and paid $1 for an admission card. The four-day meet featured best-of-three heat races with 27 horses from 14 racing stables that competed for a $2,700 purse.The first race was won by Lizzie W., trained by Bill Bird, an African-American trainer, and ridden by Abe Sewell, a one-eyed black jockey.The wagering initially was informal, with person-to-person betting. This later morphed to a ring of dozens of bookies from New York City. Folks liked the action and socialites were hooked on the grace and speed of thoroughbreds, but they lodged several complaints after the first meet. There were not enough places to sit; trees and hillocks obscured the backstretch from patrons; the turns were too tight; the track was too narrow and it was 297 yards short of the advertised 1 mile.At the end of the inaugural August meet, Morrissey formed the Saratoga Racing Association and they paid $20,600 for 94 acres across Union Avenue, the present site. They built a grandstand that offered plenty of seating and opened the second meet at the new facility in August 1864."Morrissey couldn't put his name on the track because he was a thug," Carter said. "A brilliant thug, but a thug."He tapped his rich patrician pals Cornelius Vanderbilt, William B. Travers and Leonard Jerome to give the new Saratoga track legitimacy and cachet. It flourished and helped Saratoga rival Newport among the country's blue bloods. Morrissey died of complications from pneumonia in his suite at the Adelphi Hotel in Saratoga in 1878 at age 47. By then, the seeds of horse racing he planted had flourished.There were other intriguing footnotes in the vibrant annals of the city, underscoring its resourcefulness. After anti-gambling crusaders shut down Canfield Casino in 1906, the gambling simply shifted across town to the rural outskirts and lakehouses around Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely that were transformed into casinos, including Riley's, Newman's, The Brook, Arrowhead, Piping Rock and the Chicago Club. During Prohibition, they were centers of rum-running operations and the booze never stopped flowing. A series of investigations led by the state Legislature ended the last vestige of vice when Riley's Lakehouse shut down in 1953.The gilded age of Saratoga continues to echo down history's long byways to this very day. Marylou Whitney, the doyenne of Spa society, is the wife of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt "Sonny" Whitney, who died in 1992 at 93. The founder of Pan American Airways, philanthropist and patron of horse racing and the arts was a grandson of William Collins Whitney. The family's patriarch was a railway tycoon and financier who established the Whitney family as one of the golden names in American thoroughbred racing with its stable colors of Eton blue and brown.After the nefarious Gottfried Waldbaum ran the track into the ground with crooked ways that sullied Saratoga's reputation, William Collins Whitney rescued thoroughbred racing in Saratoga. In 1901, he bought out Walbaum for $365,000 along with a group of his wealthy friends, who enlarged the grandstand, improved the track and and restored respectability to the race course. A century later, Marylou Whitney bears that mantle as Saratoga's biggest booster and proudest standard-bearer.Another connection to the track's storied past can be found in the family tree of George R. Hearst III, publisher and CEO of the Times Union. His great-great grandfather, George Hearst, a rancher, mining tycoon and U.S. senator from California, was part of a syndicate that bought the track in 1890 after it had fallen into disfavor behind a crusade against gambling led by Wall Street titan Spencer Trask.Hearst had a racing stable and was named president of the Saratoga Racing Association in 1890.Sen. George Hearst died on Feb. 28, 1891, six months after he became a part-owner of the track.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) Visit the Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) at www.timesunion.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉新蒲崗