Judge, 1908-05-30 · page 10 of 16
Judge — May 30, 1908 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes cheap, run-down resort hotels and their penny-pinching proprietors during the spring 1902 season. The humor relies on absurd cost-cutting measures presented deadpan: - **Pinckney Heights**: Converting closets into bedrooms; running water only if it rains and roof leaks - **Stebbins Beach**: Using a painted hearse as guest transportation - **Peavey Plaza**: Converting an ice-house top floor into guest quarters - **Modders Lake & others**: Resort owners buying minimal supplies (three reeds for a melodeon, 1901 chicken still in use) The satire targets both the proprietors' miserliness and the gullible tourists willing to pay for such accommodations. Each entry mocks the gap between resort pretensions and squalid reality—a common theme in Gilded Age humor about American hospitality and the leisure industry's shortcuts.
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Pinckney Heights, Conn., April 25th.—Hiram , proprietor of the ckney Heights resort, has enlarged his hotel con- iderably this season, by transforming. several | clothes presses into sleep- ng apartments for families of six each. There will be running water in every room, provided it rains and F the roof leaks, 4 Stebbins Beach, N.J., | ‘ April 25th, —The guests at the Hotel Stebbins will ride up from the depot in style this s Mine Host Abner Stebbins has been to New York and bought a P second-hand hearse, which tl he has painted red and fit- ted with comfortable seats. ‘The hearse will make every on, train. Peavey Plaza, Mass., _ April 25th. —Jabez Peavey, a proprictor of the Hotel Peavey, has fitted up the M . : top floor of his ice-house t sheandal, ‘Terence t for the accommodation of u A PROPER REBUKE Distria bader—" Cheer uy luck “Hl tum, Yeean't down th’ Oirish, Hoy ye noticed lately how manny sinators at Albany hoy ¢ Dempry—""Sht Don't be sh NOTES FROM THE RESORTS. APPY VIEW, N. J., April 26th, —Hank f] Purdy is giving his sea serpent a new xeelsior from | ing out. Summer is surely com sy | | | Mrs. Purdy was in town Tues | bought three yards of outing fla the purpose of making ten new bathing suits for summer boarders. ‘There are ments at the resort this w will be much finer, ng a new gold filling and many impre r, and tl Mrs, Purdy \ / >) i ‘a Miss Purdy a fine new marcel wa a jodders Lake, N. Y., April 25th. «J is Silas Modders has bought a new safety S razor to sh am with this sease oe’ While in town he also bought three cans of tomatoes, two cans of string beans and pumpkin, so that the boarders at the Modders House this summer will have plenty of fresh ves Miss Euphemia Modders has bought three new reeds for her melodeon, and there will be plenty of srood music at the resort. USED ‘TO HER BURDEN. Roonan—** Casey only dead two months an’ there cs th » wid a * Merry Widdy * shap woife av h © moind, she carries it parties from Boston this summer, Jabez has put a tea-kettle boiler and coffee-mill his duck-boat, and steam yachting will be an added delight at the resort this season, Plans for a regatta are in progr Peaceful Valley, Conn., April 25th.—Amos Briggs, proprietor of the Hotel Briggs, was in town Monday, and bought a new chicken from al butcher for u: the resort this the menus will be up to their usual J of excellence. The chicken Mr. Briggs bought in 1901 has been used up. Many surprises will greet the patrons of Mr. Briggs’s resort this season, among them being new golf links LIGHE-OPERA IDEALS, . which ng laid out on the ground formerly het thet "—— occupied by the corn-crib, three rods northeast 8. wshaay She ye loony? Why are aster th’ beautifyin’ ay th can’ they su aivhty omanental Mrs. Co Constable Shu, Tike this toa she of the silo, oY K, MOULTON comicbooks.com