Sat Coffee Break 3-31

[Dolfan]

Course minimum wage back then was about 25 cents an hour

Yeah, but you know how many hours the Whitneys had to put in at .25 an hour to afford that estate? 

[Wilderness]

Dolfan,
           I really didn't know anything of these "Whitney's" and set about google.

 It appears they had something to do with the "canal elevators" used for the Erie Canal.

The industries of Buffalo

The Buffalo that we recognize today is nothing close to what it was before prior to the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway.

Also some another reference (also late 1800s) where some Harvard/Yale Baseball games were held on the Whitney Estate in Saratoga. That reference mentions "the driving park".