Banquet on Horseback
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Back in 1898, when a roadster was a fast trotting horse, not a speedy automobile, and what we now call swimming pools were called baths, millionaire sportsman C.K.G. Billings rode east from Chicago to conquer the big city. A photograph of one of his parties is still famous.
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