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ply serve to record bids and to maintain a monotonous 

 jargon, he possesses many attributes of the born orator, 

 and not only makes his sales interesting to casual 

 spectators, but has a magnetic way of coaxing the coy 

 bidders and stimulating the languid. 



His latest sale of thoroughbreds — those composing the 

 racing stable of the late Senator Hearst — was one of his 

 most brilliant successes, but it is certain to be eclipsed 

 by the sale of the Belmont stud, next October, which 

 promises to rival, if it does not surpass, the famous 

 breaking up sale of the late Lord Falmouth's stud. 

 Mr. Easton has just conducted very successfully the first 

 sale of hackneys ever held in America, and the esteem 

 in which he is held by the large breeders of thorough- 

 breds may be imagined from the fact that he is to sell 

 this year the yearlings from tAvelve of the great studs, 

 aside from several important closing-out sales. 



This company is, indeed, the first to Americanize the 

 best English methods and to adapt them to the uses of 

 the progressive Kepublic. It regards every detail that 

 is calculated to make its establishment more popular 

 with the best class of people. Every resj^onsible i)osition 

 is occui)ied by a competent and gentlemanly person, and 

 the utmost courtesy to visitors and the strictest decorum 

 is inculcated upon all its employees. It results from this 

 that every day many ladies walk in with as much free- 



