The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1903, Page 13

HENTUCHYS SPLENDI N TR1E DIV GRASY RISGION LN . 2 e : HETEIR. DURYEA S BARN - T > In blades of American turf water flow Futurity. e noble mare who did this* se, it 18 sald nut cut from the the interio ell of carved walnut. Even the fioors are of the same material. After purc Harkness spent modern ix woodlands, 1s rovem most complete stock farms of L THOROUGHBRED IN PARADISE. me of the horse about Lexington 1l park. Each million his neighbor nts. Everywhere, as reach, are miles of The ho fe really a b v ma pro far s eye can macadamized roads cutting their way through the green of the level turf néd the shadow of the forest trees. Ev- tural beauty of the land- preserved. Even the pad- well placed as to give no npleasant suggestion of their stock yard nesy Many of the houses are approached by circular drives under long galleries of And here on Mr. Harkness’ he largest trairing stables It is 400 feet long by 70 feet ere is an arched central aisle ugh its full length. The t and clean, open upon it from high fir trees place is in the world ne ¢ this stable that many noted born and sheltered, for has the distinction of ed in fen years what t to attain in twenty. ngle seas its horses won three Clessic stakes, including both divisions of was in ses have bee H1 sua as take as a two-year-old and year as a three-year-old, no horse ever been before. Her sire was Moko, the ble-looking aristocrat, the er. He trot- y win a Mr. Haggin’s Marble Palace. es have e most beautiful of the se lovers of h me of J. B. Haggin W bien ich calls he fuil tinuation of t 1f. The arded by a marble lion hold residence has t been one of the wonders of It dollars id to be the most ex- the world, and he is a ) in the matter of produc- breds. No other person ‘in is breeding the He offers for sale, it is said, Ifth of all the young horses lly appear the not to be blamed if he keeps r future reference. Arkell and who made themseives favorites live in the paddock just bebind cost some- horses on turf. upon the rest, August Belmont's th a magnificent ecause that lover of oes not live on his breeding farm. t he loses in residence he makes up in splendor of horse buildings and in- equipment. It requires revenues g from millions to defray the ex- penses of his stables, because he manages such broad lines. them or Mr. Belmont’s Model Farm. old The method of raising thor- was primitive—that is to say, d the blue grass had their way largely, and the horses were sheltered at night in primitive stables which served well enough a generation ago. When Mr. Belmont appeared on the scene he erected some bulldings. There were buildings for stallions and bulldings for mares and buildings for young stock, with all the modern improvements. And the rest of the horsemen, catching the merit of the idea, eagerly followed. On his Kentucky farm 1 great stud Hastings, a horse which is considered one of the lead- ing stallions in America, a reputation which he holds owing to the winnings this year of two of his children, Magis- trate and Gunfire. Besides his stud farm Mr. Belmont still maintaine two training stables, one at Babylon and the other on the South Car- olina training track. Recently four year- lings from his Kentucky farm were gent to England to be trained for their entry in the Derby and Oaks of 1905. With them he hopes to renew the success of the fam- ous old Bridegroom. As an adjunct to their racing stable in England James R. Keene and his son, Foxhall Keene, maintain a large breeding etable in Kentucky, also near Lexington. The place is called Castleman and here WEIERE, is the home ofadajor Daingerfield, not the borse t the man. Castleman is a typ- thern brick house, with a front porch the inevitable short columns. ded by tall trees growing from a well kept lawn, it is a place of rest for the venerable trainer. Homes of the Gibsons. and Shadysidesre the names homes of Messrs. Howard and sibson, who own adjacent farms ington. Both of these places are ioned mansions. One is a typi- ithern porch, with a plain red »use back of it; the other is a tructure, most suggestive of a church. Only the best of horses e in the stables. At Elmside lives Mrs. Louisiana Max- (nee Gibson), whose room at a fash- able New York hotel was robbed last car, when she came North to see some their favorites run and who has the reputation of being herself the most fam- ous cross country rider In Kentucky. Like all the other native breeders of rses, the Gibsons—father, sons and ughters—are always in the saddie. And their greatest pleasure is to ride over to Senator Van Meter's place or to Colonel pper's to see how the horses that make icky famous are getting along and to exchange gossip of the turf, Before the Beimont idea of separating stables for -stallions, mares and young stock obtained Peter Duryea had built his place, and consequently he made but one long stable. It is an eighth of a mile long, the largest barn in America devoted It is famous as the to harness horses. home of the great stallion Patchen ‘Wilkes. After a visit to Lexington one can read- ly understand that racing has taken a firm hold on the millions of Americans as a recreation and from the pure -love of the horse. With such a stable as is represented by the combined farms in this most populous home of the thoroughbred it isl bellevable that Americans will some day lead, Instead of follow, as they do now, the English and French gentlemen of wealth in the thoroughbred procession. THE SUNDAY CALL. ID HORSE HOMES RACING LORDS RESDIE. # & America’s Wonderful Coal Mines £ .2 |c.B Ala Spirites— By far the most valuable of our min- eral products is coal. In this age 'of steam and electricity, when cheap power is the very life of a natlon's industry, coal is king. Professor John Tyndall sald that the seat of England’s greatness was her coal mines. Without them she could never have become the mistress of the world’s manufactures; and without them she could not remain the mistress of the seas. But Great Britain’s coal lies 2000 feet below the surface, and is mined In & tem- perature of 100 degrees or higher. There are prophecies that the supply will be ex- hausted within fifty years, and it is stat- Y 08 e ed that the mines of Germany and the Netherlands are still nearer exhaustion. The coal supply of Europe is distributed as follows: Russia has 21,000 square miles, said to be of poor quality; Great Britain, 9000; Germany, 3800; France, 1800; Belgium, Spain and other countries, 1400. The United States has 194,000 square miles of coal measures, says Success, which 1s more than four times the area of all the coal flelds of Europs, twenty- one times the coal flelds of Great Britain, and 41 per cent of all the coal areas of the world. Not less than thirty of our States and 18 Trifles as Irritants. /e are so co uted that what Is oec- curring at the ment interests us often out of ail »n to its importance. »r example, we are thrown off our bal- 1ce by the merest trifles, perhaps, which ur to-day, but which, in a week's time, Ob- ‘_. may have no significance whatever. stacles which seem like mo ins, when we meet them, dwindle away to mole- hills when we away fro them. Even what seemed tragedy at the me- ment In the future may be the most in- nocent comedy. Most of us are so constituted that we will make almost any sacrifice for pres- ent peace. It would seem easler to have an arm or a leg amputated two years hence than to lose a finger to-day! It is human nature to shrink from pain, and we purchase release at almost any cost. If we could only train the mind to look at to-day’s trouble and annoyanc: the standpoint of the futur much easler to bear. JBEACGINY JSTADLEJ, WHERE ARKEIL AND JSALVATOR. LNE. ‘Territories are now producing coal for the market. In West Virginia, forty- eight countles out of fifty-four have coal deposits. Ohlo has had at one time 216 large mines, besides 333 small ones, dis- tributed through thirty countles. Of the twenty-four States and Territories west of the Mississippl, coal has been found in every one save Minnesota. In 1870 Germany raised more coal than we and Great Britain nearly four times as much. In 1880 we had Ger- many, but Great Britain raised more than two tons to our one. In 1300 the United States led the United Kingdom by 18,000,- 000 tons, and produced more than twice as much coal as Germany. Our product is now more than one-third of the world's annual supply. 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