The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1901, Page 5

' \ THE WORLD:' WEDNESDAY: EVENING; AUGUST 14, 1901. 8 - “AMONG THE ARISTOCRATS OF THE TROTTING : TURF ON THE BRIGHTON BEACH RACE TRACK. — ——_+-4-- ee (ee ; Where Gentlemen Are Found, Even Though the Metropolis Has Not Been Educated Up to the Beauties cf the Harness Sport—There the Player Makes His Own Odds. A Visit to the Stalls of the Champion Cresceus and the Ex-Champion, : The Abbot, Where Their Owners and Trainers Are Found-— H Mr. Ketcham’s Estimate of His Grand Horse. SOOO} x a9) TODODC TAUOEASUCUTUUILANE ETN TE te eeveastirnseiecmnittttee HOOOTA: GEORGE KETCHAM. ED. GEERS. Owner of Crencens, ‘Trainer of The Abbott. ceux takes I seriously, ile never/ing, Ax a trotting «tre he proved to be 2 ijokes. He’ cent and hones Of el Rlettent horses that ever ow, and knows: perfec Retting more Kood racehorses of | | BROW A ALU MnO WAR percealsaat all sawed than any stalllon of his jhe Is dding, but there Ix no tev 1 ogpactultien make-up. He's on 'o Mabel.. the dam of Cresceus, morode, mind you y streak In him, He's fully the He's not ugly or e'$ not an ug Just dignified, as If realizing limportance of his position in the world. We are no more ulof him thon he fs himeelf. It's wonderful, the amount of gratitude he shows for every little attention pald him, Min Greatest Trint. “His tollet i# made as many times a day as any society belle’s, and ft ought 3 to be tlresome, but he submits to It Gregor he paid TE Robert Mc- with the full knowfedge that {€ I) Tine may not. be blue blood an de- necessary to hia success and mine, He's/fMnet in the stud book, but. it's. blood as docile as a lamb; any child strong thatiella ‘The Investment of ad than. enough to hold up the reine can drive! than $0,007 Nance Eeturnan of minore him, His willingness ta his great vir-[and the rest for exhibl tue. The serious way In which he takes ito Corres CRESCEUS. everything evidently leads him to do his (From Photograph Takem by Evening World at the Track.) level best whenever he is called on—and he knows when he's out for blood. We COETIEOGOGE GDOIHOSTOGODSHPDIOOEODOAN all love him and I'm sure he loves us.” ‘As an illustration of the anim telligence and reasoning power, Mr. Ketcham tells this incident: out of Mabel, 106, nd wan » Merch, gained a before Cresceus wan) first trotter to win nts and) Manufactur- troft and the $10.09) ut Hartford. She was ie in ner campaign of jen. R. 1. Howard's | that never got a 2. of Contention, n of Almont dam of hin mate he was old. and pald $10,000" N Stakes at horse when for ner at au e blue blood} wry for the stable—that 1 means growing up In| developing an it devel- ng to Ite power and “How many people will be here Thurs- | Mayor of Chillicothe or the Sheriff of Brighton Beach yesterday, and there will haps more so, ‘je ‘Tim’? Murnen, the(many !t is almost impossible to keep) see that horse wearing all the ribbons day?" asked one of a party of drivers | Dubuque, If you can’t get a civil an-|be more there to-day. Kk of them. Besides the world’s rec- | up north of One Hundred and Fifty-ffth Amainst time he has the fastest first |street, Of course, he'd lose money by It ond, third and eighth heats, and hts] but he doesn’t care much for money. nherited money and character and| (trainer of the Ketcham horses. With a ood use both. As a result he| ruddy face, hardened by ure to » strings to his bow. One ts a| wind and rain, he in the porfect type of | « t the Brighton Beach Hotel just before | swer from a lowly policeman, what'll] Democratic all, and good fellows, there tin et from one of these fellows?” < N “L learned one thing while training /airing of horses and the other is ajthe Wertern ‘horseman. Mr. Murnen|s-cond tn the fastent ever trotted in a] “Any trouble with ‘The Abbot? No, - Pie Ee ee en ree ia Mey nmenineneuiens [Len owe, {x aulll an aristocracy among them. ot) iy aw a four-year-old—that I could not| string of theatres, One keopm him buay| Wit never be accused of loquactt: Indeed. ‘Hen kitteniah, sometimes, and i COLE Ucolatlancienr, an offensive, hedged-in aristocracy, putt ue working him heats of a mile | 1% te Kummer, the other in the winter, | Amked to speak of Cresceus, he Rood: {e's a lucky horse, too. We have] again he'll let out his hind feet, but he’ They formed @ substantial-looking tot Dito TSU) oe an elite class that has won dietinction dy | © aTRP ARI? Rinnai cetVallitheteneed Mie entren nrovscatteradd over Oblo|naturedly. aavented, payin msonid jiutle trouble with him. Only once ad don't mean anything by it Atter, all , meee % hernias 4 s ni onor-| Md a half each and ge) speed | ane a. and he proudly clatms that| talk of that horse all da: en helhe ever give us any uneasiness, but that|he's gone through It's wonderful ho} of citinens, am@ nobody would have! ty) Xpresses as well ax may be the | Accomplishing samething {nan honor-| oY of him In races that I wished. He | his home of amusement {s the| didn't. He never oes, “Bur what he|time we nearly lost him. good-natured he 1s. He's a good ol i was to the point. great things in| "I wouldn't bs surprised Af Cresceus wevere attack of epizootic and he was] thin! "There's Cresceus the mile in two minutes,” he eal! pistered. In some manner he rubbed off| of his. He can and he may do it this ‘He was a yearling then and had alcampatgner, he is. “But don’ picked them out ger race followers, but character of men who follow the|able, commendable way—something that of, Amay he can't lower that 2.03% mark such they were, and the Grand Circult Grand Circuit. The game has pro-|other men have striven to accomplish try too much reserve and h would always sav speed to go the extra half-mil he sald, was thelr hunting ground. greased, ‘The “hayseed" has gone. ‘The| Without success. j ty . J ‘ vol ot co! quarter tre, bot of which T own, * a great Tse. + tu ister ove ee door of his ntaill/year, though he's been alck.' 7 They were speaking of the prospects banker, the man of affairs, and even Asti ads eI ke and. “Mack, whom Tf doni| “How did we discover him? Oh! thatlin stwca hie (iene can that hia wind-|° The Abbot “didn't look. sick at tha ihe ttenel raam-betesenl Creneoue and cnitehi te felcie sien taeetiek Type of the Nace Ariatocr pole home at a = Kall. tat Tdi wan easy. He was foaled In May, W such| moment. ‘The fasteat gelding In the then we pipe was exposed. He presen th pearance that Mt. Ketcham| world ta much prettler than Cresceus ; year und « half Hanna, whom he admires|atarted to break him. He showed alordered him destroyed, but I put {t off| and of a livelier disposition, but. five-year-old I stopped working nim fur- ther than a mile, and when I reached the wire would say “Wh: to fim and ham cannot de too laudatory | fed him orrible appe: The Abbot. Your follower of the trotting irfin a To this class belongs George Ketcham, “Oh! about 7,000 will ring up on the dled fellow, modest in his|Whole-souted, sound-bodied and with « from the round up. “Ilex the most/trot right there, and, though he ®a8linti next morning. when he waa found turnstile," answered a young man who Umost secretive with his wealth | mind well poised, he carries his honors misunderstood and the best man that|big-galted, we knew we had a maxnifi-}15'be xo much better that We decided to aid mi ‘ork, mciniveniian 5 por - stop him at once. After doing this sev-| ever lived, 1 cent animal. Ama two-yenr-old we took | ‘7 be so much, better that ve ote soon ; Wd much of his eating with his for poetleisea to demonstrative exuber-/an the owner of the fastest trotting ee ee eae ae ee the mile | Of hia an ts he ts particulariy (him out with six other colts and he was| fave, ium, & chance for life. Ite sqan 4 n his horse wins a heat. If|horse the world ever saw with modesty proud: and to the humble beginning of!the firat to beat three minutes, doine [from attractive-looking colt. ; ic in parents and thelr subsequent suc-|hiw mile in 2.88 to a high auiky. In the] syn Kietumty he ie as regular as a ‘ but who, nevertheless, gave signs of 7 riwteked breaks a record he {s glad ja . id. | aaifast as) Tawsahes Is glad jand dignity. He breathes health and ‘resceus has often | cess refers with feeling. The na-| middie of June he got a record of 236 on!monk. He gets a certain amount. of longing to the nouveau riche. The no®- his anim i: ecently and suddenly ace and 4, and The iife history o' ness of his recently and and proud, and In his gladness and {looks happiness. A visit with him te], The ite hissory of Crenune hee titel [ture of the man ie shown in this bit of |e Myte.miie track.” andthe. following | mor eyes dee! ad Soe et umount oot confidence month, In Chicago, he put himself out] of his work fs done on the road. I don't old-time Judges of trotters may be be-| “Ny mother—tather In dead—hes said | Month. 30, CHICARS. De pet eA tn ce eons te Heved,, he still comes from stock that pwtrange, aa I mt here /229 1-2 Then we worked fim easily un-| ways liken tec) undes thacuire areu Shh And aL etre. i) fall, when he put up a mark of/and aven in his work I never let another quired wealth stuck out all over, even pride he will Invite his friends around! worth a dip in the salt surf and a trip to the glittering diamond ostentatlovaly to open a case of champugne aptece {n|to the piney mountains combined. placed In the bosom of his negiigee shirt. a quict, decorous way—not on account| It war juat before the racing had be- But he was a wise youth who had of the maney he has won, but because! gun that he stood beside the pride of | ¥@* distinguished. days when we came here i . yh . ! Greseliatns it ene ere! twenty-five’ as a two-year-old horse beat him out. He isn't accustomed stumbled over to the wrong table. He another step forwardghas been taken ! (his heart. watching Cresceus being dried| Robert McGregor, 217%, the sire of cariped Ronan alcraa spond FOr eg Coe OD Gree to seeing anybody ahead of him. Cresceus, wax not a fashtonably bred was just as much ou: of piace with the the sctence of breeddg. There ts nolout after the | horse, but it was the opinion of moat ‘men who surrounded Nim as was his will scramble for the white lights In|around the track. ken al {dlamond on the suirt, He reckoned open-faced automobiles, nor does any] “Well, you’ : a oon,” | horsemen in his day that, taken all in : Hee] Fs ie 4 7,000 wan about the right figure. Part of Six winnings ulilmately. find ita [he aatd to the noble animal that watened [@il he wax the beat specimen of the will nretiw ness ndmll that He wae| we tnoUmnL fe REA SEH, that there | Creneent Houle, ha aon. ite hast Way to. Wardman is otection” fer]him with no small degree of expectancy. | trotting stallion then on the turf. He | tivity Sn the site of the present city of| was no chance that wre, would sell him. record of 243-4, ‘made in Cleveland, He's vice. “Why don't you smile and eay "Thank rand looking chestnut horse, | Toledo eapectally after he cut the it, to9. S h hin fi on, u leven and a quarter as a three-year- Mr. M You see," he wont on In explana- Your trotting-horse man {s a gentle-| you!’ you old devil?” pela pate GT Lees eres ol 2 Katchatalititecrrreatencna teeter ton, “we're not educated up to the trot- man, There were 5,0 gentlemen at] Then, turning to the reporter: “Cres-|match for any trotting stallion tn train-! Just ax modeat ; Now look at his records, He has 80/1 never want to ‘ting game here, and mighty few will -+ pares ie i put up the two aces necessary: an. some old gazabo alt on a hors tof three fast turns i’ycursfathere dinners,in-a: trys He isn't a pretty horse, but he's 3 over a brush fire.” “Splan wanted tw buy him then, but/Kreat one. He weights 1.040 poun 1 answer, Mr, Ketcham|as he was entered In a futurity and as] #tands sixteen hands high. Why He Didn't Like Them. Mr. Murnen, Trainer. Mr, Ketcham, per- Ed Geers, Aristocrat. There is another aristocrat at Brigh- eee 2 WIFE JEALOUS 'SEE A BURGLAR? KILL HIM! GET $100 REWARD. pang-tall for us. Why, if tt wasn't for ‘the runners where d'ye suppose bd ‘a got this little drop ot dew on my shirt front? Not reading any musty old stu book, I can tell you that, “Why, I goes Into the paddock ac’ 1 there I aees an old turtle ro full o' dope! he was makin’ g00-g00 eyes at me, an’ I says, ‘It's him for my money'—an' | was—twenty to one. you can't throw the dope inte a horse that runs | (aq four cornera and Is put Into a Inther | before he faces the starter, 80 where, does a poor New Yorker come In for) hia money In the trotting game?" { Some of these observations of the! @ youth with the wisdom of Solomon and | the raiment of Joseph were not as luctd | as might be to the three or four “o! gazabos” who formed the party, but in neral way the listeners realized, with some pain, that thelr favorite sport + was not highly thought of in this town. One of them finally ventured to re- mark that the game was not despised all over the country, “Why;'” he said, “back home where I was raised a running race would barely draw the niggers from the stables, while @ trotting mect would attract ten thousand people, easy. He Overlooked Ma “But.” he went on, ‘I understand Brooklyn men are not very sporty—| Brooklyn's the nearest town to this track, lun't it? , “And then another thing," he Inter- ' fected, as an afterthought. "We trotting horse men make our own odds In tha auction pouls, You fellows have some- body else make the odds for you, That's somethirg when you aro thinking of buying djamonds."" They were all at the track later and about five thousand besides, The man born ir the country, with vivid recol- lections of county fair days, who went there expecting: to nee the long-whis- kered individual, chewing a wisp of A straw and telling of the Mambrino ‘ Chief oolt he owned. back in '63,. was disappointed. True, here and there was ‘a Jolly, florid-faced man with the atraw protruding from hi# teeth, but the whiskers were gone. The up-to-date stock breeder and business man had re- placed the uncouth farmer. “T'll ask this man over here about that F CHORUS CIRL | MRs. SITT HAS KITTIE LYNCH | HALED TO COURT. | Weber & Flelds's Deanty Says She! Doenn't Care a Rap for Har- fem Houlface. Tt Kittle Lynch, of Weber & Flelds's } chorus, could have slain Mrs, Mary D. itt, who lives at the Hotel Boulevard, No. 207 Lexington avenue, with a look thin morning Magistrate Zeller would have had a homicide case on his hands to-day, Kittle was seen last night by Mrs. Sitt In company of her husband, George H., a prominent fiarlemite and pro- prietor of the hotel. The battle taok place at the corner of Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Nineteenth street, ‘after Mrs. Sitt_upbraided her husband. Upon Mra. Sitt's complaint Kittle was arrested, ‘A letter was Introduced In court from is Lynch to Mr. Sit. In which ahe Asserts’ that his wife had defamed her jAnd tell all my pal and xhe would horsewhip Mre. Sitt at the first opportunity. Mra. Sitt told of her husband's infatuation for Kittle, and that, alth@gh she had been im: ried to him for nineteen ecars, she was through forevermore. ‘Then Kittle declared that she did not care any more for Sitt than the ground under her feet und she didn't want any- thing more to do with him: that he a noyed her continually and she would pug a atop to It in nome way. e argument relating to Bitt got warm, and Maghetrate Zeller thought tt a good idea to have the man in. court, He adjourned the case till to-morrow. and Issued a subpnena for sit, Lynch declares that this trou- ‘hich was brought about through no fault of hers, will probably ult in her dirmnissal from the company with which she {s now rehearsing. DIED IN THE STREET. Henry Bellinger, of No, 1% Degraw _ THEN District-Attorney Mer- rill Advises Citizens to Shoot Crooks." Ive cracked my last crib, with life | am done; rom Mew York to ‘Prisco To biow trom Long Ieland—it's death to a gun. —LAY OF THE DYING BURGLAR. When the authorities offer $100 reward for the capture of a burglar dead or alive, and express preference that the burglar be delivered as a corpse, it Is high time for all such social enemies to feel a quiver of dread. To such effect Js the edict Just issued by John B. Mer- rill, District-Attorney of the Borough of Queens, and Mr, Merrill is a plain- spoken, energetic man who hopes for the best resulta, “Our only chance of getting rid of these lawless characters,” he said to an Evening World reporter, “ls to kill them on sight. Personally | would shoot vac down like a rat, and the 185,000 persons reelding tn this borough must have the same sentiments if they intend to live In aafei do you know,'’ he related ear- delvang into ni neatly, there have been ten burglaries every night in our borou and if the ave- Fuge continues at that rate each fan- ily in Flushing, Jameica and Long Inland City will have been visited once at the end of twelve months? Now we can't stand thal And something mine etna Dia ‘ict-A: a ie trict-Attorney ia not un- au expired) ae y be proved by the gen- ‘al consternation now prevailing in his borough: Hardly a person but has some thitiling experience to relate, and a danger is judged so imminent that every one ith means is arming himself agains an expected midnignt| ‘ visitor, No reflection is cast upon the police, for it is well recognised that they < ot cope with the diMculty, “We have ne al Ww. explained Inspector ‘ton, my men are utterly ti Out with their exertions. ‘Just tmegine ene policeman having a beat of elghtee: r JOHN B - PIERRILL: Bistrict Attorney, Queens: tion of returning for it, and waited until eryenes proceed to crawl and loot, the we have Just been reinforced by elghty- nine men, and the burglars are going to have a hot time.” Long Island City, Jamaica and Flush- under martial law des for stutintics, “that in the last three weeks| 0 4 window friend of Father Zimmer's came to the houne to make a call. but instead yinited Ho struggled clolent- awore, wept and protented, all to no aved very unaapn: the police station. Ing ate practically now, and not a night pasecs a hundred challen, hin life in Queens take thin w ing @ young through Oxon: looking big over hix should came In tne glare of an elec! officer oriad: “Handa up!" and drew hin revolver. the young man and ran for dear life, ‘Three shots followed in quick ‘mucces- might have ranulted had'not two other policemen caught tho terrified youth, At the police ‘station ha waa recognized whose burden conatsted of Little Neck and’s burglars, an ff a man values to him for prote ould not run. et made that mis- inaties bulletins through ff the dally paper which nt to Kill!" he advised Park with w ‘They're expensive. one out late at 1 chance of being Indoors these n “Another thing, officers are now being posted In yards and the shrubbery, so your revolvers indis- rst wnoot in the air to nd that may bring « Policeman, But don't let your man Ket gion, and at [do not dischar NEEDY COUPLE MAY BE ELOPERS STRANDED NEAR NEW HAVEN AND HIDE IDENTITY. Deciarea to Re Missing Cadet Milton Spencer and Della Engles. (Special to The Evening World.) NEW HAVEN, Aug. 14.—A young man and young woman, declared to be Mion Spencer, of Austin, Texas, the missing West Point cadet, and Miss Della Engles, of Highland Falls, N. Y.. the soventeen-year-old gitl with whom he Is sald to have eloped, were men at Lake Saltonstall, about three miles east of New Haven, yesterday afternoon ‘The young man was fishing with a borrowed outfit and the girl sat on # stone by the Inkeside and appeared very despondent. ‘The description of the two answered that of the missing cadet and girl. To an Evening World reporter the young man told a singular etory of hard luck He declined to reveal bis idgnthy, but sald he had recently been married and that he left New York City with his bride and went to Stamford, where he hoped to get employment, but failed, and then went to Bridgesort. ‘There their money gave out and they walked to New Haven, Sti! hoping for work, but, getting none, they had start- ed to walk to Providence, R. 1, and had got as far as the lak: The young woman wae dressed in a white lawn ault and wore thin French and had the appearance of hav- Ing juat left some social function, She wan about eighteen and the young man had a military appearance and tuked with w alight Bngiish accent. 3 getting discouraged,” ne fked. uuite a’ way where We are [0 ent. Our funds are W and don't know wet our supper to entirely exhausted. The young woman was rather shy, and when a small sum of money wa Iven to her by the reporter to halp them along rhe was silent, but seemed ton Beach. He was so pronounced yes terday when he landed Lord Derby a winner in the free-for-all, Ed Geers will drive The Abbot on Thursday, and he hopes to be as successful qs he was with Lord Derby, pronounced as a colt best green’ colt the world ever The name of Fal Geera is as familiar as that of John Splan or Bud Doble, and he has passed under the wire first as often as any man in the business. Mr. Geers ‘a another of the reticent trainers, He haa never claimed to be the Loulse Montague of his mex, but he isa “beaut” when It comes to preparing a horse for a gruelling race and then driving him into the nool box. He would not say yesterday that he would beat Cresceus with The Abbot, but neither would he admit for a mo- ment he would be beateg. To admit de- feat Is not in Mr. Geers’s line, A Royal Road Horse. While Mr. Geers was on the treck a colored stable boy. volunteered the in- formation that The Abbot ht be en on the Speedway next year. There Scanian,” he said, ‘and as he has an ambition not to take anybody's duat in New York !t wouldn't surprise me to 1 don’? care to live untess I can get a of my rhe. ~atism,” sald Frank 8 wonder, for ue had suffered twelve and was getting wo". daily. Three Munyon’s Rheumatiem Cure made him a well man, : It will taake any one well who has rheum- atism. It drives the pain out of the body in from one to three hours, and generally cures before oue vial has been used. It cures sharp, shooting pains in aay of the body.’ It cures swollen ana stif Joints, It cures pains in the back and legs. It cures lumbago and sciatica, no matter how long you have suffered, ‘how old or chrouio, the case may be or how many doctors have falled to cure yor ‘Ask your druggist for a vial of Mun: Rhenmatian Cure, and you will erer ties Munyon for this remedy, “MONYON'S DOCTORS ARE FREE, It eats you nothing for the services f Mum fe doctors. They will examine you tarot fy, sive an honest opinioa, and tell you whee treatment to follow, without a seat of charge for either thelr attention or s@vice, MUNYON'S, 26TH AND BRORDWAY Three Other Stirring Cont ion, $2. Ladies. $1 Greatest Trotting Event Ever Seen World's Fastest VCOSCCES.....k5 Record, 2.02%, vs. The Abbot ' Champion Trotting Gelding—Reeord 2.034. O-MORRO For Purse of $12,000 and the Championship. sts: 2.20 Trot—The Hiram Woodruff, Purse $2,000, 2.10 Pace and 2.10 Trot, Fleld, 75, | Music by Lander, First Heat att P.M. record," sald one city spectator to an-|street, Brooklyn, dled on the stepe at rt very grateful and her eyes swam in Admit wet everybody be cool and steady, | tears 4 Beserved Seats (To-morrow Only), There {a no need for alarm. The great-| | Tis couple started toward New Lone est coward in the world is a don about 8 Po M., the young man carry criminal. If he felgns courage, ing two small hand grips and both walk- all that ts caming to him, and quickiy:” Jog the rellroad ues, clams. a On another occasion Detectives Craft and Tilman concealed thomselves In th course, it je a great ohance for al residence of Father Zimmer, in J. ‘de ba | mali here thieves had ked jar, for, gary hat, to keer, rade! m ic wheres thieves had cpacked :ut Infleld Open tor Carriages. a=!No, 76 Van Brunt street this morning, don't,” sald the other. ‘You| Bellinger was forty yeara old. He had oOB Gs, been out of wort for some time and was t tell about these trotting people. | ooking for employment when talen iil: 8 ea. e7ea_ohagce you'll sttike the Heart failure was the cause of death, -