The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-18
THE FORDHAM FACES
Third and Most Brilliant Day Of the
Autumn Meeting.
Jerome Park Threnged with Spec
talorS.
xsntuoky loses Against 3ime In
the Tour-16le Race.

James 4. Connolly Wins the Tws-MlAe Dash,
onward the Thrcc-Mlc Heat and Benny
RTacs the Tnrce-Quarter Dash.
faksn together three days Of the autumn meeting
q Tho American Jockey Ciub-russday, Wednesday
md Thursday-may nty illustrated by reference
mo simple principle Of grammatical comparison II the
ors vas good the second BETTER and the third has
BEEN beyond cavil controversy, superatively tho
bes& In other words the ascending series Of the rhe
toric climax has been strictly followed in the progress
81 the races and neither Blair Quacksnbos could
and fault with . climax embodied IN fact, though
emaxes Of simple fancy often defective enough TO
b subjects Of legitimate criticism brilliant day.
Doth q regards the brancy Of the Craftsmanship and
ahe It Of arstocratc presence witnessed NJ
Jerome Park and Of course, in America for where
else shal seek for scia and brilliancy BETTING
sven % royal the racing OF the petted
and pedigreed Kentucky, unless in this metropolis the
hub whence the best thought the extensive ram-
Acatons Of business and the expensive kinks Of
fashion radate like spokes 70 the very circumference OF
che social wheel Of o continent The hub moves and
tho wheel moves with IT. the hub stands still and from
centre 70 circumference the revolution Of the whole
circle stands still with II; the central point controls
moduates regulates the motion OF all which revolves
IN unison Herewith New York has decreed that
jerome Park shall be the Derby Of America and that its
days shall DO Derby days TO ell Americans; and New
York having decreed be found except pos
sbly in Boston, foohsrdy attempt gainsay
senst Tho appreciation Of the metropolis It's
unatic admiration for that species Of talent the
ssstaon Of which Is particularly matter Of quickness
Of hoof, was never moro superhtively demonstrated
than BY the fact that New York has adopted Jerome
Park the theatre Of it, arisocratc diversion the
way Of tournaments Of speed Nor did the enthusiasm
OF the subtle and artistic Greek in the triumph Of the
winning athlete ever exceed In the pamiess days
Of hardy and gallant Sparta the enthusiasm Of the
New Yorker in the triumph Of the swiftest
II with rapid beat Of hoof Lexington
or Kentucky out-hoof the invisible steeds
Of the wind in his fight towards the
Who has no patience with mediocry in anything, and
saboos with Norman shrug Of shoulder all degrees Of
excellence in all things. unless TO those degrees the
Nov, Arab-ike in their enthusiasm, where they can DO
induced to be enthusiastic at all, New Workers have
consecraed Pordham as the Mecca OF their pilgrimage
jerome Park a. the black stone at the shrine Of which
like true Mussulmen true appreciators they Will
ship and the American Jockey Club the concave OF
and undue sanctity. fu Y
II New York sent representatives to Fordham on
1ueSuay bnu wednesday, yeHoru6y on6 went DOuiiy
and left hsr palaces Of business and her palaces OF
J0rdy residence 10 tho guardianship Of inferior keepers
Fifth avenue, Madison avenue and the adjacents were
almost deserted; in fact NJ one O'Clock In the after
noon through oil the arstocrac precincts Of that which
= termed par ezceitnce uptown, IL was a. II some
BODY Of town had died suddenly and almost every
BODY from square TO square, had gone out 70 attend
Ksstssky, the horse Of pedigree and senealogy as
hong q that Of hs courser OF an Arab shek wAs
1he attraction Of the day. and mot even reading By
Dickens The man with the head BY cups and aurss Of
drawn thithcr larger stylish assembage. The
general snsemo Of the host Of pilgrims yesterday was
Mat Of either day preceding. The hoi potos were
there in regiments the betting fraternity were
Ssdlssn.S y Win al the = sorss Of span livery
and monogram, there was no counting the
number. OF ladies there was. perhaps, larger
spring meeting, whom ladies uttsred about and 70 and
to and here and there - plentiful a. butterflies In
through stage after stage OF intermediate being from
things with wings gorgeous. golden or partcolored 10
aps 81 s CLUB
upper neither balconies Of colosseum throneed the
salon saan9er thronged hilock after hilock in car
every where with dots OF MORE antique, lace-trmmed
ehawls and sumptuous paetots capped BY way OF
climax with hundred-dolar bonnets. Hours some OF
snem were which . Mosem would have sent imme-
dately TO Mohammed 10 Paradise; hours some
Of them we're not. and these sarscen
long a. they liked Mohammed not covetng them; and
ancient dowagers with irzzled HAIR among them,
who had marrisgabe daughters and would have been
delighted with eligible suitordowagers with daugh
labelled at least imaginaby, For sale TO the high
est bidder u course win al tne papo"r. o. namaS
social features presented TO the observer sort OF
kaleidoscope Of New York society Of which, or through
which, might tako notes OF sort aud single out ndi
Qualities every ilk from Mark Tapley to Mr. Guppy
and from Paul DomDey, who wondered what the brook
nis raven' There were horses with pedierees
and without them, and horses. without
pedigrees and men with manufactured ones
With long lists Of ancestors excepted from
che hsradc dictionary; the principle OF the latter being
that Brown Brown and that, II any Brown In all
ages part dubbed by potcntate with coat Of arms
that armoral Brown must have been the progeniior,
either direct indirect, OF oil the Browns who have
since existed or who shall hereafter exist Besides,
what the OF pedigrees in . republic unless those
pcdgrees be universally applicablsf Upon this reason
ing. happened that there many a. Fordham Jos
bore baxened lions grins other fabulous monsters
upon their carriage panels and upon the gliding Of lar
sna me- r roa Ssors 's .na he me S
bona 1t 10 better, however, 70 trace ones anc sry
% . knight Of the spurs than 70 knight OF
The halter and hencs some little afisocrauc weakness
the part Of millonarss for crssts
integrity pardonabe, and ought not, at least race
days, 20 be subjected 70 minute scrutiny ruby 10
. ruby though be not OF the red vintage Of Pegu
and shine mot In unsposted clarst.
York Win pedigree and New York without psdisrsen
Short New YORK 10 general, from scavenger 70 mil
ouars woke up yesterday morniog looked At tho daily
papers, having bottled Q breakfast the expense OF
quarter Of million thersabouts and the word
round that Kentucky was TO race with Time, which
stops measuring the seconds with the beating Of
rs boot, taxing sighty-slx thousand and four
hundred steps Of seconds from midnight 10 mid.
night, and stopping not to be sponged al the
mouth al the jointng Of the two seconds.
ut one Of which ths circular course ends and
~ the other OF which the cycle begna II was
would make four miles, with separate leaps, hun
srsd times Time could take four hundred and
forty steps, Lexington bad done before beating the
gray old steed which carries forward second
. cry c OK Of hoof, By just hall step and
Everybody ON Manhsttan-a vast turtle with shell Of
IAvs, upon which human insects crawl about aud ear
aud drink and seep-everybody on Manhattan was,
therefore, interested Ia the turnout OF yesterday for,
taough nobody on.Nanhaan expects TO ouirun Time,
every body would DO delighted TO sec the steady old
courssr beaten and compelled to ackno~lcdgs an gno
mnious defeat or tho shell Of Manhattan, there ore,
cxa man an off