The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-08

burned. Just as dinner was end
ing Mr.. Brooks arose, and af-
ter stating the action of the /
and making a tasteful /
speech, which put everybody in a
good humUr, the Committee reported,
through Mr.. MeCullough. The reso-
lutions expressed the thanks of the
party to the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company, to Mr.. Mccoy, of
the Cave City stage line, to DR. Young,
of Indian Cave, to Mr. Proctor. of
the Mammoth Cave Hotel, to Maj
Proctor, of Glasgow junction Hotel,
and to others, for the courtesies ex-
tended to them and the high degree
of enjoyment they had bestowed.
Through some oversight the Commit
tee failed to make due Acknowledge
ment of the attractions which the
ladies had lent to the excursion, and
a humorous controversy sprung up
among them, each trying to fasten
the delinquency on the other. They
had just succeeded in convincing the
company that they were equally to
blame, when it was announced that
starting time had come.
It was the sense of the committee
and of all the company, that some
fitting mention should be made of the
obligation all felt they we're under to
Mr.. Haldeman, of the Courier Jour
nal, for the assiduous care and excel
lent management on his part, which
added so much to the pleasure of the
trip. Not Puck himself could have
been more ubiquitous, and for timely
and accurate Information as to when,
where and how everything was to be
done, the guide-book was nowhere to
him.
If it wasn't for the fact of history
known TO US, as to ali this end Of
! the world, we should have thought
that his days had been spent in lead
| ing editorial excursion parties In
happy progress to and from the Mam-
moth Cave since the last Indian gent
to sleep there and woke up mummy
Mr.. Haldeman was too modest to
let any body thank him then, and We
take occasion now, for ourselves and
all, to acknowledge how much of oul
pleasure We owe him.
If space and time permitted, We
would like to give an account of the
races, which journalistic enterprise
bound to have vent in some way WheL
so much was about, found expression
IN. But how to do it when the press
il waiting, when Homer. and Virgi
are dead. when Milton Is no more
and our sporting editor with his die
tionaTy of turf phrases il fast asleep
must give us pause. A brief intima'
ton of what must make the lawn o.
Mammoth Cave Hotel a Mecca to al
lovers of the turf benceforth, is al
we can give, leaving a fuller history
to other pens.
On the lawn, waiting for supper, the
trainers of public opinion were as.
sembled. A circular carriage way
something less than a mile in length
stretched In smooth circumference
around, and small stand suggestive
of race track was just before them
Doing nothing was impossible; the
sight was suggestive, and a race was
Immediately arranged.
Richard Smith entered $. h. John
ston.
Hopper entered b. G. Mack.
w. d. Bickham entered b, c. Peto
X. Brooks entered s. h. Holloway.
1 L llCI CntSlC0. We IL A4dlotSA0s
Pools sold briskly, and there was
little difference In choice, the horses
ali being new to that track. Some
difficulty was had in getting start
the steeds being fiery from long con-
fnement and hard to hold.
| The drum tapped finally and they
started in fine style. Minuter detail
than we can give would be necessary
to do justice to the race and point out
the skillful management of the diff
ferent riders, which enabled them.
irrespective of weight or speed. to
keep we'll in a bunch over the whole
course. The Holloway horse pitched
| his rider over his head, turned a
sommersault, caught him on the rise,
and came in well up on the home
stretch.
The rider of "Halstead," emulous
of the well known journalist of that
name, and ready at all tines to leave
the beaten track if that was necessary
to come in ahead, made brilliant de-
tou-, which brought him into the string
abreast Of Peto, who got his neck and
fore legs across the line little ahead
Of anything else. A large dog come
down the home stretch we'll up with
the horses. but be wasn't counted.
Johnston's muscle and Mack's
light weight brought them in close
with the foremost, and the
equity which rules such con
tests on we'll regulated courses pre-
vented the judges from giving any
decision which would enable any
one person to monopoIize the stakes,
and, to the satisfaction of all, the
whole amount was turned over to the
spiritual adviser of the party. How
the 2. h. Nv. d. B." walked over the
track, how the Blue Grass horse Par
IRISH broke from his rider and sought
fresh fields and pastures new we can
not tell; nor Of the race between
Kentucky and the World erome
Park, nor Metairie, nor Epson, ever
saw such sport, and until the PRESS of
the world meets at Mammoth Cave
in the year of Jubilo will it be sur