The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-16
The FAvORITES BEATEN IN EVERY RACE.
Sights and Scenes on the
Quarterstreach.
ChiIllcOthe the Winner OF the Mile Heats,
Judge Durell of the Jockey Club Han
dicap, Nellie Gray Of the Ladies'
Stakes, Belmont OF the Selling
Sweepstakes and Climax Of
the Members Cup.


Yace track just before the grand stand becomes
tenanted with the moving, breathing and surging
crowds Of people
Jerome Park is as quiet as some old ancestral do
MAN, whose lord IL absent travelling in some far or
lands spending his patrimony Just before q race.
There stands the Club House the blum, and not
. soul has rs yet invaded lts capacious balcony or
rs airy corridors Yesterday was as dun day for
some hours as has been seen ut the Fordham races.
During the morning the sun c0quettcd with the
clouds, and was tickle as the smiles Of q woman.
The grand stand is very silent, too; aud 18th the
exception Of the horscs gathering UP and down the
heavy track which In places is dotted with pools Of
sluggish and dirty wafer, there Is nothing in the
scene to disturb me harmony OF nature. Here and
.ssers bra IL singing "a the eHIy branches Of the
rees, and the smooth, grassy turf looks reiresnl,.
70 the eye OF the first conner.
NOW carriage appears on the hilltop, behind the
Club House, the horses dragging and painting and
sweating up the incline, and dainty face peeps
out and looks anXlously at the sky. The fair owner
OF the fair face seems somewhat treasured, for In
moment as the equlpage draws up the gravclled
causeway TO the Esplana1e, with q crash and
bang the LADY, followed by another, equally fair,
descends from the step with light bound, showing
dear little loot ami snowy and frilled skirt.
Now fourth Eand comes sweeping along, the
horses throwing back their necks and paving the
ground with their feet ike the coursers OF the Sum-
beautiful booded animals that they are
A mile OF can be heard the whistle OF the in.
coming train loaded with excurslonists. Pretty
soon long flies of pedestrians stream up the leafy
lane leading from the depot to the The men
with the natty scarfs loud breastpns and velvet
coats may be set dOwa for certainty as those who
buy pools These men do not look at the green
trees the wild flowers or the brambes In their path
The sweet voices OF the singing birds have no charm
for them. Wave after wave OF these people come
forward like the foam and breakers q coast, and
they dash up against the entrance gates IN eddles.
and surge back into line to buy badges or tickets
under the charge OF the police.
Where the Wild brier skirts the eafy lane and un.
der the locust and larch leaves groups OF lnerant
peddlers swarm In close and compact retinue The
lemonade man Is an attraction to one In search
OF character HIS beverage is vile drug made OF
vinegar, moasses and dirty water. With the most
hardened errontcry he levies tax OF ten cents per
glass on each thirsty foot passenger VINO stops at his
booth. lie Is n keen-eyed old fellow. with greasy
and ragged coat ana while aGlng ont his poisonous
liquid the iron or remorse does enter his soul.
poOl buyer sto IS for a moment 10 chafY the lem
onade merchant who seems iniultively 10 regard
hlm enemy.
"How much will you take for that pail OF slush,
me old dulrerSn asks the pool buyer.
al don't sell slush. ana Pm not dutfer my keno
FRIEND" answers the lemonade man, and chorus
or laughter from the joking crowd makes the
pool buyer move on MS way.
the banana man succeeds to the lemonade man.
Not to put too Zine point on 1t, the banana man is
q beat He is Lutte, wlshered, dried up atom,
with the face OF mummy and an expression OF
craDoedness about his pursed up mouth that wouId
give any one who looked long upon his lineaments
the dyspepsia. About i've feet five inches In height
and with a pair OF ferret eyes. he dan2les
q basket OF pestential cherries on one arm
and from the other depends o large bunch OF
bananas. The impudence OF the man is frighJul.
Suddenly ne stops in front of lady, who is intent
upon the horses, aud snakes his bananas at her in
. menacing manner.
"Bananas, mum-twenty-1rc cents apiece-all
ripe anu sweet, mum. Bananas, mum-twenty.
ave cents aplece-pest In the world. num-"
This uncoUth specimen has haunted public places
In and around New York for the last twenty
years. Sometimes he appears with woodc0ck
and grouse Ia the season, and dollhouse
grapes other fruit and taen he disappears
for awhile and those whom he has haunted
with his shrily pertlnacious cries, began to hope
that he had gone to his reposc in Greenwood
or Cypress Hills when all at once he Is vomtcd forth
again to plague people. II he were even good look
ING he might be tolerated. but woman likes not to
look upon such bady-favored face as his and sell
dom does woman buy OF his wares.
And the teams and turnOuts crowd fast upon
each other and brush by with tearing pace to obtain
good position Negro boys with flaming red caps
run around In frenzy, demanding Of each driver
that he shall allow them 10 hold has horse or horses.
ribbon OF silk IND velvet and tissue Win mere
and there segment Oi black coats ana Alpine hats,
WINDS down snuoqsly from the oiao House ana ma
around the bun and across the track, and soon the
Grand stand is pretty well hllcd with bright ho-
day costumes, although many or the ladies' could
have wished that they had Drought their water
proofs and storm wraps Tor the day, though warm,
IL damp, and the track Is great pool Vi soggy mlrc
There is no music to-day at the races, aid that
makes the Jefe dull ana desperate There is nothing
90 be done to-day but TO cat anu drak, ana as the
rain comes oOwn In cherries drilZte hampers are
opened, and some people venture W throw them
serves on The mercy oil the ie.lo VINO sells Chowder
OF the color OF u chocolate ice. IL was Tor many
meetings held at Jerome PARK a mystery 10 the
writer now this chowdef was made. untli one dag
butcher from Washington Market took hiIn into his
confidence, and informed HIM that the vcnder OF the
chowder was III the habit OF visiting tue lsn market
70 purchase all the refuse co.'s heads and second
hand CLAIMS winch he could lind. aud rom these de-
lectable ingredients he formed his chOwder, ana
with u entrapped unwary ana hungry victims.
fellow consplrator OF the chowder man is the
pigs loot merchant. pigs fool, wnen well Cooked
and before II has passed its majority subsequent to
the death OF the porker to whom IL once belonged,
IL not bad TO take. But when the pig's loot has
been exposed successive days 10 the wrath OF the
elements and the boiling heats OF a june sun the
pigs loot becomes too gamy In It's flavor aud all
sue painting OF vivid fancy cannot render 1t
tOOths0nc.
There are nearly five thousand people here to-day
and u Is q curious study To watch their races and
therein the different surface Indications OF what
passes within their souls.
Look at that big Durly politician, who has elbowed
his way into decent society for the first time IN mis-
life. lie mas fought ms way 10 the Grand stand
through sheer cheek and brassy impudence. Among
that KID gloved and essenced and silken and broad
cloth clad assemDage he Is q stranger IN spirit
ms Thoughts are Of the slums and OF tne primaries
OF chicane ana of the coming nominations IN the
laiI VI the lowest strata oil clay OF whlcn COD
made men, while IN Rome IL IL not possible Tor him
70 40 as the Romans do His Big, fat hands are cased
IN doRskin gloves, and his eye wanders iurtiveiy
among MS neighbors OF a better grade than himself
vaihy seeking recognition, but ne meets WIN no
welcoming glance. He VIII 40 home dissatisfied
win himself and every one whom he sees around
MN, ana VIII only regain MS equanlmty when he
meets WIN dependent shoulucrhitier who desires
his influence To be placed upon the police.
Ten feet from the POLITICAL, and regarding him
with quiet wonder, n not contempt Is hla exact
0ppOslle-a yOunH man who naa been horn IN the