The New York herald., 1872-10-06
AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB.
Second Day Of the Jerome Park
Autumn Meeting.
SIX EXCITING RACES.
M0NARCHIST BEATS HARRY BASSETT.
Unparalleled Scene Of Enthusiasm
on the Course.
The Jockeys of the Great
Racers.
Savages i'm War Paint Enjoy
ing Civilized Sport.
sTHE KING DETHRONED." !"
Weedbine Wins the Hunter Stakes, Tubman
the Purse Race, MOnarchist the Maturity
UHA-
The Jockeys of the Great
Racers.
Savages i'm War Paint Enjoy
ing Civilized Sport.
.THE KING DETHRONED." !"
Wesdbine Wins the Hunter Stakes, Tubman
thePurse Race, Monarchist the Maturity
Stakes, Minnie w. the Champagne
Stakes, Lochiel the Hurdle Race
and Luna the Match.

and Luna the Match.
Old Probabilities did al in his power to encourage
70 monde to visit Jerome Park yesterday. He prom
ised clear weather, and he did not mention the
damping syllable Of ''rain.n In the latter he kept
his word like the decent old chap that he is;
but he certainly did hang out blanket
Of dark clouds from the zenith to the
horizon which veiled the face of Old Sol. This was
nothing to the HERALD reporter, for the best Of
reasons-namely, that he had to go; but to keep
his Insignificant impersonality utterly out Of sight
the dark gray Of the lowering sky was forbidding
omen to thousands OF dainty damsels, who shud-
dered before
THE CHANCE OF A RAINDROP.
As the HERALD reporters steppers tripped up
Fifth avenue he looked around and tried to think
he was too early when he noted that the Jerome
Park bound carriages were so few. No; he was
not too early. His watch that is the clock on
the brick church informed him differently
He felt depressed immediately and surrendered
himself to the fates. 1t is not his
desire to put whole nation into mourning by re-
citing the funereal thoughts that strobe to the
music Of the Dead March, in and through his
brain. In vain the Autumn-tinted trees of the
Park waved their scarlet or golden plumes over
the rich green of the sward inviting thoughts Of
Natures loveliness They only suggested the ghastly
beauty that sometimes shines In the eyes
OF the dying. 1t was to him the tribute of O sOr-
rOwful Creator to the beauteous things about to
hidden in mOulder and decay. While thus engaged
his team had left the Park behind, and shout
ahead reused him to observation II not
70 absolute cheeriness A bar0uche, filed
with humorous race-gOers, was In difficulties,
and after much pulling and lifting had got once
more into going order. A sharp turn up hill from
the Seventh avenue Boulevard, in full view OF the
Harlem River, with its grand turn to High Bridge.
brought him up beside Macomb's Dam Bridge.
Here he dismounted because the driver stopped,
and entered
LOw-ROOFED, CROWDED CARAvANsERY.
In complete innocence OF spirit Herein were a
number Of hard-visaged turfmen, all provided with
knowing winks and bumpers of something short"
or something long" In their dexter manuals
The reporter has observed in previous moments of
his checkered career that turfmen always possess
these knowing wnks Qor the purpose
OF giving "tips'), and are not unfrequently
provided with bumpers in their right hands.
Merely waiting to satisfy himself on these heads,
he told the driver that this was not Jerome Park,
. statement In which the driver, in thirsty
tones, dolorousy conceded. After paying the
toll OF walk to Macomb and his dam
Jerome Park. On the road thither he deserted two
odd-looking objects ahead like couple of boiled
Holsters In trot. When these were overhauled
the reporter fixed his glance to starboard and
made out pair Of unwieldy hotel coaches,
crammed full of
INDIANS IN FULL PAINT AND FEATHERS,
and effloresclng on to the roof Of the vehicle. To
anybody who has ridden inside a stage coacn
through country full of hostile savages nothing
could appear more ridiculous. As they usually on
these occasions occupy q position behind rock
or bush, with cooked rife grasped
IN their hands, and send their sautatons in bullets
1t Is one OF the oldest antitheses to the same
savage blackguards In civilized country inside
coach, armed with revovers and tomahawks, driv
ing to the races Mr. Bloody Mouth, with
sne upper part OF his face all yellow
0chre and the lower part vermilion. sat
complacenty on the box, an insult to
the white people whose brethren he and his fellow
Sioux had atrociously murdered on the Plains.
Leaving the red rascas behind, the HERALD re-
porter soon drove through the gate OF Jerome Park
ST srRoIIINa ALONG THE QUARTER STRETCH.
The attendance was thin, the ladies seeming in
great numbers to have feared the weather, and
hence the display OF toilets and the pretty types
OF American beauty they would enclose were not
present in numbers commensurate with ones
amply repaid the contemplation bestowed
upon them. or course, the threatening weather
mad induced those who did come to @ don less bril-
vailed, although some handsome toilets in gray silks
with black edgings were not rare. There was one
queenly lady whom the reporter regarded for sew
eral minutes with as little fuss as possible. She
was
PERFECT BLONDE
with imperial chereure OF golden hair, delicate,
transparent complexion and sweet blue eyes OF
liquid depth and merry sparkle. She wore Polo.
SILK fringe, dress of rich black
velvet. It was some minutes before the
weighing house, Where the spidery Jockeys were
waiting, saddle in arm, their turn at the scale.
There was livelyeyed mulatto cronched down in
the corner '.bing" his spderegged white
on their chances
"None o. your business. Don't you know my
.Yah, Billy; you another color after the race.'
Here raw-faced lad, with an open, Celtic coun-
tenance, Patsey Mclaughlin by name, stood chew
ing the end Of his whip and nodding his head as mis-
.'Can you make her co. wonder, IkeY'' said
horse owner to nigger boy with an earnest face.
Can rde .n to weight = cu he e. can't Reckon she
Then there were the ragged understrappers,
white and black, lubbery, unwashed and unkempt
SOMETHING HoRsEy ABOUT THEM,
whether In the suggestiveness OF single riding
boot roWsy Jockey cap pas, all casslfSatSn as to
or at least torn shirt, with some faded horesh oe
patterns on 1t. The interest taken in the race by
pool sellers and pool buyers by simple spectators
and horse owners was all transcribed by the alb
s0rbing attention paid to the details and the
results by these piebad children OF the
hayl0ft. They are Interesting although dirty,
and the novelist OF the future will find
ample material in their quantness and their cute.
lcss The bell rung for the first race, the track
yas cleared and the Hunter Stake were won In
anne race by the Iavorite.
INTEREST FLAGGED,
0ple shook their heads and seemed TO have
uceiy energy enough TO seek the reireshmeDt
o0n--a pitble state Of affairs surely. The second
Q, for mile heats, was also won In two
pessive races BY the favorIte and people became