Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-02

hosse, and %. By and by / got out ol
patie0ce, and told Bill 70 hard me over
HE asoey and take the mare. He
drew . check on the Waikiki Bank II
/. Aiddlsaovn for the amount. I didn't
want 10 take the check.
La ne zee il, my father sid.
his name across the hack Of it.
There. he says. guess that'll 60
now
"Of course that put the mat. ont
of question. I took the check. and
jersey Ball drove OF to Hampton With
the mare. Bingham aud l vent On to
I Cohen, and . sicker man you never
saw than I Vas over the sale OF the
mare. Something seemei TO tell me
that she mad stuff in her that vas more
than good. After I go, to Goshen I
vas so thoroughly disgusted With my
self for PARTING With her that ] male
mp my mind TO get her back il posi-
BILE. put nv team in the barn at
Goshen. William NJ. Graham, after-
wards State senator, vas President OF
the Waikiki Bank. went straight 10
the telegraph. ofti,e AMI asked him by
wire:
lis Jersey Bills check COOL in yoar
bank for S36G?"
The answer came back:
"'lt is good for $500
80 I went back to the hotel and
/ told Bingham What / had done, and
that was going straight to Hampton.
and take that mare ont OF Jerseys
barn. Bingham was a lawyer, and he
told me I might get my fingers burnt
by such proceeding. While We were
discussing the matter. along came an.
other dispatch from Graham:
Jersey Bill has made his check
good
"That settled the whole business,
aud that is how I lost Goldsmith Maid.
1.-THE next spring met AL len Gold.
smith. the Blooming Grove horse
breeder, on an Erie Railroad train.
g" Alden, said I, give me hun
dred, and I'll tell you where to get the
best piece Of horsefesh that stands on
legs in America
He said he'd do it if the animal
seemed good one to him. I told him
where she was. He went to see her,
but afterwards told me she was no
good.
"'All right I says; but I know her
pedigree, and I tell You she's tho best
in the market. Ask Major Edsall.'
"Alden went to Major 'Edsall, in
Goshen, and found that knew what I
was talking about. Then he struck up
a bargain and gave Jersey Bill 5000
for the mare, and threw in an old wag-
on. Goldsmith got Bill Bodine, who
has the track at Nidaletown, to handle
the mare. I don't think anyone else
would have had the faith in the animal,
and the patience to try and make any
thing out Of her. Bill Bodine says
that Goldsmith would have parted
with her for almost anything, any time
for month or two after he got her. It
took four men to hitch her up when
they first commenced at her, and she
came near killing Bill once or twice.
But he conquered her, and then every
body began to see there was stuff in
her. Instead of the 500 Alden prom
ised to give me, he offered me Volun.
teer colt. didn't think much of Vol
unteer stock then, and wouldn't take it.
I told Goldsmith I would call it square
if he'd let me name the mare. I want
ed to call her Ella D., after my wife.
But Alden wanted his name to her,
and he called her Goldsmith Maid,
and that's the way the matter stands
to-day.
"While Bill Bodine was handling
the mare he met Ed. Brown of Port
Jervis, now one of the Under Sheriffs
OF this county. Brown had q mare
that he thought was good one. and
he and Bill made match for $500, to
trot Lady Brown, as she was called,
against Goldsmith's mare. That was
the first race the mare was ever entered
for. 1t was to come off in Middletown,
and the forfeit was fifty dollars. But
Goldsmith wouldn't recognize Bodine's
action in the matter, and entered his
mare in race at Goshen on the same
day the race was to come off at Middle
town. Bill had to pay his $50 forfeit.
The race in Goshen was with the New
York flyer for those days, Gen. Walk
er. The Maid beat him easy, and that
was her first public race. I don't
know whether the price that Goldsmith
got for the mare when he sold her was
ever made public or not, but he told
me that he got $40, 900 for her, and
that was cheap enough. I take con-
siderable pride in the fact" Mr.. Deck
er concluded, "that brought the bril-
liant little mare ont into notice, al
though I feel that I let fortune slip
away from me when I accepted Jersey
Bills check"
John II. Decker was the son of Rich.
ard Decker, President of the Orange
County Milk Association. His death
was the result Of distressing and sim
gular accident. Early last spring he
was suffering from rheumatism. A
friend in Goshen gave him some lini-
ment to battle his sides, arms and
shoulders. On the 18th of May last he
bathed himself thoroughly with lini.
ment. He vent to Goshen that day.
He was driving home in tho evening,
and strucka match to light cigar when
within Q mile or 90 of home. he no.
ticed spark fly from the match or CT
gar inside OF his coat, but supposed il
had gone out. A moment aftervard he
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