Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-15

Veteran at the Minneapolis Matinee
Praise and Criticism Glance at the
Rochester, N. Y, Meeting-Almont Mes
senger -Doings of the American Horses
in England-what Maud s. Has Done
and Talk With the Man Who Owned Her
Week-Miscellaneou Budget of Inter
esting Horse News.
More BtoOded Stock for KittSondoie-Error
Corrected.
We see by The Spirit Of the Times of the
9th that Commodore n. W. Kittson, of the
Kittsondale stock farm, st. Paul, purchased
two thoroughbred mares at the recent sale of
the Meadowb brock stock farm at Saratoga, N.
Y, the property of Mr.. Charles Reed. The
purchases were: "Galatea, bay mare, 6 years,
by bennington, (the sire of Iroquois,) dam
Henrietta Welch, tstinted to fletcher, price
$3.50; Jennie R. chestnut FLY, years, by Hur-
rah, dam Lille E., price, Sl40."
In giving these purchases, the Spirit IN one
instance credits Mr.. Kittson, the purchaser,
with being a resident of st. Paul, and in the
other, as from Minneapolis. Other Eastern
sporting papers frequently make the same RI
dlculous error of erediting Mr. Kittson with
being resident of Minneapolis.
How these papers have been
led into this error it is hard
TO imagine. Mr.. Kittson is one of the Oldest
citizens of St. Paul, coming here when few
log and board shanties comprised all there was
of the present city of $1,000 population-the
capital city of the State and the commercial em-
porium of the Northwest-and making more
extensive improvements this year than any
other city of its size in the entire country, TO
which Mr.. Kittson is contributing 100000
private residence situated on one of the most
slightly locations in the city, overlooking
every part of the city and the valley OF the
Mississippi river for miles both up and down,
$4,000 addition to his hotel property-the
Clarendon-corner of Sixth and Wabashaw,
and managed by Col. Mcnamara, and many
other smaller improvements in the heart of
of the city. His breeding farm
upon which, in the purchase of the grounds
aud stock, new buildings, etc., he is expend-
ing $500, 800 this year, is essentially st. Paul
institutien-the old st. Paul Driving park
property--the east line of which runs up to
the city limits.
The GLOBE makes this explanation at this
time, so that hereafter there may be no eX-
cuse for sporting papers locating Mr.. Kilt
son and his breeding farm away from st. Paul.
One of the chief values Of a sporting paper
lies in its reliability-n the fact that the matter
it publishes is correctly given. To retain that
value it is as essential that paper should cor
is that it should correctly give the pedigrees of
the stock he has gathered together, if it should
undertake to do so or the time made by his
and other turf performers. Another thing
cur citizens feel proud of the enterprise and
public spirit shown by Mr.. Kittson in the es-
iablishment of Kittsondale, and his other ex-
penditures for improving and identifying our
city, aud decidedly object to his being accred-
tied to any other locality.
Horse Exhibits at the State Fair.
We learn that Leonard Johnson, of Castle
Rock, Dakota county, left England the last
week in July with 20S head of Norman horses,
and he is probably with his horses in New.
York city to-day. This importation of Mr..
Johnson's is, We think, the largest ever made
by any one person. The horses were selected
in person by Mr.. Johnson, who spent the
whole summer in France. A portion of the
importation are for Mark W. Dunham, the
large importer Of Illinois, and the remainder
for Mr.. Johnson's own stud. One hundred
and seven of the lot are aged stations. Mr..
johnson has already written Sec
retary Judson, of the State Agri-
cultural society for large number
of stalls for the exhibition at
Rochester, where he says he will make the
largest and finest showing of imported Norman
horses ever made at any fair in the United
States.
Thos. Eckles, of Eyota, Olmsted county,
who will be one of Mr.. Johnson's competi
tors, has also engaged number of stalls for
the State fair, as also have several others, thus
swelling the exhibit of this class of horses to
mammoth proportions.
Mr. s. Downie, OF Owatonna, has also de-
elded to exhibit a large and splendid stud of
Cydesdales, ali imported, at the State fair,
which, with numerous other entries assured,
makes it certsin that the exhibit of this breed
of horses will be equal, il not superior, to any
heretofore mad in the Northwest.
Trotters for the speed trials, and trotting
bred animals for the show ring, promise
70 be numerous and of the best quality. Dex-
ter Curtiss, of Madison, Wis, who owns Lady
Hess and mate who trotted at the fair at
Rochester last fall is having them fitted for
the pole race at the fair there this year, and
it is rumored that the team that downs them
will have to do better than 2:30 in each heat.
However, there arc two or three Minnesota
parties who do not propose to let Mr.. Curtiss
walk away with first money and the hOnors of
the race.
Chelton Clark. also of Madison, proprietor
of the Monona Trotting Stud Farm, will ex-
hibft twenty head of trotting bred horses and
colts, in competition with our Minnesota
breeders. OF course Mr.. Clark would not
come to Minnesota if he did not have some
thing nice.
w. L. OTOSS, Vi wing, u LuOrOugn
hoiseman, has charge of this latter depart
ment, and exhibitors can be assured of prompt
and courteous attention and fair treatment
Teterdn at the Minneapolis Matinee
Praise and Criticism.
To the Editor of the Globe:
The Minneapolis Driving Park association
held very interesting matinee on Wednes-
day afternoon last, on which occasion there
were some notable performances. There were
goodly number in attendance, among which
were many lovers of the trotting horse-those
that delight in hitching them up light and
sending them along.
In the first race, 500 class, there were four
starters, the bay gelding Bonner, and
the bay gelding Wachiia, being the principal
contestants, Bonner winning in two heats, in
2:49 and 2:4S, with Wachita a close second in
both heats. Wachita is a ma gnificent bay, with
grand carriage, stands about Is hands, 8
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