, 1881-09-18
Interesting Account Of Liying,s-
ton, the tsMatl Amer
icaf}.'s
Five Races Yesterday at Coney Island
Elias Lawrence Lamed After
Winning a Heat.
A Variety of Turf News at Home
and Abroad.
Description of a Couple Of New
Eastern Yachts.
THE TURF.


ing races closed the fall meeting today. The
track was deep i'll mud and very slow, the
weather cool, and tie attendance small. The
first race was tile Consolidation Purse fur NIL
ages. mile heats, with the following starters:
Annie e., Garslle MuNdell. Nick Cheek,
Juliet n, Mary Corbett. and 3IAttic Amelia.
Curbett was the favorit over the tielu ut even
odds, and took the lead ut the start, Juliet
second. Cheek third. the Others struggling.
Mary allowed Juliet to lead past the
quarter, but regained it OIL the back-
stretch, holding it through. the heat,
which was Interesting, us Corbett won with
hands down Dy four lengths over Juliet ~,
Annie G. third, Check fourth. Matte Amelia
fifth. aud Garshe Nundell distancedi time,
1:5G3lss.
The second heat Inn pooling} was dead
won by C0rbctt from tic start. who rode 4
waiting race. and allowed Juliet NJ. to lead
through, tie first half mile. Amelia third.
Check fourth, and Annie G. way back as
tie lloElestrctch WIS approached Corbe1t
was carried to, first place and woll with hands
down by two lengths. Juliet N. second,
Amelia third, Check fourth, Annie t. dis
ranced: time, 1:54.
The second race was 4 purse Tor 3-ycaf-
ods fye-eightf,s Of Il mile. with ten starters:
Fly Dance. Saullter. Pinaforc, lutesfrlnES,
14,nis XIV. Zoo!ite, Wendoyer, Loretto,
llerminc, and Laura Glass: IN tue pools
Glass second, 1Iernine third The start was
delayed by utrmine, who was restless when
sent away. Fly Dance was in the lead,
Ne,.dover second, Saunter third, and the
others Str1Sgin&s & Ad'er M nyaE lev stries ,er H. !.
make the race, and ut the half the latter
went tn the front and was never headed,
wl,lnin. by two lengths over Fly Dance,
Zoo!ite third, lIerlnlne fourth, Lorctto 1!ttt!,
Pinafore sixth, Saunter seventh. Louis MY.
eighth, Glass ninth, and LutcstrlnG last;
time, l:09115z.
The third race was i purse for all ages,
mile and half, in which 1eseaz. Rochester,
Juniata. and Bend Or faced the start, tue lat-
Ter being big favorit in the pools The race
was complete surprise throughout At the
start Bend Or took the lead, but quickly sur
rendered it to .Iunlata, who was 1lrst during
the entire 'lllile- Rochester holding, second
place, the tavorit third, ami llegeaz fourth
In this order the race was made WITHOUT ill
terest to the top Of the estretc!l- where ltegeH
ran around the bunch, and weit two lengths
i'll advance of Rochester. Junlat:i dropping
10 third place. Ncseaz came in without
driving, winning by Two lengths. Rochester
second, Junlata third, Eend Or fourth; time:
2:4?3ss.
coSEY ISLAND RACES.
:5HEErs11EAp BAY, Sept 1.-THE first race.
one mile, was won by Ada Spart second. and
Reporter third: time. 1:4t!I.
The SECOND race, one and quarter miles,
was won by Slrague, Bounce second, and
Cen Monroe third: time. :.:o91i4.
The Third race, Long 1sial,d Stakes, four '.;I
Glenmore Elias Lawrence won the first
heat in S:1S, and Gienmore the second in 7:40
Lawrence pulled up lame and WIS drawn.
and t;lenmore gallopcd over the course for
the stakes
Fourth race, match for S, 200, one and one
half miles, between l1illdoo and Cricklnore;
won easily by the latter Titne, 2::Gi4.
The steeplechase was won by DAY Star.
Frank Short second. Joe Hunt third. Tine,
5:12
TOLEDO, O., Sept. 17.-The attendance n
the Tri-Stnte Fair during the present teS
has been about the sanie us that of last ytaf,
notwithstanding a wet Thursday ami Friday,
usually the best days III point OF attendance
The financial results OF the exhibition are
satisfactory
Tl,t. 2:a9 1rotting race, which was down fur
yesterday. and postponed on account OF the
weather, was declared OIL. Tug only iace TO-
purse of $50. 1t was won by Lizzy Blonde,
Jack Mace second. Time, 4:12.
BEACON PARK
BosToS, Sept. l1.-4At Beacon Park the un-
finished race. : % class, was won by Forest
Patcien- TINE, 2::2e5-
14iIs MAD iAMlstIL-AS.
For years there las been reference made
in foreign papers from time to time of .ll &C.
centric American named Livingston, living
III Florence, Italy, WHO astonished the pe0-
pie OF that city by driving twenty horses
through: the principal streets. W; }. Il.
has JUST returned from a European trip,
writes as follows concerning Mr.. Livingston:
Before VIE reached Florence. in Italy, VIC had
read somewhere Ut IN eccentric American who
Si111en
norses; but we had; accepted the statement with
many 4:rHins Of allowance and US hAvin. oriE-
newspaper correspondence on the evening Of
:,,1r tirst duy there WI: took adrivc III the Gus
:ine. which. to Florence corresponds r, win n tue
don. On reaching; thar beautiful park. the very
hrst object that met our attention was 'ho
pitched to an English drug, with un Mrtcndaut
in livery sitting the box and holding
the reins. There stood the ten pairs in Il string,
and light bay browns, with the lenders and
the wheel -hurses larvcr than the others and
otner pairs carefully graduated IL, size and
coior. none being iess than fourteen atl1 Il hulf
or fifteen hands, and ~ .ansin:: from that % up to
were sixteen huz1ds or more. The harness and
all the appointments were very elaborate, fresh.
and peautlful. There was nothing 1T the circus
ttippery about it, but To the modern American
1ns1c it was probably IL little LOO heavy ana had
TOO great a Multipllcity OF hcraldie 1nounttugs
Mr. I.irinRstou's 1as1c has been aI tault i'll this
particular OF oruaInenta,ior. he is living in II
country where the display Of wealth anu glitter
Is cherished by the people. When the owner Of
the team was polluted out to It's he WAS quietly
walking about. some distance away. rs though
studying the effect Ut his pets and their trap
pings frOill different points Of vicw- and how he
might possibly improve upon tho tout ensemble
Lpoii presenting, our card. he very promptly re-
= turned his, and we entered into pleasant coil
rersIuOn about his team and what he Wus 1itn-
Ing to accomplish. He Mu@hineIy replied that
he hud tiu object III the world In driving such
team except his innate f0ndness for horses and
desire IL do what nobody else could do. lie
tud not bern III America for thirty years, btit he
was proud OF being All Alncrican citizen. He
had frst souGht u indulge his funcy for driving
biz teams i'll Paris Under tAt Empire, bur be
prohibited. lie then tried Nlennu. where he
kfurtcd The Tbhls over twelve ttlllic pleasantly
for Il while but 1hc nobility s.H11l found TINT tho
sAncrica1's team WAS cclipsng theirs OH the
.f{A lie drives, aud rhcg stopped him. He then
:~1 up his residence III Florence, where, he
rays, he f. not ulolested in indulKiug his fancy.
We found him very genial mau and
most interesting ralker, and 1t was nut
till at1er several very pointed reminders
from our friends that even thought Of
returning to the carriage. lie anticipated our
request. and proposed TO show us how he could
handle his team, and ut once mounted the box
Here seemed to oc the difficulty. fer there were
twenty reins to te grasped Anc manipulated.
and this not only required great strength ia