Daily globe., 1883-10-29
Com,noaore Yittson cna MS sock.


Commodore Kittson end Ills Sock.
No man in the United States has ever
engaged in the business of raising we'll
bred horses of both running and trotting
strains, with more iberaIity, and with less
selfshness, or with more disinterested
views, than has Commodore Kittson, of
ST. Paul. Finding his financial condition
adequate to the most liberal expenditure
of money for good, well bred stock, and
possessed with a wish to become en-
gagged in the interesting business Of
breeding, on a large scale from the best
horse stock in the country, Commodore
Kittson a few years ago began to seoure
such stock as he deemed the most suitable.
HIS STABLES.
About two or three miles out from the
city of st. Paul, between this city and
Minneap polls he selected the grounds, near
the st. Paul and Manitoba road. These
grounds had been used for years for the
state fair and for general trotting pur-
poses. The grounds thus pur-
chased soon proved inadequate
for the Coommdore's ideas, and
from time to time he added to the property
first secured, other tracts, until he now has
ample room for the purposes he has in
view. Upon these grounds he erected such
stables as he deemed neressary for his
purposes. They have often been described
in theAe columns and the description need
not be reproduced. They are several
in
in width. The stables themselves are at
least fifty feet in height from the paved
floor to the roof, and are
amply supplied with the appliances that
ingenuity has invented or experience prov
ed valuable and necessary for the COM
pIeteness of stall for the trctter. The
floor of the immense buildIng IS of cedar
blocks with tar covering. The stalls are
all box stalls, of ample dimensions, and
each one is supplied with drain which
prevents the accumulation of anything
offensive in the stall. There is
no upper loft bat the whole building
is open to the roof, and we'll
lighted. Each Of the stalls Is protected
by high wire fence all around the top of
the woodwork. No hay or straw is kept in
the barn, and in all respects the latter is
as near tire-proof rs it can be made. In
froat OF the stables proper is q large arena
with a circular track On which the horses
may be exercised all winter, and kept in
good working condition, SO as to be ready
for the earliest possible work in the
spring. In the front or at the entrance
of The immense stable building are the Of
fees of Mr. Kittson and the superintend
ent, fitted up in very sumptuous manner.
East of the stable is the cid mile track,
over whose surface have travelled tie fly
ii feet of ST. julien, Rarus, Great East
ern, Lucy, and other great and fast horses
whose names have found their way into
the turf history of the world, and whose
record will always keep their memory
green, and which will require the best ef
forts of those who come upon the turf in
the future to surpass. Although the record
OF the great Rar1s and no less renowned
st. Julien, has been beaten gnd the figures
will undoubtedly be reduced somewhat in
the future, the process will be slow, very
slow indeed, that sets the record down
much below that of these two great rep
resentatives of the American trotter.
The Commodore has had the whole
grounds rejuvenated, the fences newly
constructed, and the whole track regrad-
p
which are under the charge of Mr.. Ben.
Woodmansee, are now in very excellent
condition. There are about $50 head of
horses out there at the present time. These
are all trotters. Of course, at Erdenheim,
in Pennsylvania, where the Commodore
keeps his runners there are great many
more animals. At his running stables at
Erdenheim, he has something over three
hundred head, of the blood of Leaning
ton, Lexington, Bonny Scotland and other
great running strains. 1t takes considera-
bic time to breed, rear and teach the runner
and trotter so as to enable them to attend
to the business for which they are raised.
It is row something about three years
since Commodore kittson started into this
business. Next year he will turn out
hock OF youngsters that there Is good
reason to believe will not be surpassed in
the running field, and thsre is no reason 10
think that he will not compete success
fully with the best stables in the country.
Of course Commodore Kittson himself has
bat little to say about his horses while he
is at home. AS soon as he reaches st.
Paul, on his return from an excursion to
the east, either to his other stable or ErSsIl-
helm or to the races around the circus,
he hives himself up IL
his Office rooms on lower
Third street over the gas Office, and for.
days is buried in a pile of correspondence
that has accumulated during his absence
OF course he has but little time to devote
to horse talk. From those, however, who
have seen the remarkably fine string of
runners at Erdenheim it is learnod that
they are very promising lot indeed.
PLEASANT CHAT WITH MR. KITTsoN
Finding the Commodore back from the
east after the close of the trotting meeting
at Chicago, representative of the GLOBE
called upon him in his Office, not with any
idea of getting up an interview, but with
the intention of having a little friendly
chat with him, for he is one of the
most interesting and perspiouous
takers in the land, and few men have the
power OF expressing themselves more Wig
orously and tersely than he does. He was
found, as above stated, in his Office, and
after giving the newspaper man polite
invitation 10 be seated the commodore
pushed a box of cigars across the table,
saying that Senator Sabin sent it over to
him and recommended its contents very
highly.