Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-04-05

ton, massachusetts. Is in the city.
The bicycling World of Boston, saws Rex
Smith is soon to marry fair daughter of st.
Louis.
There were thrty-six District candidates for
league membership on the first of April.
THE TURF.
The spring meeting of the National jockey
club. which, since its organization two years
ago. has done much to carry forward and
Increase In this part of the country the great
revival of racing will begin on Tuesday May
| 18th. This is the permanent and regular date
| for its spring meetings. and the time is well
Chosen The prestige of the meetings of the
club has been we'll earned. and there Is every
reason to believe that IL will be ably maintained
1t will be the first gathering of the racing forces
before they 20 out, Gypsy like. on their summer
plgrIma@eS: and the preliminary battle ground
/ lying in the center of numerous strong racing
establishments. and near the localities i'm that
way famed Of old. may not inappropratey be
( termed the heart OF the debatabIe land" Near
at hand are the MARYLAND. clans-Bowip Hall
Jennings. the two Waldens. Chaplain Smith and
Medinger; while boswell, of Virginia. a name
famous in the annals of the turf since the dawn
OF the century. may be relied upon to maintain
fhe glory OF that grand old commonwealth
Besides the states of the south. the east and
west will he strongly represented aud when the
opening day arrives there will probably be not
less than Une hundred and fifty horses stabbed at
the track.
ne tHIfI interest VIII center on the Initial
performances OF the twO-year-Ods, as at this
meeting several Youngsters that will no doubt
attain distinction later on in the season Will
make their debut. To afford them ample Orpor-
tunIty the Jockey club has provided two stakes
the first OF which il the Youthful half a mile
to he run for on the second day of the meeting
1t closed with thirteen Observation-Disclosures
' esta. Joybell. Perception Petition. SOliman.
Iele Dee. Little Savage. Harrigan. Lulu s..
Eu@0 Fl0ro and Eadha. This is an excellent
oil ,I-I ,n.l
running families the race will no doubt he a good
one. As neither has vet appeared in public the
talent Will be put to their wits ends to spot
the winner. The three most conspicuous ones
In the lot are Little Savage, by Sensation out of
Allie SIade: Telie Doe. by Great Tom ont of
Nina Turner. and Florio. by Virgil out of Flor
ence. Little Savage will be the first of the SEN
sationS tn show in public and as she will have
the benefit OF the fine skill and large experience
OF her owner, Wyndham Walden, acknowledged
to be the best twO-year-old trainer in
America. She will no doubt be literally
supported. if well and fit on the
day OF the race Her sire. Sensation. was
looked upon as about the very best two-vear-Old
mat ever appeared on the American turf. and in
all his races he bore to victory the ''Orange and
blue OF Mr.. George Lorillard, for whom Mr..
W alden was at the time training Telie Doe is
In the stable of W. p. Burch, who has many
friends here. She is nice chestnut FLY. The
Great Toms have shown great precocty as two
thing they do not improve with age FloriO is
In ex-senator SCOTS stable and both her sire and
dam were rafting good race horses when on the
turf. RumOr has it that she Is fllv of more
than ordinary promise. but what her real capaci-
" Is can only be ascertained by subiecting her
to the test of the course. OF the others Mr.
Lorillard's pair-Perception and Pettion-are
highly spoken Of. the former being sired by the
celebrated French horse MOrtemer, and the lat
ter by FalsettO. Vesta and .Joybell are in Gov
f,ia or3 h,-f '.t .h,a al
respectively. The governor has not been in the
best of luck of late with his young horses nor
indeed with the older ones last season,
as IT was not until the leaves began to
fall In 1855 that his stable showed anything like
form. His youngsters. however, are said to be
good-lOOkers, and should either be fortunate
enough TO catch the judges eye first the vic
tory VIII be popular one. as the sporting eX-
governor has hosts of friends hereabouts.
The same colts. with few unimportant ex-
captions. are nominated in the Brentwood
stakes. five furlOngs, to be run Oh the fourth
day of the meeting The winner of the Youth
full. however. will be required to take UP a pen
atty of five pounds which. as the distance is a
furlon@ greater, will have the effect of injecting
an additional element of uncertainty
The stables to arrive next week are those of
W T. Buren, and Whitaker & Barry. from South
Carolina. the first consisting of thirteen horses
and the latter of six. In Mr. Burchs string are
such rattlug good ones as Mittie B.. Decoy
Cridge i Co.'S horses will arrive Oh Monday
They are six in number.
Ex-senator SCOTS horses, numbering four
teen head are looked for daily.
Joseph Mcmahon is also expected from New
YORK, with string OF thirteen. at the head of
which are the long-distance horses Hllarity and
Frankie B.
Everything at the track is in complete order
for the reception of the racers. The stables
have been carefully overhauled and made as
a hn ypfSf oA for fr.,c II
is in tine shape, and was not injured particle
by the almost ineessant rains of the past three
months. From this on, therefore, the gallops
Will be frequent.
THE DRIVING CLUB
program for Its spring meeting has been made
public The meeting will be held on the 9th.
18th. Goth and Goth of May Decoration day.
Everything Is being done to render the meeting
pleasnrable one Judge Draney the presi-
dent Of the club. has been corresponding with
Commodore kfttson the owner Of the celebrated
PAGER johnson, who has public record OF 2:1O.
johnson will pace here on the first day of the
meeting to beat his record. The purses offered
are liberal and the attractions are such as to
meet with the appreciation Of sportsmen every
where.
MISCELLANEOUS.
VIM. Steele. the champion runner of America
and T. G.. Herbert of Cincinnati the lannon's
ten miles for 1000 and the championship of
America The race Will take place on the Sd of
May at Brooks Ground. Blossburg, Pa.
I'M.
The Post Office Site.
To tn Editor Of THE EVENING STAR:
have read In some OF the papers that there Is a
proposition to locate the new post Office In the res
erYation in front OF the Center Market south OF
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. / have, so far seen no OBJ
lection In print to this ocation but IL seems to me
that there are many objections to it. The post
Office should be located where 1t would be the most
convenient 10 the largest humber OF the citizens
tuai residents would object, II they had a chance
10 express their views to the post Office being To-
Gated south of the avenue anywhere, and especially
In front OF the market IL Is barely possible that
The Office may be located from an economic stand
point. and the place indicated would enable persons
10 take their market baskets when after their mail
Dut IL would not be pleasant to jOStle against
greasy baskets. TO say nothing OF persons 1t is
not central location and In the years to come it.
VIII be much less so. The post once building is not
Tn oe built for a year or decade, but for many
years, IL not for ali coming time 1t will be gener
ally admitted that the population hereafter win 90
In the western portion or the city, and when In the
future We have population OF half, or possibly a
mlilloD OF people, would the post Office IL located
III front or Center Market be AT convenient Dontp
think not. Again, there Is great deal said about
joDS whenever the erection OF public building is
talked Of DO not see where iobS come in when
lana Il wanted FOR such purpose. The right of
eminent domain applies, and commission can de-
terInine that natter-that is the value OF the land
~ docs however, seem 10 Inc though there was
In no