Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-26
THE AUTUMN RACES.
The Season to Have Brilliant Closing
ON the Ivy City Track.
FAMOUS RUNNERS TO COMPETE FOR THEPURS
PROGRAM OF THE MEETING.

| The Season to Have = Brilliant Closing
ON the Ivy City Track.
FAMOUS RUNNERS TO COMPETE FOR THE PURSES
| PROGRAM OF THE MEETING.
The fall meeting of the National Jockey club
| will bring together at Ivy City larger number
| of first-class horses than have been assembled
| on any race course this season. The meeting
| will begin on Monday, October 10, and will last
| five days, running through Tuesday, Wednes-
| day, Thursday and Friday. There will be five
races each day, and the entries already made
| assure rare sport The Washington meeting
| closes the season for this circuit and hence all
the stables want show for the last stakes and
purses. In one race-the autumnaf handicap
| there are forty nominations, comprising such
noted horses as Louisette, Panique, Rataplan,
| Goano, Bersan, Favor, Joe Cotton, Volante and
Sam Brown. The three events laid down on
| the program for two-year-olds will be contested
for by all the colts which have won turf honOrs
during the season. The two-mile race for the
Congress stakes has twenty entries, among
| them Heel and Toe, Pani9ue, Kiohba. Fosteral
| and other good horses. This will be one Of the
most exciting events of the meeting Nineteen
horses have been named to compete for the Nc
steeplechase course The list includes some of
the best jumping horses on the American turf
THE FIRST DAY.
The first days sport will begin with q race Of
six furlongs for purse of $500, of which 500
To second. The autumnai handicap, one and
tons. The third race will be a dash of one
mile for a purse OF $500. This will be followed
by the run for the Arlington stakes, six fur
longs, for two year Odds, which closed with 80
nominations. The last race of the day will be
for a purse of $500. one mile and a furiong.
SECOND DAY.
For the second day, the program offers as the
opening event race of one mile for all ages
for a purse of $500, of which 500 to second
morse. The Anacostia stakes, for three year
oids, one mile and a furlong, comes next. with
20 nominations. A handicap sweepstakes of
quarter, is third on the days program a run
OF one mile for a $500 purse is fourth, and the
DAY VIII close with free handicap heat race, six
1ur longs, for purse of 5000, of which 500
goes 10 the second horse.
THIRD DAY.
The first race of the third day will be for q
purse of $500, of which 500 to second, for
all ages one mile. Then will come the race for
the capital stakes for two-year olds, one mile.
This race closed with IS nominations. This
VIII be followed by q race for a purse OF $500,
of which 500 TO second, for all ages, one mile
and sixteenth. and the fourth event OF the day
Will be the Washington stakes for all ages, one
mile and quarter. Twenty-e horses are
named To start in this race. The Mckibben
wind up the third days sport. For this race
nineteen jumpers are named to tace the
starter.
FOURTH DAY.
A selling race of one mile for purse of $500,
days sport, to be followed by the Potomac
stakes for three-year olds, one mile and five
fi,rlongs. The latter race closed with sixteen
nominations; among .,s them st. Augustine,
l;tnte, and other three-year Odds who have won
distinguished turf honors during the season.
for a purse of $500, OF which S1O0 to second,
after which will come the long race OF the
meeting for the Congress stakes. This is a sell
ing sweepstakes race, two miles, the club add
Ing Sl,OOO TO the entrance money. II closed
with twenty nominations. The last race of
the day will be a free handicap, mile heats, for
horse.
FIFTH DAY.
The fifth and last day of the meeting will
open with the Ivy City stakes for two-year-
olds, one mile, which closed with seventeen
nominations. n selling race OF seven furIongs
for Il purse of $500, of which SlOO to second
for horses beaten in selling races of the meet
ing. comes next TO be followed by a handicap
club 10 add $500 to the entrance money The
fourth race will be Il dash of one mile for horses
day and the meeting will close with a tree
handicap SteeplechaSe for purse of 500. of
which 500 to second.
The first race will be started promptly at half
past one o'clock each day. and there will be an
interval of twenty-five minutes between each
race.
lent Judgment, and the meeting is looked for
ward TO throughout the whole circuit as one
promising excellent sport.
SICK IN BED WITH THE CORPSE OF HER
BABY BESIDE Enthusiastically afternoon Mr.
Redmond, who rents house No 2I4 eth street
southwest, requested Lieut.. Greer to send an
officer to the house. which done. The
officer found in an upper room which Mr. Red
nlond had Sub-et to William Caine, the wife of
tine latter sick in bed and her new born dead
child was born, on Wednesday night. Mrs.
Caine had a colored woman to assist her The
babe died in the morning, and the dead BODY
was still in bed with the sick mother The
husband, it is stated to the officer. had been on
spree several days, and the woman was with
out any medical attendance or any other help
whatever.
A TEMPERANCE CONCERT AT THE BARRACKS
A concert was given at the Washington bar
RACKS last evening, under the auspices of the
long and attractive. The concert was opened
by Sergt. Patterson speaking prologue pre-
pared Tor the occasion, Prof. Bischofr enter
tanned the audience with one of his own mus:-
e;.l compositions. Mrs. Gibson, wife of Gen
Gibson, commanding at the barracks, has taken
part In the temperance work there.
Buried BY THE DESTRUCTION Tuesday last
coiored boy named Taylor was drowned near
the Aniilp>tan boat-hOuSe, and the body, recOv-
cred shortly afterwards, was turned over to the
father of the deceased, Fitzhugh Taylor, living
on 22d street. The latter. however failed 10
arrange for buryins the boy, and appears to
have been on u spree ever since the drowning
Yesterday afternoon Lieut.. Guy notified him
that unless the body was buried by night he
would have to take charge Of it. When o'clock
arrived Fitzhugh was found more intoxicated
than ever, and the police took charge OF the
body and had it buried by the District authors
ties.
CoLORED EDUCATION.-The Henry Highland
Garnett Cosmopolitan States Alliance f T. A.
and t. society, for the education of colOred
North Americans, will hold convention at
Cadets armory, street, between 9TH and Sth
streets northwest, commencing next Monday
and lasting three days. Each afternoon there
will be private sessions and in the evening pub
lie sessions.
ATTENTION is called to the sale by Fitch, Fox
Brown of an attractive mOderate-siZed house
ABSOLUTELY PuRR