The Washington critic., 1886-09-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

sorry fate Sold after years Of fanel
Sold for 500 What next? asks the
New York Mail and Eupress. Last
year In the spring you were race
horse worth your weight in copper!
Next year in the spring, if you live so
long, you will be dragging a plough
through Long Island fields Many q
turfman at the Dwyer sale must have
felt sad when Drake Carter was led up
and sold for S1Qp. Those who had
memories must have recalled that sum.
mer day at Monmouth Park four years
ago, when Green Morris came on from
the mighty West and won the rich
Omnibus Stakes with Drake Carter.
Those who recalled that event must
have remembered that on the same af-
ternoon Mr.. Pierre Lorillard purchased
Carter from Mr.. Morris for S17,50O.
the biggest sum ever paid in this couu-
try for q gelding. Then we all re-
member how the son of Ten Broeck
went over to Sheepshead Bay and cut
down one of the long distance records,
how he conquered some OF the
speediest thoroughbreds on the turf,
and how he participated in the
sensational race with Miss Wood.
ford, as well as the stirring con-
tests with Iroquois, the English Derby
winner; Eole, Monitor and George
Kenny. His brilliant career ought to
have secured him against such bitter
fate, but his sale yesterday simply ex-
emplifies that the racing of horses has
ceased to be sentiment and has be.
come business. Ten years ago if
Drake Carter had broken down he
would have been given home for the
remainder of his life. All this has
passed away. The moment colt or
lilly becomes useless he or she is cast
out to drift along in the world high
way. Dew Drop dies to day. To.
morrow we have forgotten that
she lived Turfmen are seeking now
purchases, striving for more honors,
racing for fame and fortune, and can
not bother with equine cripples of turf
memories. The turf has become a
great institution 1t is growing. The
sum of $35, 900, 600 does not cover its
financial value in this country. 1t gives
employment directly to $4,000 or 49,.
600 persons In the United States, and
indirectly TO half as many more. The
jockey clubs are beginning to manage
the tracks on business principles, there
Is no room for sentiment, and SO 1t Is
that the faithful gelding who has
ceased to have racing value Is sold for
few dollars.
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"Roscoe Conkling," said a friend of
that gentleman the other day to New
York Sun reporter, "comes to see me
frequently, and have noticed that on
each occasion he Is differently attired.
He has different outer garments, diff.
fcrent pleat to his shirt, different over
CATERS, and very often n different style
of watch chain. He tells me he is not
rich, and | am not ut all surprised at
that. However big mans income
may be, he cannot save money and still
live as eXtravdgantly as Mr.. Conkling
does"
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A gossipy writer In the st. Paul
P,onter Press tells a good story and
the following is none of his worst:
One day last week Joe Jefferson and
W. j. Florence were enjoying a cigar
in j. ii. Hanson's Office. Jefferson
was telling story. ooh, give us a
rest" put in Florence, when the nara.
tor had finished. Chestnut" he con
tinued. "Thats no chestnut" replied
Jefferson. Just then something got
wrong with the telephone, and 1t began
to ring. The ringing continued for
about five minutes, during which the
two began to laugh. When the phone
stopped Florence asked: "Well, what
have you got to say, now? Why the
telephone man two miles away SAYS 1t 8
a chestnut. What more do you want?'
Jefferson collapsed.
@nx
Frank Carpenter of the Cleveland
Ledder, who Is in London, saw Queen
Victoria out riding the other day with
the Princess Beatrice and her husband,
and writes about 1t as follows: First
the police came, then carriage with
one of the Queen retinue and police
man, then the outriders in gorgeous
uniforms, and lastly the Queen in her
carriage. During part of the ride there
were no policemen stationed on the
sidewalk, and it seems to me that a
dynamite fiend would have little trouble
in assassinating Queen Victoria II he
wished TO do so. The Princess Beatrice
is fairly good-looking woman, but
she is by no means so pretty as Mrs.
President Cleveland and her husband
is blonde emustached German Prince,
with nothing particularly striking about
him. The Princess is twenty. nine years
old, and she is Queen Victoria young.
est child. She has been her mothers
companion all her life, and perhaps
the most loved of all of her eight chill,
dren. She was married to the Prince
about year ago, and am told that
hoth the Queen and the Prince of
Wales opposed the match at first. The
English people are getting tired of
providing estates for German prince.
lets, and this young man had no estate
TO speak Of, and 1t is said that his
salary ms II member of the Prussan
Guards was only $3.50 Il year. Never
fheless Beatrice persisted in her deter.
mination to marry, and the Queen aud
the Prince gave in, ana England pays
to the couple $50, 900 year. Queen
Victoria's family costs England over
"a, 600, 900 a year to say nothing of the
immense private fortunes possessed by
them, and gotten through their posi-.
tions as Queen aud Princes. Here In
Scotland the Queen has Balmoral, an
estate OF 10000 acres. Her estate at
Claremont Is worth three.quarters of a