Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01

all that has been written about tnlS llttlC |
fea-bitten gray mare, do not remember
that any one has attempted to give sim
gle item in her history that might lead to
the tracing and determining of her ORR
gin. From information that comes to me
from sources that are direct and reliable,
there were two brothers, Rufus and llor-
ace Rising, engaged in the manufacture
of wooden bowls and other wooden ware
Mt Ticonderoga. New York. Rufus also
devoted IA good portion of his time to the
mercantile part of the business, and trav-
eled extensively, making sales in the dis
trict within. say, forty miles, embracing
section along the western base OF the
Green Mountains in Vermont.
On one of these trips, he brought home
with him the little grey mare that after
wards became famous as the dam of Eth
an Allen. Mr.. Rising has been dead
some years, and it is not now known
where he got this mare, but there is IA ira
dition that he got her in Vermont; and
as she probably came from the region
where the Freeman Messenger had been
standing for a number of years, the theo-
nv that she was by that horse took its
rise from that supposed circumstance.
Whether Mr.. Rising traded his wares, or
another horse, for the mare is not now
known.
Mr.. Rising. after some time, sold the
mare to George johnson of Hague, and
I, ('nnl. of tln nl1rp.
Jpon the death of Mr. Cook, the mare
passed into the hands of Mr.. William II.
Cook, then and now of Ticonderoga. New
York. Mr.. Cook bred her to young Sir
Charles. known as the Burge Horse and
she produced fine bay horse about six
teen hands high. He was taken into
Canada and trotted in a hundred-mile
race and won: but whether against time
or another horse we are not Informed.
This young Sir Charles was wonderful
lonr-distance horse himself She was
bred again to the same horse and pro-
duced bay filly that got her foot hurt
and was put to breeding. Mr.. Cook then
sold her to George Weed of Ticonderoga,
and Weed sold her in the winter or spring
of 1915 to Joel W. IIolcomb, and that
Hawk. She produced:
1913 b. C., (that trotted 100 miles by young
Sir Charles.
1874 b. f., (put to brceding) by Young Sill
Charles.
1916 bl. M, Black Hawk Maid, by Vermont
Black Hawk.
1917 gr. c., Red Leg, by Vermont Black Hawk
1915 ch. f., fast, died at three years old by
Wickcrs Sir Walter.
1si9 b. c., Ethan Allen, by Vermont BLACK
Hawk.
1885, mare died in foal to Black Hawk"
That one hundred mile race was proba
bly, a fraud. Mr.. Wallace states it un
qualiticdly, although he does not know
when it took place. nor where, nor how
but it does help to show where Ethan go
his merit although he was by a Morgan
horse. If it could be substantiatcd i
would be another feather in the cap o
the little grey mare and further credi
to the Diomed blood through Young 81
Charles but it appears to be at best al
attempt to make history out of stab
talk.
The suggestion of the Freeman MeSsen
ger is the first seed of another and ia
greater fraud; one that Mr.. Wallace ha
fostered and allowed to take root in hi
magazine where this pedigree has sine
been stated in a leading article and with
out qualification. From this source
suggestion so baseless has spread in tn
guise of an ascertained fact through catf
logues and periodicals throughout tn
country, and has been rapidly ripenins
according to the apparent intent of il
author, into an established pedigre.
TO one unfamiliar with the iuggler
whereby Mr.. Wallace causes MessengC
pedigree to spring up and bear fruit as
were in IA single night, it might be of il
terest to recur to this case, and sab an
disco OmneS." Note how light Il feathe
deXtrously thrown, turns the scale. II
says st is not nOlc kROlrR where he ri
ing) got this mare; but there is rad
ton that he got her in Verm0nt; and
she probably came from the region whel
the Freeman Messenger had been stan
ing for a number of years, the theol
that she was by that horse took its ri
from that supposed circumstance" Yo
see at once that nothing whatever
here stated. The sentence is suggesti'
of nothing so much as of Thad. Steven
reply to the member who asked him co
corning one who was making very lor
OroSV Snppch tsWhot docs no want
she wants brains" Yet this ''theory" til
arose from the supposed circumstance
that there was a "tradition' that this ma
''probably came" from ''region"
whole State) in which the Freeman Hor
once stood, is the only ground up'
which rests the absolute and unqualifi
statement that the dam of Ethan All,