Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-12

pipes is n key by which the steam from
the main pipes a be cut off, thus
reducing the temperature OF
q single car without interfering
with others. Since the advent of cold
weather all the cars composing the
a. st. Louis vestibule limited, and the
New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and st.
Louis fast express trains have been sue
cessfully heated by this
II GREAT HORSE SHOW.
The annual horse show began on
Monday, and is of course a pronounced
success. People are there throughout
the day, and crowds come in the even
ing when the jumping takes place.
Among the uninitiated the chief inter-
est is felt in the Norman percherons
II Norman coaching stations, though
one particular firm, |. X. Dahlmann,
does manage year after year to take the
chief prizes. We miss this year a
famous Percheron that used to get the
first prize entirely on account of n very
beautiful white name. But last year
the judges rose in their might and de-
clared that a Percheron was for pulling
purposes. and that no horse could pull
with his name, so the prize taker did
not even get honorable mention. The
judicial idea of a Percheron has been
confided to me. The horse should be
MS square as possible aud as broad as
possible and should not show any fine
ness at the lions. Next to the grey
Percherons with their white names
come the Shetland ponies, and these
are nearly all pets OF children, and are
visited, M may say, hourly, by their
young owners. Ponies are in many
subdivisions, for the class includes ami
mails frn,,n Tho ciyn nF a ,nastttf IN hnrSaS
fourteen hands high, and in the evening
leaping, there r ponies classified u
second time as qualified hunters that
makes splendid showing, jumping like
cats. In the morning the judges see
carriage horses for the most part, and
here is where the tug of war comes.
What constitutes good trotting action?
Is it the artificial climbing action of
the housekeeping Cleveland bays from
England, or the natural graceful, pow
erful action of the American trOtter?
There is a tendency to be more and more
English every year, and this creates
considerable feeling. Colonel Rocka-
Teller, of the Standard Oil company is
the great champion of the American
carriage horse, but all the dudes, in
clading little Jack Cheever, the son of
the rubber man, are against him.
Freddy Gebhard's hunter Leo takes the
prize every year for high jumping and
he deserves it. Three years ago [ saw
him Jump six feet and two inches, and
after that he jumped over the wooden
barrier against which the crowd was
pressing, and cleared it, alighting on
the other side without doing any dam
age to any one. He was excited by the
music and the shouting and took the
barrier for II fence beyond any doubt.
Since that time he has beer the idol of
the public. Freddy does not ride him
on these occasions, but Freddy's English
headgroom does. and he grins with
o%pen-faced delight after each jump.
Some gentlemen jump their own horses.
Mr.. Zborowski does, and so does Mr.. La
Montague.
A. II. STEWARDS MILLIONS.
The most extraordinary law suit is
being carried on in the Surrogate court
about the property of A. T. Stewart.
Mrs. Rosalie Butler. a niece Of Stew
arts widow Is ~endeavoring to set aside
her aunt's will upon the ground that
she had been deceived and robbed sys-
tematically by Judge Hilton, her legal
adviser. The statements OF an account
ant named Mercer who has examined
to show that from the moment A. II.
Stewart died Hilton resolved to obtain
the greater part of the property. There
l no doubt that he has done so N has
absorbed nearly twenty-five millions
by the most extraordinary measures.
it is clear that he willingly yielded to
every whlm of Mrs. Stewart who had a
mania for making magnificent presents
and so involved her in a net that0she
had continually to borrow money
from him for which she paid
usurious interest. When she died she
was possessed of very little property,
and was in Hilton's debt to the amount
OF a million and a quarter. Hilton owns
where business is carried on under the
name of Denning, Hilton & Co. Hilton
also owns the down town property on
Chambers street, opposite the court
house, which was the wholesale house
in the old mans time, but is now con-
verified into offices. Hilton owns the
Grand Union hotel at Saratoga, and the
Metropolitan hotel and Niblo's theater,
which are together, and the hotel at
Thirty-second street and Fourth ave-
nue., which the old man built for a
model Woman's lodging house. 1t was
the old mans wish that Henry Leclair,
his illegitimate son. should have the
hotels, but Hilton contrived to get him
Ill UHc Sdilc Hcu dS UHc. WluOW anu ROU
rid OF him. Where he TO- is, no one
knows. During the old mans life time
he managed the hotel property admira-
bly,, but Hilton ruined him, and beg
CARED his family, and they have disap-
peared from public knowledge. Hilton
grabbed also the old mans property on
North Broadway in Saratoga, and has
created an English park there, and has
built cottages for himself and Instantly
whilst the rightful heirs cannot get n
red cent. 1t is to be hoped that some
thing will be done, ana that this fright
full villainy will be thwarted. 1t was II
thing known to all men, but no one
could interfere with another mans bust
ness, and then besides the newspapers
were silent for Denning & Co. were
among their heaviest advertisers.
SIGMA THOR.
An Absolute Cure.
The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT