The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-05-05
I National Republican. /

President of the United States,
signalized the spring opening of
society, 80 to speak, by an act of
heroism and daring that has placed
him high up among the heroes of
history in the eyes of social Wash
ington.
Oak View, or, as irreyerent cor
respondenents will have it, Red
Top" is on the road to Tenleytown,
the northwestern limit of the Dis
trict, and is reached either by the
Tenleytown pike or over the Wood
ley Lane road via bride path.
Woodley Lane road is the fashion
able thoroughfare for the many adj
mirers of horseback riding in the
capital city, and hither on these
fair spring days may be seen speed
ing the bellies and beaus who mo-
nopolize much of the attention of
correspondents during the season.
Not the least among the bellies
of Washington is Mrs. Marie
Wright, the correspondent of the
Sunny South, who is as graceful rs
her name and as fair rs the title of
the paper she represents. With
her particular friend, Mrs. Gill
more, wife of Lieut.. Gilmore, q.
s. A., she awaited herself of the
beautiful Easter Monday to take a
ride out Woodley Lane, and as
both are expert riders and fearless
women they chose not to be accom-
panied save by q groom.
Because of the scant exercise
the horses had received of late they
were inclined to be unruly, and
after leaving the District line Mrs.
Wrights animal became FESTIVE,
and, taking the bit between his
teeth, made desperate dash up the
lane, striving in every way to un-
seat his rider.
Alternately he would halt in his
mad career and endeavor by rear
ing and pitching to accomplish
what he could not by mere running.
Mrs. Wright's strength was fast
deserving her, and serious acci-
dent was on the tapis when from
the little lane leading into Wood
ley Lane road from the Tenleytown
road were seen emerging his excel
lency, the President, and his min
lister of finance, Secretary Fair
child, on horseback.
Taking the situation in at q
glance the Chief Executive put
spurs into his horse and. like q
knight of old, galloped to the res
cue of the fair one in such dire dis
tress.
With short and perilous stop
be drew up in front of the now
frantic beast upon which Mrs.
Wright was struggling. This ac-
lion seemed to fairly madden the
horse and he pitched and reared
slarmingly.
Dismounting with a hurried eau
ion to the lady to keep cool, the
President grasped the horse by the
name and bride and desperate
encounter ensued, which left the
succession to the first officer in the
and for q moment in great doubt. |
Cleveland luck and Cleveland |
pluck prevailed, however, and by |
degrees the man acquired the mas
cry. BY this time Secretary Fair
hid and Mrs. Gilmore had come |
Up from opposite directions, the |
ormer hastily dismounting to as |
list his chief.
As Mrs. Wright was evidently |
Exhausted the President surrender |
I'd the bride to the Secretary, and |
assisted the now thoroughly ex-
lausted lady to alight With great |
ortitude she refrained of exercis-
ng her womanly prerogative of |
ainting, though the temptation |
vas great, as she laughingly asserted |
asst evening.
With courtly grace Mr.. Cleve-
and inquired her pleasure, asking |
she desired a less precarious
onveyance back to the city, plac-
ng his stable and himself at her
disposal.
With the grit of her birthland, |
However, she announced her deter
nination to conquer the beast and
ide back to town as she had rid
len forth-the rider of her own
lorse.
As may be surmised, when the
natter leaked out society fairly re-