The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-19

meets one heaven and earth can't prevent
her taking il.
Maud $ comes from Ohio. Mr.. Wander
bit became her owner and Mr.. Bonner
bought her from him for $4,000 Gen.
Grant atterward offered Mr. Bonner 500
wv wv Tor Tor her, acting as the agent for some
ore e.se, but Mr.. Bonner refused to sell her.
her best time was 2:0Ss[, made on the
Cleveland course.
10 you think she will ever surpasS itP'
why notr replied the groom. THAT
gay everything was against her. it was
darK and lowering, the track heavy. and
IGr two days she had been off her feed.
when everything is favorable l don't see
why she can't do better.n
Maud Is given to surprises. Col. Law
renee Kip, speaking of the day on the Fleet
wood.course whe1 with Aldiue she made the
famous @:l5}3 dash, speed that has been
reached by no other team dash. said:
1t was scratch race. Mr.. Vanderbilt
was driving. The team didn't work well,
so he put toe weights on Maud S and
started again. When he pulled up he had
no idea they had done anything special, and
no one was more surprised than he at the
time when he gave it to him.
If | understand the value Of toe weights
they we're to bring her nearer to Aldine's
speed, yet with those she lifted her male
along and did her own pace as well. Plncky
little lady
Maud has not been driven this season,
but soon will be. Meanwhile she stands in
her room and looks out the back door on
FIFTY sixth street. Day and night she is
cared for by this groom. But nothing that
relates TO her is done except by Mr. Bon
ner's express order. Near by is Rarus, WHO
seems still 10 have recollections that he was
once king of the turf and cost $2S, 900. He
mas not and never had the lOvabe nature of
Maud ). In his proudest days he was
cross, and his Immature has now settled in
hls hlnd heels, which we skirt with caution,
Tor they are active, though sore. Rarus is
never driven on account Of these sore feet,
which MIR. Bonner is caring for He is
walked on the track outside the stables,
which is prepared with regard to his ten
der feet
Across the stable is the stall in which he
was taken to his grove on the Tarrytown
farm. Here also are ''Pi kett," one Of Mr.
Bonners favorites, bred on the farm, a 4
year old, who has made IS, and some year
oldS who have already accomplished 40.
these are but a handful of the blooded
stock which Mr.. Bonner keeps and breeds
at his country stables
COL. LAWRENCE KIP's STABLES,
Talk Of Dutch cleanliness, of the tradition
al kitchen floor off which one may eat,
neither can surpass the spotlessness, the
shining neatness of Col. Lawrence Kip's
stables. There can be no house in town In
habited by huma IS so fiawless as this cheer
full, spacious home of May Dawn and Ka-
trlne. The waxed floor is fiawless as a
mirror. The heavy hemp carpet on which
the horses walk from their rooms to the door
Is swept and garnshed, really garnished,
for an ornamental border of straw fringe
borders it. The stalls are thickly laid with
straw, scent-laden and shining as if just
from tho threshing floor. The stablemea
have an art of arrangement all their own,
and it is turned IL at the edges as skillfully
as a hem learned at saving school, The
carriage WASH is covered with large and
handsome red rug and shade Of all that is
decorative, The carriage wash is faced
three feet high with Mexican onyx. The
pate-glass stable doors and windows, the
faucets, glass and brass everywhere are
shining.
My stable is my yacht, said Col Kip.
The comparison is good for it is as pro
fusely and nattily rugged and beautifully
military man, and he brought to his stable
all his military habits of order and preci-
| sion. Every morning at 9 O'Clock no is at
his stables, and everything is to be ready
for inspection. Every implement must be
| clean and in place. We are casual visitors
and the hour is early, but as Col. Kip opens
the door aud throws the light ON dark
| corners and shelves, cedar closets, and what
! not, everything is according to line and
plummet. What there is not for conven-
| fence ne has invented. Swinging like
| brackets are gilded spiky frames. This is
| one of his inventions, intended to hold the
| harness as it is removed from the horse, and
tho euds are covered with rubber that the
| harness may not be scratched
1t was Col. Kip who suggested the prize
| offered at the horse show for the best
| self took last year. This, too, seems to
have come out Of that military training
which bids men prepare for emergencies.
THE idea is that a man shall carry with
| him all that he needs but rs l suggested III
| the catalogue, not everything that he owns
For example, he wants his borse blankets,
his own lap robe, goggles, pick to remove a
stone thai may got lodged in hOOf, etc.
Such things that a man may happen to
need, but is likely to forget" Col. Kip ex-
plains.
Col. Kip's precautions go farther. 81 al
ways have two single road wagons that
NAV have one in any case That one | will
begin to use this fall. The other will go to
Brewster, who will take it In part exchange
for n new one"
They are spidery affairs and seemingly
not much more than red wheels. They
weigh 155pounds and have all extra strength
conferred in the axles.
The favorites of the stable are May Dawn
and Katrine, dark bays. Katrine is the
half sister Of Guy, whose record of 2:11
makes him the formidable rival of Maud S.,
whose time many people think he will yet
equal, as he is younger. She is a
beautiful little bay mare, with slender
ariStocratic legs and an air of trimness and
tautness which again suggests yachting
SMILES She comes up promptly TO be
petted and rubs her nose in that affection
ate manner which, as Alfred Wallace says,
is the rudimentary form of kissing once
practiced by humans. She has no record,
having never been trained for speed. She
is simply for her masters delight, and, says
Col Kip, lit would seem a spoilt day if,
from to 6 O'clock, was not out with May
Dawn and Katrine.'
MAY Dawn is but a shade different in
color and lives next door with a small fox
terrier. who plays in and out among her
eels like kitten. Her portrait is in the
large room and Katrine is to sit for pen
dant to an artist next month
Col. Kip has quite picture gallery, in
GLIDING "Ethel MEDINA whom he once
owned, and who was the late lanented
''Maxey Cobb's great mate"
The only racer in the stable is Bay Tom,
who has record of 2:25, but does not CON-
mend himself to feminine eyes on account
of his architec ure, which Col. Kip des-
cribas as ''hippy," and which no amount of
a