Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-08
Gen. Harrison's Turnout.

SECURING HORSES AND CARRIAGES TO BE USED
IN WASHINGTON.
The statement, printed during the last day
or two, that Gen. Harrison had been buying
horses and carriages for his use during the ap-
preaching presidential term is said to be
| founded on facts although some of Gen. Har
risons Washington friends find it rather diff
cult to believe that he would spend $1,000 for
two carriages. While the general was in the
Senate his establishment a very modest
one. but he probably feels at liberty to be a
little more extravagant now that his salary is
| on the eve of being raised to $50, 900 a year.
| In making his equine and vehicular purchases
the President-elect has been loyal to his state,
| for both of the carriages have been purchased
| from Hoosier manufacturers, and it is said that
the horses will also be bought from prominent
Indiana horse-raiser. If this proves to be SO,
then there will be only one feature of the
presidential equipage which will not come
| from Indiana, and that feature will be Albert
! Hawkins, the coachman, who has been the
presidential coachman for so long that he is
regarded as being fixture. His position is
not under the shelter of the civil-service rules
but so firmly is Albert established that there is
never an applicant for the place. He has been
handling the ribbons for occupants of the
White House from the day when U. s. Grant
commenced his first term, and as a democratic
President retained him it is thought that there
Is but little probability Of his being disturbed
by President Harrison.
Destitute Colored Women and Children.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THEIR
RELIEF-ELECTIoN OF OFFICERS.
There was q large attendance of the men,
bers of the National Association for the Relief
of Destitute Colored Women and Children
at the annual meeting, which was held to-day
in the parlors of NJ. s. Pomeroy, 1889 X street
After the reading of the report for the preced-
ing year. which showed the association to be in
hourishfng condition. the officers for the en-
suing year were elected as follows: President,
Mrs. NJ. 5. Pomeroy; vice-president, Mrs. L. s.
Swami; treasurer. Mrs. A. M. Shadd; secretary.
Mrs. Helen A. Cook. Board OF managers Mrs
Z. G. Dole, Mrs. c. A. s. Hall, Mrs. E. W.
Lynch. Mrs. L. s. Doolittle, Mrs. A. NJ. Purvis,
Mrs. ]. w. Scudder, Mrs. s. E. Baker, Mrs. H.
p. Ward. Mrs. III. Douglass. Trustees MIR.
John F. Cook, Mr.. W. H. A. Wormley and ex-
| Senator s. C. Pomeroy. Among those present
were Mrs. Senator Morrill,. Mrs. Judge Scudder
Mrs. A. NJ. Edgar, Mrs. CATCHER Mr. Meri-
wether, Mrs. NJ. s. Pomeroy, and others.
Well-known Jockeys Dead.
From the London Times.
James Grimshaw, the once famous light
weight jockey, has just died of cancer in Bohe-
mia. and, although he obtained considerable
success both as jockey and as trainer in
Austria and Germany, where he settled after
leaving England in 1870, he is reported to have
! died in great poverty. James Grimshaw, who
served an apprenticeship under the late Mr.
Saxon, owner of Brown Duchess and other
celebrated race horses began to ride in public
about 1860, and between that year and 1865,
when he won ia races out of 351, he had rid
den two winners of the czarowitz-Mr. Smith 3
Harrington in 1862, and the earl of Coventry 3
Thalestris in 1S64-while among many other
notable triumphs which he achieved during
| the same period were upon Montebello for the
Northumberland plate, upon Queen of Trumps,
and Persuasion for the Portland plate at Dom
caster, upon Tartar for the Liverpool autumn
| cup, and upon Hippolyta for the Ascot stakes.
He rode good deal during the years 1865 to
| 1869 for the late marquis of Hastings, and he
won the Newmarket Biennial on Kangaroo
when Lord Hastings gave $4,000 for that
| horse, which, according to latest reports, is
| now running between the shafts of a London
| cab. In 1867 he rode Mr.. Merry's Marksman
1 for the Derby, when that colt was only beaten
| by neck by Hermit, but he did not win either
| of the so-called classic" races until 1870 in
which year he rode both Mr.. j. Dawson's Hes
ter in the one thousand guineas and the late
Mr.. T. V. Morgan's Hawthornden for the ST.
| Leger. both in 1870. Soon after that he ac-
cepted an engagement to ride in Germany and
Austria, where he made a very good name for
himself as a skillful jockey, but in other re-
spects he failed to do well, and his fine oppor-
tunities were in the main thrown away.
Robert Sly. the well-known veteran jockey,
was seized with a fit while in his garden at
Newmarket recently, and died almost immedi-
ately afterward.
Where dodgers are Hung Up to Sleep.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Plunging about on the levee in the blackness
the other night a reporter discovered a retro nj