The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-22
ENDURANCE ON HORSEBACK.
AMAZING PERFORMANCE OF DhETRhE
pFSCHKOFF ON 4 COSSACk PONY.

pESCHKOFF ON 4 COSSACK PONY
Riding 5000 Miles Across siberia In MID
,.Int.r-other Equestrian Feats In HISto-
,,r C;eorEe's Wnger-Anthony Troll
Io,s,s Thorough Gnmeness In the Sada'o'
An account OF tho progress OF Dmotree
poschkofr, a Cossack officer, who started TO rue
,rom Yladiyostock, In eastern Siberia 10 81
petersburg on a pony OF the ordinary IosbacR
breed was printed in The SUNDAY BUN OF uho
1 together with n picture and description Oh
tbe rider and pony At that time IL was OK
nected that the horseman would soon fehch
ST. Petersburg and receive an enthusiastic re-
canton, Tho arrival OF tho intrepid horsehsn
IA thus announced by tho Ddiiv Telegraph, sup
plemented 10y sketches OF other remark@o'o
performances In the saddle;
last Saturday morning NJ. Peschkor nom
commissioned Cossack officer. who left Wall
vostock Inst November on horseback to rluo
across Siberia q distance OF nearly 6OOO miles,
connleted his journey successfully. Upon his
arrival at st. Petersburg NJ. Peschkon was
Immediately made the object OF enthusiastic
demonstrations on the part OF the male inhaoi-
tRnts OF the Russian capital, and received sew
aral deputations from officers REPRESENTING all
tho cavalry regiments OF the Russian army
who were eager to congratulate MIN on INC
succossful accomplishment OF an almost uh-
paralleled task. And Of truth their congrhtu-
iations were vol deserved. To ride across
Siberia on single horse which was propapy
n Cossack pony, In tho middle OF winter, and
10 ret to the end OF such journey WIN SAFETY
10 Elder and horse is fent Of which tho late
WAS carried across Central Asia by pony
whom he could have tossed over his
hopdSr With m9thnE . IL ay ss4 Been proua
For as may be inferred IRON tho slelghriqe,
with reindeer for horses taken last year ny
Mnrier from the Kara Son to tho interior OF the
nroyince OF TubOlsK. and described by him IN
n a ioEs It's features are peculiar to itself and
like those of every other portloh OF thg hus
sian empire on E[fan siCra sIG land los t an
nnbounded eNpanso OF frozen ana lcehounu
desert, and as tho traveller appr9aches me
northern boundaries on the odGe Of ING n!eak *
shores OF ocean, human life and all that Is
necessary to support IL become more and more
Tbe only gTeat feature by which the wide OK
pause OF siberia is diversified 1s its TiNotIs '
which at the t Of we're boand IN
chains Of perpetual ice. Even the VAST Lake on
BaiKal Is Completely frozen over live months
III II is to be honed that NJ Peschkoff can ,writo
well S he raG an be a and
Instructive. and we trust less imnglhltlNe.
than that Of sirJohp MGndeyilles, Mary ye n
ride OF nearly 5000 miles in Arctic weather Is q
demonstration of amazing endurance on tho
part both of rider and horse. We are remind
ed of the celebrates retreat OF the trehch
nrmy-which ultimately ceased to be an army
nj uall-from Moscow to tho Niemen, and of tho
iinboundcd admiration expressed by the great
Napoleon for tho indonlitabIe ponies bestriu,
Ar BY the cosfsrkS Of the q2 2rcr@ anq
horsemen. whose scream and yelp, rang
in tho ears OF the retreHttin ting ,d trench
Again are we reminded OF the journey nude
bv the Emperor himself. when he resolved to
Paris as fast as sleigh and caeehe would carry s
him. On the evening OF Dec 4. lSl2' me EN-
peror and Con. de tanlaincourt, Due' de-
Nicence, took their seats in coupe which was
drawn up in a corner OF the market place q
smorgoni. little town in Lithuania. ON Al
ed out 10 intcrminahlo distances, US smoth-
ered in furs, tho EmperGrs d iatorito
ssSond eSpge wers seated
Marshal Duroc and tho Compile de Lobau. anu
in the third Gen. Lefebvre- llesnonettes and u
valet de chnmbre. The three carriages were
preceded by u slodgc. on which rode count
Won sowic2 n Pole who spoke Lithuanian per-
self nut a brace Of pistols into the hands Of
Count WOnsowicH and another brace lntothose
OF Gen you InGn aGd
your devotion to me. ana If We are pursued
ana overtaken, l charge youto Kin me rather
than st aronnd hns gea
was thicKly clothed In furs; but the Emperor
himself wore only his usual redingote Grse;
curly: Tai 10; diable au corps The sur,
roundnss of hat memorable AL night from from
not disslmilar to those through which Nj
Peschkon has been riding lor the INST siX
other kind of horse than a Cossack pony would
have outliNcd n Journey OF that duration under
such fearful circumstances.
Many on eNtraorIii. AIRY equestrian perlOrm-
ance has been ACCOMPLISHED IN this country,
but under conditions widely different from
borseman who rode into st. Petersburg on sat
urday last. Thus it IS recorded that IN l6ol'
Wick. in orks shire, one of, his, Majestys
Rrooms, undertook to ride I'VE times from
london 10 York and back between Monday
ing is said MS e. the no se' bestrldden by MN.
but 1t is to be presumed that he was not
5 O'clock on the morning, OF Monday,
May. %, lGo4,, he, started from st;
evening of tho same day. Testing there one
night he returned next day to st; Martin s-le-
Grand He r,epeqted the dose on the next three
the road IRON London to \ ork and York to
London. on the NTH day he arrived at York a
little before T.. NJ, and STAYED there until the
following Monday morning when he rode back
10 MS Majesty count at greenwich, where he
arrived as trosh as when he first set out An,
living Mr.. Lipscombe SGT out on Nov. 8, 1924.
TO 20 ninety milos in !lye hours upon eight
horses. no greatest interest was taken in this
match against time; and twas reported that
hi0 Majesty George ". laid six 10 four 10 con
The stakes were for 800 soys. and thc ground
seiecteI was from Hyde Park corner TO the
sixty fourth milestone on tho Bath road ana
Iwenly-six miles back-that Is to say, Il milo
on the London side of leading. The horses
were limited TO n course of about twelve or
thirteen miles apiece and so well did they
perlorm thor part that the eighth or last
animal had 3SS minute i'll which to cover ten
milos Il task which no completed without dill
Guilty IN thirty-tWo minutes.
Performances Of this kind have. In them
more Of Ostentatious display than OF practica!
utility whereas tho experience gained BY NJ.
Peschkoif can hardly fab u be lull Of instruc-
tion to thoughtful military minds al over the
world In like manner English civil lans have
often given evidence OF the cheerful alacrity
with which they are ready to face fatigue and
danger in the service OF their country. Thus,
II is related In Mr.. Thomas AdOlphus Troll
iope's pleasant work, cal ed " What | Remem-
Der" that his lato brother Anthony Iroopc.
was sent by tho General Post ONCE. OF WHICH
he had long been u valued and most ELL
cient servant TO arrange some difficulties
about postal communication in South
America. The English postal authorities were
anxious TO ascertain whether the mali bags
could not be carried certain dis
tanco in a shorter time qnd, inlorential-
been eXacied on The spot. =. There was writes
Mr. Il. AdOlphus Trollopo"a Journey that had
TO be done BY q mounted courier for which II