The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-11

Henry Cabot Lodges little daughter rides
well, and Telephone Bell has three little
girls ali OF whom have taken to the
saddle. Miss Warder, the millionaire's
daughter, is also rider and John A.
Logan's grandson, Logan Tucker, not long
ago challenged Secretary Bayard to race
and beat him.
AS was going down p street yesterday,
l saw little figure descending from the
steps of the Blaine mansion. She was in
charge of maid and was starting out for
the riding school. 1t was little Daisy Lei
ter, the daughter of the millionaire Chicago
merchant, who is barely twelve years old,
and who is one of the bright baby riders of
the capital. She wore light gray habit and
beneath her jaunty riding skirt and falling
over the cute little boots were a pair Of
close hitting trousers at which she peeped
with great complaisance l dropped into
the riding school as l went by, and | saw
her whlrling around the ring with the in
structor at her elbow. She sits her saddle
so well, however, that she does not need
any assistance, and as she few around the
tan bark turf her hair streamed out behind
her, and she created applause from the
spectators. She is very pretty girl and
she will be one of the lively companions of
future paper chases.
BANCROFT AND sPoFFoRD.
Mr.. Bancroft has not been riding much
this year, and the long rides which he and
Librarian Spofford used to take into the
country have been discontinued The old
historian has been confined to his house all
winter, and though it was only year ago
that he told me he could ride thirty miles
without firing, he has for this year given
up riding entirely. Mr.. Bancroft sits
horse very well. Mr.. Spofford now rides
out with his daughter, and Miss Spofford
is very graceful rider. One of Chief
Justice F'uller's daughters is learning to
ride and she promises to be one of the
good riders of the capital Miss Mildred
Carlisle, the little sister of Calderon Car
Isle, the eminent lawyer, is a dashing
rider. She knows her horse well and goes
reckleSsly across country. She has petite
figure and her face is bright and saucy.
Miss Matte Mitchell who is just learning
to ride, now and then takes turn in the
country.
DIPLOMATIC RIDERS.
All of the diplomats ride more or less, and
Alexander Gregor of the Russian legation
has probably done more to encourage horse
back riding in Washington than any other
man. He is immensely wealthy, has large
estates in Russia, and has plenty of money
to spend in Washington He has managed
number of the paper chases, and it was
he in connection with Mrs. Whitney who
started them. The Chinese legation has
no riders this season, but Doctor Vow of
the last legation was a good rider. He
wore his costume of Chinese silk in the
saddle, and fastened his cue by pinning it
into his coat before he mounted his horse
He would grow wildly excited during a
paper hunt, and he was more picturesque
than any woman who rode with him. The
Baron de Strive, the Russian minister,
rides good horse and Mr.. Levery of the
Danish legation is often in the saddle.
Colonel Jerome Bonaparte while he was
here in Washington frequently rode with
Madame Bonaparte, and the two made
striking picture as they went along the
country roads. jerome Bonaparte looks
very much like Louis Napoleon, and he
wears in the saddle high military boots and
sits his horse as erect as a statue. His
horse was dark bay of large build, and
his wife ganoped along beside him on
similar animal Mrs. Bonaparte is quite
as good rider as her husband, and the
two some times went along at an almost
reckless gait.
WASHINGTON RIDING CLUBS.
Washington has now several riding as
sociations. The Dumblane club is the
swell equestrian club of the capital. It has
number of rich members, and among
these are Hal Delaney who rides and drives
a great deal. His cousin Roster Delaney is
also good horseman, aud he likes a good
jump over the fence Major Powell fire.
Quently rides on horseback, and though he
has but one arm, he can manage his horse
with that quite as well as some other men
can with two. 1t is curious thing by the
way, that there are two one legged riders
| in Washington. One Of these is Wade
Hampton and the other Senator Butler.
Both sit their horses well and both fre
quently ride out to the Dumblane club
house. This club house is the starting
point for the regular drag hunts and paper
chGses which occur on Tuesdays and Sat
urdays. a number of the upper ten par
ticipate in them, and these giddy young
| girls engage in the paper chases, taking
! the bitches and the fences, and riding neck
ami neck with the noted riders of the other
sex. There are frequently little suppers
or iuncheons given at the DuEblane club
house, and the club has become one of the
fashionable institutions of the capital.
WHAT IT COSTS TO RIDE IN WASHINGTON.
1t costs something to own horse in
Washington, and since riding has become
so fashionable it takes a rich man to learn
to ride. The rates at the riding school
when the thing opened and President
Cleveland was a member, were 500 per
season, and you furnished your own horse.
n
and it takes just S25 a month to board him
at the livery stable. Ii he is a highly bred
animal you have TO be very careful of him.
and there is always the danger of killing a
horse in paper chasing or hunting The
riding outfit, including The pigskin saddle,
an expensive riding costume, and other lit
tie etceteras run the bill close to five hun
dred dollars for the seasons fun, and if YOU
are an aristocratic young maiden with a
! 4 estsO+ n nsNv I
other $500 for theSexpense of keeping a
groom 10 60 out with You. In this case you
have got to have two horses, and your
groom must be clothed in q costly livery.
THEY CAN AFFORD IT.
s'They come high, I know,n said a mil
| lionaire's daughter the other day to me.
'but we have to have them.'' You cannot
have much fun in this world without pay
ing for it, and if you get the fun and have
the money to spend, it is worth it.n Girls
who have incomes of s., 900 year for pin
money can easily afford $1,000 for horse
back riding, and the chances are that their
fathers will be allowed to pay these bills
and the money will come out of their pocl,-
cts. Some of the Washington girls have
enough confidence in their Judgment of
horses to buy their own steeds, and the
Bayard girls can tell the weak and sound
points of horse as well as a jockey. Miss
Alice Maury, one of the fashionable riders
Of the capital, has mare that MIR. Childs
of Philadelphia gave her when it was q
colt. She broke this horse and trained it
herself, and it was one of the best trained
horses in Washington. Miss Maury is
posted on horse flesh, and there is no
danger of her making any mistake in a
purchase. Miss Carlotta French, the
daughter Of ex-Congressman French, is
another good judge of horses She is a
fine rider, and though she is small she has
has a good right arm and is not afraid of
a tumble. She wears black broadcloth and
silk hat while riding, and her horse is a
chestnut thoroughbred named Hunter,