The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-11
BEAUTIES ON HORSES
Gossip About the Equestriennes
of the National Capital.
THE vICE-PREsIDENps GIRLS
mrs. Cleveland and the Paper Chase-Royalt,
on Observation-Disclosures in the Saddle
What it Costs to Ride.


trlennes of the capitall
They are numbered by hundreds. You
see them in parties on every country road
ABOUT Washington and their fresh ,young
faces glow as they ride across country, leap
ing hedges, jumping bitches, and following
the wild paper chase. The last administra-
ton set the fashion for out-of-door sports.
Mrs Whitney and her husband, patronized
the Country club, and the diplomats joined
IN with her in the encouragement of long
rides about Washington. AT one of the
paper chases Mrs. President Cleveland dis
tributed prizes of diamond horseshoe scarf
pins, and nearly every member of Cleve-
lands cabinet rode. Secretary Fairchild
had good horse and took turn in the
country daily. Secretary Whitney donned
riding costume every afternoon, and even
Justice Lamar, who was them secretary
Oh the interior, pottered around Washing
ton on pot-bellied horse. The President
mounted horse now and then, and Mrs.
Cleveland took some rides from her coun-
try seat. Bayard was an ardent horseman,
and his daughters accompanied him in his
rides across country. l remember seeing
Kate Bayard dashing around the ring at
the race track one season, and leaping the
hurdles and bitches Of the steeplechase. 1t
Was a freak done by her merelysfor amuse-
ment, and the crowd on the grand stand
cheered and cheered again, as she made the
run In the shortest time OF the day.
SENATOR'S WIVES WHO RIDE.
The craze started then has since steadily
grown, and there are now five hundred
thoroughbred saddle horses in Washington,
and fully two hundred maidenS are out rid
ing every week. 1t seems TO me that the
girls have better compilations than they
have ever had before, and the sallow,
deughey, pasty faces of Washington society
are last disappearing. You will find no
better complexion in the world than that
OF Mrs. Senator Davis. Her face is a
beautiful one, and it's skin is as soft and
fair as that Of a baby, and her checks shine
with the roses of the fairest maidens of
Dublin. She has so much color in them
that people have charged her with painting,
but this is SANDER. She uses no rouge
and her only cosmetics are horseback rid
ing, good walking and a love for oatmeal
porridge. She is one of the finest looking
of ohe equestriennes of the capital, and her
tall Junolike form, perfectly rounded,
shows to good advantage in her riding cos
tune OF black jersey. She has her own
ideas about her clothes, and her riding
habit is made a la princess, with double
skirt, and it fits her form like a glove. She
does not wear riding trousers like many
Of the girls OF Washington, but she has a
costume of her own, under this skirt which
ends In high top boots. She is good rider
and she has number of sisters among the
Senator's wives who sit their horses we'll
Mrs Senator Hawley learned to ride in
England. She has ridden after the hounds,
and can jump as wide ditch as any woman
in Washington. She is perfectly at home
in the saddle and she often rides out with
her soldierly husband. Mrs. Senator
Spooner is frequently seen in the saddle
riding along with the Honorable John G.
A horse is no new thing to her for she and
Senator Spooner have ridden together for
score OF rears, and they enjoy their gal
lops Just as much today as when they were
married. Senator Edmunds frequently
rides out with his daughters. He has good
horses and sits erect whatever be the gait.
He wears a slouch hat when he rides, and
even his white beard cannot give him the
dignity on horseback that he holds in the
Senate Senator Sherman rides occasion
ally, and there are a number of Congress
men who get their open air exercise on
horseback. Tom Bayne is good rider, and
both Mr.. and Mrs. Representative Hit
love the saddle. Mr.. Hit has seven thor
oughbreds in his stables and Don Cameron
has a number Of good horses, and both he
and Mrs. Cameron ride them. Mrs. Cam
eron is a good rider. Her figure is trim
and she sits horse well
CABINET RIDERS.
have not yet seen President Harrison
on horseback, and President Cleveland
though be was q member Of the riding
school took but very few horseback rides.
Arthur rode every day ana James Bucha-
nan used 10 20 dashiGg about Washington
On horseback with Harriet Lane. Uncle
In tow Of 1.,t%,,
has Q tail Kentucky horse which ne rides
almost daiiy. He makes q tirs locking fig
ure ana SITS MS stend ike Centaur. The
Vica-F residents daughters are al fond OF
horses, and tGe Ave girls OF the family take
their regular riding lesso3s. They range
in age from seven TO fifteen, but tney are
all large for their years and every one of
them can stick 20 tie saddle. Vice-Presi-
dent Morton frequently rides out with
them, and his private secretary now and
then accompanies them in dash along the
country roads. Secretary Blaine's daugh-
tiers are good riders, though | doubt
whether they can manage their steeds as
well as the Bayard girls did. Blaine him
self have not seen on horseback lately.
and Attorney-G General Miller is not horse
back rider. General Tracy rides a tai
thoroughbred, and Postmaste Genera
Wanamaker has amouse-colored mare upon
which he some times accompanies his
daughters in their rides.
SOME NOTED sTEEpLBcHAsEgs.
Two of the most daring eqaestgici ms OF
the capital arc Miss Ethel Ch.S" .,rs.4gsue
the daughter OF Kate Chase Spracuc, ANA
Miss Nay McCuIloch. Both q them 81.
their horses is thoGgh they wcs,, part OF
Them. suiH both can ride faster, Jump
further. W.u dare more than any girls in
washington. Ethel Chase Sprague
learned 10 ride when she WAS in short
clothes. Her father had d number Shet-
land ponies 1T his home at Narras ansett,
and she WIS one day discovered sitting on
the back o. one OF these astride, and riding
il without bride after the other ponies In
the inclosure. She has had number OF
good horses since she has been riding in
Washington. and she is not afraid to ride
anywhere. Her favorite horse at present
is a big bay named Star which Senator
Fair gave to her. and which she thinks is
one of the finest horses in the world She
knows all about horse and she sometimes
takes care of Star herself, even to currying
and feeding him. Miss McCulloch sits :
horse equally well and she rides out daily
sosIE SOUTHERN RIDERS.
A number of our southern girls are fon6
of horses. Miss Lulie Eustis, the heiress
of the Corcoran estate, is a splendid rider
She is blonde with red gold hair. and
eyes of torquoise blue and she has ridden
over the long steeplechase course at Ivy
City. water jump and all. All of the
Eustss family are fine riders and Senator
Eustis could if be would, equal many OF
the younger riders at the capital. Both
Senator Vance and Senator Beck ride
horseback frequently. Senator Butler
though he has but one leg, is good horse
man and his daughters are noted for their
riding. The Butler estate III South Caro-
lima is in the country, and the Butler girls