Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-24
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New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
A Thousand Horseback Riders to be
Seen Next Week-Why Mabel
JennesS Rides Man Fashion.
DiXey's New Partner-StanIey's Book-Dan
Lamont May Become Millionaire
Patti Spurns $1,000 Check.
correspondence of the Gazette.

correspondence VI the 0dLeILG.
New YORK, April l9.-Horseback riding has
become marked feature of New York city life.
There are at least a dozen first-class riding
academies in this city, half dozen more in
Brooklyn and Jersey CITY, and one or two in
each of the score of small cities lying all around
US. Men, women and children OF all ages ride
horseback now. Some own their own horses.
but the majority OF riders do not. There is
couple of million dollars of capital invested in
iding academies round about here, and
large number of riding masters, grooms
and stablemen find employment
good, well broken saddle horse
costs from $500 up, to much as the prospective
owner may care to pay. The parks are daily
thronged with riders, and some really fine eques-
TRANS are seen. The annual ride OF the New
York riding club takes place TO day. grand
parade OF all the riding clubs In this vicinity on
the 26th Is arranged for. Both events viii be i
step beyond all previous affairs of the kind, and
the parade of next Saturday will mark i'm
pOrtant era IN amateur craftsmanship. One OF
tions. For the first time in this coun-
try twelve riders, with twenty-four horses, will
participate. The members of the club who fur
nsh this part of the performance are, in the or
der of riding: E. II. Johnson, d. Z. Seybel, A.
Schwab, A. Kusuth, o. G. Smith, w. J. Peek,
R. H. Davies, Theodore H. Silkman, Jules ST.
men, Howard Carroll, Carl A. Nyegaard and H.
w. Struss.
An Interesting DSuTe Will De the Jeu uG
barre, - which is severe test of the ability of
the riders. There are three contestants engaged
at a time. wearing red, white and blue
rosettes pinned to their right shout,
ders. The wearers of the blue and
the white endeavor to remove the red rosette
from the other riders shoulder by reaching
from his left side. Three minutes is allotted for
the task, and a lively scrimmage with the rider
in the dust is occasionally the result. Many
kinds of fancy riding viii be given, and there
will be squadron evolutiOns, gallop evolutiOns
and hurdle leaping by twos and tours. Mr..
George Z. Clausen will command the trot-
ting and Mr.. O. A. Nyegaard the gallop evolu-
tions.
On Saturday next. if the weather clerk will
furnish pleasant weather, New York Will wit
ness the biggest array of amateur riders that has
ever assembled III this country. All of
the riding clubs of this city, Brooklyn and sur
rounding towns will take part, each in distinct
i've uniforms. The clubs which will take part
are the New York club, Howard Carroll, preSl-
dent; the Fifth Avenue club, Frank Ehret, pres
ident; the Park riding club, Elias Rothschild.
president; the Belmont riding club, Joseph A.
Flynn, president; the Sycamore riding club,
John Haar, president and the Manhattan club,
J. I. BRISTOL, president, all of this city; the
Brooklyn riding club, F. W. Weeks, president;
the Hudson riding club, J. Huber, president.
and the Hoboken riding club, A. P. Hexam er,
president.
Howard Carroll will be the marshal of the
parade, as it is at the suggestion of the New
York club that the affair takes place. The rem
club. The start will he made at 2:3O p. m. The
route is through the part to Mount st. Vincent,
down the WesL drive to Seventy-second street.
to Riversids drive, up to Claremont and return
over a thousand riders other than those in line.
The riding clubs will be out in force, and sad
die horses will be in demand.
1t will be great DAY for riders. This newest
fad of people of wealth is important, for it
means rosy cheeks for the girls and better
health for the men.