The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-12-26
Our Horse Reporter Moralizes.

Well, at last. Garfield Race Track is
closed and what blessing to our people.
The sights that The APPEAL man saw at
this race courseswould hardly be believ.
e] by its thousands of readers, but they
were there to be seen. The first to
catch his eyes was the young men and
boys who never missed day when they
had the price and when they did not
they did what Billy Rice said in bis
stump speech, git money. if you can't
lit it honest why git it anyway" and, the
-upposition is, they get it anyway for
they were there every day somehow
and when they made a winning put it
al on their backs,swhile others who lost
put ali in the pawn brokers and with
salaries of lour to eight dollars per week
cannot get their. clothes out, now what
will they do? You know the rest. The
next to be seen was the young ladies
and I am sorry to say that The APPEAL
has seen some of the noted four hun
dred and The Lotus Club ladies booking
and betting all they:had-no more than
fifty cents-on some of the many races
and when they lost they would almost
cry, but the next day would 20 out with
a borrowed. Fifty cents to win back what
they bad lost the previous cay, but alas!
poor girls, when your moneys all gone
its the same old song, get up Mary and
let Anna sit down. SO young ladies
your names are we'll known IN this city
and you bad better be careful for it may
be thrown up in your face any time
Last, but not least comes the married
woman and it max es' us feel so bad to
think that some Of them could be found
at the race track every day and wishing
that they could race on Sundays, poo,
helpless creatures who thought that a
fortune could be made with fifty cents.
But this is not all, nor the worst. The
husband who is with Pullman at $l5 per
month, the other at the Palmer house a,
$50 per month and 80 on, where daily
toll from five A. NJ. to 6, 7, 8 and IL P. NJ.
TO keep his family comfortable and keep
the wolf away from his door, returns
home for supper to find no supper NJ
wife.
The wife had not come from the
Monte Carlo of Chicago, and when she
did, not cent did she have, the Gentle.
man Book Maker had the money that
the husband had left for the wife to pei
supper. But we suppose it would no,
have been so bad if they had to pay the
price of admission, but the Tout and
the Gambler and Sporting Man had got
some way to get free passes and season
tickets and rubber boots to give to the
pretty ladies but the worst of all was the
associates OF these called married ladies
at the race course, the most disreputable
white woman and Colored from the
lowest dives on 4th avenue and the
Comanche braves from the bad lands,
all sitting together and putting their 10
and 10 and 70 cents together to make a
one dollar bot that some gallant Tout
had told them that the horse could FIJI
twice and then come in first, and if the
horse won to see the good and the bad
and if one did not know one from the
other they would think. they all came
from the bad lands, and as lthis was
an every day occurrence is enough to
make man shy of marriage in Chicago,
1t is to be hoped that such will not
be the case next year, as they will swear
off the last Of the year and if you do not,
don't let TIE APPEAL find YOU out there
next Season. So ..'' -. .'.-: -.