Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-02-22
BEN All HAGGIN DEAD.
AN EElR TO A FAMILY WHOSE SECRETS no
nan KNOWS.
They Are Milianaires Forty Times 07sT and Their
History on the Turf Hes Been an l.-7s'1ous
One-Eints Of q Romantic Past With
Pirates, TURKS and 8 ShipwTscl
in The Background

Ns,r YORK. World
Ben Ali Hagsin. son of j. i. Haggin,
died Yesterday at his residence, No. 10 !
East Fifty-foUrth street. MIR. HagSlh /
had been i'm for months. Last Novem-
her ne was stricken with typhoid fever, |
and while he seemed TO recover slowly |
he had an the time suffered from the
rayares of the sickness ana consequent
IN suffered from gastritis, then neuritls
and about ten days ago began 10 show
sions of pneumonia. DR.. :. +. Wander
nool. of No. A. East Twenty-htth street, /
who attended him during his illness, /
saws that acute pneumonia, most APP /
narent since Saturday last was the I'M !
mediate cause of his patients death, /
which occurred at 40 yesterday |
morning. The end was quietly /
reached. Tae sick man mad been un- |
conscious for several hours previous to /
his death. He waS,aiike unable TO re |
cognize the presence OF his father, Mr.. /
ID. T. Haggin, or 10 miss Jhe absence oil /
his wife. who, after months OF travel M /
Europe. was on her way home when her
husband died.
Mr.. Haggiu was thir'y-cight years old /
IN tbe time of his deaIh. He married a |
Miss Lizzie Wood. and TWO children
were the result OF the union. His iami-
Nv are now on board Tine Champagne
expected 10 arrive in port by Monday
next. IL is thought that the remains
will bee taken I'd Rancho del Pas 10 be |
Inferred. where Mr.. Haggiu was born.
There is 40 family in this matter OF
fact country of ours So enycloped I'D
mystery as the HagginS. There Is not
am element of the picturesque lacking.
Enough romanceS have been written
about them to stock a circulating libra
~. for they never deny anything and
never tell anything. The writer's have
had golden chance and they have not
neglected their opportunities. 1t is
known that Ben ATS father was born
i'm Fayette county, KY, from which To-
cality he disappeared at about the age
of twelve years. But for the events of
succeeding years. i'm which his name and
that of his dead son became house
| hold words, this disappearance
might never have been considered myS-
FERROUS But Mr.. Haggin has never
been publicly known 10 youchsaie any
! information as TO his whereabouts from
the time he left Fayette county poor
| boy. until the present day when he
stands one of the greatest Western cop
per kings. millionaire forty times
over. and owner of some of the most
! famous race horses that ever looked
through a bride. If Ben Ali Haggin
ever knew his fathers earlier history
or the reason of his most unaccountable
name ne kept to the family traditions
and said nothing about it,
One of the most popular stories Is
THAI on leaving Fayette county Mr..
Haggm had shipped before the mast on
la merchantmen, was Shipwrecked and
rescued by Algerian pirates. Sold into
slavery, young Haggin became the
| property of certain PaSha who took
decided fancy 10 his young kentucky
| prisoner. This PaSha after befrending
him in many ways, at last gave him the
means which he took 10 California and
used as the groundwork of the colossal
| fortune he accumulated. In remem-
brance of this benefactor, it is said, Mr..
j.. Is. Haggiu named his frSt-born son
Ben Ali.
1t was in the Winter of 1SS4-5 that
| Ben Ali Haggin was first publicly known
on the turf circles, and for time he
alone was publicly known, his father
not having appeared on the scene. In
the months when snow and ice prevail
land Winter racing was then unknown,
racing men amused themselves by re-
failing the rumorS OF a wonderful Cali
| fornia horse to be brought on from
| California TO win the great WitherS
! Stakes 40 Jerome Park. As a matter of
! fact Tyraut was bred in Kentucky, at
| Belle Meade, his sire being Great Tom
and his dam MOSeile. But he had grown
and thriven, waXed strong and mighty,
rumor had it. on the Succulent alfalfa
grasses of California, i'm which the
| Rancho del PaSO estate is said TO abound.
| Many a commission found its way into
| Eastern pool-roomS from the West, and
great was the interest shown in the
race when Tyrant appeared, ridden by
| Duffy. wearing the blue and orange
| Jacket afterwards destined to become 50
! famous. Tyrant'S victory that day. his
! subsequent successes and the ovation
| rendered 20 Ben Ali Haggin are matter
! of history well within the recollection
of those who gathered that day in old
! JcrOme'S grand stand and around the
romantic club house on the bluff. A
! few years later Ben Ali Haggin identi-
| fed himself with the new Brooklyn
Jockey Club then being built at
! GraveSend. On the opening day
/ he was the most noticeable fig
ure as he busted himself attend
ing to arrangements here and there.
| Later the Dryers and Mr.. Haggin had
Ia misunderstanding, and the latter dis
posed of his stock. From being i'm close
council the two racing establishments
| dri;ted further apart. But the public
rupture did not come until i'm the race
/ for she LOrillOrd Stakes 40 Monmouth
Park. when Salvador beat LongStreet
and the Dryers bitterly denounced the
action OF Salvator'S stable companion,
Kern. i'm the race. The brothers de-
cared he had prevented Longstreet
| from winning by interference, and init
mated the belief that he had been
started only for that purpose.
In the Spring of lsS6 the HagGirS APP
peared i'm kentucky with the strongest
stable that had beeh seen in the West
| for many a year. Ii was known that
they had two Derby candidates Ia their
Stable-Dan Fox. winner of the Junior
/ Champion of 1855. and Ben Ali. who had
run some good races as a-two-year old
In California and was named after Ben
Ali Haggin The public did not know
which horse would be started. and the
HagginS adopted extraordinary meas
ures to keep them from knowing. Two
watchers, with lanterns and Shotguns.
patroled the stables at night and were
relieved by armed guards In the morn
ing. All the horses were exercised be-
fore daybreak, and they were numbered
Instead Of being named. so that even the
stable boys themselves would not know
which horse il was that did the good
work.
I'm Barhy- DIV, rhn H1rriuS 6reW $40