The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-06-27
HIGH TARIFF.

tins farm at Deer Lodge, Mont, thee
years ago. He is a son of Longfellow
out of Christine. His work last year was
not remarkable, but this season he was
third in the Kentucky Derby. In the
Clark stakes High Tariff ran the IL
miles in 2:12 and defeated Dickerson,
Mi]t Young, Georgetown, Hart Wallace,
VALERA and Sir Abner.
Whether in point of great horses,
famous jockeys, the m~agniicence of
fashionable display and marvellous out
pouring of people, as we'll as in sensa-
tional incidents and bulky purse, prob
ably no such race was ever witnessed this
side of the Alleghenies. Certainly not
in Chicago. No one of the seven Derbies
that in preceding years have made Wash
inggton parks celebrity, more than
fringed in interest the classic event of
to-day. Such a multitude of the fair sex
as put in an appearance was something
wholly unprecedented here, and SO great
was the crush that hundreds of them
we're :wedged helplessly in an enormous
mob of heterogeneous male sports that
packed the lawn solid in front of the
betting ring. But for the jam of human
ity the day would have been perfection
of temperature. Once within the
confdes Of the park, however, faces
speedily flushed and perspiration drip
ped, as
EAGER THOUSANDS
pushed each other backward and for
ward in huge waves. No aisle or stair
way in the grand stand afforded an
inch of unused standing room. Its gal
leries and roof were black with people,
while approaches from end to end of
the stretch, including even the club
houee grounds reserved for members
and friends, we're full almost to suffoca-
ton. In the field showed line after line
of vehicles, tally-hos, victorias, cabs,
what not, loaded down with people,
stretching in bewildering succession far
beyond the point to the rear where by
any possibility a glimpse of the course
could be had, the stable tops, telegraph
poles and fences to each point of the
compass seemed literally festooned with
would be lockers on, hanging to pickets
or other points of vantage as if life de-
pended on the result. Everybody agreed
that despite the yielding, dustless
condition of the soil that the recent
rains had left, the race, with the array of
powerful animals entered, wat to be a
STRUGGLE FIT FoR KINGS
to see, or for that matter worthy spect-
acle for the vast throng of the American
sovereigns that had gathered
on the course. OF the ten noble
brutes that were to make the contest
Unbeaten Kingman, not to mention High
Tariff, Forerunner, Valera and Michael
had run in many a hard western rae un-
der similar track conditions ard given
evidence of remarkable form.
When the horses were ready for the
start, the first trial was false, half a
dozen refused to break. The second at
tempt was without q result. AT the
third trial the horses moved in a solid
phalanx toward the starter and got away
in good style. Forerunner, as ifinspired
by his name, jumped to the front and
closely followed by Pessara and Poet
Scout, led to the first turn. Lodowic
was last, five lengths away. Coming
down the stretch Poet Scout had forged
to the front, S~trathneath., who had been
in the rear division, moving up to second
place, and Kingman third. Passing