Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-26
HIGH TARIFF.

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 Fran 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 magnificence 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
ington 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
were 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
, 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 we're black with people,
while approaches from end to end OF
the stretch, including even the club
houce grounds reserved for members
and friends, were 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 III bewildering succession fal
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 IN, hanging to picketI
or other points of vantage as if life de
pended on the result. Everybody agreed
that despite the yielding, dustles
condition of the soil that the recen
rains had left, the race, with the array O
powerful animals entered, was to be
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 we're to make the contes
Unbeaten Kingman, not to mention Hig]
Tariff, Forerunner, Valera and Michae
had run in many a hard western race VI
der similar track conditions and give
evidence Of remarkable form.
When the horses we're ready for til
start, the first trial was false, half
dozen refused to break. The second a
tempt was without a result. At tt
, third trial the horses moved in a soil
{ phalanx toward the starter and got ava
in good style. F~orerunner, as if inspire
! by his name, jumped to the front an
closely followed by Pessara and Poe
+ Scout, led to the first turn. Lodow:
} was last, five lengths away. Comm
! down the stretch Poet Scout had forge
to the front, Strathneath, who had bee
in the rear division, moving up to secon
:. place, and Kingman third. Passin
the stand, those positions wei
! steadily maintained.
At thetnrn Michael had worked to Il