The Portland daily press., 1892-03-07


beautiful hotels at Hollywood and the
n;snusOne cottages at ElDeron WILL
continue to impart life and beauty
sort, but we shall never see Long
Branch in its glory again. Speaking of
Mr.. Withers, see that he left for
tune estimated at something like S.
600, 900. The bulk of this he made out
of his race courses and his breeding
farm at Broolldale, n. j. Mr.. Withers
was an autocratic, st1ong-willed man,
and since the death of Mr.. Belmont has
been regarded as about the only man
connected with racing in this country
who was moved by a lofty purpose
touching the turf. He had the Old
southern idea that horse-racing was
great and noble sport, and he had no
sympathy whatever with the mercenary
gamblers and boolmallers who have
dragged the pastinc down to the level
of bunco and skim faro. He had no
sympathy for the men who gallop
horses in snow and mud in order that
a lot of professional gamblers may
have something to wager money on.
AS the head of the racing board Of
control he antagonized this blackleg
gentry and invited their united hostil
ity-nuch to his detriment and loss.
Mr.. Withers' new race course at
Long Branch must have cost him a
quarter of million of dollars. What
it's future will be nobody can foreten
for the reason that the state of New
Jersey is not showing a very warm
side to sports of the turf at present, and
few people will care to invest in such
an important piece Of property without
the assurance of nonintarference with
their business. Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett was partner with Mr.. With
ers in the Monmouth Park Racing asso-
citation, likewise Messrs. A. ]. Cassatt
and John A. Morris, the Louisiana lot
terry man. MIR. Wlthers was the only
sportsman of the old school in the COM
bination. He never lost his faith in
the future of racing in this country and
up to the last moment was trying TO es-
tablish his ideal, which was an Eng
lish race course under the patronage OF
rich and distinguished men. His death
has probably spared him the spectacle
of further humiliation and degradation
of what was once regarded in this
country as tho true sport of gentlemen.
The ethics of horse racing. in my opin-
ion, are likely to grow much worse in
this country before they grow better.
The Modern Sawbones.
People didn't know anything about
''paresis' ten years ago. They are
almost as ignorant of appendicitis
now. But is just at present the very
latest thing out in fashionable maladies,
having been favorably introduced to the
attention of New Workers by the son of
an English lord, Capt. Rose, who sought
under the knives of New York surgeons
relief which he could not get in his own
country. This was naturally card
for the American faculty; but there's
nothing particularly new in that since
Prof. Billroth, of Vienna, declared that
DIR. William T. Bull, of New York, had
no equal in America as a surgeon and
no superior in the world. 1t is DR.. Bull
who has just performed the two famous
operations for appendicitis. Sir John
Roses son, a beefy Briton, got well;
Mrs. Marion Smith, delicate Rhode
Islander, succu1nbcd. Now the inter
esting feature of it all is the nonchal-
ance with which the advanced surgeon
of to-day watches his patients die
under his knife. He seems absolutely
superior to human weaknesses, includ-
ing the emotions. His skill has per-
/ haps been won in no small measure by
iron nerves and heart which pumps
the blood into his fingers and brain
with unvarying regularity. 1t is not
his business to soothe, to condole or even
to regret. He operates on living
Subject in the interest of science. If
the subject survives, SO much the better
for the subject. If not, science profits
perhaps all the more. This same DR..
Bull is one Of the coolest of cool hands.
He is one of the handsomest men in
New York, besides-straight, regular
of feature, gray-eyed, Greek-nosed,
abundantly clothed with well clipped
iron-gray hair and other fashionable
raiment. He isn't much if any more
than forty, and he regards newspapers
as social tumors which it would be a
good Job to excise. But he loves his
! work and his achievements in it are
something all Americans may be proud
of.