Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24
A LOOK AROUND.

| USUALLY the races are a good place for q
look around, but it is not so in Pitssburg.
| Time was when there was much to see at
Pittsburg race meeting, but that time has
| Joined Hans Breitman's charity" and gone
| on into rosy clouds. As things are now you
| go to the races to soc the horses and
not to see the people, To admit that you
| went there to see the people would be to
wipe yourself of the slate socially.
After days experience you may go again,
| but it will not even be to SEQ the horses. 1t
Is to be there and watch men who are Or
dinarily sensible trying to beat the game-a
thing reserved for the elect. II you know
anything of horses and see race like the
free-for-all trot Friday you will button up
your pockets II you are wise and sit still and
watch your neighbors and listen to the wise
men. When q horse wins a race like that,
which has sold for IS in pools OF $ll0. and
which wins free-for-all heats in a:24H against
horses with records Of 2:l5 you begin to
wonder If Wall street Is really as good
place to get rich as a race track If you arc on
the right end.
1T used to be necessary to overlook some
peculiarities II man controlled a number
OF fine horses; but that Is not the case at
present Trotting horses are plentiful, and
good ones at that, and judges should recog-
nize that fact and act upon 1t.
A BOY was run over by careless driver
in buggy hurrying down the private way
to the track. The little chap was all mixed
up with hoofs and wheels, and there were
screams and cries from the onlookers. As
for the hero of the incident, he was picked
up, very dusy, very frightened, very much
nonplussed as to what had happened, but
when he blow half pound Of road-bed out
OF his mouth he demonstrated that hislungs
were all right, and an examination showed
that he was not hurt at alf.'-It was lucky
for the man who drove over him that this
was the case, for there were numbers of
brawny gentlemen in busters who would
have taken the matter up If the result had
been more serious.
I SPOKE the other day of the rejection Of
George Woodward by tho Senate as a JUS
tice of the Supreme Court in Jacksons time.
ran across another rather curious incident
in the new history of the Supreme Court. 1t
is said that jackson offered Justiceshtp to
John Sergeant, who declined it on the ground
that he was considerably past 80 years OF age
and thought himself too old for the active
work of the bench. He suggested the posi-
tion be rendered Horace Binney without his
becoming aware that he was second choice
jackson then made the offer to Mr.. Binney,
who declined for precisely the same reason
and who urged that hnsergeant be selected
and that he be not told that another person
had been suggested. The President then
selected Robert C. Grier. who accepted.
THERE is little doubt that Hugh O'Don-
nell saw Chairman Carter of the Repub-
lican National Committee, and Chairman |
Clarkson, of the Executive Committee, in |
New York on his recent visit. 1t is also said |
that President Harrison. Mr.. Reid and the |
leaders Of the committee were urged to ask |
Mr.. Carnegie to interfere in the Homestead |
matter. There is even a report that Mr.. |
Blaine has been asked to try TO bring things |
to a happy conclusion through his friendship |
with Mr.. Carnegie.
THE Office of the Adams Express Company |
in East Liberty, to which I have once or |
twice referred, has a way of doing business
which is not at all pleasant to the patrons Of |
the company. For example, If John Smith |
In New York sends a package to John
Jones at 67s Homewood avenue, Pitts
burg, he supposes it will go to Jones'
house when he prepays the charges in New
York. 1fhe should inquire at the sending
and in many cases he would be assured that
such would be the case. In reality, Jones
gets a postal card in the course of time nocf-
Tying him that there is something for him at
the office of the company on Frankstown
avenue, and asking him to call and get it.
He can either go and get 1t or send the local
express messenger for it at an extra charge.
This applies even when the consignee lives
within a quarter of a mile of tie East Lib
,rty office.
THIS Is the first time in years that 1t has
lot rained the greater part OF the week dur
ng W hich the Homewood meeting has been
,eld. 1t is an old saying among horsemen,
when you go to Pittsburg take the horses
hat can do best on heavy track"
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