The Portland daily press., 1892-05-14
Hose WHO DRIVE SPANS.
Fine Turnouts Seen in Portland
Streets.
Elk DETECTIVE WIGGINS MASSA-
CHUSETTs STOCK FARM.


Mr.. George MI. stanwood's Cape Elizabeth
Stables-Luck in Famous Horses-A
Portland Oyster Dealer who Let Camors
Go for asong.-silver King at Wards
Deering Stable.
Portland and vicinity can show some
of the handsomest and most valuable
double teams to be found in New Eng
land
Hon, VIM. G. Davis has recently pur-
chased finely bred pair of blacks.
Gen. Francis Fessenden has noble
pair of blacks.
Mr.. John E. Dewitt, President of the
Maine Mutual Life Insurance Co, has a
fancy matched para brown and gray
that are fine specimens of coach horses.
VIII H. Milliken, of the wholesale
dry goods house of Milliken, Cousins &
Short, drives beautiful pair of blacks,
and Lyman Cousins, of the same firm, a
very handsome and closely matched pair
| of sorrels.
Ardon w. Coombs, Esq.,, has a beauti-
full pair of blacks recently bought from
Stephen Gorven, of Biddeford They
cost in the neighborhood of $1,000, it is
said, and more than represent that sum
in horse value.
Charles J. Walker, the we'll known
wholesale shoe and leather dealer, has
noticeable pair Of blacks raised in Ver-
mont from pure Morgan stock and very
finely bred.
E. NJ. Payson. the banker, has finely
matched pair of bays.
Isaac q. Atkinson, President and Gen
eral Manager of the Atkinson Co. drives
beautiful pair of sorrels with white
names and tails. 1t is one of the hand
soonest double bitches in the country.
The druggists, Geo. G. Frye and 4. G..
Schlotterbeck have each very fine pairs.
The llverylstables are well Represented.
Fernald g. Sawyer have several valuable
pairs. Benson has fine match of
blacks and the Murray Bros. have lately
bought closely matched pair of young
Maine bred bays.
MI. John E. Warren, of the paper
works in the neighboring city of West
brook has magnificent pair of light
bays.
Mr.. Stanwoods Horses.
Mr.. Geo. M. Stanwood, of the coal firm
of Randall & McAllister has for many
years been the owner of some good horse
stock at his farm in Cape Elizabeth. He
has the favorite trotting mare Kitty Y,
by Olympus, the dam thoroughbred
andea promising yearIing from Kitty.
Mr.. Stanwood has recently purchased
six-year-old mare by Daniel Boone that
beauty. The dam was by Somerset
Knox. In color she is rich dark ma
hogany bay, and with a fine large Ham
bletonian head and gentle eye looks
every inch queen, to say nothing of her
beautiful conformation.
Luck in Horses.
There seems to be great deal of luck
involved even in the most intelligent
horse breeding. The Maine trotter
Camors, 2:19a, the speediest son of Gen.
Knox, was bred by Levi w. Atwood, the
oyster dealer of this city. Before the
colt was two years old Mr.. Atwood was
obliged to part with him, and he sold at
auction at the old Forest City Park sta.
BILE. X. @. Conant was the purchaser.
and he in due time sold him to Lon Nor
ris of Boston for 1900. Morris let him
so for handsome advance, and a little
later on, after he had beaten 2:2O. Bald
win, the California millionaire, gave 500
900 for him to go donble with Julian. 2:1S.
and Camors went to California, where
he soon died from sudden congestion
incident to hard drive.
Flora Temple the great record breaker
OF her day was weeded out of his stock
by her breeder as of no account by reason
OF her small size and given to one of the
grooms as present.
Maud S. 2.06a, so long at the head of
the record was sold as a youngster for
$40. The story goes that Stone horse
dealer had bought string of valuable
horses and was bantered to take the
little mare. Don't think she's worth
anything said Stone, but will give $40
and pitch her in to the string tor my
little daughter. That scraggy FLY turned
out to be worth more than all the rest of
the horses in the string. Maud was let
go from WOODBURY. farm for $3.50 and
later on Bonner gave $4,000 for her.
The dam of Axtel cost Williams just
SIS. She was splendidly bred but could
show only about four minute gate. A
few years later her son Axtel brought
$105,OO0.
Rysdyk's Hambletonian and his dam
were both sold for 1925 and the great
speed produced was then four months
old.
A Maine Ex-Detective's Farm.
Detective Edmund D. Wiggin, who
used to be SO we'll known in Maine, has
made his pile as detective, and has now
settled down on fine stock farm of
Bellingham, Mass. on the N. Y. & N. E.,
five miles from Woonsocket, R. I. It is
the Joseph Ray estate, upon which Ray
and Pulsifer, of the Boston Herald, spent
over 100000 for Improvements. The
farm has 300 acres, elegant barns and
stables, heated by steam and lighted by
gas. He has at the place half mile
track around little lake. The lake is
e4o l. In 80