Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-07-21

ana presented 10 the meeting. Mr..
Smith the agent, was present and ex-
planned the condition under which the
company he represented would send an
engine here to be tested. The proposal
which MIR. Smith read TO the meeting is
summary as follows The company
TO have the engine shipped here and
tested at their expense, provided the
council would sign a contract. as a
guarantee Of good faith, To accept the
engine in case it gave satisfaction at
the test trial; committee composed Of
the council, and ten citizens 10 be APP
pointed by the fire companies, to act
as judges. This proposition was sub
mitted and vote by reclamation, to
ascertain the sentiment of the meeting
was taken. which resulted in a unani
nous vote in favor OF authorizing the
council to have the engine brought to
the city for trial the cost of the en-
CINE not to exceed $780, At the
meeting of the council held Friday
night, it was decided to accept MIR.
Smith proposition and it is expected
that the engine will be shipped here
for trial within thirty days.
The following from the Brooklyn
Eagle may serve to give some idea of
the tremendous muscular action and
power show 3 by some horses when under
full Roadway. In one mile there are
$3.50 feet and this distance has been
made in l.S9 making it necessary that
the horse shall average 53I feet per.
second. 1t is hardly possible TO get at
the number of feet passed over at a
single stride for some horses are short
quick stepperS while others take a
long heavy stride
At three strides to the second this
would give an average of nearly Is feet
to the stride. Secretary Hugh j. Nc
Intyre, of the Coney Island Jockey
Club, a close observer and excellent
authority on racing matters, thinks it
probable that horse does not take
more than q strides to the second. and
that he consequently strides more than
Is feet. This view is borne out by the
fact that horses have leaped more than
double that distance Rufus the great
Irish steeple-chaseT, was said twenty
wears ago to have covered 80 feet and
6 inches in striding over a brook ;
Chandler, ridden by Capt Broadley, at
Warwick, England, in 1S47, is recorded
to have jumped 81 feet over water, and
at Claverthorpe, over hurdles, to have
jumped 81 feet Lottery. in the Grand
National, Liverpool, England, is re-
corded TO have covered 81 feet in Jump
ing the wall in that celebrated race.
These distances seem enormous, but
when horse sees his obstacle clearly,
takes it kindly and without baking,
pulling or changing legs, the distance
that good Jumper will cover is
wonderful The two stiffest obstacles
known to steeple chase riders were the
double banks at Punchestown and
Orchard; the latter was the larger, and
on one occasion nine horses out of
eleven starters fell over this fierce, yet
an eyewitness says he saw Chimney
| Sweep fly this enormous obstacle.
merely kicking it with one hind foot as
| he flew over it. About twenty five
years ago the great double bank at
Punchestown was flown from field TO
field by the Irish steeplechaser Gold
finder, the only horse that ever accom-
plished that feat. These facts tend to
show that a horse in running strides
much more than his own length, rather
than makes many different movements
in a second