The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-14

| owning and racing horses is adiudped
upon all sides to be a costly luxury.
Who sweeps in the coin, then? Is it the
| boolsmaker on the track? Ask any one
of them and he will tell you that he
| counts himself fortunate indeed if he
comes back TO town with thousand or
two. The hundred dollars dav he has
to pay 10 the association for the priv
ilege OF hanging up his shingle in the
betting ring at the track and the keen
rivalry of his brother bookmalsers keep
him guessing as TO how he will meet his
obligations
At last we have t. II must be the
city poolroom keeper who catches the
nfmble dollar as it wings its silvery
fight across the equine armament.
Here, again, we are disappointed. The
poolroom keeper, If he is friend and
confides in you, will whisper in your
ear that his dot is the hardest of all.
First, the landlord insists upon six
times the rent he would get from any
other tenant, and then - here the
whisper. becomes less audible and more
tragic In it's intensity-the police must
be cared for. Without protection" the
poolroom keeper can do no business.
To crown his misfortunes, he will add,
the officers of a certain society, founded
for the purposes Of social regeneration,
insist upon their "bit," and he must
give up" or seek for pastures new.
With sigh he concludes by saying that
he counts himself lucky to have the
wherewith TO pay rent and buy bread
for his family.
Whose capacious paw, then, grasps and
holds the long green?' Is it the high
priced jockey? Some of these midget
monarchs, know, make all the way
from $4,000 to s25, 900 upon their sea.
sons mounts. Here, again, we are at
sea- With the exception of dashing
Fred Taral none of them has any money
to speak Of A brief investigation,
however, shows the reason for this.
With the exception of Taral they all
back their mounts or some other fell
lows mounts. Snapper Garrison,
tho demon rider" of the American
turf, Is as daring better on n limited |
scale as the marquis of Hastings or |
"Plunger" Walton Although his earn |
ings yearly approach $4,000, he is
generally plum broke" Lately. how |
ever, he has wooed successfully that
tickle jade fortune, and is about $40, 900
to the good VIII Snapper continue
TO hold her smiles?
Fred Taral has, however. a beautiful
mansion at One hundred and Twenty
sixth street and Lenox avenue, for
which he paid s27 900 in cash Hespent
$40, 900 in furnishing and fitting it up.
going 50 far even rs to construct hand
some Turkish bath
Jero Dunn, famous the world over as
4 horseman and all around sport, stout
~ AYERS that the owner of naCs does
not by long shot capture the money
hat is lying around loose Jere has
had stables of trotters and runners, and
'nce with his trim little mare Village
Maid made $40, 900 off thousand-dollar
Investment. The mare was 40 to
hot, and hardly anybody but Jere
hought well enough of her to place a
lollar on her chances.
Horse owners" said Jere to me.
don't make the tons of gold people
eem To think they do. Rich men like
Ar. Belmont and Mr.. Lorillard had
magnificent stables, yet in the last few
ears had such hard luck that they de- g
ided to sell out. Fred Gebhard, too. {,
'ho is young Cr9sus, could not stand
he pace, even with such a splendid
orse as Eole in his stable. and he, too, 9
old out. A few horse owners make
honey, but the majority do not. They
ace simply out of love of sport" 4
WILLIAM STANDIsH HAYES. '