Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-19

"GREAT FLORA TEMPLE'' HE EXCLAIMED. You sec Sept. q, 1871, was great day In Milwaukee, and thcrc were big crowds Tt tho race track to see Goldsmith Maid. Oh, but how she went! Shc trOttcd the mile in 2;l7 flat and chopped n quarter of n sec ond of Dextcr's time made in August, lS67, which was 2:l7i.. Shucks! Two seen all tho big rnccs since Edwin Forrest at CCntervillc, x. N., trOttcd milo in 2:3lk, May g,lSSi, up 10 Goldsmith Maids phenomenal work. Why, l saw Lady Suffolk, l2 ycar-oldcr, go in 2:29l4 at HobOkcn, and that was n cool day in Dc tobCr 1915, and I used to swear we'd sec horses trut in 2:l7, and they laughed aud called mo crazy, but lived to see it. and I'll live to scc 2:l2. Ycs, don't looked sur prised. will. But you talk about your trottcrsl You should have seen Flora Temple. Oh, she was suhimc! Started in as n ll-yCar-old-ll years, mind you and Sept. ?, lS56 went the mile in 2:2ils She didn't beat this for thrCe years, and then, uh gentlemen, had Flora Temple been woman would have married her It was n warm August day in lS5a. the 9th, and on the CcutCFvillc track that she went against her pVorIl, turning of the mile in 2:.2 flat. could havC died right thCrC from pleasure. At Cincinnati, Oct. :, she made the mile in 2:2i i4, and then went to Kalamazoo, and on Oct. Ia lEbtlGu n Hlit HI --l8-4 tGtuNlGUttiis ktIA- tlCmCn, was so crazCd with joy that just throw my arms about her and kissed her and cried from purU joy.
 This stood until lS67, when BOnncr's Dexter came along July 30 of that year at Boston and got the record in 2:I9. and | Aug. II at Buffalo he made 1t in 2:l7'4, | and then it remained for Goldsmith Maid | to come along"
 You rc posted on truttcrsF Didn't you ever sec any paCrrs:' asked II should say. " he exclaimed. Why, saw Oneida Chief at Harlem Oct. l3. 1885, 20 a milC in ":3I. Have l ever sCcn | paccrs: I've scCn them beat the worlds | record. Why, man. was right them at l Union course, New York. Sept. 9, lS52, when Pet paced the mile in 2:lSi., and l was on the same track June 2I. lS55, when Swear old Pocahontas rcClcd of tho | mile in 2:l7is. Then came Billy Boycc, another s-ycar-old, and I saw him at Buffalo Aug. I, lS6S, 20 tho mile in the | phenomenal time of 2:lfII." | He rattled off names of horses, towns tracks, dates and time with a rapidity that made one shivcr and squeezed in be- twecn lot of pcdiGrcJs. dams and sircs | that would curl your hair.
 | By jinks," he said after he had caught his breath, i've been asleep 23 years, and guess thcrc havc bccn some changes" '"
 remarked that there had.
 Well. gents used to say that the a:lO truttcr and paccr would como son.C day. suppose that was right
 Hc looked around with n broad grin on his face and n twinkle in his eye | "Oh, yes, said, ''thcrc have bcCn 3l trotters and IS paccrs to do 2:lO or better. '' | You should have sccn his face. You could have hung horseshoe on his eyes.
 Great Flora Tcmple!' hc exclaimed impressively. That time hasn't been beat, has it1'' he inquired anxiously after | bit.
 "Oh, yes" said chccrily.
 Come easy, como casy," he said. You know Two been asleep g years"
 He seemed to nerve himself, and then he wanted to know what the best trOtting lime was.
 'Alix, 2:03s4," answered.
 The lnto corpse fell back on the bed and gasped. His face got as white as sheet. He got himself together after bit and then asked as hc straightened up:
 Whats the pacing record nowf"
 "Robcrt J, 2:Ol14," answered.
 Then he dropped dead agnin.-R. A.
 Eaton in Omaha World Herald