The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-16
MOTHER OF PAGERS
How Little People Know OF a Really Great
Mare.

When Mrs. Corbett goes shopping in
San + rancisco she is the object of more
than ordinary curiosity People stand
upon the curb stone and rivet their eyes
upon her. All this is because of the fact
that she is the mother OF Jim Corbett, the
champion prize fighter.
When Mrs. Samuels used TO go 10 Kan
sas City ten or a dozen years ago crowds
flocked around her and fairly craned their
necks to get one single peep at her and
boast of the honor of having seen the
mother of Jesse James.
When Mrs. Sullivan, with her market
basket on her arm, walked on the streets
of Boston towards the Central market to
get a little cabbage and bacon, all the
people of that highly cultivated city ap-
piled their glasses to their eyes and from
gorgeous equipages stared intently on the
woman that gave birth 10 the exemperor
of the fist.
When old lady Dalton comes into the
western metropolis of Oklahoma from her
claim everybody takes a half holiday to
90 out and see the mother of desperadoes.
All these mothers belonged to the civil
lied human creation. Famous posterity
reported yesterday that Damewood was in
town scores of people chased around town
to get peep AT the mother of John K.
Gentry, who holds the stallion pacing
record of the world. Damewood, however,
was not in town.
She was in town a few days ago and
very few people noticed her. She wasn't
so famous then as since her distinguished
son reduced the pacing record Of the world,
r.. or a
Fame is great thing in the horse world
as in the III ~ world.
Ii was early in the week that Damewood
was in town and she podded along Doug
las avenue as other horses do.
"What is that mare worth? said well
known business man, who knew Dame
wood, 10 a bystander.
well" said the man addressed. The
way horses are going now / believe Sl5 %
would be pretty stiff price for her
Horses are fearful cheap at present aud I
have seen better than her sold this sum-
mer for Sl5O0" The same business man
asked three others To value Damewooi
aud no one valued her at more than $500
II he was selling the mare st auction IN
the crowd that gathered around
il is doubtful whether he could get even a
bid OF that sum
The crowd didn't know that Damewood
was the mother of record breakers, or that
state.
There is nothing stylish about ner She
is simply plain, honest mare who bears
her honors without pride. she j. not only
the mother Of John r Gentry, but is also
the mother of Myron AcHenry. She Is
now, ~ she has been for several ye.rs.
the property Of II. q. Toler Of North
Wichita.
The recent records of John r Gentry
and Joe Patchen demonstrate very plainly
that what the EAGLE has always SAID
about the superiority of the Arkansas
valley as horse breeding locality Is true.
Both are not only Arkansas valley horses
but they were bred and born ii tdis
county. Joe Pstchen was foslei on tie
Jewett stock farm near Cheney, and John
K Gentry was fO2led at Toi=r's farm in
North Wichita. They not ouiv Ar
kansas valley hoDsss themselves. bus their
sires and dams are Ashland Wilkes and
Damewood. the sire ana dam Of John r
Gentry, belong 70 the TOisT stock farm.
The sire OF Joe patc1en, Pstchen Wilkes,
belongs 10 the Jewstt stock farm 10 this
county. while tie dam i by Joe HScnc-
who belonged 70 Mr.. " est brock OF Pea
body. John r Gentry was bought
for 500 by jimmy Rauey, who was a
trainer with Toier aud John X. Gentry Of