The herald., 1894-10-21
THE AFTERMATH OF THE RACES
Some Interesting Views of Race
Track Scenes.
What Can Be Seen By Student of
Human Nature.
All tho World and His Wife Were
Present and BY Little Actions Told
Considerable About Their
Characteristios.
To the student of human nature day

To the student OF human nature day
ct tho race track is liberal educa ton.
1t is thsre, If anywhere, that the human
animal is displayed in his multiiarious
guisss and disguises. from the moneyed
sTistocrat, whose racing stable has
yielded up its beat to contribute to the
day. sport, through all the varying de-
grees OF race. color and condition, to the
ragged, barefooted gamin who has to be
chased off the track every few minutes
that the city may be saved the expense
OF funeral.
They are all there, the ovsried, enter
tained-to-tha. point-of-extinction dowa-
ger, who, garbed in the latest and new
est in the way OF color. style and fabric,
views the scene haughtily through
priceless lorgnette, from her
costly landau that is carefully
drawn up just to the right
of the judges stand; the belle OF the
hour, mounted sloft in conspicuous
place on the box seat OF drag, know
ing that every body can ees her and see
ing every ything from under the huttering
lace of her psrasol with the-world-is-
AhibO oii bOI1Sly buttCflJs oiehDA
matron or maiden, holding from the
vantage point of box on the grand
stand, ber little court, and making her
little bets Of gloves and candy with the
ely air OF novice and the conscious
knowledge that 19 to l she will get the
bet whether she wins or loses.
Further back, but still OIL the grand
stand, where they have to stand up in
order to see the bomestretch run, and
the lesser lights OF society, the lumna-
ries OF the masses, honeat and prosper
oue tradespeope with their families /;
honest, in that they scorn in turn the
shallcwDess, insincerity and hypoerisy
OF the society that scorns to admit them
within its exclusive pale; prosperous
because they have been shrewd enough
to supply the demands in one branch or
another Of that same eocisty.
Then there is the maid, the girl thai
is paid so much per week for services
rendered, or supposed TO be rendered ;
rhe hss been allowed sn afternoon of, 4"
has arrayed herself in the best and
gardiest her wardrobe affords, has me-
her beat fellow on The street corner and
climbed into the buggy that be has
equsndered half weeks salary
to h're, or. h2ving contensed them
selves with the more plebsian
and appropriate means OF conveyance,
the streetcar, to the gate, they carefully
procure there bag Of peanuts. another
of popcorn. and package of chewing
gum that has lasting properties the 9TH
er dsinties do not possess, and with arm
hooked through arm enter with the
thruug. equipped Tor whole long after
no)n OF biiasiul Joy. He ia the Kind of
mar and perhaps it might be eaid he ia
the only kind, that does not leave nis
ducinea betwesu the heats to "see q
man"
The average married man takes bis
wife under protest and in order to avoid
family jar. finds place for her beside
come ir'enda, stops a few n0ments
and then spying friend down
there by the club house whom
it is imperative for him
to see, excuses hlmeelf hastily, ane
once away he usuaily stays away; if nd
has been lucky during his absence he
appias finsnoia! salve 10 the eruption
that follows cloee upon his return ii he
has lost he answers vitnperation with
recrimination, and wishes he were dead
or had had the sense TO remain single
like some Of those fellows be has neen
during the day who, fe.terless and
free. jauntily mounted the grand stand
when the betting waE Glow, chatted
airily and only go long ss they pleased,
with the omen v hose eyes frightened
az they approached. and who, having
10 claim up on them, did not look in
suited or hurt or despondent when the
men made their adieus and returned TO
the aliurinS and spicy atmosphere that
surrounds the bookmakers.
ADfl thOsa acp,a hnol, III
shrswdness snd craitiness with which
they ply their trade; the jockeys, with
their imperturbable expression OF face
that contrasts 30 oddly with the hsm-
boyant colors that adorn their person !;
that ie, from the waist up, and which
mover varies, that impertUrba biity,
even though they know that with the
race they have just lost man'e last cent
bas gone, too; while on che other hand.
after heat that has been go cioee. 40
exciting that thousands of people have
rent the air with their shouts of enthus.
iasm and wild cheers, and the last mad
chaee has been made down the home
etretch and under the line, perhaps
only neck ahead, butslill the winner
Blr. Jockey eides oH his steaming
horse and, followed by etable boy,
Eish his saddle. mounts the judges
stsnd for his testing weight, with q
coEntenance absolutely expsessionless,
without even Gleam in his eve to tell
hat ne knows what he naH done and
that, with the horse, he is the hero OF
the moment: why, even the judge him
self, stop in hand. aud realizing
the responsibility that he had assumed
few moments earlier, when. he pro-
nounced the magic word &C.," shows
more animation and enthusiasm.
And la6tly, what OF the men who ex-
change money on the probable or possi-
ble result OF race? Not the owners of
the horses; they ere usually men of
ample means, or they could not indulge
Ia 40 expensive luxury. They are on
The inHide, too, and know tho odds
against them, and that il they lose
On one race they stand good
show OF winning on the next. Now, of
the professional frequenters and hang
ers'on OF track. Ii that class OF men
were not gambling on horees, they would
be gambling on something else; it is
their business, and they usually belong
to stratum of society from which little
Ia expected by the community. Il is the
merchant, the tradesman and the clerk,
dependent on more or less limited in
come, who are the least able to lose even
small sum over the result of race
YET their loss, even though it cramps
their legitimate business, or forcee them
TO lorego the comfort OF q winter over
coat, lures them back the next year as
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