The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-11-26
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DAN FOGG'S LETTER.
Mr.. Fogg's Impressions of the New
York Madison Square Garden
Horse Show The Wonderful
knowledge of Horses Displayed
by the Ladies Belonging TO Goth
ans Select 1900"

Mr.. EDITOR: Have Just been read
ing about the Horse Show at Madison
Square Garden. There's nothing pleas
anter, when one is tired from hauling
corn in the mud with team of poky
old horses, than to read about the Horse
Show.
But before coming TO anything about
horses, | had to read several columns
about the millionaire swells and their
lovely ladies who occupied the private
boxes.
Absorption of the Horse Show reads
like this 1.-THE Baroness de Selliere
had bevy of lovely women in her box.
Mrs. Belmont Tiffany sat near Mrs.
Ollie with her sister, Miss Cameron
Mrs. Tommy Hitchcock looked aw-
| fully horsey in tan cheviot and field
glasses levelled all the time at the
ring; Mrs. Dyer was the personifcation
of sport in a hunting pink waistcoat,
| ETC. 1t takes a man like myself, who has
been brought u, with horses, to under.
stand such a description of Horse
| Show. You may not be able TO get in
to the spirit of the thing as do.
But there was a real show of horses
out in the ellipse; yet their points of
form, style and action did not receive
the same attention by the newspapers
as did those same points of the ladies
in the private boxes.
/ certainly would like to have been
there to learn to jump horses over six
foot fences, and drive four-in-hand
teams to drags. Think of a horse out
on my farm that would jump a five or
six-foot fence The Lord knows that
one that will jump Il two-foot fence
with blackberry trimmings gives me
trouble enough. Then l would have
gotten some new ideas about driving
drags. Though we farmers claim pri-
ority in drags, we never meet in compe-
tition with them for show. Drags we're
used for crushing clods long before
they became fashionable vehicle.
Those city people like drags better than
: l do. | never yet rode one on the farm
but with some reluctance.
To these people of 1.-THE 4OO' who exc
. hibit themselves at the Horse Show
| the horse is the animal God created for
! riding after hounds, or pulling a drag,
a trap, fourin-hand or racing sulky.
They probably never think of the dry
| and uninteresting relations we farmers
, sustain TO the horse.
: would like to have FoXhall Keene
or Mr.. Belmont take my job of hauling
corn tomorrow. l know it would be
, pleasanter for me, and would give them
? new ideas about the use of the horse.
| Those fellows eni Joy riding after hounds,
! driving a four-in-hand, or attending a
, Horse Show But how would they like
I hauling corn with polly old team Of
mares. and mud all over their overalls,
away from the admiration and plaudits
, of the ladies'?
, If | could haul corn in fine togs, and
, have the ladies look on and admire me,
, the work would be jolly sport. With
these fellows it's the ladies that "male
the mare 60"
q This morning, as I started my team
a toward the cornield, imagined | was
: in Madison Square Garden. With my
$ head as proudly erect as centaur, anC
4 lines held according to the best author
: ity on driving, struck squarely across
= the corn rows at full speed. Every
.. corn shock seemed a mass of cheering
v admirers. But the glory of the thing
\ was brief, for the blamed old Wagon
= run up against a clandestine rock anC
= pitched the gallant driver headlong of
n his feet, almost knocking the front ends
D out of both the aforesaid driver anC
a the wagon. These day dreams o.
a wealth and glory are very treacherous
j
q say it never said a word.
: | again resumed the modest micn O
y farmer away out in the cornheld
e hundreds of miles away from Madison
e Square, with nothing but my corn
+ basket and my wounded sensibilities.
q Even the ladies of 1.-THE 4OO' becom,
4 very horsey sometimes, and are inter
4 ested in the Horse Show for othe
i things than fashion and beauty. The,
o often display marvellous knowledge o
4 the horse.
5 To illustrate the fact, one time Mrs
4 Vandergould, Mrs. Rockemeyer anC
9 Mrs. Belmontastor were driving alonl
a country road, when they saw larg
v gray percheron over in the field.
3 What beautiful horse" said Mrs
Vandergould.
"Oh! isn't he beautiful" responded
Mrs. Rockermeyer, with the emphasi
= on the isn't"
= "And so large he must weigh thre
= or four hundred pounds" said Mrs
y Belmontastor.
y Look how beautifully his lovely fet
Y locks curl around his ears" observe,
Mrs. Rockemeyer, always with an ey
to details.
"And obse've those strong knees o
Vandergould, confident in her knowl
u edge of the horse.
u "How grandly he carries his hea
{ with his strong, powerful Group" SAT
Mrs BelmOntastor. 1T seems to me
y with that horses spacious Group, h
could never become stihed with colds
like some horses.
"Oh! Mrs Nandergould, eXclaime
V Mrs RoclSermeyer with changed eS
o preston, II do believe there's some
i thing wrong with that 'hawse.' Don
= you see those dull warty-l looking thing
y sticking out of his 'foah' legs?"
Z. Yes, Mrs. Rockermeyer, am sorr
9 to say that is tistula, and 'feah' it can
y be cu'ed."
y "Oh! no, Mrs. Vandergould, put /
}, Mrs. Belmontastor, ''you are mistaken
q that is glande's, aud all healthy horse
u have glande's."
l. That settled it. They were all please
!, with the animal, and decided to fin
q the "fa'mah" and buy the horse a
% once. Mrs Vandergould was given tn
J. preference, as she discovered him first
/ She decided that two thousand "dol
% lahs" would be a reasonable price, an
% the other ladies agreed that it was lii
. tie enough; but they were afraid tn
y fa'mah" could not be induced TO par
u with such noble animal, as "he woul
,, probably want it to help draw his chi
u dren to school in their fou' '-in-han
i coach" Good Lord
= "They We're just starting toward tn
farmhouse when the rain-drops starte
them back toward " New Yawk," 70,
=, | rattinU the Hlitt1a mn cha San that won |