The morning times., 1896-01-05

beast. Stories of horses going without
food for days at a time and then only re
ceiving few pounds of hay begged from
some charitable. feed man and of men and
boys who wese only getting one meal u
day.
| OF course the shutting down of the tracks
| forever is the best thing that could happen
| to the City from n moral standpoint. but
| what will become OF these horses and men
| is question that would tax the brain of
Coxey. Indeed, 1t looks as if the govern
| ment would have to step in in casethe tracks
| should be permanently closed and ship
them all TO their homes.
Two race tracks that have degeherated
into mere gambling machines were bad
enough to have on the outskirts of our fair
| city, but how much worse a disgrace IL
would he 10 have n colony Of starving
people quartered within few miles of the
Capitol.
This idea seemed to be predominant at
the track yesterday and While under
some circumstances the woeful faces that
the turf followers wore would have been
laughable, their utter helplessness to better
their condition made it anything but a
subject of mirth.
The talent are not the people who need
the sympathy. They are used to knocking
| about from one race track to another, and
| are happy-go-lucky set who never give in
when hard luck strikes them.
The trainers and stable hands are the
| people who suffer the most. They will stick
| by their charges TO the last. and will often
! 20 without food themselves SO they can
, give the horses n good square meal. They
| do not have the same chance that the
/ handicappers and touts do of getting hold
| Of a few dollars every day, and conse-
| quently never have anything except what
comes to them through the head of the
! stable
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| ma jority OF the owners will stay right
| where they are. AS one of them said:
"They might just as well starve in
| Virginia as anywhere else"
SHIPPING THE HORSES.
Walter House is one of those who will
leave. He will ship his string TO Ne
Rogers stock farm at Eikton. Md. There
| are five in the stable. among them being
| Juliet, Pirate Chief and Buccaneer. s. D..
jackson appears to think that the chances
| of racing in New Jersey next season are
| good, as he will ship Jersey, Hazel, Co.
| lumbus, Marguerite ii. and Dillon j. TO
| Gloucester. F. Herald will also go to
Gloucester, and will probably leave the
| first of next week. He has ten in his string,
| walcott. Pickaway and West Side being
4 the best of the lot.
Lehan & Co. are Western people, and
| they will take Harry NJ. and his stable
| mates and go back TO their home in st.
| Louis. Outside of these the most prominent
| of the stables have nearly all decided to
| stick it out for n time at least. Those who
| will remain at one or the other of the
| across-:he-river tracks and wait for the
| Virginia legislature to take some sort Of
| action in regard 10 their fate, with their
| strings are:
| j. Castle, nine, among them being Red
| Star, Gov. Fifer, Grampian, Pattie, Nc
Kcever and Kenyon. Avoca Stable, four
teen, among them are Chswick, Rebea,
| Parthenia, Wheeioski, Gascogne, Apprentice
| Beaureguard. and Rolla. c. Douglas. five,
johnny, Rlue Bonnet. Boisterous, Camden,
| Nantucket, and Kitty Van. Arthur Worley
| will keep his string of fourteen. Among
them are Tancred, Fagin, Siberia, 10 Jap,
Valkyrie, Despair, Reynard- Charma Po
noma Belle, Milton III, and Romeo.
George W. Hanlan. twenty, Too Much
| johnson, Benefactor, India Rubber, Harry
Keister, Traitor, Partiiian, Pathway, Helen
| H.. and Vent. W. Kuhn, four. Lawrence
| Stables, eleven, among them st. Lawrence
III, Remorsc, Clovis. and Venusburg. J.
| Fagin, eight, Tommy Brophy. Gonzales.
| Some More, Cuckoo, and Crescent. W.
| Holer has twelve he will keep here, among
| them being Connors, Irene, and several
| youngsters. Eennett Barnes. seven, Mid
Rose, ArGa, Matte Chun, Benvolio, and
Sails.
.iiney'' Thomas, five, Bennings, Fish,