The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-19


tatOrS' Attention.
From the New York Times.
of he had had me that way he would
have made me guess. said John Franz.
It was at the Madison square garden the
other day. at an of time The Indians were
playing ball in the big arena, ana John
Franz and Pedro Esquivel, two of the
Wild Vests best rough riders, with New
York Times reporter and more Indians,
all in their most gorgeous garments. were
admiring spectators in the seats. The big
garden is not half bad playground. even
on a stormy day.
The two rough riders were initiating the
reporter into the mysteries of cowboy life.
They had been talking Of the idiosyncra-
sizes of the outlaws" the mustangs they
ride in the ring, and particularly Of the
actions of one of the animals the other
day Franz was telling Of his uncanny
piece of viciousness. This is what the mus
tang did:
His time for trying his riders ability for
staying with him had arrived. He was set
loose and started like bolt of lightning
for the middle Of the ring, his rider hang
ing on one side, one foot in the stirrup,
not having had time to mount Reaching
the middle of the ring where the rider got
into his saddle the horse stopped short
"swapped ends, put mis- head suddenly
in the place where his tail had been be
fore, went back a little, and turned again
in the direction in which he had hrst
started, pitching all the time.
But he didn't get his rider, who was
able TO keep with him" In other words,
he was not thrown. 1t was of this that
Franz said: IF he had me that way, he
would have made me guess. Many's the
time I've been guessing whether I'd be Off
or on.
you never can tell what those horses
will do. they have new tricks every day
Many a time the boys do good trick and
they don't know how they did it. When
a horse can't throw you he'll try to paw
YOU, and when he can't paw you he'll try
10 kick. You have TO keep your eyes
turning like bicycle on the road TO Coney
Island"
These horses are most of them out
laws said Pedro. when you have
rounded up lot of horses on the prairie
you get them into the corral. When you
want one 20 use you pick him out and
lasso him, take him outside, and tie him
TO a tree and let him stay and fight all
night.
I'm the morning you will ride him. He
comes for you as soon as he sees you,
with mouth open and feet in the air. Some
one Iassoes him around the front feet,
then one man puts on the hackamore-
the halter, you call it-another puts on
the saddle. You get on, and they let him
loose and he goes off bucking and kicking.
You ride him until he gets a little tir-
ed, but you must stay with him, or he's
a spoiled horse. You take him out the
second day and go all over with II again.
After the first week you take him out 10
get a steer or wild horse, and he learns
10 get out of their way. You give him
pretty heavy work, and in about three
weeks he has learned that you are his
master, and he is trained
"But there are so many horses out there
they don't care about one or two, and If
man comes along and thinks he can
ride, they let him try wild horse. Then
he can't stay by the horse, and he gets
thrown. Then they let some one else try
the horse, and he is thrown. and perhaps
three or four, and then the horse is an
outlaw. He is always working for
chance to throw a man. That is what
these horses are"
The cowboy fun" at the Wild West,
as every one familiar with the prairie life
of the south and west knows, is very
much in earnest. Most of the riders in
those parts of the country get pretty well
used up before they give up the business.
the prairle?" asked the reporter
yes" said Franz. "Out there your
horse has chance to run until he gets
tired. but there is no knowing where he
will take you. If he runs you up against
the front of the seats he Is Liable to break
a leg. or he may run you up against the
canvas. and If they didn't have lot of
men on horseback just outside the en-
trance to the ring they would carry you
through. ! would like TO have a horse
take me inside: they'd carry you DOWN
stairs. and there is no knowing where
you would wind up.
when / was boy OF twelve or thirteen
on my fathers ranch. there was nothing
was afraid Of. | would tail steer and
throw him or DO anything. There was an
old fellow on the ranch who was a splen-
did rider
'Thefe'u c9ue lime when you won't
feel like doing as YOU do now this old
fellow said. 'Therell come a time when
your bones will get old and sore. but l
wouldn't believe him. When ] first came
here wasn't scared Of anything.
People think the horses are trained to
do as they do. and don't think there is
any reality to any Of it,"
why do the horses stop at the other
end Of the arena when you have ridden
DOWN." said the reporter.
THE new horses won't do it," was the
with you the first part of the season,
but the other horses have learned that
when they get down there II they give
you a chance you'll get off without their
assistance. If they find they can't get
you. and you'n stay with them as long
as they're getting mean. they let you OFF,"
Franz Is called the handsomest Of the
cowboys His horse Jubilee Is subject to
some OF the most unpleasant idiosyncrasies
of which "A horse OF the kind Is capable.
and outlawed mustangs have unlimited
capacities In the way az meanness. Jubi-
lee, who gets his name from the date OF
his purchase, the year OF the queens jubi-
lee, has for a first and most unpleasant
bad habit that Of lying down. lie COM
mences when his rider starts 10 mount:
he Is liable TO stop and roll with him al
any moment after, and II he doesn't do
that he tears down the arena bucklng and
pitching IN a way that can be seen hy
every one, aud hardly appreciated for the
ful value OF It's genuine cussidness" by
any one who has not had some experience.
Jubilee'a rider wears the regulation cow
boy hat the ordinary outer lex covering
OF the cowboy. chaps" the chaparcjos.
ana the red blouse which distinguishes
him from tho rest OF the riders
Anything 10 attract attention " ho aavs