New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-23
BEN BRUsH'S SUBURBAN.
/. spLENp1pLY SUCCESSFUL RACE DAY.
,Hr coNEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB ENJOYED A
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BRILLIANT OPENING.
THO Coney Island Jockey Club has many reasons
o., pride and satisfaction over the imposing sue
ass of the Suburban Day OF 1897. Although the
NV was gray and dark in the morning hours, the
,,enaces OF rain did not prevent the assembling of
er,ons Of spectators and the attendance was ex-
.sl,snt IN quality as we'll as noble in numbers.
The gains Of the stockholders must have been
larger than ever before. William X Vanderbilt Is
the chief owner Of the lands and buildings and
secu-ites Of this racing organization. Mr.. Van
derb!lt recently took ship for foreign lands. All
his friends and Representatives at Sheepshead Bay
we're sorry that he not at his track to
Rem Brush win the Suburban in the presence of so
MANY fair women and of so many men who were
presumably brave Lord Byrons verses about the
hall which took place on the night just before the
battle Of Waterloo are immortal.
A, sheepshead Bay yesterday the giddy whirls OF
thu waltzes OF Waterloo were not seen 1t not
a time FOR dancing, although Lander's Band, in
suffering new uniforms. played superbly. 1t was
an end-of -the-century festival nevertheless-deco-
rous enough. stately enough Ia Colonial dame led
one OF the measures). lively enough, but not too
lively two-step-yes. a two-step-to which
Michael F. Dwyer and George Z. Smith the twin
pungers Of the American turf. capered nimbly, but
not too nimbly Nothing improper. Everything al
most sedate Lots OF fun. though. A bit Of farce
now and then. The Bacchante. cast out by Praise
od-Barebones- Boston, is now under the shelter OF
the amiable Italian arm OF General Cesnoa at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in this city. Oliver
Cromwell Powell objects to the Bacchante. He
savs the figure Is too Greek and too classic. The
Personal Purity League does not like the Bac-
chante, The proper place for the Bacchante is In
the grandstand at Sheepshead Bay. Set the
statue on Athenian pedestal just there and then
LET Powell rave and the Personal Purity League
imagine vain things. AS TO Anthony Comstock.
he's a dead issue. The NEWCOMERS want statues
Of Bacchantes in fit places and they want brisk
sport on pleasant days. The Sheepshead Bay race
track Is a suitable place for the Bacchante. with
James Viepigue holding up and Frank
Clarke holding up the other. Aaron and Hur
held up the Of Moses after the 1sraelites had
despoiled the Gentes several thousand years ago.
The Israeli,es despoiled the Gentiles in the bet
lingering yesterday. Go 10 the knickerbocker The
atre. Go 10 the Casino Go TO almost every the
atre and almost. every music hall now open In
New-York, and you will see the lsraelites taxing
IN the money Of the Gentiles And the chosen peo-
ple is amassing the accused pelf OF the evminded
Phil!stines everywhere on earth The news from
Cape Town is just like that from Nova Zer.ola.
In Borneo the descendants of Isaac still levy trib-
ute upon the unhappy posterity of Japhet. In early
chapters OF Genesis IL was made clear that reck-
less and improvdent Gentiles should everywhere
be a prey to the elect whose lineage ran back in
unbroken line TO the era of Seth and Enoch. The
fourishing in the racetrack betting-rings in june
1897 In the mounds OF Asia Minor no "Goodwin's
Official Turf Guide" running back to the years be-
fore the Noahic deluge has yet been discovered
But somewhere under the prehistoric strata the
leaves upon which cut the cuneiform hgures
depicting the triumphs Of the Sir Walter Of that
time must be hidden. And 1t cannot be doubted
that the bookmakers OF the period OF Nun and
Joshua were chiefly Of the tribe OF Israel and that
they made the uncircumciseG of that time groan
IN anguish even the Hebraic rabbis, whose daily
talk IS confined 10 the Talmud. skin the cream or
the odds In the betting-rings of to-day
Generations ago a profound admirer Of spinoza
remarked that, although Titus conquered Jerusa-
lem the scattered tribes, which were dispersed
after Gideon broke his lamps, were seeking their
revenge on all the nations of the earth. THAI re-
yenge is not vet gutted. On every racecourse In
Christendom ard in Islam. and in all the countries
Of the globe the Gibeontes are still seeking after
vengeance. And the Gideonites also. When the
visitor to the racecourse goes Into
the betting-rng he usually encounters both. the
Gibeonites and the Gideonites.
A GREAT BOOM ON THE TURF.
The holders Of the stock of the Coney Island
Jockey Club had gleeful afternoon when they
razsd upon the magnificent throng Of people who
passed through the gates and paid their money for
high priced tickets. The first race cost the club
only $500 In the double event the amount put up
by the club was small. In the Suburban the owners
contributed most OF the amount WHICH was idceu
for In the second the treasury Of the club
was not wofully depleted. And so 1t was OF the
other races. The club gave up comparatively tiny
sums while the spectators were taxed severely ana
the bookmakers and the caterer were asked 10 pay
over handsome amounts. II is to be regretted that
W X. Vanderbilt was on the ocean at the time. ii
he had been at course. he could not have faied
N he pIeased over the overwhelming profits which
his turf investments bringing in. The net
profits were stupendous. In the earlier years OF
the club the Suburban was much richer prize
than II was yesterday.
The other prizes of those days were fat and
round A liberal number of complimentary badges
vas ,ssued then Yesterday the total outlay was
meagre while the total receipts were enormous.
Certain Wall Street spectators have been pegging
I'D the quotations for Chicago Gas to sky-scrapihs
levels Why should not the quotations for the STOCK
OF the Coney Island Jockey Club go SAILING up 10
heights far in the vistas Of the P!eiades? II the
managers who managed the opening day OF the
meeting with wonderful acuteness, skill and aoii-
ity can keep the meeting up to the standard Oh inc
opening day, why should not the price OF Cohey ISL
and Jockey Club shares go flashing past the Quo'a-
tons for the shares Of the Standard OIL Trust even
as the figures for the common stock OF the sugar
Trust pass the winning line in a common canter
la- IN advance OF the limping. crippled, heart
broken leg shattered bran-parayzed shares OF the
Whiskey Trust?
STRIKING SUCCESS OF THE GREAT TRUST.
There are trusts and trusts. The Sugar Trust and
the Chicago Gas Trust are paying tall dividends
H!nalayan dividends in fact. Some other trusts.
Ike the Rubber Trustabout the most worthless and
eunpty OF all the trusts-are paying little no divi-
dends The Racing Trust OF the latest and
oiest them all. may pay colossal dividends here
after II Americans will go to the races in the fu-
ture In armies as they have gone 10 Morris Park,
TO Brooklyn and SheeDshead Bay this year. When
the treasurer OF Morris Park and the treasurer OF
Brooklyn and the of Sheepshead Bay count
the money they will cry out tha; the Racing Trust
OF 1897 is the most lucrative and glorious and mag
nifcent Of all trusts. Why should they care for the
public form? When the horses left the wide acres
o. Morris Park and began 10 run at Brooklyn, where
everything is narrow except the spacious and gener
Gus and lofty souls OF Philip j. Dwyer and Colonel
H. ID. Mcintyre, strange changes were seen. II
horses are taken from the praire-ke stretches and
the illimtable reaches OF Morris Park the little
lanes OF the Brooklyn Jockey Club they cannot run