The record-union., 1898-09-05

ana gOOQ cheer aDOunQeO. L. u LhS@
man, Shep Knapp, David Bonner, VIM.
H. Vanderbilt, Lew Parker. VIM Turn
bull, Roscoe Conkling, Matthew Riley
James Bresln and their cronies were
most of them to be found, weather
permitting, gathered in either end OF
Barry's cafe, which was about 70 by D.
and only large enough to pack the daily
assemblage there congregated in close
order The fastest teams and single
roadsters in the world were comfortably
blanketed under the sheds of Barry's,
and the very oldest and best whishes
were to be had in the cafe both during
the landlordship Of Florence and Barry.
For this reason no other roadhouse
ever succeeded in enticing the custom
ers of the Romantic away from that
hostelry.
During Barry's occupancy the young
er Bonners, Robert, Edwin and Freder-
ick drove many a fast one to the
sheds of the Romantic. Paul Dana,
John Shaw, VIM. Harbeck, H. NJ.
Whitehead, Colonel Fred N. Laurence,
Louis Lorillard, A. Newbold Morris,
Riley, Charles A Willis, John c. de la
Lawrence Kip, Fred w. Vanderbilt, and
many more that memory fails to
promptly recall, were almost daily call
ers at the Romantic.
OF the best known of the light-har
ness horse brigade of the Commodore
Vanderbilt era, the Commodore, Isaiah
Rynders, Shep Knapp, George B. Alley,
William Turnbull, Captain Jake" Van
cerbilt, A. b. Darling, William Humph-
ries, Major Morton and others have
passed into "the beyond"
l wish the spirits of their favorite
steeds may have some horse heaven
contiguous to the abiding place of the
spirits of their former masters, and
that they may enjoy occasionally each
others presence. And l wish that their
spirits may hover around and about our
new speedway, influencing both men
and horses in the same straightforward
way that they pursued when on this
sphere.
A more stirring scene than the hustle
and hustle of starting for home from
the Romantic could scarce be imagined
A movement on the part of either the
clan Vanderbilt or the clan Work was
signal to put on overcoats and break
Tor the sheds, where grOoms, ever alert,
and up to their work. instantly uncov-
cred and loosed the flyers. And then
such scramble for the south end of
Seventh avenue. (Not always the end
of the contests.) Woe to the faint
hearted, he who does not ''go up among
EN-"
If such a laggard or coward there was
hl oct OF
Of that old-time party be it said. few
II any ever faltered, and a pluckier,
nervier set of men never lived before or
since, Teddy's Rough Riders not ex-
cepted.
Many brush between half a dozen
teams or singles lasted for mile or
more with hubs almost locked when
wagons were used, and rails lying on
top of the other when sleighs were IN
evidence.
Will these good old times" ever re-
turn, or rather will their like be?
l trust so, and base my hope in the
new speedway
OF the more recent devotees of re I'd
riding William H. Vanderbilt, T. c.
Eastman, General U. S. Grant, Captain
j. H. Roster, Roscoe Conkling Matthew
Riley, John c. de La Vigne and S. T.
Dickinson have left u.s.
Among the most prominent of the
present day road brigade are Louis G.
Tewksbury, Fred Dietz, Captain Nc
Donald, George Crawford, Nathan
Strauss, William Rockefeller, John D.
Rockefeller, Colonel Fred N Lawrence,
q. Rowland Leavitt, John B. butcher,
II. III. Brockaway, Horace Hutchins,
Charles A. Willis, E. T. Bedford, H NJ
Whitehead, E. D. Slater, D. s. Ham
mond, w. H. Hoffman, Colonel Law
renee Kip, G. E. Armstrong, Fred T.
Steinway, j. B. Doerr, Andrew Miller
W. E. d. Stokes, j. S. Ferguson, o. s.
Bailey, Oscar T. Mackay, Frank Ehret,
j. w. Horner, j. B. Hasslocker, Jacob
Ruppert, j. Rupert, Jr., Anton
Swartz, r A. Fairburn, A de Cordova,
Thomas K. Egbert, Fred Gerken, John
Rudd, Daniel OdeIl, G. Seaman and w.
g. Leland. OF the veterans Frank
Work, Harry Eldred, Lew Parker, E. D.
Slater. Robert Bonner David Bonner
Charles H. Kerner, Charles Backinan
and w. II. Van Cott are still with US. in
apparent good health and their friends
hope and trust they may remain in the
ranks of the lovers and devotees of the
trotting roadster, and live long and
prosper" A. Willis, in New
York Evening Telegram
What's in name?"
Everything, when it comes to medi-
cines.
A sarsaparilla by any other name can
never equal Hoods. Insist upon Hoods