The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-09
Race rack and
Stable Gossip

Der Of the Spirit of the Times will be
of interest to the many admirers OF
the late senator:
In a Christmas number of a turf
paper was an article about the old days
at Palo Alto, which awoke old memories
l put in several years there and dearly
love all memories of the grand place,
it's masters, and people, and the article
recalls an incident that happened one
day while there. Governor Stanford
was a wonderful man in many ways,
and the firmest in his convictions l ever
saw. The Palo Alto system of training
of which he was the creator, and which
Mr.. Marvin so successfully and faith
fully carried out to the letter, both in
his abseace and presence, (and worked
harder than any man in the world to
do it,, was certainly productive OF
great results. Mr.. Stanford was one of
the shrewdest judges Of human nature,
but of a lovable disposition, plain and
transformations, and it was pleasure
to get an opportunity to talk to him,
as there was always something to be
learned; no unkind, nor uncharitatble
criticism ever passed his lips.
He was easily approached, and seemed
to consider his great wealth as but a
means with which to do good to others.
He was a true philosopher if ever there
was one.
The incident above referred to, which
went to show his true inward concep-
tioon of money and the value he placed
on it apart from the good he could do
with it, happened as follows:
When the governor was home he was
usually to be found in his favorite spot
under a beautiful oak on the track in
the lower part of the stretch watching
the horses. that he so dearly loved, step.
A sign a the drawgate read, None but
employees allowed on the track" Mr..
Marvin had had this sign put there to
save the governor from being annoyed
by the people who had come out there
when they knew he was home. Some
were after political jobs, others sub
scrptions for home missions, foreign
missions or any old mission they could
get. This day l refer to there seemed
to be larger gathering of worthy mis-
sion seekers waiting at the office. They
really intruded on the only pleasure
he had. I was driving a two-year-old
brother to Azmoor, and stopped as l
passed the tree to have a few pleasant
words with the governor. He looked up
the track at the people waiting, several
times seemingly annoyed and said, Mr..
DWyer the only recreation | have in
the world is to come here and see you
ullSc lhG I'LL GS, anu HULL d. 4 lOfS IL,
do not get the opportunity to enjoy
it." I said, Yes, governor, I suppose
you work very hard, and l would not
want your job for my board and
clothes"
He smiled kind of sadly and said,
THAT is all l ever got out of it, Mr..
Dwyer." The answer made a great i'm
preston on me. Here was lesson for
everybody. man with this worlds
most precious treasures within his
grasp. with wealth enough to ransom
a king, with domain worthy of an
emperor, weary and worn by the way
side of life, with physique that was
once as rugged and sturdy as the oak
he sat under, built to withstand the
hurricanes and tempests of life, "a man
that every god has set his seal upOn,
whose only thought now in the autumn
of his life was to dispose of the vast
wealth, which in his estimation the AL
mighty had but loaned to him, where it
would benefit humanity the most, and
continue to do so long after he had
crossed the Divide between time and
Eternity, and that great mystery that
surrounds the world. Bury him among
the kings; he has done good in Israel"
He sleeps under the shadow of the giant
lone pine" whose head has grown
hoary and gray with the passage of
time, and from which the ranch derives
it's name. The soft wind of winter, as
it signs through the trees so fantasti-
cally, and Wondrously hung with the
long gray moss seems to sing his re-
QUEEN, in a land where the myriads of
beautiful song birds ever sing their
melodies at the first sign of day after
Gods angels have lifted the nights
black veil from the kindly and boun-
teous land of corn and wine where the
sun, golden with imprisoned light, sinks
with the dreamy dusk into the blue
waters of the mighty Pacific.
The old place has now become the
mecca of all those seeking knowledge
and wisdom in the grand temples which
he so munificently endowed and built,
and built well. Future generations will
write his virtues on the tablets of love
and memory. The sweetest, brightest
spot on earth-dear old Palo Alto.
On the subject of heat racing, the
Newark Call makes the following peril
nent remarks: THE Mutual Driving as
ISOLATION of this city from the first de-
cided upon two in three contests, and
the plan has worked admirably. The
managers took the very logical ground
that two in three makes a contest as
decisive as three in five. A race of I'M
limited heats sometimes becomes MUIR
derous, and we have witnessed contests
where the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals would have good
cause for interfering. ]. V. N. Will
lis lost one of the most promising young
stations ever bred in this state at
Fleetwood some years ago, and his
death was due to the prolongation Of
heats the horses scored not less than u
times. The death of Salute was made
an argument by trotting horsemen in
favor of shortening harness contests.
The filly Twist was never worth much
as a race mare after the nineheat con-
test which she won at Pimlico. We all
remember the disgraceful contest at
Chicago during the exposition when
the pool box sharks were able to
carry race through two days, and had
it not been for the phenomenal endur-
ance and speed of Alix, it might have
been carried into three days. If asso-
Citations will do their duty and send
properly instructed delegates to the
congress this change, with that other
much needed reform, abolition
of weight for drivers, will be brought
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