New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-03
A TALK WITH FRANK WORK
ocToGENARIAN HoRsEMAN TELLS THE
STORY OF EDWARD AND SwIvELLER.
HOW HE CAME TO BUY THE $4,000 TRorT1NG
TEAM. AND HOW THEY BEAT THE REC
ORD - EDWARD FAST AT
TWENTY-SEVEl

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| One OF the sights Of the town for horsemen who
! visit New-York is the private stable OF Frank
Work in West Fifty -slxth-st.. next door to Car
| negte Hall The place is one Of the finest horse
homes in the city and It shelters one of the most
| notable collections OF trottng roadsters In the
| world. In company with the Western reinsnan'
| Jack" Curry, and the Boston horseman Herbert
Gray. who ooks after the turf interests OF IhOmas
! W Lawsou a reporter Of The Tribune visited the
place last week Mr.. Work had just come In to or
der Barnetta els hooked up for his regular morn
| ing drive While Charles Nell. the foreman vas
| getting the shapely big bay mare ready her owner
sat in the dining of his luxurious apartments
upstairs and talked interestingly about his equine
pets particularly the famous old pole team Ed
ward ESQ and Dick Swveller GI0.
Mr.. Works strong attachment for his horses
was brought out forcOiy when old Swiyeler. in his
thirtieth year lay down and died about week
ago. The old horse somehow got down while
he was loose IN the exercising room OF the big
stable and could not rise. Foreman Nell thought
he had fractured bone In the shoulder. but his
owner attributed the trouble to attack OF spinal
meningitis Everything possible was done to re-
neve his suffering. Mr.. Work would not leave the
stable. Himself past eighty years old, he watched
over the dying horse until after midnight. When
II became evident that old Swveler's end was near
Mr Work put him to sleep by administering chloro-
FORM
said he.
How did you come 10 buy the old horses. Mr..
Work." inquired Jack" Curry, hoping to hear the
story Of Edward and Swiveller.
The veteran horseman blew the smoke from his
cigar toward the ceiling rehectvely for moment.
and then said:
A freno Of mine saw Edward out West early in
for road Horse When I heard that he was only
fifteen hands and an inch high decided that /
formances through the Grand Circuit that year.
and when the horses reached Providence l went
Dick Swiveer Powers and one or two others, FOR
a purse Of $500 $500. had no thought OF
the front in the first heat and trot stride for stride
from wire TO wire just ike double team 1t was
track and IT captvated me completely: As ! re-,
member IT, swyeer won the hrst neat DO IN d bc
Before the second heat Jock BOWEN was Pu5
behind the chestnut o horse heal Was IKE the
first Edward and Swiveer trotting me t I'LL, T af
like The bay horse won aga bafo Tsn the a.
third heat went to Edward after another c lose
tSis heat with Edward in 2ls that he came up to
where l stood and said: Buy MIN, hes the ias'es'
young horse eveT sGory Short Edward won
race. His true time in that third heat was about
NV recollection s that he trotted the mile IN 8;II
ar once began to negotiate Tor both cu"alu d It
swiveer and finally bought them EDWARD e0S'
| II was nearly year afterward that sot ine
| otber horse For Swiveller I gave Jimmy Golden
az 600 and another horse. took them up to sara,
| toga-the best place in the world Tor horses-ano
drove them on the sandy roads there ior soie
| time . -. Ia. o,a nod
| one day after ! came back to the city ana nao
| driven the team UP 10 Fleetwood, the tax on the
| Clubhouse piazza turned to double teams. VIII
! lam III Vanderbilt "Shep" Knapp and ot OF otheI
| road riders were there. ! took the ground that
two trotters well matched could go faster 5, to,
| Serness "Shep' and Vanderbilt ridlculed the idea
| Edward and swivelIer were standing under the
! sheds back Of the clubhouse. and took them out
| 20 nTove the truth Of my argument. They were
| inst as they had come from my stable downtown.