The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-27
HORSESHOERTOTHEC CAR
UNIQUE HONOR CONFERRED ON
FREDDY" MACK, OF THIS CITY.
Sailed Yesterday for Moscow-How
He Obtained This $500 o
Year Job.

indianapolis men have been konored with
prominent positions abroad. but it remains
for Thomas Mack. a bright Irish lad. who
has been living with his mother, Mrs. Rosa
Mack, on Cornell avenue. to be compli-
nented by the most unique honor of them
all-nothing else than horseshoer to the
Car OF all the Russias. Mr.. Mack sailed
from New York yesterday, having left this
city a few days ago, and for his services
at Moscow, where the Car has a stable
of famous t%rotters. Mack will receive a SAL
airy of $3.50 a year, besides having all his
expenses from this city to his destination
paid.
Mack was better known In this city by his
sobriquet of "Reddy," drawn from the
slightly Titan tinge of his Uranium verdure.
and 1t was by this name that he was iden-
titled when inquiry was made for him by
the head of the Cars stables at Moscow.
Mack is only about twenty-one years old.
but has been working about the city for
several years, having learned his trade at
a shop on South Pennsylvania street. He
was n very clever chap at handling the
feet of horses, and when a call came from
horse owners at the State fair grounds race
track, Mack was sent out TO do the work.
Il Ao-iA oNoAAs q $500 t0fACN
observed the lads work. and was much i'm
pressed with the skillfulness of it. He also
observed that the horses shoed by Mack
seemed to move easier on their feet. This
was over two years ago. A short time after
wards Starr was employed to take a string
of fine trotting horses to Russia. These
horses were for the Car. Upon arriving at
Moscow he was persuaded to remain in the
royal stables, as there were few men there
who knew much about t%rotters. particularly
those from America He agreed, and since
that time has not been back TO America.
Starr experienced much trouble with the
royal horseshoers. Several Englishmen
came along and he employed them, but
found they knew little about the proper
footwear for t~rotters. Then he thought OF
the lad whose work he had observed at the
Indianapolis race track. He wrote TO friends
in this city to look up an Irish boy named
"Reddy." who had worked for him one sum-
mer at the track. Through Pat Dickerson
and one or two others "Reddy' was traced
and Stairs letter was put in his hands.
He was asked TO cable Starr at once II ne
v ould come and at what figure. Mack
didn't feel like investing in cablegrams, so
lac sat down and wrote, concluding that 1t
would be worth a fair figure TO go so many
thousand miles away from home to a land
where IL was cold during a large part of the
year. He also added, in putting $500 a year
as a value on his services, that he wouldn't
care 10 venture the sum necessary to pay
his expenses going to Moscow. Within a
couple OF weeks, an incredibly short time 1t
seemed to the Irish boy, he received a cable
gram accepting his figure, and telling him to
draw on New York bankers for expenses
ard for an additional sum with which to
buy certain American stable equipments.
Mrs. Mack. the mother of the young
horseshoer, is a woman of some means, and
is proud of the skill and industry OF her
son,