Evening star., 1900-05-19
Paget. the clever Englishprzn who got his
stable together and traiu<d them from the

stable together ana traived them from the
beginning, went to South Africa to take
his own purchasing. A few days before
the Metropolitan handicap at Morris Park
was run, for example, he paid Madden, the
Kentucky developer of fast horses the neat
sum of $4,000 for three-year-old horse
named kimarnock that won a few good
races last year, not. however, being re-
garded as anything extraordinary. Mr..
Whitney liked the horses looks. and when
Madden told him that $4,000 would be the
figure the ex-Secretary of the Navy forked
It over without any dickering. and started
the horse in his coiors in the Metropolitan
handicap. 1t looked if 10000 was a
pretty steep price for the horse and some
of Mr.. Whitney horse-wise friends did not
hesitate to tell lm before the big race was
run that he had been "let in and that
In all human probability he had purchased
Just S200OO worth of gold brick. Mr. Whit
ney didn't take any stock in what they
said about his purchase. He told them that
he thought Kilmarnock was cheap at the
price. The horse started in the Metropoli-
tan handicap and ran a very bad race.
never showing among the front ones at any
stage of the journey.
I'VE told you So said Mr.. Whitney's
horse-wise friends on the club house veran-
da, and they poked gentle fun at him for
De!nS what they termed a good thing.
Mr.. Whitney took it all amiably only re-
marking that, in his opinion. Kilmarnock
was the best race horse in America.
He Had His Revenge.
Just a week later Mr.. Whitney put Kill
marnock in the Wthers stake, and the
horse was pitted against the ornaments of
the American turf in that race among the
number the mighty Mesmerist. a horse
whose owner recently declined 100000 for
him when that amount was offered by Il
famous English racing noblcman. Kilmar-
mock was at a good price in the betting.
''kilmarnock will win easily" said Mr..
Whitney to his learned friends as he stood
on the club house veranda, watching the
horses parade to the post.
They viewed the ex-secretary with mild
disdain. Kilmarnock. after getting away
from the post badly. sailed along up to the
leaders in the backstretch until there was
none but the great Mesmerist to overhaul.
Mesmerist led by two lengths into the
stretch. Then Kilmarnock galloped over
him and won the race, pulled up, by two
lengths in fast time.
1t was a study in good manners 10 over
hear the well-bred guying with which Mr..
Whitney treated his wise friends.
Il am perfectly willing to admit he said
to them, Wiping his glasses with great care,
chat you gentlemen may know something
about orchids and ceramics and pink teas
and things of that general character, bue
when it comes to race horses ana ne
made an eloquent deprecatory gesture with
both arms.
Sunday at COney.
The mad. merry season is on at Coney
Island. Nearly 100000 persons journeyed
down to the place on Sunday last. Quite a
few of them appeared to be able to con-
vince themselves that they were having a
lot Of fun. 1t Is the same old Coney-same
imitation Midway. same barkers. same
deirum- m-tremens piano players sl a same shoo., nd
wild men of PEORIA etc, on exhibition.
There are few new exhibitions. however
Yelled one barker:
Come on inside, now de bunch o youse-
on'y dime-an' see de man wot beats de
races
Needless to say. so startling a freak at
tracted plenty of curious visitors. Those
who went inside saw grfmy hobo. more
than three parts drunk. who was running
one of those machines which spin toy horses
around a miniature track. after you have
tried to pick the winner-that is, If you are
very unwise and in a quandary what to do
with your money
Stretched across the entire front of one
of the bathing pavilions is this inviting
.UNEEDA BATH"
Quite a few of the visitors at Coney last
Sunday acted on the suggestion and
splashed around in the cold surf.
New York Necessity.
In 9th avenue in the heart of the torrid
district known as the Tenderloin. there is
an artist who is called face fixer.' The
sign outside his office reads: BLACK Eyes
Painted. Black Eyes Cured. Scratched
Faces Flxed All Right Give US a Cail
When 1t Happens We Strive to Please
The face ixer has all the patronage he
can attend to- The ladies and gentlemen of
the Tenderloin have habit of landing on
each other pretty frequently, and the dis
figured ones always go to the face fixer to
get their countenances put to rights. The
man IS exceedingly skillful in covering up
the traces of encounters between the Ten
deroiners. and he charges pretty stiff prices
for his work. A plain black eye, however,
he will both paint and cure for two-dollar
note-which Is cheap at the price. The face
fixer sent out two sandwich men to adver-
ttse his business the other day. They were
a pair of twin vags. well known on the
Bowery, so much alike that they couldn't
be told apart. The face fixer painted an
artificial black eye and a lot of bad-looking
scratches on the face of one of them, and
sent him forth with the before sign tackled
i'll front and behind him. He made up the
other twin vag's face to look a great many
times better than nature ever made it, and
On this one he placed the after" sign. The
two are still wandering around the Tender
loln. dt a distance of about fifteen feet from
each other. and a very New Yorkish picture
they make. c. L. c.