The Newtown bee., 1900-05-18
TEN PAGES.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
c. G. Peck Answered.
EDWARD TAYLOR REPLIES TO HIS rR1EN

EDWARD TAYLOR REPLIES TO HIS FRIEND.
 think Neighbor Peck must have
 mania for newspaper writing, for it ts kes
 about a column of writing to accomplish
 a purpose that he admitted in his former
 article to have known all about, as
 there Ia nothing else eff he will read my previous article over carefully) but what
 is subttantially answered either in those
 clippings that he took exception to or
 what he has written himself. Therefore
 l shall make this very brief, as do not
 care to tire the readers of THE BEE by
 rehearsing the same ideas over and
 over again, even though they have been
 little differently worded.
 If you will bear with me a moment I
 will answer as briefly as possible the one
 he makes SO personal. He says only 8
 short time ago was driving pacer, ,and
 when he met me on the road nay familiar
 remark was: "She is just the sweetest
 gated thing that I ever pulled 8 rein
 over." You will reCollect in my previous
 article that I said did not object to
 trottIng bred pacer myself. As a rule
 they had good knee action and made
 good road horses. Now, Friend Peck,
 this was one of that kind and the sweet. est gaited pacer ever saw. That is why she brought such a good price.
 And she, had she been trotter, (every- thing else being equaD would have brought twice what she did.
 One thing more. Although explained iu my former article, he goes away into the Dark Ages to try to prove that the pace is the natural gait of the horse. l Now what Is the natural gait of horses ? It is the gait that majority of them take 1 to naturally. And there is not a school | boy in this country but would tell you l there was not one horse in 30 that he | meets on the road that paces. And still | he would have an intelligent public be- | lieve that the pace was the natural gait | of the horse! Neighbor Peck speaks | of Star Pointer, although in substance I | answered it before. Now, there are two l great families of pacers that go away l back to the forties and fifties, the 1 Blue Bulls and the Halls. It is hard to tell just what breed they sprung from, as so many of their ancestors are untraced. | Be that as it may, the Halls are the greater of the two so-called pacing fam lilies, and they are really great. I wish to say that Star Pointer is the fastest | horse in the world, and he is an inbred | Hal, and & p8cer as well. Now, the New | York market is the very best pacing mar ket in the world, and he (Star Pointer) ! has been sold there twice, l believe, with in few years, and he did not bring l nearly as much as little Tommy Brftton | did last winter, trotter with mark no l better than 2,08. Neither do I reco1lect of any pscer, either slow or fast, that has been sold there llately that brought any such money as $20,0OO. And again he would have you believe that a pacer would bring as much as trotter. But | some people will buy the pscer to brush | and race with, because one can get so | much speed for so little money, and any l one can afford to own them. But no one l wants them for carriage horse or for | any other than the above purposes. Now l do not think it is progressing very fast l when two articles that cost equally alike l to produce, and one to bring from two l to four times as much as the other, to try | to produce the cheaper. It looks to me l like back acting progress. Friend Peck | says the hOpples are admissible on all | tracks now. l guess he forgot the Ken lucky Trotting Horse Breeders Associa. tion, one of the largest associations in | the world, which does not allow hopples. | But all of this has been answered before l and as promised to be brief, for I do | not think this going over the same l ground so many times is very pleasing l or edifying to the readers of THE BEE. |
 However, I shall be pleased to meet 1 Neighbor Peck at any and all times to | discuss this question at any length, for 1 am sure 1 can do 1t in an impartial | manner, as I am not interested in any sire, only in general way.-[E. Taylor.
 r. s.: I am pleased to know through l THE BEE that J. A. James, sthe popular | agent at Hawleyville, and I believe an all round good fellow, sympathizes with Friend Peck and the pacer. do myself. But the trotter does not need any sympa- thy. He stands at the head of all har. ness horses in the world, all points being cOnsidered,-T T.