New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-06

the perfect road horse. He is now twenty years
old William Keliy's bay geiding, Major. 2:11
A z. PERKINS, Zembia, 2:11k from Buffalo,
George A. Colemans Kingwood, 2:1714; J. w.
Cornishs David B.. 2:09A. and Daniel ODelrs
chestnut PAGER. Quadriga, 2:0s2, were other
campaigners and road horses of note in this
division Of the parade. The two well bred stock
horses, LEmpereur, 225, and Highland Baron
23o, came in among the famous ones, Robert E.
Bonner. the of Robert Bonner driving the
latter horse, with David Bonner beside him in
the road wagon. Then there the renowned
Baby Lii, with an authentic record of 2:3519
driven by John J. Quinn, and Homer Daven-
ports imported Arabian stallion, Koubi-sham
the Cobwebs of the desert. who is said to have
trotted in 3:524 a short track. Horses such
as James L. POSI-: Bumont 2:o9a: New
castle, 2:114; Commodore Porter, o:13; King
Egbert, 209a4, and Thomas Edison, 2:0Ss4 who
Were not deemed TO be famous looked enviously
at Baby Lii and Koub-sham all the way up to
Dyckman-st.
START A LITTLE BEFORE 3 O'CLOCK.
The head Of the column moved from SEVENTH
eighth-st little before o'clock. The horses
logged along at a five mile an hour gait and
reached the reviewing stand at Durandos road
house, in Dyckman-st. about an hour later
There little semblance of schedule order
after the first two division had passed. single
horses and double teams following another
in the line. The last turnout passed the re-
viewing stand at AS.
Five minutes after the first trotter had gone
Up Dyckman-st. il was plain that the plan Of
dispensing the horses at the upper end of Dyck-
man-st- would not work. The street became
jammed with horses going up and coming back
toward the Speedway. and blockade appeared
to be unavoidable, when Marshal Newburger
mt he prGar linz
Dyckman-st. and keep the horses moving back
TO the Speedway. where there ample room
for all.
Many we'll known hor5emen and officials
watched the parade from the piazza and balcony
of the roadhouse. Besides Messrs. Guggen-
heimer, Gilroy and Dana. there present
General Nelson 4. Miles and Colonel LIE Grand
b Cannon; George c. Clausen. president of the
Park Board; Commissioner Brewer of Brook
Ign, and Willis Holly. secretary of the Park
Beard; Sheriff Grel and ex-Sherif Dunn, Sheriff
Molioy of Westchester County, Register Isaac
Fromme, John McCullagh, ex-Chief of Police;
C. Welde. Commissioner of Jurors; Corporation
Counsel Whalep, Bridge Commissioner James
W. Boyle, Judge Warren W. Foster, John Quinn
All guests of the Road Drivers Asso-
citation. They had been transported from the
Harlem River pier at Seventh-ave. and One
hundred and ffty-fourth- TO Durando's the
steamer Valley Girl.
CoBwEBs NOT IN THE LINE.
gramme to ride in the surrey the head of the
procession. did not appear until late in the after
noon, and then he walked up the road with
some friends. Cohwebs, the most widely
known Of all Speedway trotters. not among
the 500 horses that logged past the reviewing
stand. A place had been assigned to Cob
webs just behind the little Arabian stallion
Koubisham. that is neither trotter nor PAGER.
II said that the owner of the King of the
Speedway" did not fancy this arrangement, and
so kept his great horse in the stable.
One Of the most remarkable features of the
parade was the uniform good behavior of the
horses. Not accident Of any sort was report
ed the police, although the high melted
horses had all kinds Of pr0vOcation for running
away and cutting up shines. Crossing the car
tracks at Broadway and One-hundred- and
rwenty-ffth-st. caused of the flyers to
prick up their and indulge in few capers
but none got beyond the control of their drivers
A b. Gwathmey's little chestnut mare Louise
Nc. 2:09l2 put the test at this point in
the Journey. An electric swept around the
corner right under her nose. with the bell clang
ing at q great rate yet the well hammered 2:1O