Evening star., 1900-10-13
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I started out on Monday July the End to
| finish the my district, but got only four
miles from my residence" where q
bilious attack of fever took me and l had
| to return home and called on Doctor -
| for treatment have been confined in
, bed days but got up to write this report
and to send off my Schedules but could not
| finish it l had to lay in bed again.
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'"The recent performance of the Abbot
| in lowering the trotting record to 203 and
| a fraction proves that blood will breed on"
| explained a well-known turfman to Star
| reporter, better than any theory COM
| btnaton of theories 1t also proves that
! the two-minute trotting horse is not in
! sight yet. That he will come, 1t Is reason
| ably sure but the coming will be one of
| time and development. The Abbot is royal
| ly bred. and is one of the examples of the
| theory of the late Senator Leland Stanford
| of California, who bred his sire and owned
| the grand sire of the record breaker. The
father of The Abbot was Chimes, a very
| fast trotter himself, who trotted faster than
| his sire. Electioneer, the premier OF them
all. 1t Is not a surprise, therefore, that
The Abbot should trot very fast, and not
| very surprising that he should take the
worlds record, wonderful the perform
ance was. Chimes was the son of Beautiful
Bells and Electioneer, and one Of a family
that brought more money than any similar
number of horses in the history of the trot
| ting turf. His brother, Bell Boy, and his
| other brother Electric Bell, were terribly
! fast, though they were outtrotted / think
| by a still younger brother, Arion, owned by
j. Malcolm Forbes of Boston, and for
which he paid Senator Stanford S125,O0O In
cash. ! happened to be with the senator
the day he sold Arion to Mr.. Forbes. The
price was fixed at $125,OOO. cash down on
| the spot. Mr.. Forbes held off for awhile,
but finding he could not do any better asked
I hat ,Nrfna n11 halt hn
thrown in, which the senator by the way
declined to do, though the day Mr.. Forbes
took his horse away the senator gave him
a pair Of horse blankets the finest prob
ably that were ever made, costing $500.
Electric Bell the brother of Chimes, Arion
and other rare ones, you may remember.
was valued by Senator Stanford as being
worth $1,000 per day every day that he
lived. Ex-ReDresentatve J. G. Sibley Of
Pennsylvania asked for price the day the
colt was eleven days old. and informed
by wire that 1t was $11 1,00O Three days
afterward he asked if that was the best
that could be done on cash basis. He got
a reply that the price went up $1,000 a day.
When the colt was eighteen days old Mr..
Sfbley became his owner at $4,000. Sena-
tor Stanford had the satisfaction Of beat
ing the worlds record of 2.03t2, which was
held by Maud s., the long reigning queen,
when his flly Sunol passed the wire a
quarter of a second faster.
He regarded this performance as only
natural consequence, saying that Sunol
was bred on lines laid out to beat the rec
ord and the colts of the second generation
OF Electioneer would, If his theory of breed
| ing correct be considerably faster.
! This performance of The Abbot, heard
| outlined, therefore, in almost every detail,
| four years before he was born. for the Sena-
| to- was thoroughly convinced of what he
| was doing, and what would follow. Yes.
| there is such thing price on The Abb
| bot, but no one can reach it. There is no
| necessity or purpose of selling a horse who
| can get 2,OO0 per day for every day he is
| allowed to trot. for that is the price paid
| the present season for his appearance as
| star, with an extra purse of 81. 900 put up in
case the record is lowered. There are no
| horses that can be sent out against him,
and The Abbot has been without a class
/ during the entire past season. The grand
| sire of The Abbot, Electioneer was sup
| posed to be worth 100000, though the
senator would not have sold him at that
| price"
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THE mill in coinage exists only In the
! school books used in the primary schools.
| 1t never has existed anywhere else, and
| from the nature of things never can," OBJ
| served a leading financial man to Star
| reporter. ut is mystery to every one
| why 1t was ever originated, for q unit
! of value 1t is only fiction. There are no
| mills, never have been and never will be
| under the circumstances, therefore don't
| see why 1t is put In the books in the pri-
| mary schools, with the explanation that
| ten Of them make one cent. I am glad to
| know that the mill does not get any more
! into the school books Of the graded schools
| beyond the primaries. 1 have been a
| banker for thirty years. but know nothing
of the mill except what was told me the
| first week l went to school. All my life
| has shown me that 1 was told wrong and
that there are not ten or any other num-
Ter Of mills in a cent.
| Several weeks ago | was In Portugal,
( and I had decided to return direct to Bos-
| ton from Lisbon rather than to sail In the
ordinary way to New York and from there
\ to Boston by rail. On applying at hotel
| for room, L asked, as Is customary, what
was the price The clerk answered 75O
| reis per day. This was a new me,
| for: though I had run up on number of
| Gus parts Of Europe, 1t was the first time
| l had heard of rel. Somehow 1 did not
| like the sound of the word, and turning
| to another clerk, asked him what was the
| price of first-class passage on a good
! steamer from Lisbon to Boston. He an
| swered that it was 10000 reis,' and seemed
| to be willing to send me off on the next
steamer. This necessitated my asking for
| an explanation, and, as the clerks talked
English as well l did, l asked him to
| put his reis into American dollars and
| cents. This he did by explaining that the
| price charged for room. without board,
| was 10 cents per day. and that the steamer
! fare was $50 This led on to talk of reis,
/ which Is the unit of value of Portugal. In
| value 1t represents about the same as mill.
no reis as a matter of fact in Portugal and
! rever had been, though all values were
based on them for a unit"
| No Mistake.
From Puck.