The age-herald., 1901-05-14
The Horse of State.


 : The second inauguration of President Mckinley was decidedly horsey occa- sion. The President rode from the White House to the Capitol behind a four-in- hand, and the special escorts were all mounted on what the reporters called magnificent black horses. There was such a demand for horses to ride in the pa- rade that most any kind of an animal rented for S15 per hour. You will observe that s15 per hour means $50 per day of ten hours. This is not much of an argu- ment for the near coming of the horseless age It also indicates radical difference from six years ago, when horses out In the wild and woolly west were selling for what their hides were worth for leather and the meaty parts for sausage and canned goods for export to France. We understand the President has on several occasions declined the gift of an auto mobile, and from present indications our official class will not discard the horse for the machine motor. In times past all our great Presidents were not only horse fanciers, but horse experts. George Washington was the greatest horseman of his day There were no good roads in Virginia in those dreary old times, hence there was no chance for reinsmen. The American trotter of today was then only a shambling dream; he had not been evolved out of the evolution of modern civilization. General Grant was a most enthusiastic devotee of the harness horse and the most constant speedway driver
 1a I,t Gn16iarQ statesmen, philosophers on divines. Henry Ward Beecher, a singularly great preacn- CT. and singular in other respects, was an enthusiastic road driver and an expert reinsman on the Brooklyn speedway. Tal- mage ranks among the cracker1acKs or today as a preacher and as speedway road driver, and his love of the horse and of the pleasures of the road are noted The Duke of Wellington rode the famous war horse "Copenhagen'' at the battle of Waterloo. After Copenhagen died the great soldier had a strand Of hair rom his foretop placed in locket, which ne wore until his death. Mir. Talmage, In sermon on the horse, says:
 CT do not wonder that the Duke of We'll irgton wore a. bracelet of Copenhagen's S hair. Not one drop of my blood but tin- gles as I look at the arched neck ana paving hoofs and panting nostrils or Jop war horses. Has thou clothed his throat with thunder? He paweth in the valley: he goeth on to meet the armed men. The culver rattleth against hlm' the glittering spear and the snieio' ns saith among :he trumpets, ha, ha; ana
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 If reports from Louisville are true Eo Geers' stable of green ones and old cam paigners is made up of marveiousiy strong material. From the reported con dition of the champion, The Abbott, ms owner has every reason to bellVe thaI HIS master reinsman will not permit Cresceus' Roraline or any other to lower the colors of the kingly son of Chimes. George Ketchum. the owner and driver or Cres- ceus has boundless confidence in his fast. game. rugged son of McGregor, the oia "monarch of the homestretchs ana VIII prove to The Abbott party that tneir horse will meet a foeman worthy oi HIS steel It Is of the greatest importance that a. meeting, under favorable conol- Hons of The Abbott and Cresceus takes place. for should they not meet fairly ana souarely the question of supremacy would remain unsettled and the adherents ol each horse would never cease to prate about what would have been the result of the contest between these trotting IT. tans, each a champion, and each mar vel of scientific breeding. The Abbott mas a record of 2:o314 to harness, and has also pulled a four wheel bike wagon a well Authenticated trial mile in the same pne- nominal time Cresceus has a record ol s:O4, and is regarded as the gamest, rug redest, most tireless. hard fighter in a rough and Humble race since the days of his illustrious sire. Ed Geers will drive The Abbott. He Is cool, brave. wise and crafty. George Ketchum will drive Cres- oeus. He is a race reinsman of skill and wisdom and knowing the wonderful stay ing qualities of his great stallion will no doubt attempt to kill off The Abbott from the wire to the three-quarter pole.