The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31

Saratoga, Aug. 30.-The Springs in its
most palmy days, when Commodore Van
derbilt and the men of his generation
made it their summer days. or wnen
Tweed and their rolicking crew OF pirates
turned night into day. never approached
the Golden Days of 1902. Whitney has
boosted" Saratoga. He has placed it on
the summit of success. But It Is no place
for the man of small means except he be
sharp scented and on the trail of gold.
Thousands chiz-.sss hands daily. 1t is an
American Monte Carlo. The pressure is
awful. The speed is that of 1.-THE TWEEN
tieth Century Express"
In the morning the ticker offers the
Wall street prices; in the afternoon the
book-makers lay long odds on the horses,
and in the evening Canneld offers a IS to
l shot at roulette These three special
lines of hazard are well patronlzed Bank
checks are not the medium of circulation.
Nothing goes but yellow backs.
The race horse mania is the fad.
Whitney pere has the largest stable, the
most expensive string of thoroughbreds
and the poorest record of winnings; his
oOA eAAAN SOAilb OuAgGd DGEun Win one
horse, Irish Lad, and are heavy winners
and now Mr.. hoslyn appears. Who Is
Mr.. Roslyn? Mrs. Whitney and Mrs.
Duryea. Sensation; tableaul John e.
Madden hobs up serenely for Mr.. Roslyn.
and Mr.. Roslyn now owns the st. Blaise-
Seaweed yearling purchased at the Reed
sale for $24OO; the two-year-old chestnut
gelding Alsono, bought of Mr.. Madden,
price not stated. and the two-year-old bay
tilly Intervention, purchased from julius
Fleischmann for $500.
The unwilling of the mysterious Mr.
Roslyn to Mr. Harry Payne Whitney and
Mr.. Herman B. Duryea came as a greet
surprise. 1t was after breakfast at the
clubhouse that the announcement was
made. Both young Mr.. Whitney and
young Mr.. Duryea had been imparting
horse information to their wives and
friends in a patronizng way, when Oh
of them casually announced:
We've got race horse, too"
The firm of Whitney and Duryea gasped
and moment later learned the truth.
They were in the presence of Mr.. Roslyn.
The new firm had purchased Alsono from
Madden. Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Duryea
announced that their only ambition was
: to defeat Irish Lad If they had to buy
every other horse in the country. Later
1t came out that at the Fairview sale the
yearling was bought for Mr.. Roslyn Still
later it was announced that the next
time Intervention starts 1t will be with
the colors of Mr.. Roslyn. That other
horses are to be added to the stable q
practically admitted. Mr.. Roslyn is In
the market for high-class thoroughbreds
with speed; that is, all except Irish Lad.
An enthusiastic friend of Mr. Roslyn de-
clared this evening they wouldn't have
him (Irish lad for present"
This is not the first time, so far as rec
ords go, that women members of New
Yorks fashionable set have entered rae
ing. Mrs. George Lorillard, after her
husbands death, raced for two years IN
der his colors. It Is not unusual for wo-
men to do so In England. The Duchess of
Montrose, the Sporting Duchess, raced
for years under the name of Mr.. Man
ton" while Mrs. Langtrys race name,
Mr.. Jersey, has long been known.
Everybody knows that Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney is the eldest daughter of
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt She has a
very large fortune In her own right I'm
til last year, when her husband began to
take an active interest in racing, she was
never seen on a clubhouse lawn. Mrs
Duryea was a Miss winchester, and is
also possessed of an independent fortune
She has been for several years an enthu-
siastic member of the hunting set, and is
an expert horsewoman.
Another sensation has been afforded by
the entree of Mrs. Lily Barnes-Allien,
who has been living in retirement since
the death of the late Pierre Lorillara
She dashed past the Grand Union Hotel
few days ago, seated in a high, light
mail phaeton with blue body. holding
the ribbons to three prancing bays driven
abreast; behind in the spider sat a tiger
in cherry-hued livery. with cuffs turned
back at the collar and wrists. At once
the turfmen recognized the well-known
Lorillard colors-the colors that had been
ridden to victory on the first American
horse that had won the English derby
So theatric a debut naturally revived the
scandal attending the will of the late
Pierre Lorillard. In which he devised to
his friend, Mrs. Allen, the famous Ran
eocas stud farm. Nobody knew she was
in town She had leased coftapa dIIad