Evening star., 1902-08-30
foredoomed TO failure-to evsde the snap
shooters.
Schwab Took Different Course.

| Young Charles Schwab, the president OF
| The big steel outfit, who went 20 Europe
/ last week to rest up after his physical
| breakdown, apparently profted by these
awful examples as he saw them in the
yellow newspapers. AS he stood on the
/ pier, chatting with some friends while he
waited for his steamer 10 issue the "Al
ABOARD and all ashore" call, he observed
the large flock Of men with cameras cir
cIlng about him. He stepped out into an
| open space with laugh.
Here, you boys" he said. cheerfully.
nre away-IH stand up for you. As long
| as it's bound TO be I want TO be made TO
! look as human as possible, anyhow
| The result was that the snapshots pub
| lished OF Mr.. Schwab on the following
| morning did not make him look like a
gloomy gorilla or slouchlng criminal. but
/ Ike a cheerful, self-contained man of the
world.
Mr.. Schwab seemed to have the right end
| of this Photographic business. as the say
! ing goes. The celebrities might Just as
well stand and deliver to the persons with
! the cameras. They are inevitably going TO
be photographed somehow or another. and
before long they Will unuuestionably real
ize that when they are presented In the
picture dailies as freaks. they have been
Tor a long time, now the joke is on them.
Horsey Society Women.
The horsiness OF the younger set Of So
ciety women OF New York has become
SINCE \ OOmber OF notable
went in for racing a few years ago. Dur
! ing the race meetings at the swell tracks
around New York the paddocks are always
| filled with tauuty looking young matrolis
OF the 100 whose interest in the saddling
and weighing in and the toilets Of the
1 horSeS about TO compete seems to be as
acute as II is critical. Before the recent
retirement of Clarence Mackay from the
turf on account Of the death Of his father
is was a curious sight to see Mrs Clarence
Mackay, the beautiful Katherine Duer be
fore her marriage and a cultiVator OF the
muses. engaged in an earnest kind of a
heart to heart talk with a midget OF a
Jockey about TO take the mount on one Of
her hunband's horses. Mrs. Mackay and
numerous other young wives of millionaire
husbands who have gone in for the thor
oughbred game in recent years have be-
come almost as proficient as their husbands
in their ability to estimate the qualities Of
race horse, and to hear some OF them
conVersing with griZzled old veterans Of
American trainers on the subject OF a
racers peculiarities Of temperament ana
construction is liberal education.
In the meantime the upgrowing sons Of
the wealthy are going heavily for gentle
men riding honors, and It is likely that
next year will witness three or four times
as many gentlemen riders races on the
New York tracks as have been carried up
TO the present time. The young chaps of
the rich appear to want to get the hang
OF the game that offers the very greatest
danger and In this respect the business of
lifting horses over the Jumps in steeple-
chase races undoubtedly gives them even
more opportunities to break their necks
than automobile racing.
Young Clark a Daring Rider.
Young Ambrose F. Clark, the millionaire
son of the millionaire mother who is going
to marry Bishop Potter soon, is about the
most indomtable Of the young gentlemen
riders hereabouts just now. He rides his
fna Frir Of
chases. and he is a magnificent horseman,
at that, although he has had several ex-
tremely dirty falls, the TURTLES put it.
since the beginning OF the season, The
young fellows pretty fiancee sits in the
stand and watches these performances with
a sort Of nerve-racked fascination and it
is rather pitiful to watch the cOuntenance
of the girl when the lad is shot about fif-
teen feet or over his horses head when
the animal balks at jump or comes down
wrong. 1t is said that he has several times
given her half promise that he viii give
up riding in professional races. but If this
is the case the fascination Of the game ap-
pears 70 be too much for him.
1t Is said that young Reginald Vanderbilt
the young man who didn't get his univer-
slty degree this year, and who was rounded
on by his family early in the spring for
dropping a very large amount Of money at
Canfeld's gambling club, is pining to get
into the gentleman's steeplechase game. but
that his mother, not to speak Of his fiancee
Miss Nelson, have sternly and tearfully
begged him not to thus risk his neck. The
boy is a crack horseman and IL is pre-
dicted that he will be wearing the colors
alongside professional jockeys i'm another
year, despite the implorations Of his women
folks.
Dizzy Conditions at Saratoga.
The muttering over the dizzy state Of
things up in Saratoga this year continues
to be heard on all sides, and even in the
most conservative newspapers there have
been some ominous growlings. Nowadays
the individual who speaks of class law
or class legislation" stands in grave
danger of being accused of dema goEy: yet
the contrast between the non-euforcemtnt
of the gambling laws I'm Saratoga and their
enforcement in New York and other sec
tonS Of the state is calculated to induce
thOughtfulGeSS on the part of the most con-
servative. They've been openly betting a
daily amount of money calculated at s. 5pl.-
UHO on the horses since the beginning of the
race meet there. have these Gatescs and
brakes and other plungers with millions.
The faro banks Of all grades have been
wide open. The most fashionable people
at the resort have been taking their dinner
every day under the same roof which can
OpieS the biggest table games on the con-
tinent. The Saratoga season has been a
delirious carnival of gambling. every detail
of which is known to all the world. Even
the women of wealth and supposed refine
ment have been playing faro bank up there
with all of the fevertsh passion OF their
gambling husbands and brothers.
And yet. If a party Of workmen. jaded
after a days labor. begin a bit OF a game
Of pinochle for 10 cents corner in decent
ale house in New York they are swooped
upon by the cops and incontinently yanked
off to Jail. Not a day passes that a dozen
or so of innocuous little poker games penny
ante and scent limit. quietly carried on in
the rear Of dinky little New York cigar
stores. are not gobbled up by the police
and the players hailed before magistrates
for fine Imprisonment.
Plant of the Pool Room Keepers.
Even the oId-fashioned. so-caIled old fogy
ish newspapers OF the let-well-enough-alone
school are beginning to awaken to the fact
that there is a good deal Of justice I'm the
plaint Of the pool room keepers OF New
York, most Of wnOm are now out OF busl-
ness again since the recent renewal OF the
raids against thcm. II betting on the So
called sport Of kings is a crime IN a pool
room. saw these people, IL Is equally a crime
under the law on the race track. and there
certainly is a whole lot Of logic IN the con-
tentlon. The present operation Of the law
Is all in favor of the bookmakers' trust
called the Metropolitan Turf Association
the lolling mOgulS who lay the prices on the