Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-17


| en- by inferior animals, simply because of
| the inefficient jockeyship of poor riders.
The few remaining Jockeys of stake
| class are almost able to climb aboard SELL
| ing platers, and by splendid riding and fin
| ishing beat out animals of proven stake
| form, and this Is a situation that initiates
badly against the success of the sport AS
soon as a lad gives evidence that he has a
good pair of hands and any ability at all
| in finishing nowadays, he is eagerly snapped
| up by high bidding owners Of horses. Large
sums are paid as bonuses in purchasing
such jockeys services from owners having
contracts with them. But a good many of
the lads thus purchased quickly prove
themselves to be counterfeits. Old Eng
land; the best horse that has been shown
on New York track this year. was beaten
| nose by an inferior horse on Saturday
last In the Withers Stakes simply because
he had boy on his back utterly incapable
OF competing with young Shaw. James R.
keene'S Jockey, who rode the winner.
Question of High Wages.
But the American Jockeys who are cutting
such a wide swath in England, France
Austria. Russia, and elsewhere In Europe
are not likely to consent to return to the
American tracks, as long as they are paid
SUCH fabulous sums for their work as
European owners and breeders of race
horses pay them. A jockey who has proven
himself absolutely of no account on American
tracks can. 1t seems, go across the water
and instantly become a top-notcher among
the foreign riders A rather humorous case
in point is that of the jockey Cowman In
this country Cowman, as a jockey, was
laughing stock. 1t used to be said of him
when he had an occasional mount this
side that Cowman couldn't ride a street
car. He was variously dubbed "shoe-
maker" a sailor" ''motorman" and
other ridiculous things. Any horse that he
rode went to the post at any old figure that
the better on the horse would ask the book
makers for. If Cowman had ridden HAM
burg in that great horses best day, Ham,
burg would have gone to the post a 30 to
l chance. AT length Cowman ceased to
get mounts even on the commonest kind of
selling pla tiers, and he fell to the degraded
estate of mere exerciser of horses at a
salary of $50 month and found. Last fall
he packed up his few humble possessions
and went to England on cattle boat work
ing his way across. Now he's being en-
Enthusiastically commented on in the English
turf papers as 1.-The best horseman that ever
bestrode a racer in the north of England"
He gets all the swell mounts on the north
or England circuit and he fetches about
four out of five Of his mounts home. He is
making big money. is being lionized
wherever he goes and is generally regarded
over there as one of the "crackerjack"
products of the Yankee" school of riding
When American turfmen read of this they
declare that the English Jockeys must all
be piano movers by trade, but the fact re-
mains, nevertheless. that as long as these
conditions on the other side prevail therell
70 n ocdiln VI JOCheES IN THIS country.
Danny Maher. the best of the American
Jockeys after Tod Sloan, is now riding the
King of England's horses at a salary of
$4,000 for the season, and the boy is said
to nave calmly declared recently that he
wouldn't think of riding in America again
unless somebody bid $75. 600 a season for
first call on him And it is also said that
William c. Whitney is going to make the
lad just that offer for his services next
year.
Sad Scenes at Steamship Piers.
Many sorrowful spectacles have been en-
acted during the past week or so at the Of
fees of the steamship lines that run ves-
sells to West Indian ports. The relatives of
men and women reported to have persisted
on steamers suddenly caught in the vol
canic eruptionS at st. Pierre have besieged
the offices, some of them remaining night
and day, for confirmation or denial of the
somewhat unintellgible cable reports that
first reached this country with regard to
the cataclySmS.
These narrowing scenes at the steamship
offices. particularly the offices of the trans
atlantic steamers, have frequently to be
endured by the steamship officials with
what patience and equanimity they can
muster, and such occurrences very
common. When vessel leaving New York
for a European port is DELAYED even half
day by bad weather hundreds of persons
with relatives and friends on board the de-
layed steamer, not having heard of the
vessels being reported on the other side
''On the dot in accordance with her resil-
lar schedule time. flock to the steamship
office and begin their mourning long be-
fore there is the slightest idea in the minds
of the officials that the vessel has met with
disaster. On such occasions the steam
ship people have to absolutely cut them
selves off from all telephone communica-
ton on account of the multitudinous "ring-
ups they receive from inquirers as to the
safety of a steamer that is not even sus-
pected of having been in danger. When a
steamer is two three days overdue on
the other side. and there Is really cause for
anxiety on the part of the officials as to
the ships safety. the scenes in and around
the steamship offices are always pathetic.
The women with relatives on board the
overdue steamers invariably take the most
pessimistic view of the situation, and the
officials have great difficulty in attempting
to persuade them that the overdue steamer
has one chance in a million Of ever again
being heard from
Mgr. Corrigan's Funeral.
The tremendous strides that the world
has taken, even during the past decade
toward greater tolerance and liberality in
UNCONVENTIONAL matters was remarkably
illustrated by the gathering Of religious
men of mixed beliefs around the bier of the
late Archbishop Corrgan. There are few
existing faiths that are not represented in
New York, and men subscribing to all Of
these beliefs were present at the funeral of
the Roman Catholic prelate, or called in
advance of the obituary ceremony a the
archepiscopal house to tender their express
sons of sympathy. The able and distin-
guished Episcopal Bishop Potter-who had
in truth been a close friend in life of the
dead Roman Catholic archbishop-appeared
at the archepiscopal residence an hour
after the archbishop's death, and the sense
of strong bereavement evidenced by
his manner and appearance. The noble
tribute which Bishop Potter paid in writing
to the memory of Archbishop Corrigan was
commented upon by some of the New York
papers as something which could by little
possibility have proceeded from the pen Of
a bishop of another faith twenty or thirty
years ago. Noted upholders of all of the
Protestant faiths, in fact, the bulk of all
of the clergymen in New York, of all de-
nominations. not failing to include most Of
the eminent rabbis of the Jewish profess
sion. paid their respects to the memory Of
the kindly hearted Roman Catholic prelate.
And. in truth, the tendency of New York
religious men to meet upon more and more
even terms in large public movements is
worthy of comment, exhibiting the
growth of the new tolerance and the pass
ing of old UNCONVENTIONAL rancors IT is no