Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-27
NEWS OF MANHATTA TAN
Followers of Whitney Racing
Colors Retaliate.
JEWISH DIVORCES
LAW WILL NOT ACCEPT sEPARA-
TONS BY RABBI.
Plain-Spoken Magistrates = Interpre-
tiers for Aliens in Court-Another
Man and His Wife's Mother.
JEWISH DIVORCES
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. June %. 1908.
mercurial people, the New Workers.
Here, above all places else. Is where they set
up andenshrine idols seemingly with the sole
purpose. not to say intent. of casting down
and desecrating them just little later on
The Whitneys and their race horses lie at
the root of these observations. 1t will be
recalled by persons interested in such mat
ters how, last year. the Whitneys and their
race horses came to be sworn by by the ire
mendous body Of racing enthusiasts In
these parts. William c. Whitney, ex-
statesman, man Of affairs and man Of mil
lions, and his son. Harry Payne Whitney
were acclaimed as dead game sports" and
right people through and through when
they took to the turf with rattle and
bang. putting down hundreds of thousands
of dollars for choice thoroughbreds.
Whitneys on the Turf.
The racing crowd quickly fell into the
habit of backing the Whitney colors, and
when William c. Whitney took hold Of
the Saratoga race track. spending hundreds
Of thousands in identifying it and convert
ing it into the most lovely race course on
the continent, ana raising it from the sor
did gambling mire into which 1t had sunk
to a racing paradise for sportsmen who
loved thoroughbred horses more than dol
lars he was hailed as the man who had
saved the American turf.
When, inspired by the enthusiasm of the
game. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney organic
ed stable Of her own calling it the stable
of Mr.. Roslyn." and racing her horses
for the fun of victory under separate colors
against the thoroughbreds of her husband
and those Of her father-in-law. the New
York racing crowd just stopped over in its
admiration Of the "sportswomanship" OF
the young matrOn.
When the Whitney colors flashed to the
fore last fall the throngs on the lawns
would break into a huge chant, IT'S Mister
Whitney" to the tune of ''Dooley.'
Heartless Iconoclasts.
Well, they're kissing the Whitney horses
now. They began 1t on Thursday after
noon last-Suburban day-when, In a race
preliminary to the great event. one Of the
Whitney horses, leading the procession, pa
raded to the post.
Something like ten thousand Kisses steam
ed through ten thousand sets Of teeth as
the Whitney thoroughbred haughtily pranc-
ed to the barrier.
william G.. Whitney. seated in the club
stand with his party. flushed. So did his
son. So did his sons wife. So did the other
members of the Whitney party who under
stood the significance of the prodigious
Kissing
Why the kissing and the sudden dethrone-
ment of the Whitneys in the estimation of
the racing crowd?
The answer is name-1rish Lad.
All on Account of Horse.
Irish Lad was entered last year for this
years Suburban handicap and the great
American Derby in Chicago. among other
big stake races to which he was made ELI
gble. When he achieved his victory in
the Brooklyn handicap young Mr.. Whit
ney gave out the positive announcement
that Irish Lad would be shipped to Chicago
to run in the American Derby.
Thereupon the thousands of racing people
throughout the land who had backed Irish
Lad in the winter books at an average
price of 40 to l to win the great Chicago
event. rejoiced vastly, as they had reason
to. for the colt that had won the Brooklyn
handicap assuredly stood a swell chance
to win the American Derby, too.
The future boOkmakers rubbed the
price of Irish Lad from 40 to 1 to to 1,
but even at that sliced figure the admirers
of the sturdy Whitney colt poured in their
money by the thousands to back Irish Lad
to win the Chicago Derby One book alone,
it is stated on responsible authority. took
in S2OO.O00 and over on the colts chances
to win the American Derby after Irish Lad
had won the Brooklyn.
Less than week before the Chicago race
the information was officially promulgated
from the Whitney stable that Irish Lad
would not be sent to Chicago. after all.
ali VI tIie HlOUty tldt Qdu Deen
wagered in the play or pay future books
on Irish Lads chance to win the big Chi
cagO event was incinerated
Coupled with the statement that Irish
Lad would not go to Chicago to contest
for the Derby prize came the pronounce
ment from the Whitney stable would GER
tainly start in the Suburban handicap, the
great prize of the eastern turf.
This Information was disseminated just
four days before the Suburban. The racing
enthusiasts accepted the information and
poured untold thousands into the future
books on Irish Lads chance to win the
Suburban.
Thrown Down by Whitneys.
On the morning of the Suburban Irish
Lad was scratched from the race, the word
being given out that he couldn't negotiate
heavy going. in spite of the fact that Irish
Lad won some sparkling races last year as
a two-year-old in muddy going.
All told, therefore, the racing people lost
out to the tune Of perhaps 100000. with
out. of course, ever getting run for their
money
Which Is why the Whitney horse was
roundly Missed and cat-called and jeered on
Suburban day, and why every Whitney
horse that has stepped out onto the Sheeps-
head Bay race track since Suburban day
mas met with the same reception.
Old Maids and the Law.
To judge from a recent action of a New
York police magistrate, there must be
something pretty dire and dark attaching
to the stigmatism of being an old maid
over here. The complainant scant
stingtly padded woman OF any age over
forty, but certainly over 1t. pointed accus-
ingly at the defendant. buxom, prosper
ous-looking matron, and told the judge her
story.
First said the spinster acrid-patheti-
cally. she comes to me door an invites me
t come out into tn hall an have me block
knocked off,
"Well?' said the magistrate. rather in
differently.
AN them went on the complainant,
growing eloquent with the recollection of
her woes. "she yells through tn keyhole of
me door. 'A-a-a old maid! old maid! We
never could git no man, could you old
maid. old maid'"
That was very serious" said the police
magistrate. putting on his judicial manner
1T was an inexcusable term Of reproach.
woman who arrives at the age of thirty
without being able to enter the state OF
matrimony, from whatsoever cause, is very
unfortunate indeed. particularly so in New
York. The defendant is held in $500 bonds
for trial at special sessions on the charge
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