The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-31
HORSES AND
HORSEMEN
Elevator Wins the Deep Run
Club Jumping Contest.
HE DOES 1T HANDILY, TOO
Make X. Meets Death in Fire he
Fern-Smith 81 rien Match Sale of
Cassie Leo = Hanson Ships
to Baltimore--Othcr Items.

The Laburnum bred gclding Elevator,
with his owner. MIR. Jolul Stewart Bryan,
up. scored popular victory ut the Deep
Run Hunt Club, high jumping contest
on the afternoon of the 23d instant, ana
was awarded the blue ribbon. This gray
san of Eleve. thoroughbred son or Eolus,
Is seventeen hands. and built on the mas
sive order. hut moves with frlctionless
stride and goes at his work with inarVel-
lous ease. In Trainer George X. Rlcn-
mond's stable ut the Hunt Club track
Elevator has shown greatly Improved
form. and look for him to enter the
first fight of high jumpers. US he has
n level head and manners that are near
perfection. While from the loins of sire.
whose lineage Is of the richest to be
found in the American stud book. Eievn.
tor receives a strong infusion OF trottlnp
blood on the maternal side, being from
Kitsy, gray daughter of L. f. ", the
son of Mnmbrino Patchen. 5S. ana she OUT
Of Lady Maury, an elegant road mare
brought here more than twenty-five
years back by O. j. Schoocrnft Lady
Maury was credited with trotting trial
of 2:26, and her paternity given MS by Joe
Downing, tho son of Edwin Forest, and
do not doubt 1t. as she possessed much OF
his elegance of form and finish
So far as loss OF animal life was con-
cerned, the fire which Quilted the stables
of p. p. Jenkins. N. ]. Crull and Dr. Z.
a. Smith. all within the l. made by the
junction of tenth and Cary Streets, was
the most disastrous which has visited
Richmond In recent years. IT was first
discovered by officer L. H. Rcdford, Of
the police force, about a. NJ. on Thurs
day the 2lst instant, and soon after Spe-
cial A gent Emmett Taylor. of tic s, P. Z.
A., arrived Tho suffering Of the dumb
brutes was horrible, and many really
pathetic scenes were witnessed. But Tor
the timely presence of officer BEDFORD.
four colored men employed In the Cruil
and Smith stables. who were asleep III
the buildings, would have met death in
all probability. All told, some thirty-four
horses out Of n total of more than fifty
we're destroyed. DR.. Smiths establish
ment was conducted as veterins9. ~
pital, and two horses were lost. one or
them being W. X. Mathews Make t..
who had been gelded and was being
treated. He was four years old, and by
McZeus, 2I3 dam Miss Bird, by jas
Bird. DR.. Smiths well known black mare.
Carnation. bred by the Messrs. Long, Of
Georgetown. Ky, and sired by Climate.
son of Contractor. came near being SUI
fOCatod, ana was only saved Dy neTolc
efforts on the part of Officer Taylor and
others. a Great Dame bitch was the first
animal to escape from this stable, but
she went back and rescued n couple Of
puppies from litter of seven. and 1t was
no easy matter to prevent her returning
for, the Others Some well known road
ard trotting horses persisted In the Crull
stable among them being fine bay
mare sired by Manchester, and owned
an1 driven Cor d number OF years by
Lewis +. Hill. of the Planters National
Bank, The carnage In the jenkins stable
was simply fearful. albeit most Of the
animals were used for business and draft
purposes. Mr. Jenkins himself losing nine
head kept mostly for delivery of the
United States mail. One of them, mas
sive gray, was found near the front GEor
with his teeth clutched around the spoke
of vehicle. and another under a wagon,
seemingly there to escape impending
doom.
The bay geldng, Baron Wood, 2:15 IA,
Russia the son Of .Nutwood and famous
Reina Victoria, Is doing we'll in the sta
BILE of Charles Atkinson at the Empire
City track. New York. This horse has
been n familiar. figure on eastern and
southern tracks for some years past. hay
Ing different seasons by L. Il. Bryan.
Tom Cannon and others. Later on At
knson may take the tall geldlng to the
races OF the younger horses in Atkin-
Princess Kcnton. 1882 IA. whom he had
out a portion of last season, She was
bred by Captain John L.. Roper. of Nor