Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-03
LEAD IN FINE RIDING
The Hartman Girlsa Their
Cross Country Feats.
CAN DRIVE AS WE'LL
THEIR FATHER LIKES TRoTTERS
BETTER THAN HUNTERS.
A Bishops stepdaughter-in-Law and
Her Skill-Other
Leaders.

Copyright, 1904, by B. Douglass.)
Written for The Evening Star by Osborn Spencer.
There was a time when Mrs James L.
Kernochan and Mrs. AdoIph Ladenburg
were the best women cross-country riders
In New Yorks smart set. Before their
days OF supremacy Mrs. A. Belmont Purdy,
wife Of the senior August Belmont's racing
partners nephew, held the palm She has
not been seen among the cross-country rid
ers in years and probably never will be
again.
Two OF the best women cross-country rid
ers in the vicinity of New York now are
Miss Mary Hartman and Miss CorneIia
Hartman, daughters of E. H Hartman,
the famous financier and railroad man.
They are both young-the elder. Miss Mary,
being twenty or perhaps twenty-five. while
Miss Cornelia IS about eighteen At the
Goshen tOrange county, n. Y) horse show
this year both these young girls made en-
tries, each jumping several horses of her
own with such sureness and dash as to
win the highest approval of all those pres
ent Miss Mary is perhaps the most ac-
complished horsewoman of the two, for she
did not hesitate to take the most difficult
barriers with one hand only on the re-ns.
but her sister is not far behind her in skill
and nerve.
petite, brown-eyed, brown-haired, fresh
faced American girls should be good horse
women, for they were almost born on
horseback Their father the son of the
KEY. Orlando Hartman, a well-known
Methodist minister began active life as a
Wall street clerk, as everybody on the
street knows. without money, not more than
twenty-five years ago. but he had wealth
enough to own horses by the time his
daughters were ready to ride and they
owned mounts of their own and knew how
to handle them when only little children.
Ihelr hves have been spent on the Arden
farms estate. In Orange county, now con-
sist1ng OF 100000 acres. much of it wild
mountain land. but with several hundred
cultivated acres of great productiveness.
Mr.. Hartman has about a hundred horses
on his estate generally and since his
daughters have developed such proficiency
as equestriennes together with pronounced
preference for hunting Gas the smart folk
term cross-country riding). some fifteen or
twenty OF these horses are hunters
He Loves a Trotter.
Personally, though, Mr. Hartman prefers
trotters. He is an enthusiastic driver him
self. and some of the most famous trotting
stock in the world, including STEAMBOAT the
great trotting sire, was bred by him. Mrs.
Hartman. the mother of the two young
women now attracting so much attention by
their horsewomanship. is herself an expert
rider and driver though not famous, be-
cause in no sense sensational woman. All
her children--there are four a third daueh-
ter younger than Miss Cornelia and a son
now ten or twelve-have been taught to
ride from infancy.
All the Harrimans are different from most
OF the weil-known multj-millionaire families
OF New York In being real horse folk"
Only the Belmonts are like them in this
respect. 1t would be supposed that the
Yanderbiits would be in the same class
since both Commodore Vanderbilt and his
son. William H. were fine horsemen hut
none of the fifth generation has taken
after their ancestors. and only one of the
fourth. Frederick W., the third son of
William HI. He is an excellent driver and
knows and loves horses, but the same can
be said of no other Vanderbilt now to the
fore. 1t Is true that Reginald and his
brother Alfred bother some with horses. but
they are not the real thing In horseman-
ship by any means.
With the Belmonts 1t is different All
the three brothers-August, Perry and
Oliver III. Pare at home equally in fne
saddle and on the drivers seat. and .he
sons of August. the only one of the three
who has sons. are good horsemen also.
Horsey Pleasures.
The Harrimans are more devoted to
horses than even the BeImonts. for where
as they affect yachting and other amuse-
ments somewhat. most of the Hartman
amusements are horsey. The two young
women are excellent whips. Miss Mary
Hartman drove a coach and four In this
years woman's coaching parade with her
sister beside her on the box. and Miss
CorneIia handles the ribbons over four
horses as well as her sister. Besides both
drivers. an art which every horseman