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the profession of plotting, when such a state

the profession of plotting, when such a state
OF affairs exists.
There never was any romance In it,
said an old time pilot. a man who has taken
part in many a Zoe Of scores Of miles to
get an incoming ship, who has risked his
life a hundred times in boarding vessels
In storms, who has had many narrow escapes
from collisions in fog, in and out Of the
harbor, except as you fellows who write
things up fancy for the newspapers used to
supply it.
-You can't do it any more, because we
don't 20 far out to sea and we lead a hum
drum life, just as we used to lead, only In a
different way before we got rid Of most OF
our sailing vessels and came to depend
upon two steam vessels, with only three
sailing vessels to help US. Thank God,
the days are probably gone when a pilot
is likely to be lost. You may have
called that romance: We didn't. ID.
The days are gone when we might cruise
for days and weeks and then just reach
port almost without food and water, with
not a ship spoken. There was no romance
in that.
: -Now we are doing business on the pool
ing plan and we all make a living and run
az few risks of losing our lives as possible.
The folks who dream Of the daring and
the dangers of the old time plotting and
who are sorry that the picturesque times
are over may regret this disappearance Of
what they call romance, but we don't.
we are mighty glad we knocked the
romance part Of it galley west. Now we
are sure Of a decent Ewing and Of seeing
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practically ready to cross he bar. They
wanted a pilot for New York Bay and not
for deep sea approaches TO New York Bay.
The pilots also came to see that they
wasted a lot Of time and energy in their
rivalry. They got together and they built
the two steam pilot boats, New York and
New Jersey, and they pooled their receipts
and they stopped their faraway cruises
and sold Of their feet racers.
Marion Crawford, the novelist, bought
one Of them and the pilots say it wasn't
the best of the lot-and went cruising all
were sold to pilots in the South, some
went into the fruit trade and some were
80 far Inundated they are now carrying
prosaic oysters. Three were retained be-
cause the steam pilot boats could not do
all the work. q
The pilot boats in use now of New York
harbor are the New York and New Jersey,
steam! craft costing about $50 900 each and
owned by the pilots association, and the
Hermann 0elrichs, Ambrose SNOW and
Washington, sailing craft OF the old type.
The New York is used as a station boat.
That Is. she cruises generally within a circle
of ten miles diameter, just of the Sandy
Hook lightship. The New Jersey cruises
in a similar circle about twenty miles to the
east. The sailing boats cruise up and
down from the eastern circle that the New
Jersey uses TO a circle down the Jersey
coast Of Barregat.
There are Lightweight New York pilots
and about fifty New jersey pilots all bended
together. with the Nsw York Pilot Com
missioners practically in CHARGE Of all
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To the pure enthusiasts It IL as much fun
to give the ponies their training work ss to
ride them in races. The most noted Of the
amateur riders have engagements booked
to ride g long way ahead just IA a noted
c~otillon leader has his season made out for
for him by his friends.
These gentlemen jockeys may not see the
noun they are to ride until the meet; but
usually they manage to have an advance
gallop or two. The home riders Of each
club, budding aspirants for fame in the pigs
skin, generally work hard as trainers for a
month before the fateful day.
The expenses of a racing string are some
times divided up among a group Of the
young fellows. Il cooperative venture. The
clubs to give tho meetings always provide
free railroad transportation to and from
the place for tie horses and free stabling
at the course, or in the club stables.
Until about 1850 q race or two for gentle
men riders figured regularly on the cards at
jerome Park, Monmouth Park and Sleeps
head Bay, and there were also amateur
meetings spring and fall at Meadow Brook,
Oyster Bay, CedarGhrst and Pelham,
Among the riders were A. Belmont Purdy,
Arthur Hunter, George Work, Elliott Zbor-
owski, II. l.. Herbert, Frank NJ. Ware, Perry
Belmont, Robert Centre, B. Lambert Sack
kett, z. c. La Montague, F. Gray Griswold
and Stanley Mortimer, who Is still an oc-
o~asional rider and is about the only one Of
the group surviving who can still make
the weight and finish out in a fiat race.
Some of this set had an interest in the
steeplechase course and the open race
meetings maintained by the Rockaway
Hunting Club in 1887 and 1888. The idea
was to establish an American Aintree with
an annual grand national, but there was
trouble about getting clear dates and the
vent Ire proved too costly to be kept UP.
A similar plan, or at least q plan to hold
an annual meeting Of the consequence Of
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The wreck made a great %clatter. the bricks
rolling down the shingles in a humping
progress, and for a moment every one
thought the roof had fallen in.
The summer will bring out a fresh round
Of race meets at Bay Shore, Seabright,
Narragansett Pier, Newport, Southampton
and elsewhere. In the fall the United
Hunts will repeat its meeting at q course
near New York, possibly at Morris Park
again, and the amateurs will be In the saddle
regularly until the winter sets in.
Squadron A, besides supporting polo,
holds a race meeting each spring at Van
Cortlandt Park. The course Is marked
out by flags on the parade ground, and
thousands see the racing, which is public
and probably the only meeting held in a
city park in the United States.
Young Asa T. Soule, who when weighing
in to ride Hejira at the Union Hunt races
wanted to scratch because he had to carry
such a load Of lead to make the ISL pounds,
had the luck to finish first as the two favor
ties cane to grief. 1t was a 10 to 1 shot inthe
books, probably the only time this season
at the amateur races that there was a long
price against q winner Soule rode his
first race at Lakewood, and as he ambled
to the post q young woman called out:
ASA, ride hard, and IL you must fall go
/ over his head
Danger il always a condiment that adds
zest to amateur racing. There IL always
some crowding and hustling, but the fiat
races do not result in the serious mishaps
of the steeplechases.
In the demand for fast ponies suited OF
the sport the values have gone up and 81 900
is the beginning IL one is to make offers for
one. Few OF the polo ponies good at racing
are used much in the game. Polo players
prefer a handy pony, quick in spinning
about and jumping into a gallop for short
sprints to one that is clumsy at the game
but very fast for u straight quarter or half
mile dash.
Besides, the two re creations appeal to
different tastes, 80 the racing ponies are soon
sold by the polo players. The Orphan, a
fast pony Of the day, was first used at polo
by Louis V. Stoddart Of New Haven, and
then sold to a Valley Farm oonfederacy,
made up OF H. ]. Nicholas, r. H. Williams,
Jr., j. b. Thomas, Jr., and Harry T. Peters.
In the details Of the sport all the poIpp
and circumstance Of the great game is
initiated. The race meetings must be IL
censed and nave stewards from the National
Hunt and Steeplechase Association. 1t
registers the gentleman riders, hunters,
galloways and the jockeys must record
their colors. 1t costs them 81 a year to
register the colors, or s2s for a life registry,
which means that one makes a family
claim on a certain combination of silks,
Just as Lord Rosebery's racing jacket,
rose and primrose, is an inheritance.
L. v. Bell and F. Ambrose Clark, among
others, are now racing in colors that first
| flashed in the sunlight on their own ANA
teur mounts. There are racing colors on
! the American turf hat nave been used by
| three generations and were created by the
grandfathers OF the present owners, who
wore them in races for gentleman jockeys
! at Paterson and Jerome Park.
Amateur races must have judges and q
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The adherents Of amateur race riding
id that the bestracing is the sort in which
4e Jockeys nave the fun. They are mostly
young and, even il they had the desire, too
heavy to make the weights on the regular
turf. 81 they amuse themselves as anna
teur jockeys till with the coming of G
and the cooling of limb risking %enthusiasms
they are likely to bob up as full fledged
owners Of racing stables.
This has long been the case in New York,
for in the first days OF racing after the war
at Paterson, Hoboken and Jerome Park,
the gentlemen jockeys rode nearly every
day and their professional contemporaries
were colored boys from the South and
jockeys from England. From riding to
keeping a racing stable was then the in
evitable step; now IL is a frequent transit
ton. but not inevitable, for many who
love to participate in country club race
meetings dc not care for the greater game
at all.
Both steeplechasing and fat races have
q place on the. card at an amateur race
meet, with an occasional hurdle race, and as
. lively windup a 'gymkhana fixture or
two in which may have a part.
Women do not ride In the races at the
country clubs, and when they own a horse
or pony god enough transfer its guidance
to some friend. At least 1t is not as yet the
fashion for women to ride races here, but
q woman rode in two match races last
year at Epson, where the English Derby
Is run.
Horses often figure in open steeplechases,
with amateurs up, that are known on the
regular race courses. but as a rule the country
club events of the sort are for hunters.
The hurdle races may be for hunters or
galloways, which means q horse not over
rs hands. The greater number of fat
races are for galloways, for ponies 14.3
hands OF under, or for polo ponies 49,
hands OF under. These restrictions on the
fiat races keep out the t~horoughbreds in
regular training stables, as they are meant
70 do.
Very many OF the racing and polo ponies
are now thoroughbreds; indeed, ever If
raced as Of unknown pedigree. the ponies
now brought on from Montana, Wyoming
and Texas ranches how the infusion of
the thoroughbred in their breeding. Texas
quarterhorse strain is practically a
thoroughbred one. -
There have been race meetings for ama-
tours nearly every second week this season
about New York. while the twenty fifth
annual meeting Of the Country Club, at
Brookline, also furnished sport for the met
ropolitan amateurs who ride. At Washing
ton and Baltimore races for amateurs have
figured on the regular card, and this is
also true Of Belmont Park.
The number OF distinctively amateur
meets has been 30 great that the sport
may be said to nave had q revival. 1t
recalls the successful seasons fifteen years
ago Of the Hunt and Pony Racing Associa-
ton.
The revival began with the meeting Of
the United Hunts last fall at the Morris
Park race course. quite the finest set of fat
races and steeplechases with amateurs
up ever held about New York. By COM
parison, it was as though Jerome Park
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that at the Country Club; Brookline, ia
back Of the new United Hunts meeting, II
q permanent course may be obtained. Fol-
lowing the. Cedarhurst setback, the anna
teur riders were next united by the Pony
Racing Association, organized in 1899 by the
l. late Jenkins Van Setback. In the frat sea-
son ia races were run at eight meetings
mostly at country clubs, worth in added
money, 81 500. There were 81 races in 1891
worth IS 500; lis races In 1892, worth &c.
500, and in 1853 there were 100 races, worth
49,, 1856.
Gate money meetings at Parkway and else
where changed the organization somewhat
from its original purely amateur lines.
At the close of 1885, 1t became the Steeple-
chase, Hunt and Pony Racing Association,
with Il. c. La Montague presldent. Jump
ing races, which had been cut out for some
seasons, were taken up again by the big
racing associations and the management
vested in the stewards OF the rehabilitated
organization. In 1895 $. S. Rowland be-
came president and the organization became
the present National Steeplsohase and Hunt
Association.
Many gentleman. riders took part In the
various meetings. including some who had
taken part in the Cedarhnrst N contem-
porary meetings, with others who are still
taking mounts. Prominent were Foxhall
Keene, Thomas Hitchcock. Jr., John H.
Cheever, John L.. Cowdin- whose son made
a successful debut in silks at Rockaway
this spring Arthur White. Fred Hoey.
j. Temple Gwathmey, now racing ,steeple-
ohasers as Mr.. Cotton: George l.. Myers,
who owned the fast Little Monarch, and the
late j. l.. Kernochan.
Fred Hoey had many winning mounts
on Fred Gebhard's Rosarium, a very fast
English pony. Exceptionally good in the
sprint races, too. were The Crow, often rid
den by Keene, although he had q bunch Of
speedy ones, and Bridget, q Texas mare, that
d. F. Savage d
W. G. Eustis, George Eustis, Morton W..
Smith, Louis haigEt, John Dallett, Charles
Pfzer, Frank =. Magoun, w. c. Hayes,
H. X. Vingut, rhil DAILY. Jr., p. s. p. Ran
dolph, the Barnards. N. Z. Reynal. B. F.
Clyde, C. E. Mather. Marion Story, H. X.
Bloodsood, Frank L. underhill, 7. A. Have
meyer, Jr.. Sidney Dillon Ripley. j. S.
Stevens, L.. J. Francke, James Clineh Smith,
Craig Wadsworth and s. X. Maddu1 had
winning mounts in Pony Racing Association
events.
President Roosevelt had the black pony
Diamond registered but he is not on record
as a gentleman jockey.
The ponies to-day are "a fast AS any Of
the old days and there are more Of them.
P. F. Collier, who had James Blute as trainer
when The Crow was the pick Of the basket,
won two races with as fast q Western pony
at Lakewood. The M. F. H. plays polo,
but he has never ridden his ponies in races.
Joseph Rowland Hunt W W clinkers in
Whirlwind and Mineola, while w. Gould,
Brokaw has Grey Sand. Live Wire. Rough
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-11
ONE OF TIE WRECK
VICTIMS is DEAD

Olivia, fireman of the locomotive
which was wrecked on the Kakaako
dredging railroad on Friday evening
died at the Queens Hospital last night
at 7:45. Internal injuries, as well as
the general mangling he received
caused him to sink gradually after ar
irving at the hospital. His body was
removed to his home near the corner
of Miller and Kinau streets. He was
married.
Oliva's injuries consisted of four
crushed ribs on the left side, internal
injuries, a scalded back and a LAGER
ated hand and shoulders.
There is still some fear that Jacob
Gargus' injuries may prove fatal He
was pinned under the cars and sus-
tanned a compound fracture of the
left leg and left arm, While numerous
other bruises We're found on his body.
He was also scalded. Joe Machado,
whose scalp was badly torn, is doing
very well.
The engine was righted yesterday.
It was pretty well smashed. the cab
being complete wreck.
A thorough investigation is to be
made of the cause of the disaster, and
suspicion yet holds that stones were
} aced on the rails with malicious in
ent.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-11
PLENTY OF LAND
TO GROW TOBACCO

There is plenty of tobacco land on
Hawaii remarked Jared Smith yes
terday. The soil of Hamakua is well
adapted for the growth of the plant
as We have demonstrated, and the to-
bacco land there runs up as far as the
upper limit of the forest line Then
the lands of Olaa are good tobacco
lands, also In fact, there is a colony
of Galicians now there engaged in to-
bacco culture. There is good tobacco
land on the Kona side. too. The ma
tives on all the islands raise and use
a kind of wild tobacco, rank and
strong, which grows everywhere. but L
think there is too much clay on Oahu
TO make it worth While to grow il
here
"A Portuguese hui has agreed to give
US two acres of land at Makawao. on
Maui. upon which to make an expert
mental test of the cultivation of wine
grapes" added Mr.. Smith Il have
sent to the mainland for vines of one
hundred and fifty varieties and will
procure others elsewhere so that the I
test may be made on the most ex-
haustive scale. I can not say. how .
ever. just where the farm will be To-
Gated, because we have not yet studied
the soil and selected the lands The
Portuguese agree to furnish the labor
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-11
GREAT TREE-PLAATING
ON ISLAND OF HAWAII

David Haughs, field foreman of the
forestry division, Bureau of Agricul-
ture and Forestry, returned from the
Island of Hawaii yesterday after an
absence of eighteen. days. At the re-
quest of the managers he visited Pa
auhau. Honomu and Pepeekeo sugar
pianta lions. TO lay out schemes OF tree
planting upon these plantations.
They are planting trees chiefly Tor
firewood," Mr.. Haughs said last night
AT Paauhau, also at Honomu,a strip
of woods is to be planted along the
beach to protect the cane from the
salt spray. Mostly ironwood VIII be
planted at the beach. In other parts
it viii be black waffle, if we can get
it to grow.
I was also in Waimea, on the Par
ker ranch. getting information Tor the
board. Twenty-Five thousand trees
have been planted there within the
past two years.
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covered hills in the background
It is a source of regret to the art
loving colony of Honolulu TO learn
that Mr. Scott will soon be leaving for
Mexico, where he will make large
number OF studies for paintings. Mr..
Scott is painting around the world, as
1t were, and his pictures range from
Europe to Asia and Australasia. Sons
CT his finest work was done in India,
especially in the Himalayas. Thence
he went to Australia. In Hawaii,
where he has been located for more
than a year, he has painted scenery
subjects of nearly all the islands. He
will eventually return to his home in
England.
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new reservoir is completed it is much
to be feared that there will seldom, If
ever. be an opportunity to view the
magnificent torrent here depicted.
The study for it was painted last
summer and the photograph of the
finished picture presented gives Il
most striking illustration of what
small hill stream is capable of.
Mr.. Cooke has lent the picture to
the Hawaii Promotion Committee for
display. As in all of Mr.. Scots
work, there is a wonderful sense of
atmosphere. Nothing could be more
natural tnan the rich slInlit vegetation
he fall, or more tender
and true to nature than the forest
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-11

Mr.. Alex. Scott's fine picture of
r'Nuuanu Showers which has at
tracted so much attention at the Ha-
waii Promotion rooms, has been re-
placed by another by the same artist,
representing the waterfall in the pri-
vate grounds of Mr.. c. NJ. Cookies
summer residence at Luakaha, Nuua-
nu Valley In the dry season, Of
course. little water flows over these
falls. but when heavy rain appears
and there is surplusage, over a hun
dred thousand gallons an hour flow
away in waste to the sea. When the
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-10-01

~ske your prescriptions ~ the
Chnstain McHair Druo Co
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-10-01
LACK SHELTER
AND SUPPLIES

MO G-I4E. Ala. Oct. HEAVY rain
is greatly interfering with the work of
the railroad and telegraph companies
in clearing up the debris and the COM
mencement of reconstruction work.
Great suffering is being experienced
by the homeless and it is feared the
rain may cause many deaths from ex-
posture. s
On Dauphin island there are hud-
dad $50 homeless with three small
buildings for shelter and in South
Mobile bay many people are living in
the woods on scanty supplies.
While there Is no suffering in Mo-
bile proper a call for urgent need
comes from many points in the south
Sern part OF the bay On Mon Luis
.@land r. 40 creoles in danger of star
: ton, and I is doubtful If anything
can te done Tor them before tomorrow
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-10-01
JUDGE WILL NOT !
MAKE CAMPAIGN

i Il can only say that everything looks
fine for me-" said Chief Justice Charles
j. Stockslager, last evening when seen
by an Evening Teller representative,
and asked for an expression regarding
his gubernatorial aspirations.
From the reports 1 get from the Diff
ferent sections of the state ! feel very
much encouraged, ard when l say
everything is as good as l could pos
sibly expect l express the situation, :
replied the judge.
Are you going to make any political
addresses or any campaign he. was
asked.
Absolutely not" was his reply. Il
shall leave my candidacy entirsly il
the hands of the people. win moi
even make political talk for pu5liea;
ton. My opinion Is that any man in
a judicial position has no right tt
take part in politics. If l we're going
to make an active campaign 7 would
| resign my position on the supreme
| bench. / expect to stay at home anl
await the expression of the people.
| have been before them for 16 year.
| and they know me pretty WE'LL