The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
TALES TERSELY TOLD OF
THE MEN Of THE HOUR


club several justices of the supreme
court in this department were eX-
changing condolences as to Richard
Croker-his recent doings and his
desire to visit New York before the
end of the year. The gossip was
worth a paragraph.
Mr.. Croker, it seems, is depressed
by the discovery that his fine horse,
Orby, may not be in condition to
start for the ST. Leger stakes next
month. The animal is suffering from
a renewed attack of the kidney trou-
BILE that affected him so seriously
last summer. On the other hand, the
former Tammany chief is comforted
by the thought that Orby recovered
from the first attack and won the
English and the Irish Derby. while
there's life, there's hope" he writes
to a New York man.
1t is not merely because he would
like to win the st. Leger stakes that
he is anxious for the recovery of the
horse. He has a deeper wish. The
favorite in the st. Leger betting is
Woolwinder. which finished second
in the English Derby. In that race
|
to him because the owner of Wool
winder is the Colonel Baird, stew
ard of the Jockey Club who original
ly persuaded the club to refuses Crok-
er the right to train horses at New
market. No sufficient reason was
ever given for the bar To Croker
and to the American colony in Lon
don't seemed hard thing. When
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the EPSON by the horse of the Irish
American he had humiliated, Colonel
Baird was in his turn chagrined; and
it is said that it was his spleen which
was voiced in the uncomplimentary
press references to Cookers costume
on the day of the race.
Colonel Baird goes about boasting
| that Woolwinder can beat Orby in
the st. Leger and Cookers visage is
set hard. AS Orby is entered for the
| Caesarwitch and the ambridgeshire,
the veterinary surgeons may not al
low him to run in the st. Leger even
if his recovery should seem assured
| Everybody knows now that the ami
mails bad defeat at Liverpool was
not due in the least degree to the
jockey-and for suggesting otherwise
croker mas dpOlOS1ZeQ.
! Only few moons back William T.
Stead was edifying the groundlings
and mystifying the wise by famboy-
ant admonitions to Americans from
| the platform of Carnegie hall and
other New York rostrums. Accord
ing to London advices, he has found
another evil with which to reproach
us. There would be no hell at
Monte Carlo" he cries, ''if there
were no Americans to raise hell in
it" With this characteristic SEN
tence he punctuates an argument for
the creating of a crusade-sentiment
in Europe and the United States for
the rescue of one of the most en-
chanting spots on the globe from a
plague worse than Egypt ever knew
or Moses ever banished."
He is not alone in the theory that
Americans supply the cash that keeps
the tables moving in the Prince of
Monaco's tiny dominions. Max Penn
berton, the London novelist, is with
him in denouncing the 'inordinate
fondness of the American irch class
for the game of chance" as a lead
ing clause, if not the principal cause
of the corruption at Monte Carlo
Without naming anybody, Mr.. Penn
berton points to the adventures OF
the Pittsburgh swell mob of get
rich-quick cracksmen" as responsible
for the worst offenseS chargeable tc
the tables"
There is a deal of exaggeration in
variably in the talk about the "bie
play" of American millionaire gam
blers. On the strength of the heavy
stakes of a Schwab or a Gates, we'll
meaning critics have built up an in
dictment that cannot stand the tests
of the building Inspectors. Mr.. Stead
diatr1beS, OF course, must be taken
with salt at all seasons.
But as to the shocking iniquities
at Monte Carlo there is not the scin.
tilla of doubt, and Americans have
done more than their fair share this
year to keep the monstrous thing il
being. The miasma has poisoned al
the cicinage. The other towns of the
district are crowded with vice pro
moters. Monte Carlo is as much OF
a horror as the Congo ever was.
Winston Spencer Churchill ant
Lady Randolph, now Mrs George
CORVALLIS West, are always in the
public eye of Britain; but at the mo
ment special attention is attracted
to both. Lady Randolph is hasten
ing work on the volume of politica
and social "reminiscences she hopes tt
have ready for publication at Christ
mas and her clever son, under sec
rotary of state for the colonies, i!
making preparations for a journe!
to equatorial Africa, to look ovel
King Edwards dependencies in tina
region He will be absent foul
months.
1t would be hard to say which un