The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-21

bad refrs"d an oHor n 500. IN place Of che
marc DO rad thus got possession 81. but
John " refused % make The exchange
and hg aaa Squire R-EAam drove awe
SlIh the Mid mare In TOW he olAek
In QeQ Judan1 KiIpatCtok for Z, .cnn.
=. John pccksrs father and mother
y we'd on tho old Homestead three miles
RON Ooshen. and ksro ko aud Squire
bingham arrived toward Svenine with
turkeys. and there John n ran aRains.
a tnng: Ball ronlpkirH. a sporting man
widely known n Jersey Bal. kept % road
house rot fsr from the Decker home
stead lie had wanted TO bJy tho Dec ker
inare, hut hadn't l'oen Rhie 20 GET anywhere
neI her, 40 when no heard That John II
Decker had got hsl be drove over ~
where John and Bingham wee 'o see the
mare DecGcr and bingham were about
reanT ~ start away lerser Bill offered
D@oker ~ Tor ;he mare n,cker refused
to consider II Ms Decker. mother ~
john "a. a most esftmnji. and nous
woman. vas deeply ggicvsd to know that
her son had hpIght - 'rI'luE horse and
she legged him earthly - take the offer
made bv lo.npkins ard lot him have 'Es
mare Meanwhile "a hired mnn was show
INK tue mares s'cr- la the lane IN tuNuf OF
IA" house rDnpki1, rsls..d AZ ofer
tlO Mra Decker pleaded Min and ia.
sought h"r son 70 DISPOSE ~ Nv. mare
HiS fathsr urged him TO heed hIs mot nor
~ Last John II weary Of tho parental
opposition. acCepte ed Jersey Bll's oifer
~ $50. taking HE check for the amount
lie and bingham than came on 10 q oshOn
Decker downcast and full Of regret at hav-
Ing parted With the marc
Jersey Bill took the mare 20 his hote,
up here ~ New Hampton and pft her in
tho shed John u Decker went TO the
Occidental Hotel Wonder and teIeEra rhed
10 The lank at Niddls,own on which
Jersey bill had drawn hls cheek and asls,
IL no lad 310O tkeve The answpr came
back that Tompkins's check wac good
FOR only ssOD Decker then prepared Co
90 20 New Hampton and recover the mar"
Le was 80 broken up over parting with ~
bit before 10 oould Put that heroic and
= regular proceeding into edeot he got a
telegram from the hank that Toinphins
lst made his check good There Was
r.SrsS morn disappointed man on earth
ao "a. end y. never got over il
ysSs-' bH he'd tn" mare until the
s'SSng - So and could do nothing With
Ier. One day John n Decker met Alden
Col smith thu great trottinR STOCK
reedcT. On an FIRE train going 20 New
talKng horse Decker told GolOismth
that Il he wanted - get the hest pi.cs %
1c rSeNesh IN the country hs would tetl
him for No whore sha wR~ Gold
gnth Seli " lb~ckeT could do that no
would call II go Then becker told
\ IN about the marc .iarsev Bill had
pooh" said Goldsmith I've sen
h. IN" ~ no good
but when IboCke- told h'm that IA.
mar waA a grarddaughter - old Aldal-
lah ON her dams aide ard q RvSdvks
an an her s,ra's side Gold.
smith sHt nv ard took noIicr Ne went
,Ip ~ New Hampton and paid Jersey Bil
sam Tor the MAJ. Everybody knows how
he pu, her in the hands u Bill Bodine
and how Bill podine TOOK months q.
rai cent work With her and n last got hsr
h'sciulined and n racng twin Gold
sfn N didn't nav John n Dsrk"- the tiUp.
'rut he offered him yesrlin0 Volunteer
roli Decker za,d h. didn' want IN"
rolt nor the 500 all he asked frr having
rrouSht the mare 20 Goldsn,th's not -
and tho reason ne he'd dom" u Wa 80
hLv" her named Fila u after hrs NJ"
- hp was n -isisr Of Judge william Put
lrrron. Goldsmith declined 10 nam" m"
ware ~ neck"r waited and giving her
b own name she carried II and her o~n
.,arformsures 60 fame as Goldsmith Maid.
Nlden Goldsmith after winning q for
tune Nth her sold her for $50 900 Then
IlarE Sr'ith bought her for SEQ. O'O Af'sr
,v'uniug s1j0. oOo and holding the record /
'nr ~ Give years she died. aged 81 years.