Las Vegas optic., 1912-10-30

Inc highest priced animal in the
world, valued at nearly a sixth Of a
million dollars, sailed from here the
other day as passenger on the lin
er Minnewaska Lamentations long
and loud have gone up over that de
parture, for Rock Sand. the worlds
prize stallion, goes as an emigrant
to France, and unless something very
much unexpected happens he viii nev.
er come back. Rock Sand, a stun
ming piece of horseflesh, has been
owned for years by August Belmont.
Since the Anti-gambling laws have
put an end to horse racing here on
anything like the old scale, race
horses have, of course, been drug
on the market and the loyal betting
men who insisted that the breed of
American horseflesh must be improv-
ed have had an opportunity to la
ment the exporting Of many fine ami
mails before now. And they are Ia
menting Rock Sand. There was a
moaning of the bar when he put out
to sea that would have done credit
to the Prophet Jerimiah or trust
worthy Wall Street man just before
election. The anti-gambling people
have always contended that the
horses that would be driven out of
the country by suppressing betting
were rare horses so highly special
ized that the lost strains would never
have. done any good to American
horses in general, however, mueh
they might improve the racing breed.
Rock Sand has been sold to a syndl-
cate of French breeders at price
which is reported to be s15O,OOO.
old Age Center Found.
New Workers have been told so
persistently that they are running
their digestions and their lungs and
hearts and liyers and brains and kill
ing themselves off generally by the
life of the metropolis, that they
have come to look upon themselves
as short-liyed race and let it go at
that. But there is one spot here
abouts which, while not actually IN
Mem York City is still well within the
high tension area of the metropolis,
where the life of nowadays is not as
deadly as it is said to be. At least
aothing has hindered the breaking OF
all the American records for lon
gevity there. In the suburban town of
Long Branch over in New Jersey, it
was discovered at a birthday party
the other day that seven of the
guests were, collectively, 654 years
old. The eldest, William Redmond,
was 102; four ladies were 81, 95 and
two Of them 81 respectively, and two
men were 80 and SS. Besides these
in the town, which is only a good
sized commuters village, there are
no less than 40 people who are so
years old or more. 1t is believed that
Long Branch outdictances all other
American communities of its size,
even the famous old villages of New
England, in its facilities for storing
oldest inhabitants.
To Stop Fake Auctions.
The city government has at last
taken notice of fraud which has
been running for years, with doors
wide open on the Broadway sidewalks
exactly where that great street is at
its brightest and busiest. The fake
auction rooms" have been exposed,
and Mayor Gaynor is expected to do
something vigorous about 1t before
long. The fake auction game" is
the simplest in the world, and the
places have been run in such bare
faced style that it seemed unlikely
that anybody could be fooled into
buying there, although the crowds
inside the rooms showed that that
has been far from being the case. The
story is that the mayor passed one of
the Broadway places on his way 10 |
the theater recently ana was so
struck by it's 'fakey" air that he or
dered an investigation. The articles
put up for sale, curios, cheap art
works and the like, are Of course
practically worthless, and crowd
of hangers-on who are in the employ
of the management bid up everything
that is offered to exorbitant figures
so that no outsider can get bargain
These auction takers have a slang
all their own The confederates TAX
en- together are known as 'schilliber,
which is the plural form of the word
the singular meaning a single fake
bidder is "schill." A prospective