The New York herald., 1920-12-05

Monheimer, who kept the Colorado
Stables. in Fifty-eighth street. and al
ways had a trotter fast enough TO win
the bottle OF champagne annually Of
fered by Gabe Case TO the first sleigh
rider of winter to reach his door at Nc
Gowns Pass Tavern. In Central Park, Is
now in the harness and saddlery busi-
ness in Lexington avenue. just around
the corner from Fiss. Doerr & Carrolls.
| Charles T. Proctor. who had one OF
the big boarding and sale stable OF New
York next door to the Colorado and who
always had few good harness horses
to show at the Garden, is keeping
garage in the West End avenue section
of New York.
"Pony Kingv Now Makes Harness.
William Carr who was known as "the
hackney pony king and lived up to the
name when he kept sales stable in
West Fifty-sixth street, fifteen years
ago. Is making fine harness and tackle
for show horses at Goshen. He fitted
and trained Mrs. c. w. Fletcher's BAN
tam high stopper Irvington Nipper for
the recent exhibition in the Garden
where he won the blue ribbon In his
class.
Charles G. Pratt, who was almost as
we known as his chief. Charles F.
Bates, at the horse show of twenty five
years ago. and who succeeded him as
head of the New York Coach Horse and
Cob Company VIXEN Fatty" died in
1900. is now trusted employee of the
Gotham National Bank After the coach
horse trade dwindled away he had
charge of ]. Campbell Thompson's show
horses. and later of August Belmont's
polo ponies at Hampstead, L. l., where
he still lives. as active as when he was
turning out road fours, park fours. tan
dems and pairs for Bates to win with at
the Garden show.
Harry Graham, another of the main
stays or the Bates organization, who
often drove the second team for the
famous dealer and whip, now has a
suburban riding school near Mamaro-
neck. and has brought out some winning
saddle horses of his own within a few
years.
One Of the old time dealers and ex-
nlpitors or coach horses at the Garden
was Moses G. Byers, whose stable was
behind the billboards at Broadway and
Sixty-second street before the Country
Theatre crowded him out Of his money
making nook. On lucky day Mr. Byers
purchased an old church In Seventh
avenue and later converted 1t into a
boarding stable. Before the boom he
added the corner plot at Eighteenth
street to his holding. He now has a
subway station at his office door, and
is complacently waiting for the buyer
who will give him quarter of a million
for his property.
| Made Fortune in Real Estate.
| M. r. Mcdonald is another old time
dealer to whom an investment in New
York real estate has brought a fortune.
Nike kept a stable for many years in
Twenty-fourth street, near the old
Bulls Head Hotel of blessed memory, and
! sold police horses as well as show
horses until Fiss, Doerr & Carroll
bought him out In order to control the
block front He then moved Co Fiftieth
! street, near Broadway, and held the
property until about two years ago,
phen II was needed for the Capitol The
atre. Mr.. Mcdonald now lives on his
farm near Eatontown. N. il
Solon l.. Frank, of the old Bulls Head
| firm of S. L. and S. Frank, left the
horse market ten years ago to deal in
real estate. He Is now big operator
ir Manhattan property. Emil Seelig,
who kept the Knickerbo cker Stables. at
Broadway and Fifty-fourth street, then
It into a garage, also owes much of his
prosperity to New York real estate. He
was at one time very prominent dealer
in high stepping harness horses
OF the old crowd which made it's
headquarters at the American Horse
Exchange Jack Spratley a cousin OF
Uncle John" was one of the live
wires for several years when a dealer
could sometimes sell out a carload of
carriage and saddle horses in a week
at a profit of several thousand dollars.
He gave up business soon after the
exchange was closed and went back to
Dendron, Va. where he was raising
peanuts at last accounts.
Philip Dodge. another of the dealers
at the Horse Exchange, is now the
proprietor of q hotel in the Oranges.
He came in to the Garden show this
year to renew acquaintance with horse
men who knew him when Raymond
Hoagland was his backer and he was
| showing some of the finest harness
horses In New York
| ]. r. Manning. also of the Horse Ex-
change contingent in it's later years. was
associated during the war with firm
having close relations with the old re-
gime in Russia. Since the Bolsheviki
broke loose he has been training trotters.
| and now owns one or two that he expects
! to campaign next season. everybody IN
| the trade remembers Mr.. Manning as the
man who could hold a pair OF carriage
horses longer than anybody. always ex-
cepting the late John Doyle. Manning
once kept two chestnut mares for nearly
three years at the exchange, paying
board on them all that time but finally
winning out by selling them for $4,000
to one of the Florodora sextette.
Morris Hewlett an Exporter.
H. c. McElwaine. one OF the success
| full dealers in saddle horses Of that day
at the old Broadway mart is now asso-
ciated with Shelby T. HARRISON at Lex
ington, KY, and occasionally comes 10
New York when Mr.. HARRISON holds a
sale of Kentucky saddle horses at Dur
| lands
Frank F. Palmer. whose speciality
was trotting bred carriage horses. be-
came the manager of r. p. McGrann's
Grand View Farm, near Lancaster Pa,
and later OF Charles r.. Coxe's Willis
brook Farm near Philadelphia. after
the exchange was closed. He Is still
with Mr.. Coke, although the latter has
Just sold out his stud Of hackney ponies.
Mr.. Palmer's star performance in the
market was the development and driv-
ing of the bay geldlngs Delight and
Delightful when they won the champion
ship for pairs at the Garden beating
Rustllng SILK and The Dude, leaders OF
the team for which Alfred G. Vanderbilt
had recently paid $4,000 to Tichenor
a. Co. When they won William III.
Moore went down out of his box and