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The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Fine Horses Are Scarce
at All English Shows
Effects Of Great War Notice
able, II. c. Vanderbilt Says.

Effects OF the great war are seen
wherever horse shows are held In Eng
land. returning Americans aver. In
speaking Of the London International,
Reginald c. Vanderbilt. who judged the
harness classes said yesterday:
II was surprised to see as many as
fifteen harness horses In some of the
novice classes at Olympia and to find
a few that could win in the best of
company at our shows. But the average
impressed me as being lower than 1t
was before the war. which, of course
was but natural. Horse breeding has
been so curtailed since 1914 that the
same conditions were noticeable in all
divisions OF the show. Field Marshal.
winner of the championship. is. ] think
the equal OF any harness horse have
seen in a good many years. The cham
pion pony. Melbourne Fire, is another
very exceptional goer: almost as for
midable, would say, as his full brother
Hamilton Flame. The attendance at the
International was wonderfully large this
year It assures the permanence of the
show, and If horse breeding only comes
back to keep UP the supply of horses
shall expect to see greater exhibitions
in the future than We saw before the
war"
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Swimming Against Tide
in the Market for Horses

NJ. B. Newcomb has leased for ten
years the three story stable at 154 West
Fifty-fifth street. owned and formerly
occupied as private stable by George
"A. Helme. who used TO drive tandems
ard four-in-hand teams in Central Park
before the motor cars took possession of
the roads. Mr.. Newcomb is now the
only uptown dealer having a stable of
his own. and though he can put away
fifty horses In his present quarters, at
724 Seventh avenue, he has found tho
place too small. He estimates that in
the two stables he now controls he will
have accommodations for $50 head after
alterations are completed.
The rise of the Seventh avenue dealer
has been noteworthy. Twenty years ago
he was buying fine harness and saddle
horses UP the State for John +. Gibson,
then one OF the leading dealers OF New
York. One day he decided to retail his
own horses In the metropolitan market,
and began business in the export stables
of the Fiss, Doerr & Carroll Horse Com
pany at the foot of West Thirty y-sixth
street. After two or three years in that
out Of the way neighborhood he moved
his harness and saddle horses into
basement stable near Sixth avenue In
Fifty-sixth street where he weathered
the storms Of 1907 and got his head far
enough above water 10 take over the
Gibson stable in West Fifty-first street
on the sudden death OF it's old pro-
prletor. When the building Of the Capt.
tol Theatre crowded him out of this
nook he moved into the big stable which
John Doyle had left vacant in West
Fifty-fourth street. but gave II up when
he found an opportunity to obtain pos
session of the old Heinemann Brothers
stable next door to the Central Park
Riding Academy and right at the en-
trance TO the Park
There were at least score of estab-
lished dealers in the uptown district
when Mr.. Newcombe broke into the busi-
ness. Not one OF them is active to-day.
and. what seems more remarkable. no
other new dealer has come up in the
meantime TO open a stable Of his own.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
HUNT CLUB RACES
GAINING IN FAVOR
Amateur Turf Sport Will Be
Noteworthy at Autumn
Meetings This Year.

Hunt club meetings in the vicinity or
New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore
will be unusually numerous this year,
according TO present prospecte. The
United Hunts Racing Association is TO
lead off on Thursday, September J. With
series Of races and steeplecl.ascs at
Belmont Park Terminal There win be
a days sport later in the season under
the auspices of the Meadow Brook Club
on Long Island and another at the
headquarters Of the FAIRFIELD and West
chester Hounds near Greenwich. Conn.
In New Jersey the Whippany River
Club has announced hunt meeting on
Saturday. November 5, while the Essex
Fox Hounds Club will follow II up ore
week later with an important meeting
at Far Hills.
Pennsylvania. which has long been
headquarters for fox hunting and hunt
meetings is to have a notable series Of
cross country races. beginning on Oc-
tober with the meeting Of the Hunt
ington Valley Hunt Club at Willow
Grove, Pa. The meeting of the White
Marsh Valley Hunt Club will follow on
October IS at Flourtown, Pa, and the
ancient Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club
will give two days of hunt racing at
Media. Pa. on Wednesday. October 10
ing Of the Pickering Hunt CLUB is scned-
uled for Thursday. November II. while
the Radnor Hunt Club Will wind up the
season with meeting at Bryn Mawr on
Thursday, November "a
Point 70 point racing is to be a promi-
nent feature of these meetings. nearly
all of which will be held on unenclosed
grounds and most of which boast Of
having no laid out courses or grand
stands. All flat races will be run on
the turf and not on a track.
Point to point races, which are rapidly
gaining in popularity, perhaps because
they afford so good test of hunter,
are virtually a revival OF the original
sport Of steeplechasing. They are run
from one conspicuous point to another.
the riders being permitted to choose
their own course across country In reach
ing them. At some meetings 1t Is Gus
tomary to mark the jumps with flags,
but this savors of the modern steeple-
chase where the whole course Is tagged
to guide the riders. The early steeple-
chases. II is supposed, took their name
from the custom among fox hunters of
racing their horses to some distant
church steeple. each rider, OF course,
taking line of his own.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Seen and Heard in Horse Market

nj Fiss, Doerr & Carrol's In addition To
the usual run Of workers. In one lot
are twenty-five school horses from the
Montclalr Riding Academy. and in tho
other number OF United states cavalry
mounts.
The Bergen Horse Company's weekly
auction In Jersey city was well supplied
with useful offerings on Wednesday.
Good seasoned horses OF the light draft
type sold well. but the green ones were
off SIS and $40 head Dealers expect
little improvement in prices for fresh
horses until cool weather comes.
Godfrey preece OK Westbury. Il. T., is
fitting half dozen or more thorough
bred horses for point 10 point racing at
the autumn hunt meetings.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Polo Ponies From England.

Five American polo ponies loaned 70
the polo committee by Rodman Wanna
maker, Jr., and played in England by
Thomas Hitchcock. Jr., arrived from
Lcndon last week on the steamship Me-
nominee OF the Atlantic Transport Line.
They were transferred at the dock 10 one
OF w. II. Strang's big motor vans and
whisked away 10 the Hitchcock stables
at Westbury. l.. l. Besides these polo
mounts the MenomInec brought over two
hunters for r. q. Melton Of Llgonier.
Pa, and one for T.. y. Morgan Of West
bury. All Of the animals occupied spa
cious quarters on the Mcnominee, a
specially fitted live stock boat. and ar
rived here In fine condition.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Will Form New Club.

GREENWICH. Conn, Aug. 20.-Al-
though no definite plans have been made
a number OF prominent men are In
terested In movement for a new golf
and country club here. II will be
family club where children as well as
grownups can enjoy all kinds OF sports
A golf course will be an attractive fea-
ture.
A meeting was held AT the Field Club
here Wednesday evening but no site
has been selected, although number
OF good locations have been presented.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Hoover Will Not Row
Against Canadian Champion

sT JoHN, n. r.. Aug. 2O.--walter
Hoover United Ststos singles scuil
champion. and Milton Eelyea, Canadian
titleholder win not meet In the Rem
forth regatta here next week
Hoover has informed Canadian ofi-
cials that he viii be unable 10 compete
as he expects TO participate In the
Middle States Regatta against Paul Cos
tello OF Philadelphia, and suggested that
Belyea enter that event.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

horses or ponies seems to be headed for
this popular show, which in a few years
has taken rank with any in the coun-
try. Its marked success and popularity
make 1t seem like one of the old estab-
lished shows, but il never found a plac J
in the Blue Book until 1913.
Hamilton II. Salmon of the Brooklyn
Riding and Driving Club has been in
vited to act as sole judge of harness
horses and ponies at the New York
State Fair Horse Show in Syracuse be-
ginning September 12. George B. Hume
of New York viii Judge the saddle
classes and Edward Carle and Louis A.
Beard the jumping and military classes.
The prize list for this years show is
one of the largest ever arranged at
Syracuse, embracing 107 classes, more
than thirty of which are for harness
horses and ponies.
Joseph a. Clark. who ought to know.
says the report that Dierdre Denmark
is Grace Audrey is incorrect. Miss
Madeline II. Pierce sold Grace Audrey
to me last fall" he writes. and / sold
her to Harry Newman of Chicago. She
died of pneumonia last December"
Mrs. j. S. Sylvester of Boston, who
Is still adding to her stable OF harness
horses, has purchased of Frank naao-
van the chestnut geldings Duke of York
and Auburn Fashion. both by Aquinas,
the champion hackney stallion OF the
National Horse Show in 1913.
Ringlng Eells, one OF the greatest lit
tie harness mares ever seen in the show
ring. has found a permanent home at
James Cox Brady's Hamilton Farm.
where she will be bred to the cham
pion hackney pony stallion Hamilton
Model. The daughter of Polonius and
Mayfiower by Lord Derby II. produced
some exceptional foals at William Zieg-
iers Great Island Farm, Noroton, Conn.
r. r. M. Carpenter of Wilmington has
purchased OF T. Il. Mitton, Roxbury, Pa,
Princess Sheila. that defeated Lady
Seaton for the championship Of tho Ma
tional Horse Show in 1916: also the
hackney pony Mysterious. alias Little
Fire Lady. that came near winning the
championship for saddle ponies at the
National last season, when only two
years old.
The Lake Shore Country Club Of
Buffalo will hold its horse show this
week at Dexter, N. ", suburb of tho
city, on Lake Erie. w. a. McGibbon OF
Harrison, n. y, has accepted an invi-
tation 70 Judge the saddle horses, Nor
man Van voorhis OF Rochester the hunt
ers. and w. a. Stacy the harness horses.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

Helen Dillon. 212L holder of the
seasons record for two-year-old trot-
tcrs. is a full sister to Nelson Dillon.
:07A, and Madam Dillon, 900. by
Dillon Axworthy. 2;10h. out OF Miss
Pierette, 2:09%. by Peter the Great.
:07& She was bred and is owned by
A -. Coke of Philadelphia, who expects
to start her in the Kentucky Futurity
for two-year-olds at Lexington.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

Prices favored the buyers Of fresh
Western work horses in the auctions az
Fiss, Doerr G. Carroll's last week For
some reason not easily accounted for
the demand which had become quite
active for midsummer took n sudden
slump and the bargain hunters had
their innings at both the Monday and
the Thursday sales. Seasoned horses
sold much better than the fresh ones.
perhaps because thoy are safer to use at
hard work in hot weather. Tho sales
are keeping UP wcl right through the
summer and prospects point TO n good
run Of offerings again tomorrow.
George Watson OF Paradise Farm.
Tcaneck. ". j.. reports 100 fine saddle
horses and imported hunters on hand
for the autumn trade. This is altogether
the largest stock Of such horses In the
country and they attract many visitors
from New York and Philadelphia. The
farm Is easily reached by way OF the
Fort Lee ferry and the electric cars.
II. Kaufman & Sons are doing tho
harness and saddlery business OF the
town az their new building In Division
street. two blocks south Of the Williams
burg Bridge
Two special conslgnmentr of accimat-
ed riding horses will be sold tomorrow
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
THOROUGHBRED HUNTERS and
POINT-TO-POINT HORSES

~ Galveston.
GREY RuMP, by Acronaut
DOCK VAUGHN, BY Rey Hindoo.
LADY MANNERS, BY Sir wilfred
CHORUS Girl. by Commoisn,
GOLDEN sUMEA. BY Prince Hohenlohc.
Also Hair Breds by Nasbaden, Half Fling,
Toritoma, &c.
These horses arc fine jumpers and easy 70
ride Can be seen by appointment
GODFREY PREEcE, westbury, Long Island.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

BROWN BELnING CONVERSATION PONY,
is hands inch; years well bred, kind
and fearless. suitable In every way for
children's use. Carriage, harness, saddle,
bride. all practically new. Submit bids 70
and address inquiries 70 CHAS. OLIVER,
Briarclff Manor, N. n. Phone Briarcitn Q.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

Two special consignments of acclmat-
ed riding horses will be sold tomorrow
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

The Grand Circuit campaigners will
move TO Pougnkeepsie to-day. There IL
to be four days meeting at the Hud-
son River Driving Park. beginning on
Tuesday, according TO report. though
this newspaper has never received any
information about II since the Asso-
ciated Press last winter announced the
allotment Of dates BY the Grand Circuit
stewards
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

Entries for the Rochester Horse Show
will close tomorrow. Nearly everybody
who exhibits harness horses, saddle
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

Fred Edman, who leads the list OF
winning drivers thus far this season.
failed to win race at the recent Cleve-
land meeting. though he had previously
driven twenty-six winners. Walter Cox
and Thomas Murphy each won four.
giving them sixteen and jumping them
into third place. where they were tied
with vic Fleming.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-15
Miners Are TriCked

Birmingham, Ala.-"If your deci-
sion does not drive the miners into
the union 100 per cent strong, moth
ing will" said Van A. Bittner, repre-
sentative of the United Mine Work
ers, in a letter to Governor Kilby, on
the latter's settlement of the coal
miners strike in this state.
The strike has been waged for
many weeks, with the usual orgy of
thuggery and evictions by the coal
owners gun men. The miners finally
agreed to refer the strike to the gov
ernor, and in his award that official
upheld the coal owners on every point.
The decision is so biased that it sur
prised the coal owners-at least they
claim to be surprised.
Governor Kilby's decision" said
Van Bitter, "should forever remove
from the minds of the people any
false hopes that they might have had.
1t should cause them to see the light
and to know that there is only one
institution in the world that will
bring about decent living conditions
in the mines of Alabama, and that
is the United Mine Workers of
America
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-15
UNION PIANOS AND TALKING
MACHINES

Union-made pianos, player pianos,
grand pianos, and talking machines,
in all that the word UNION implies,
are now within reach of all who de-
sire such instruments.
December 4, 1920 a number of
members of the Piano, Organ and
Musical Instrument Workers Inter-
national Union, among them Chas.
Dold, President and Organizer of the
Organization for the past twenty
three years, organized and incorpor-
ated the DE LUXE PIANO CO.,
located at Chicago, Ill. This Com
pany manufactures upright pianos,
player pianos, grand pianos, and talk
ing machines, and is operating along
co-operatives lines. The members of
the Company assure US that the in
struments manufactured are the best
obtainable, second to none. They in
vite inspection and comparison. Their
prices, they say, are in keeping with
quality. We are authorized to say to
our readers that liberal discount will
be allowed to all good standing men,
bers of local unions, to Trade Unions,
and Central Bodies.
We believe this to be the first at
tempt ever made by Organized Labor
of America to establish a real CO.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-15
PROTECTED

Cleveland-"Parrot propaganda"
says the Locomotive Firemen and
Eginemen's Magazine in discussing
screed against railroad employees
by B. C. Forbes, editor of Forbes
Magazine.
at is all the same line of bunk" Z"
says Editor McNamee, "that was
handed to the public when govern
ment ownership is a failure!' was the
slogan adopted by the advertising
engineers who worked SO assiduously
in the campaign to put over the tinan-
cial program Of the money kings
and the public was sold. Yes, sold
in every implied acceptance of the
term.
"Mr. Forbes outburst is the same
kind of dope that was peddled under
the 'car shortage slogan that was
followed by the coal shortage slogan
and a billion dollars or so were
taken from the pockets of the dear
public, for which Mr.. Forbes poses as
spokesman and defender.
"But in his solicitous concern for
the dear public, and in all his unwar-
ranted criticism of the railroad work
ers Mr.. Forbes does not advocate a
reduction of freight and passenger
rates in favor of the public; he does
not give the public any light on the
gross mismanagement and manipula-
ton that has piled sky high the trans
portation expenses, nor does he sug-
gest that the squeezing out of a few
billion dollars of water would reduce
the guarantee the public has to pay
railroads by several hundred million
dollars year"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-15
Half of u. 5. Can Vote

Washington-Approximately one
half of the population of the United
States is of voting age, if findings
announced by the census bureau for
two states in which age statistics on
the 1920 census returns have been
worked out indicate conditions in all
others. In Arkansas individuals over
21 years of age constitute 49.5 per
cent of the states total population
and in Alabama they amount to 48.7
per cent.
The bureau is also finding more
children in the country than in the
cities, as far as the study has been
completed. Children under Is years
in urban areas of ALABAMA consti-
tute 29.6 of the total population there,
while in rural territory they COM
prised Alt per cent of the total. Ar
kansas figures bore out the conclu-
sion, giving 40.2 per cent of children
in the country, and but 28.4 per cent
in the cities.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-15
Luxuries Cost More
Than All Education

Washington-When a penny is
spent for education, dollars are ex-
pended on luxuries, according to P.
P. Claxton, United States commits
sioner of education, who dispels the
fiction that this country's educational
system is costly.
1t is shown that in 1918, the last
year for which complete reports have
been compiled, this country spent
$919,729,258 for elementary and
secondary public education, for nor
NAL schools for the training of
teachers and for higher education in
colleges, universities and professional
schools, whether supported by public
taxation or privately endowed.
Against this expenditure of less
than $1,O0O,O0O,O0O in 1918 for edu-
cation, Commissioner ClaXton showed
that according to 1920 reports the
people spent for luxuries in that
year s22, ,7OO,O00,000, or 80 per cent
more than the United States expended
for education in its entire history.
The amount paid for chewing gum
was two and one-half times the total
expenditures for normal schools, and
almost exactly the same as all state
and city appropriation for higher edu-
cation.
The $30O,0O0,0O0 paid for furs is
more than twice the total cost of all
higher education, and the $350,000,-
900 paid for soft drinks is more than
two and one-half times as much. 1t
is more than the total value of COL
lege and university buildings, includ-
ing dormitories, in 1913.
The cost of toilet soaps-$40O, ,OOO,-
000-in 1920, and the salaries of ele-
mentary and secondary teachers in
1918, are almost exactly the same.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-15
REVIVE OLD SCHEME

Chicago-"There is nothing new in
the individual bargaining between
employer and employee system that is
being pushed under the misnomer
American plan,' says President
Perkins of the Cigar Makers Inter
national union.
individual bargaining was the
method used for centuries, and until
the dawn of the day when labor be-
gan to organize into trade unions the
workers felt its full force and knew
it's fatal result. 1t was in full sway
when skilled mechanics worked, TO-,
IL and often IA hours day for what
ever the employer saw fit to hand his
individual hired man. 1t was in the
height of it's glory (?) when the work
er's home held neither comfort nor
convenience of any kind and when IS
per cent of the workers children were
deprived of an opportunity to obtain
even a grammar school education.
"These conditions which for so
long a time made of the worker no
more than a chattel are behind US.
Let it be known now and forever that
we have tried individual bargaining
and know the dregs the cup contains.
We do not propose to drink again of
it's poisoned contents be it labeled the
American plan or anything else"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-15
Evasion of the Law
FEDERAL LAW is SPURNED BY
RAILROAD MANAGERS
U. S. Judge Aided by Banker as Cats
Paw Beats Provisions of Cum
Minis -Esch Railroad Act

Birmingham, Ala.-The high re-
gard for law, which big business pro-
fesses, is shown in its true colors in
the case Of the Atlanta, Birmingham
& Atlantic railroad, whose employees
are now on strike against wage re-
duction in defiance of the Cummins-
Esch law. This law was enacted last
year on the urgent request of big
business and its retainers, who in
sisted that machinery be created that
would make railroad strikes improb.
able.
The first to break this law is the
railroads, and the retainers of big
business are silent The most glaring
defiance of law is shown by the man
agement of the A !, B. & A. The road
reduced wages without conferring
with employees or referring the mat
ter to the railway labor board. The
board ordered that the law be COM
piled with. The president of the
road was then appointed receiver of
the road by Federal Judge Sibley, ami
the cut was made effective, regardless
of the Cummins-Esch law.
Val Fitzpatrick, representing the
striking employees, says that the ap-
plication for re eceiver was made by
the Birmingham Trust and Savings
company, which held note against
the railroad, but the note was not
due at the time. The unionist states
that President Bugg of the railroad
testified that he induced the bank to
start proceedings, and that he then
resigned as president of the road to
qualify for the office of receiver, to
which Judge Sibley appointed him.
The receiver then ignored the Cum
mins-Esch law and arbitrarily cut
wages.
1T is practically conceded" says
Val Fitzpatrick, "that the whole plan
of the bank and the officials of the
railroad was to accomplish what the
railroad had been unable to accom-.
plish by legal methods"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-15
Killed and Injured in
Industry Unknown

Washington-It is not known how
many industrial accidents occur year
ly in the United States, says Margaret
Gladsby, writing in the monthly Re-
view, published by the United States
bureau Of Labor statistics, on 'Tnade-
uuacy of industrial accident statis-
tics published in state reports"
"To what extent have workmen's
compensation laws and the safety
movement mitigated the accident evil
in American industries? We are un-
able to determine with any degree of
certainty. What are the causes Of
industrial accidents? What is the ac-
cident frequency rate in the leading
industries; the accident severity rate :?
We do not know.
"How many industrially disabled
are there in the country who will be
affected by the recent legislation ex-
tending the rehabilitation to the in
dustrial cripple? No authoritative
statistics are available. What is the
annual loss in productive efficiency
through industrial accidents? What
is the annual cost in time and money
lost through accidents in industry?
We do not know; there are no figures
available by which it can be deter
mined.
accurate data as to the number of
accidents, the causes, nature of in
jury and degree of disability of ac-
cidents occurring in each industry
are essential for effective prevention
work, as we'll as for the establish
ment of adequate and reasonable
compensation insurance rates.
"Not only is there no uniform
method of tabulating statistics of ac-
cidents for the entire country, but also
few states can be said to have ac-
curate knowledge of the total num-
ber of accidents occurring within
their borders"