The New York herald., 1922-02-19

| Stewards, and went TO the play and ball
afterwards.
September e6. Dined with Mr.. Ridouts,
and went to the play after it.
September 81. Dined at Mr.. Carols
and went to the ball. tr
September %. Dined at Mr.. Bouchers
and went from thence to the play and
afterwards to the Coffee House.
September 20. Dfned with Major
Jenifer and supped at Daniel Dulaney
Esqs.
September so. Left Annapolis and
dined and supped with Mr.. Saml Gal
loway.
October 1. Dined at Upper Marlbor-
ough and reached home in the after
noon"
Saw Nancy Byweu Win.
Not word about the races. but tron
another source we know that on Sep
tember "a which was Tuesday, Wash
ington witnessed the great contest at
four-mile heats which brought together
four OF the five horses named by Judge
Gabriel Duval as the best on the Ameri-
can turf before the Revolution, namely
Col Edward Lloyd's Nancy By
WELL winner of the first and third heats !:
Col. William Fitzhugh's Regulus. win
ner Of the second heat; Samuel Gallo
ways Selim. that finished third. and
| Gen. Alexander Spotswood's Apollo, tho I
ran fourth, with Daniel Dulaney's Nom
pareil and Mr.. Masters's Backlegs be-
hind them. On Thursday the winner
was the bay mare Lovely, entered by
| Col. John Baylor, of Virginia. who i'm
! ported Fearnought, the sire of Regulus,
| Apollo and Nonpareil, and on whose
last in London Washington used to have
his shoes made.
| The Governor, with whom the gay
| Virginia Colonel dined on the day Of
the big race. was Robert Eden, for.
naerly the owner Of Regulus. or him 1t
has been said byBenjamin Ogle Tayloe,
! in the old Spirit of the Times, that dur
| ing his administration as governor of tire
colony of Maryland ''its turf became
more fashionable than at any 9th ,r
| period; and Annapolis, the abode of cle-
| gance and refinement, was resorted 10
! from all quarters, at it's regular race
meetings" And another distinguished
correspondent OF the Spirit has said
THE government of Sir Robert Eden,
which existed when what in Annapolis
were called The Troubles broke out,
has been called the Augustin Age of that
venerable city.
Age Of wit and Gallantry.
'1t was certainly the age OF wit ana
| gallantry. for Sir Robert was live.v
and handsome and young, and his Lady
was ugly and old. There was high
feasting and junketing in Annapolis in
those days and Sir Robert danced AID
sang and made love and wrote verses
and let the world wag, did Sir Robert,
leaving state matters to his secretary
Smith or to anybody who cared for
them. They had famous times until.
early in the spring of "a. there came
ugly rumbling sounds from Boston,
foretelling an end to all pleasantly fer
time at least. The Governors spirit
! Ragged, the ball was neglected. gal
lauts ceased to make compliments and
ladies' to expect them. the Harmony
Club suspended its weekly meetings, the
races were put off, and. finally, 1t was
politely but somewhat decidedly hint-d
TO Ills EMcellency that he had better
/ take short trip to England. Those
| were times In which, to use a vulgar
phrase, nod was as good as a. wink.
and so on the 7th of June, 1874. he left.
put he did not carry all out of Az
napoiis that was loyal to King George
no. by the mark, he did not. This
VIII take upon my veracity TO state.
that the ladies' were all tories to a man."
S'Ob5bs w dSnlnRIOnS traX-
enng companion on this trip also sided
with the crown, according to another
contributor to the Spirit, and SO did the
hev. John Boucher. with whom the
squire OF Mount Vernon dined and lodged
while in Annapolis. The reverend gem
tiemen was just then tutoring young
Jack Custis the son OF Mrs. Washington.
who had found chum in Samuel Gallo
way. Jr "a wild volatile. idle, sensible
.ar1 nO1 n
love with young Galloways pretty sis
ter. much to the distress of his school
master Washington apparently took it
the other way. for he stopped at TuIip
Hill. the country seat OF the elder Gallo
way. going and coming. and after he got
home from the races received gift of
two cases of claret from the owner of
Selim-- Whether over politics or some
thing else Mr.. Boucher later fell out
with the Father of His Country" and
left a pen picture of Washington by no
means so fattering as Gilbert Stuart's
celebrated portrait in oil.
with Eden at PhiIadelphia.
Only short time before this memoir
able meeting at Annapolis Washington
had gone with the gay Bob" Eden to
Philadelphia to attend the races in Cen
ter Square. This record OF his visit is
preserved in the diary Of James Allen:
Governor Eden and Colonel Washington
are in town, come to the races. Waters's
horse Herod won the E100 yesterday ane
Mr.. Delancey's Sultana the $50 to-day.
The town is very gay and invitations
frequent. ] asked Gov. Eden and Col
Washington to dinner, but they are en-
gagged during their stay"
In 177s Washington and his stepson
were again In Philadelphia for the races,
/ this time on the way to New York,
where young Custis was to enter Kings
College. now Columbia University. A
line in the diary shows that while here
the Virginia horseman dined with Col
James De Lancey at his home on the
Bowery farm, where Wildair. the Cub
Mare. Siamcr<in. Sultana and other
noted racers we're then in the stud or in
training. In a little more than a year
after this visit Col De Lancey sold out
his horses and went TO England. never
~ return, while his vast estate here vac
confscsted on the ground that he was
disloyal to his native country.
| An anonymous writer in the first vol
umc of the American Turf Register has
said that after the Revolution about the
year 1890. Gen. Washington had a beau
tisul horse called Magnolia that run
one Of the days" at a meeting In Alex
andria where the General was solicited
to serve as one OF the judges, and
accepted and acted. A roam colt belong
inp IN Thornas Jefferson also ran and