Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19

EaS0cS WIFI TIE WHIP ana SaIVabOT manager 10
get first past the judges, beating Tenny by q
head only and infiniteSimal part Of q second
In that remarkable time of 2:05, for the mile
and a quarter" The mile was made In 1874
and the mile and an eighth in 1:52%.
INDEED, if nothing else had immortalized this
wonderful race Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem,
~How Salvador Won the Race" would surely
have done so. No doubt you have heard it re-
cited many times years ago, for it was just as
popular at one time Casey at the Bat" A
part of it went something like this: ii,
"The gate thrown open, rode out alone.
More proud than monarch who sits ON q
throne.
am but jockey, yet shout upon shout
Went up from the people who watched me ride
out;
And the cheers that rang forth from that warm
hearted crowd s.as..
Were as earnest as those to which monarch
e'er bowed.
My heart thrilled with pleasure so keen 1t was
pain
As patted my Salvatore soft, Silken name:
And q sweet shiver shot from his head to my
AS he passed by the multitude down to the
stand.
eat the sound of the voices that shouted "A go!
He sprang like an arrow shot straight from the
bow;
frightened the reins on Prince Charles great
he is OF like rocket, the race is begun.
"Ah, Salvador, boyl It's the race Of your life,
press my knees closer, coax him, urge,
feel him go out with heave and q surge.
zone more mighty plunge, and with knee, limb
and hand,
Lift my horse first by nose past the stand.
We are under the string now-the great race
is done
And Salvador, Salvador, Salvador won!
':He has broken the record OF thirteen long
years;
he has won the first place in a vast line Of
peers.
Twas q neck-to-neck contest, q grand, honest
race,
And even his enemies grant him his place
Down In the dust let old records be hurled
Aud hang out 2.o5 IN the gage Of the world"
RESTRICTIVE laws gradually cut In on the
attendance at the Ivy City race track, as
tt was generally called, and for q time racing
there entirely ceased, until in 1898, when q
syndicate known as the Ivy City Jockey Club,
headed BY Tim Campbell, Congressman from
New York, attempted to revive interest there:
and perhaps did succeed for a time But IN
terest again waned and, If the writer's memory
Is correct, due to several destructive fires the
entire plant was finally wiped out
Tim Campbell, perhaps, Is best known from
the answer he is said once to have given Grover
Cleveland, when that President called his at
tentiOn to the fact that to grant his request
would be violation of the Constitution, to
which Mr.. Campbell replied: Whats the Con-
gtitution between friends, Mr. PreSident?"
In recent years the Patterson tract, also in
this vicinity, which originally extended from
the Gallaudet College grounds on the west to
about Third street on the east and from Florida
avenue on the south to Patterson avenue on
the north, has come into much prominence.
First because it was selected as camp for SOL
diers during the World War and called Camp
Meigs, and in the last few months because of
Its having become market site. This historic
tract, known to the older generation as Brent
wood, is Of particular interest as having been
owned more than hundred years ago by Rob-
ert Brent first mayor Of Washington, and who
as such served from 1902 to 1911.
ROBERT BRENT was i'll for some time before
his death, and as he died September 4,
1919, possessed Of this property he may have
supermtend the erection Of the substantial
looking old vault that stood there for many
years, but 1t is quite unlikely that he built the
picturesque old mansion designed by LatrObe
and which once occupied space just to the
west of the vault.
His death notice in the National Intelligencer
OF THURSDAY, september 3, 1919, reads:
DIED
"On Tuesday evening, after q painful and
protracted illness, worthy fellow citizen
Robert Brent, Esq, late paymaster general of
the Army. and judge of the Orphans Court
for the County of Washington. No man has
enjoyed among us more esteem than he. His
honorable and VirtuouS character commanded
general respect, which his amiable and be-
nignant temper and manners ripened into
warm attachment on the part of those who
personally knew him