Year: 1873

The trip to the race course at Monmouth Park
will ever be one OF the greatest attractions to
those who while admitting that there Is beauty in
horsenesh, have soul space enough left to admire
other and greater works OF nature. The French
object to eating partridge all the time. and perhaps
the average man or woman would lose interest in
horse racing II there was nothing In 1t but the
horse, or perchance, the mare. TO stand on the
quarter deck II there Is such thing OF the Jesse
Hoyt, which wrongiuy ran down to Sandy Hook
yesterday morning instead Of the Plymouth Rock,
and throw back the lappels Of one's coat and


TALK HORSE WITH THE VETERANS
Of the turf is treat in Its way. In fact, 1t gen.
orally includes several treats. TO be reminded Of
the punging steeds OF Neptune when on Fort
Lafayette's 'are-branded, ruined waUs,n by hear
ing the musical voice of the pool seller mingle with
the rumble of the engine. his arm keeping time
with the walking beam, is charming in small doses.
In this connection II should be noted that all
pool sellers are not named Underwood and that
the one In question s BOst0nian, named Baker,
Tom Baker. He wears gray mustache, which has,
naturally, seen younger days. He will take as
high bid on the wrong horse as the best of them.
To creep out of range OF the poolman's voice and
dodge the men who talk horse and look wistfully
owt upon the fair of and land that girdles
the horizon Is a pleasure that


ONLY THE GUILELEss CAN ENJOY
in all its serenity OF sunshine You may study the
race-gOing humanity, and then believe firmly In
the diversity OF human being to which Providence
has designed to give the sembance Of man. There
is Japanese student In plug hat, who seems
as placid as ny In amber. and you
wonder how he got there. A man who
grunts as though he were hog and wants to
mi fat ta a
picture should be drawn with hog pen. For my
part his trough would be the trough of the
sea. Just notice the groups of fashionable
people seated aft on the upper deck, with their
mingling Of sweetness and loudness and sense
and inanity. They are


IN EVERY MOOD AND TENSE.
There Is the girl Of the epoch, emphaticay in the
present tense, chaperoned by her maiden aunt,
who Is pdsSee, and talking to the young
exquisite. who is, or thinks he is, plus
que pay:fatx There s the imperative mooded
papa The indicative NODDED uncle, who ''salled
these waters, sir, before you were born," points
out everything to everybody. Fancy would fol.
low this further, but 1t may be dropped with a
brief study Of the fascinating young widow, who is
talking TO gushing young man OF inaiilstiye
mood, evidently with


AN EYE TO HER ''SECOND FUTUREU





may struggle into your place on the cars without
much trouble. If you are last out OF the steamer
you may have to walk past aquarter OF mile of
crowded cars before you can find a vacancy.
This is worth trying, only every one should not
try 1t at once for that would spoil the effect.
There is something really cheering in the way that
people VIII pop their heads out Of the windows OF
conductor, II he Is around, will tell you encourag
ingly that


THERE Is PLENTY OF ROOM AHEAD


One tall, self-reliant lady, who the last "man"
yesterday, said she could walk to Long Branch, so
buoyed up was she by the encouraging assurances
that she would find seat before she reached the
grand stand. When the train started there seemed
very little left OF Sandy Hook. The effect on the
that which


THE BIRD OF FREEDOM WOULD EXPERIENCE
II the Rocky Mountains were to commence rolling
train like towards Patagonia. On the voyage to
Monmouth Park the pglmitatlon man came
through the cars trying to sell whips. Would that
hand on board to whip the rascal in a bathing
suit INTO the sea He would think that the entire
legion Of devils possessed him il only irritated
HERALD man had his whipping will with him.
Once on the race grounds


THE EFFECT OF THAT TRAINLOAD
was visible. 1t peOpled the grand stand, it sent
an army through the quarter stretch, 1t supplied
crowd to the pool seller Underwood this time)
and fools to buy his pools, it gave an immense
queue to the Paris mutual pools In fact it seemed
that II the train stopped anywhere else its human
cargo could organize race course at once. track
and iron horses would be always on hand and
those who had been unable to find seats would rep
resent the grand stand.


THE FOURTH DAY OF THE MEETING
was soon In full blast at Monmouth Park The
three-quarter mile dash was pretty race, and the
belmont stable showed Amadeus first and Scratch
second. The second horse won his position by
nose or head or hair so that the stable cannot
lear the reproach OF winning by Scratch. The
great four mile heat race had been looked forward
to with an intensity OF expectation for some weeks
past so much for what fancy paints. Yesterday
there were three starters-Bessie Lee, Wheatley
and Hubbard. The following expresses somewhat
the amount or interest exhibited and the relative
places Of the animals


Jimmy Roe upon Hubbard


At tn winning post Numbered


To ind himself sadly alone


For when he got there


The rest were nowhere,


And so everybody had known.


Then came the third race Ample time was given
to have all the pools possible sold. The reason OF
this Is obvious, even to the uDinitated II is so
that the people may win as mucn as they can carry
home. The race was


FOR BEATS IN THE WAY OF HORSES
IT produced melancholy ioreboding in my
aspirations blasted hopes, withered dreams dis
appo nted candidates for police justice and Presl-
dent since the world began were about To enter the
arena and run q scrub race. IL was prettier race
than that would have been but not half so inter.
esting. The favorite did not win though many
people think she ought to have done so. Under the
circumstances II was evident she couldn't Many
people wagged their heads and said THEREBY
hangs tale. Cofee won the pot, ANYHOW and
Nevada 1t was remarked, in the dark way that
turfmen rumor only had the spout


People VINO waited or the last race we're com.
fortably In New YORK at SIX O'clock.