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THE CHARTER
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it knoivn, that whereas,
Chas. L. Young,
John M. E. Morrill,
S. Walter Wales,
Chas. H. Belledeu,
Fredk. J. Brand,
Geo. H. Greenwood,
Timothy A. Bresnahan,
Hollis P. Gallup,
Robt. S. Fitch,
Jacob Mosser.
have associated themselves with the intention of forming a corporation under
the name of the
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club
for the purpose of uniting the lovers of the noble horse more closely, of
promoting an interest in matinee and speedway racing; of securing a speed-
way in Dorchester, and of establishing a headquarters where the members
may meet to discuss their favorities and enjoy a social hour together; and
have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth in
such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President,
Treasurer and Directors of said corporation, duly approved by the Com-
missioner of Corporations, and recorded in this office:
Now, therefore, I, William M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said CHAS. L. YOUNG, John M. E.
Morrill, S. Walter Wales, Chas. H. Belledeu, Fredk. J. Brand, Geo.
H. Greenwood, Timothy A. Bresnahan, Hollis P. Gallup, Robt. S. Fitch
and Jacob MOSSER, their associates and successors, are legally organized
and established as, and are hereby made, an existing corporation under the
name of the
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club
with the powers, rights and privileges and subject to the limitations, duties
and restrictions which by law appertains thereto. Witness my official
signature hereunto subscribed, and the seal of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts hereunto affixed this twenty-third day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand and nine hundred.
WM. M. OLIN,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
SEAL.]
DEDICATION
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Co m man who Coves a Rorse
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Hs ne loves Ir^is friend,
"Witl\ loyal confidence; as Y\e
loves t\is i^ife, "Witt] ardent
adrr\iratiori; as t\e loves l)is
aqild, i^itti indulgent tender-
ness— far nobler ti\ar\ all but
tl\e noblest of rc\en, and less
beautiful only M[clt\ tt\e ir\ost
beautiful of isomer).
What is the Dorchester Gentlemen's
Driving club, its source., its strength, its
accomplished work and its aims? Of
whom is its list of members composed,
and what notable horses do they, or have
they owned? All these things it is the
province of this offering to tell.
Besidents of Dorchester, Milton, Hyde
Park and other localities to the south of
Dorchester will recall that fifteen years
ago the only snow speedway in the vicin-
ity was on Eiver Street from Mattapan
to the Lower Mills, and that there was
no place on the south side of Boston
for brushes to wheels. Electric car tracks
made Eiver Street impossible, and a short
snow speedway was established on Talbot
Avenue, Dorchester, from Codman to
Peabody Squares. When Blue Hill Ave-
nue was widened the scene of activities
was changed to that thoroughfare, that
part from Harvard Street to Morton
Street or thereabout being used. The
permit had been obtained through the
efforts of John M. E. Morrill, now of
the Morrill Construction Co. ; Charles
H. Belledeu, the contractor and interior
fitter, and present owner of Kentucky
Star, the fastest horse ever owned in the
club; and Hollis P. Gallup of Ashmont,
at whose well-appointed stables so many
of the club horses live or have lived.
These three gentlemen met by accident
one day in the blacksmith shop on Barnes
Street of E. P. Denn and discussed the
probability of being allowed to speed on
Blue Hill Avenue, and it was at this time
and place that the Dorchester Gentle-
men's Driving club was conceived. Like
many another youngster destined to wax
big and powerful even if its parents
could not foresee what the periods of
gestation, birth and development would
bring forth.
The permits obtained, Messrs. Belle-
deu, Morrill and Gallup at once formed
themselves into a committee to keep the
track in good condition. Mr. Belledeu
was secretary, Mr. Morrill treasurer,
and Mr. Gallup road inspector, and
several hundred dollars were secured
each winter. Later they started a peti-
tion for a permanent speedway on Blue
Hill Avenue, which was signed by many
prominent road drivers and business men
of Boston, Dorchester and the neighbor-
ing suburbs. The superintendent of
streets, however, refused to grant the
petition, as objections had been made by
the property owners adjoining the street.
He suggested that the committee apply
for a speedway on the marshes of the
Charles river near Brighton, and some
of the Boston signers to the petition
acted on the suggestion and secured the
mile speedway which was opened to the
public in September, 1899.
Being so far away from Dorchester and
sections lying beyond, it proved of no
use to local drivers and the road com-
mittee decided to take more active steps.
Accordingly, Messrs. Morrill, Belledeu
and Gallup invited other horsemen to
meet with them on April 26, 1899, and
as a result the Dorchester Gentlemen's
Driving club was formed, with a charter
list of one hundred members. The offi-
cers elected were : C. L. Young, presi-
dent; S. Walter Wales, first vice-presi-
dent; Louis Pfingst, second vice-presi-
dent; C. H. Belledeu, secretary, and J.
M. E. Morrill, treasurer. Edgar 0. Had-
dock was appointed clerk and the first
regular records of the club are dated
May 10, 1899. Mr. Haddock was suc-
ceeded on October 30 of the same year
by Frederick J. Brand, later president of
the club. At the annual meeting in 1900
all of the original officers were reelected.
The full board of officers and the com-
mittees were as follows :
President, Charles L. Young.
First Vice-President, S. Walter Wales.
Second Vice-President, Louis Pfingst.
Secretary, C. H. Belledeu.
Treasurer, John M. E. Morrill.
Clerk, Frederick J. Brand.
Directors, Charles L. Young, Louis
Pfingst, E. S. Fitch, C. H. Belledeu,
John M. E. Morrill, T. A. Bresnahan,
lie interest been manifested. The prizes
for the winners were blue ribbons and the
contests were as fierce as for thousand
dollar purses. No record was kept of
the races for the year 1899, but for the
year 1900 the full record follows :
BLUE RIBBON RACES FOR 1900.
Aggie H (R. W. Hickey) won from Ash-
mont, Nov. 29. Lost to Ashmont, Nov. 8.
Alice B (Walter E. Newbert) won from
Little Fred, Nov. 3 and 24; Lady Madison,
Nov. 10; Ramus, Dec. 20 and 27. Lost to
Little Fred, Oct. 18; Lady Madison, Oct. 25,
Nov. 17 and 29 and Dec. 13; Ramus, Dec. 8.
Archford (A. M. Tyner) lost to Azote Nov.
29.
Ashmont (H. P. Gallup) won from Aggie
H, Nov. 8. Lost to Aggie H, Nov. 29.
Azote (E. O. Haddock) won from Arch-
YE FIRST COAT OF ARMS.
C. C. Blaney, F. J. Brand, Geo. H.
Greenwood, C. L. Bartlett.
Pacing and Speedway Committee, E.
S. Fitch, Chairman; C. H. Belledeu, A.
S. Gushee, F. J. Brand, S. H. Mildram,
L. E. H. Jones, Geo. B. Fowler, H. P.
Gallup, F. S. Eldredge, F. L. Codman,
Alpheus Sanford.
Membership Committee, Geo. E.
Griffin, W. E. Newbert, C. L. Hinds.
The club was incorporated on June 23,
1900, as the charter fronting this volume
shows.
Eacing by this time was constant on
the Blue Hill Avenue speedway, and every
Thursday and Saturday afternoon saw
spirited matches and great crowds to wit-
ness them. At no time has greater pub-
ford, Nov. 29. Lost to Ladv Madison, Dec.
27.
Baby Logan (W. P. Boutelle) won from
Nellie Bly, June 7; Hazelwood, Oct. 27;
Sanford L, Nov. 22. Lost to Hazelwood,
Dec. 16.
Beauty (W. C. Littlefield) won from Rose-
wood (W. L. Morrison), Nov. 11 and Dec. 27.
Bob Fitz (H. P. Gallup) won from Rose-
wood, Nov. 17. Lost to Rubsley G, Nov. 24
and Dec. 15; Dr. G, Nov. 29.
Bonnets o' Blue (G. W. D'Arcy) won from
Prince Wilkes, Nov. 29; Hazelwood, Dec. 2.
Bonnie (A. D. Gould) lost to Little Fred,
Nov. 25.
Brick Flash (A. D. McLean) lost to Lewis-
ton Belle, Oct. 18.
Brick Wilkes, Jr. (C. C. Blaney) won
from Sunrise, Nov. 29.
Dr. G (F. J. Brand) won from Vondell,
April 19; Bob Fitz, Nov. 29. Lost to Rubs-
ley G, May 7; Landlord, May 24 and June 7;
Prince Wilkes, Nov. 1; Gladys M, Nov. 8
and 15.
GEORGE W. D'ARCY,
1st Vice-President.
JACOB MOSSER,
2nd Vice-President.
ALMOND S. GUSHEE,
President.
GEORGE H. GREENWOOD,
Secretary.
ROBERT S. FITCH,
Treasurer.
George G (W. J. Fitzgerald) lost to Land-
lord, Nov. 1.
Gladys M (R. K. Clarke) won from Dr.
G, Nov. 8 and 15; Prince Wilkes, Nov. 22.
Lost to Rubsley G, Dec. 20.
Goodboy (J. N. Berry) won from Lady
Wentworth, Nov. 3.
Harry L (C. H. Dow), lost to Rubsley G,
Dec. 13.
Hazelwood (R. S. Fitch) won from Baby
Logan, Dec. 6; Nellie W, Dec. 15. Lost to
Baby Logan, Oct. 27; Bonnets o' Blue, Dec.
20.
Lady Madison (P. J. Fitzgerald) won from
Alice B, Oct. 25, Nov. 17 and 29; Little Fred,
Nov. 8 and 15; Azote, Dec. 27. Lost to Lit-
tle Fred, Nov. 1; Alice B, Nov. 10.
Lady Wentworth (E. P. Denn) lost to
Goodboy, Nov. 3.
Landlord (C. L. Young) won from Dr. G,
May 24 and June 7; Randolph K, Oct. 18;
Rubsley G, Oct. 25; George G, Nov. 1; Ned
Winslow, Nov. 22; Rubsley G, Dec. 27.
Lewiston Belle (R. S. Fitch), won from
Brick Flash, Oct. 18.
Little Fred (C. C. Blaney), won from
Alice B, Oct. 18; Bonnie (E. T. Gould), Oct.
25; Lady Madison, Nov. 1. Lost to Alice
B, Nov. 3 and Dec. 24; Lady Madison, Nov.
8 and 15.
Ned Winslow (C. H. Belledeu) lost to
Landlord, Dec. 22.
Nelly Bly (Jacob Mosser) lost to Baby
Logan, June 7.
Nellie W (W. L. Morrison) lost to Hazel-
wood, Dec. 25.
Prince Wilkes (C. H. Belledeu) won from
Rosewood, Oct. 27; Dr. G, Nov. 1. Lost to
Gladys M, Nov. 22; Bonnets o' Blue, Nov.
29; Sunrise, Dec. 27.
Ramus (Carey Keith), won from Alice B,
Dec. 28. Lost to Alice B, Dec. 20 and 27.
Randolph K (C. C. Blaney) won from Cap-
tain Hall, May 17. Lost to Landlord, Oct.
18.
Rosewood (W. L. Morrison) lost to Prince
Wilkes, Oct. 27; Bob Fitz, Nov. 17; Beauty,
Nov. 29 and Dec. 27.
Rubsley G (Jesse Moulton) won from Dr.
G, May 5; Bob Fitz, Nov. 24 and Dec. 15;
Harry L, Dec. 13; Gladys M, Dec. 20. Lost
to Landlord, Oct. 25 and Dec. 27.
Sanford L (T. A. Bresnahan) lost to Baby
Logan, Nov. 22.
Sunrise (E. S. Harris) won from Prince
Wilkes, Dec. 27. Lost to Brick Wilkes, Jr.,
Nov. 29.
Vondell (J. M. E. Morrill) lost to Dr. G,
April 19.
EACES AT EEADATILLE JUNE 18
AND SEPT. 3, 1900.
The first race of the club held at Eead-
ville of which a complete record has been
kept was held on June 18, 1900, and was
very successful. Another equally success-
ful race was held on the same track on
the Tabor Day following. A recapitula-
tion of the results of these matinees will
call up many pleasant memories of men,
horses and contests.
June 18, 1900.
2.25 Class, Trot and Pace, Purse $100.
Prince Wilkes, br g, by Maxie
Wilkes (C. H. Belledeu) Ill
Gazeaway, ch g (E. O. Fitch) 2 2 4
Bob Fitz, ro g (H. P. Gallup) 3 7 2
Glendale, b g (J. A. Hart) 4 3 3
Walter H br g (Frank Henderson) ..556
Alice B, ch m (W. E. Newbert) 6 6 5
Nellie Bly, ch m (Jacob Mosser) .... 7 4 dr
Time— 2.22 3-4, 2.26, 2.25.
2.45 Class, Trot and Pace, to Wagon.
Purse, $100.
Ashmont, br g, by Hebron (H. P.
Gallup) 1 1 1
Aggie H, ch m (R. W. Hickey 2 2 2
Nana, ch m (E. O. Haddock) 3 3 3
Petrovi ch g (H. T. Bower) 5 4 4
Senator A, ch g (A. M. Tyner) 4 5 6
George T, ch g (J. T. Hourihan) 6 5 5
Time— 2. 37 1-2, 2.39 1-4, 2.. 41 1-2.
Free for All Pace; Purse, $100.
Kentucky Star, b g, by Robert Mc-
Gregor (C. H. Belledeu) Ill
Landlord, br g, by Albrino (C. L.
Young) 3 2 2
Whirley, blk g (T. R. Galvin) 2 3 3
Roscoe, b g (L. S. Timberlake) 4 4 4
Time— 2.30 3-4, 2.17 1-2, 2.18.
Double Team Race; Purse, $100.
Randolph K, b g, arid Embrino, b g
(J. M. E. Morrill) 1 1
Nellie F, b m, and Joel, b g (J. H. Nay) 3 2
Little Fred, blk g, and Alice B, b m
(R. S. Fitch and W. E. Newbert) .... 2 3
Time— 2.51, 2.28 1-2.
Pony Race, Quarter-mile Heats.
Bright Eyes, b g (Jacob Mosser) 1 1
Trilby, b m (Cole) 2 2
Time — .32 3-4, .31.
September 3, 1900.
Class, 3.00 Trot; Best Two in Three; Mile
Heats; Purse, $100.
Azote, b g, by Constantine (E. O. Had-
dock) 1 1
Lewiston Belle, ch m (R. S. Fitch) 2 2
Sunrise, b g, by Abbott Wilkes, dam
Kitty (E. S. Harris) 3 3
Charlie B, b g (H. T. Barnes) 4 4
Brick Wilkes, Jr., blk s, by Brick
Wilkes, dam Kitty M (C. C. Blaney) . . 5 dr
Time— 2.34 1-2, 2.35 1-2.
Class, Free-for-all Trot; Best two in Three;
Mile Heats; Purse, $100.
Camden Girl, ch m, by Veni Vici, by
Robert Wilkes, by George Wilkes;
first dam by Harbinger, second dam
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Director.
RANDOLPH K. CLARKE,
First Vice-president in 1903-1904.
ALPHONSE E. KEXXEY.
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by Rob Roy (John Hood) 1 1
Little Fred, blk g (C. C. Blaney) 2 3
Alice B, ch m, by Edgardo (W. E. New-
bert) 4 2
Ramus, b g, by Red Wilkes, dam May
(Carey Keith) 3 4
Time— 2.23, 2.22 1-2.
Invitation Race; Best Three in Five; Mile
Heats; Purse, $100.
Gladys M, br m, by Irvin M, dam
by Monte Cristo (R. K. Clarke) 3 2 11
Billy Crocker, br g (Charles
Abrams) 4 1 2 2
Dr. G, b g (F. J. Brand) 1 5 5 3
Rosewood, b g (W. L. Morrison) .2 3 4 dr
Roscoe, b g (L. S. Timberlake) . . 5 4 3 dr
Ella H, br m (Jacob Mosser) 6 dr
Time— 2.25, 2.24 3-4, 2.25 1-4, 2.25 3-4.
Class, 2.35 to Wagon; Best Two in Three;
Mile Heats; Purse, $100.
Lightfoot, blk g (T. R. Galvin) 1 1
Walter H, b g (Frank Henderson) .... 2 3
Ashmont, b g (H. P. Gallup) 7 2
Baby Logan, ch m (W. P. Boutelle) ... 3 6
Randolph K, b g (C. C. Blaney) 4 4
Archford, blk g (A. M. Tyner) 6 5
Capt Hall, blk g, by Silvertail (Jesse
Moulton) 8 7
Nelson P, b g (Nelson Pierce) 5 dr
Time— 2.30, 2.25.
Class, Free-for-all Pacing; Best Two in
Three; Mile Heats Purse, $100.
Landlord, b g, by Albrino (C. L.
Young) 1 2 1
S R, ch s (C. C. Blaney) 2 1 3
Embrino, b m (W. Emery) 3 3 2
Time— 2.17 1-2, 2.17, 2.20.
Running Race, Three-Fourths Mile Heats;
Best Two in Three; Purse, $75.
Paddy, b g (Haley) 2 1 1
Millie L, b m (Houghton) 1 2 2
Miss O B, b m (Keany) 3 3 dr
Time— 1.25 1-4, 1.20 1-4, 1.20.
Pony Race, 1-4 Mile Heats; Best Two in
Three, for a Blue Ribbon.
Billy (McMorrow) 1 2 1
Baby (J. B. Lynch) 2 1 2
Time— .28, .28, .28 3-4.
Harry Thomas attempted to pull a road
cart a mile in ten minutes. He did it in
8m., 2s., the band playing "A Little Bit Off
the Top" as he came up the stretch. A ten
mile tandem-paced bicycle race between C.
P. Paul and W. Prouty was won by Paul in
26m., 32s. Trinket, 2.14 (A. S. Gushee), 25
years old, started to beat the world's record,
2.20 1-2, for aged horses, and lost; time,
2.20 3-4.
unanimously chosen president. The full
hoard of officers and committees for the
year were :
President, S. Walter Wales.
First vice-president, Louis Pfingst.
Second vice-president, Eobert S. Fitch.
Secretary, Charles H. Belledeu.
Treasurer, John M. E. Morrill.
Clerk, Frederick J. Brand.
Press representative, Edward G. Bich-
ardson.
Directors, Messrs. Wales, Pfingst,
Fitch, Belledeu, Morrill, Brand, T. A.
Bresnahan, George H. Greenwood and
Charles L. Young.
Pacing and speedway committee, C. C.
Blaney, chairman; George W. D'Arcy,
J. B. Stuart, Jr., L. S. Timberlake,
Louis Tewhart, Frederick S. Gore, Hollis
P. Gallup, George B. Fowler, Bandolph
K. Clarke, C. L. Young, Almond S.
Gushee, W. C. Littlefield, Jesse Moulton
and William C. Fitzgerald.
Finance committee, E. S. Fitch, chair-
man; Charles L. Young and George H.
Greenwood.
Membership committee, Walter E.
JSTewbert, chairman; Charles L. Hinds
and George E. Griffin.
House committee, William P. Boutelle,
chairman; D. W. Sullivan and J. N.
Berry.
Of these gentlemen Lewis S. Timber-
lake of the Eacing and Speedway com-
mittee died very suddenly, and greatly
lamented, on Dec. 8, 1902, the club tak-
ing appropriate action on his death.
The first change in the board of di-
rectors came in "l901 when S. Walter
Wales, proprietor of the Boulevard
stables at Grove Hall, and one of the
most popular members of the club, was
Interest in racing was unabated, as the
following list will show.
BLUE RIBBON WINNERS FOR 1901.
Alice B (W. E. Newbert) won from Little
Fred, Jan. 16. Lost to Bessie Rampart,
April 25; Ramus, June 16; Lady B, Oct. 24;
Roy K, Nov. 7 and 21.
Azote (E. O. Haddock) won from Ramus,
April 25.
Baby Logan (W. P. Boutelle) won from
Gem, June 17; Ella H, Oct. .10; Conundrum,
Oct. 24; Randolph K, Nov. 17. Lost to
Rubsley G, Nov. 21.
Beauty (W. C. Littlefield) won from Rose-
wood, April 25; John F, June 17.
Ben Noel (Jesse Moulton) won from Lady
Wentworth, Oct. 31.
Bessie Rampart (R. S. Fitch) won from
Alice B, April 25.
10
Char Ex= Presidents
CHARLES L. YOUNG,
President 1899-1900.
S. WALTER WALES,
President 1901-1902.
FREDERICK J. BRAND,
President 1903-1904.
11
Billy (W. W. Grant) lost to Nellie W,
Oct. 31.
Bob Fitz (H. P. Gallup) won from Lady
B, Nov. 21. Lost to Lady B, Nov. 7.
Bonnets o' Blue won from Ned Winslow
(by forfeit), Feb. 14. Lost to Landlord,
March 28 and May 16.
Brightness (A. M. Newbert) won from
Brick Wilkes, Jr., Jan. 16. Lost to Goodboy,
March 28 and April 25;. Lady B, Oct. 10.
Budweiser won from Mutineer, Oct. 31; El-
lie, Nov. 31.
Conundrum (M. F. Sullivan) lost to Baby
Logan, Oct. 24.
Dempsey (J. R. Stuart, Jr.) lost to Land-
lord, June 13.
Dr. G (F. J. Brand) lost to Rubsley G,
March 28.
Ella H (Jacob Mosser), lost to Baby Lo-
gan, Oct. 17.
Ellie (J. H. Hall) lost to Budweiser, Nov.
31.
Gem (Charles Abrams) lost to Baby Lo-
gan, June 17.
Goodboy (J. N. Berry) won from Bright-
ness, March 28 and April 25.
John F (W. I. Estabrook) lost to Beauty.
June 17.
Kentucky Star (C. H. Belledeu) won from
Landlord, Oct. 3 and 31.
Lady B (L. E. Billings) won from Bright-
ness, Oct. 10; Alice B, Oct. 24; Bob Fitz,
Nov. 7. Lost to Bob Fitz, Nov. 21.
Lady Banker (J. W. Linnehan) lost to
Lady Madison, July 18 and Oct. 10.
Lady Madison (P. J. Fitzgerald) won from
Ramus, June 17; Roy K, July 11; Lady
Banker, July 18 and Oct. 10.
Lady Wentworth (E. P. Denn) lost to Ben
Noel, Oct. 31.
Landlord (C. L. Young) won from Rubs-
ley G, Jan. 15 and June 17; Bonnets o' Blue,
March 28 and April 16; Dempsey, June 13.
Lost to Kentucky Star, Oct. 3 and 31.
Little Fred (C. C. Blaney) lost to Alice B,
Jan. 16.
Mabel Scott (C. L. Young) lost to Molar,
Feb. 14.
Molar (H. A. Haven) won from Mabel
Scott, Feb. 14.
Mutineer (J. H. Semple) won from Fellows'
Rex, Oct. 24. Lost to Budweiser, Oct. 31.
Ned Winslow (C. H. Belledeu) lost to
Bonnets o' Blue (by forfeit), Feb. 14.
Nellie W (W. L. Morrison) won from
Billy, Oct. 31.
Ramus (Carey Keith) won from Alice B,
June 13. Lost to Azote, April 25; Lady
Madison, June 17.
Randolph K (C. C. Blaney) lost to Baby
Logan, Nov. 17.
Rex (Albert Fellows) lost to Mutineer,
Oct. 24.
Rosewood (W. L. Morrison) lost to Beau-
ty, April 25.
Roy K (C. L. Young) won from Alice B,
Nov. 7 and 21. Lost to Lady Madison, July
11.
Rubsley G (Jesse Moulton) won from Dr.
G, March 2S; Baby Logan, Nov. 21. Lost
to Landlord, Jan. 15 and June 17.
RACE AT READVILLE SEPTEMBER
21, 1901.
No big race was held at the Readville
track on June 17, 1901, hut Labor Day-
saw the men, horses and spectators out in
full force. This is what the latter saw :
September 2, 1901.
Mile Heats, Free-for-all Pace; Best Two in
Three; Purses, $100 Each.
Kentucky Star, b g, by Robert Mc-
Gregor ( C. H. Belledeu) 1 1
Wilton Boy, b g, by Wilton, dam Happy
Medium (E. O. Haddock) 3 2
Rubsley G, br g, by Star Wilkes, dam
Kencione (Jesse Moulton) 2 5
Landlord, b g, by Albrino (C. L. Young) 4 3
Bonnets o' Blue, ro m, by Raven, dam
Bluebells (G. W. D'Arcy) 5 4
Time— 2.19, 2.19 3-4.
Class, 2.20 Trot.
Lady Madison, b m, by Tommy
Britton, dam Lady Alice (P. J.
Fitzgerald) 1 1 2 1
Alice B, ch m, by Edgardo (W. E.
Newbert) 6 5 1 3
Azote, b g, by Constantine, dam
Hilda (E. O. Haddock) 2 2 4 4
Ramus, b g, by Red Wilkes, dam
May (Cary Keith) 4 3 3 2
Gilt Edge, b s, bv Edgemark (J.
H. Nay) 3 4 5 5
Emma Westland, br m, by West-
land (H. P. Gallup) 5 6 dr
Time— 2.25 1-4, 2.23 1-2, 2.22 1-2, 2.24 1-2.
Class, 2.22 Pace.
Gladys M, br m, by Irvin M, dam by
Monte Cristo (R. K. Clarke) 1 1
Silkey, ch m, by Nelson (F. S. Eldredge) .2 2
Prince Wilkes, br g, bv Macie Wilkes
(C. H. Belledeu) 3 4
Rosewood, b g, by Wedgewood (W. L.
Morrison) 5 3
Dr. G, b g, by Charles Caffrey, dam
Laura (F. J. Brand) 4 6
Lackawanna, b g, by Battle Axe, dam
Veike (J. D. O'Connor) 6 5
Time— 2.22 3-4, 2.22 1-2.
Class, 2.35, Trot or Pace.
Aggie H, ch m, by Parker Gunn, dam
Agnes (R. W. Hickey) 1 1
Beauty, ch m, by Electus (W. C. Lit-
tlefield) 2 3
Nellie W, ch m, by Nelson (W. L. Mor-
rison) 3 2
Capt. Hall, blk g, by Silvertail (Jesse
Moulton) 5 4
Newsboy, gr g, by Smut (R. S. Fitch) . 4 6
Lady Banker, b m, by Dan Lambert
(J. W. Linnehan) , 6 5
Time— 2.27 1-2, 2.18 1-2.
Special Slow Class, Trot or Pace.
Brightness, blk m, by Tarratine, dam
Nancy Pilot (A. M. Newbert) 1 1
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BONNETS O'BLUE (2.18 3-4), roan pacing mare.
By Raven, dam Bluebells. Owned by George W. D'Arey.
GLADYS M. (2.21 3-4) brown pacing mare.
By Irvin M, dam by Monte Cristo. Owned by Randolph K. Clarke.
Ralph Sherman, ch g, by General Sher-
man, Jr., dam Rampart (E. S. Dear-
mond) 2 3
Elvino, br g, by Alcentara (H. S. Clark) 3 2
Rex, b g, by Electricity, dam Lady In-
dex (Albert Fellows) 4 4
Nagaina, br m, by Arion, dam Edgeline
(H. P. Gallup) 5 5
Lady Wentworth, blk m, by Wentworth
(E. P. Denn) 6 7
Nancy, b m, by Prince Wilkes, dam
Nancy S (A. M. Tyner) 7 6
Time— 2.43 1-4, 2.44 1-4.
President Wales was reelected in 1902
without a dissenting voice, but there
were several important changes else-
where. Secretary Charles H. Belledeu,
who had filled the office from the incep-
tion of the club, could no longer give it
the time it required, and resigned both
as secretary and director. His place as
secretary was filled by the choice of
George H. Greenwood, who still holds
the office, and on the board of directors
Mr. Belledeu was succeeded by Almond
S. Gushee, one of the most active mem-
bers of the club. Treasurer John M. E.
Morrill resigned and was succeeded by
the present treasurer, Robert S. Fitch,
who was at the time second vice-presi-
dent, Mr. Morrill accepting an election
to the latter office. Mr. Morrill and Mr.
Fitch simply swapped places. The full
board of officers for the year was :
President, S. Walter Wales, proprietor
of the Boulevard stables at Grove Hall.
First vice-president, Louis Pfingst,
street railway supplies.
Second vice-president, John M. E.
Morrill, builder.
Secretary, George H. Greenwood, cigar
dealer.
Treasurer, Eobert S. Fitch, real estate.
Clerk, George W. D'Arcy, men's fur-
nishing goods and president of the Brat-
tleboro Overall Co.
The directors were Messrs. Wales,
Pfingst, Morrill, Greenwood and Fitch,
and T. A. Bresnahan, Jesse Moulton,
Frederick J. Brand, Charles L. Young
and Almond S. Gushee.
The committees were :
Pacing and speedway committee, Al-
mond S. Gushee. chairman; S. Walter
Wales, Fred S. Eldred^e, Jesse Moulton,
Hollis P. Gallup, George W. D'Arcy, W.
W. Grant, Louis Pfingst, R. S. Fitch,
William P. Boutelle, Randolph K.
Clarke, D. W. Sullivan, Walter E. New-
bert, Fred S. Gore, L. S. Timberlake,
Charles L. Young, William M. Brum-
mett, Edgar 0. Haddock, J. W. Linne-
han and William J. Fitzgerald.
Finance committee, T. A. Bresnahan,
F. J. Brand and Jesse Moulton.
Membership committee, George E. Grif-
fin, Charles L. Hinds, Dr. R. W. Balkam
and E. S. Harris.
House committee, Wm. P. Boutelle,
H. R. Barry, D. W. Sullivan, J. K
Berry, W. E. Newbert and Charles L.
Youn£.
The year 1902 was one of the greatest
activity for the club. Many new mem-
bers were added, the cash balance was
largely increased, races were many and
well attended, and entire harmony pre-
vailed. As the year approached its end
there was much speculation as to who
would succeed President Wales. There
was talk of a third term but though the
president did not have an enemy in the
club there were many members who did
not like to see a third-term precedent es-
tablished. First vice-president Louis
Pfingst having entered the political arena
thought it best to resign from the
directorate of the club and from the list
of eligibles to the presidency, Second
Vice-president John M. E. Morrill was
buried in business and the choice fell on
Frederick J. Brand. The full board for
the year comprised:
President, Frederick J. Brand.
First vice-president. Randolph K.
Clarke.
Second vice-president, J. M. E. Mor-
rill.
Secretary, George H. Greenwood.
Treasurer, Robert S. Fitch.
The above-named and Messrs. S. Wal-
ter Wales, T. A. Bresnahan, Charles L.
Young, Almond S. Gushee and Hollis P.
Gallup composed the board of directors.
The committees and other officers
chosen by the directors were :
Racing and speedway committee, Al-
mond S. Gushee, chairman; S. Walter
Wales, George H. Greenwood. Hollis P.
Gallup, Hiram A. Haven, George W.
D'Arcv. W. W. Grant, Louis Pfingst,
Jacob Mosser, R. S. Fitch, William" P.
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A Quartette of Old Timers
CHARLES H. BELLEDEU,
The first secretary.
JOHN M. E. MORRILL,
The first treasurer.
CYRIL C. BLANEY.
The first mao to put up his check.
PETER J. FITZGERALD,
Director.
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Boutelle, Eandolph K. Clarke, D. W.
Sullivan, Walter E. Newbert, Fred S.
Gore, Wilbur S. Littlefield, Fred S.
Eldredge, Charles L. Young, William M.
Brmnmett, Edgar 0. Haddock, J. W.
Linnehan, William J. Fitzgerald and
Charles L. Hinds.
House committee, William P. Boutelle,
chairman; H. E. Barry, D. W. Sullivan,
W. E. Newbert, Charles L. Young and
J. N. Berry.
Finance committee, T. A. Bresnahan,
S. Walter Wales, Albert Fellows, Almond
S. Gushee.
Membership committee, George E.
Griffin, chairman; Dr. R. W. Balkam,
E. S. Harris, Nelson Pierce and C. M.
Mandell.
Clerk, George W. D'Arcy.
Press representative, Edward G. Rich-
ardson.
The election was held on Jan. 5.
After the announcement of the balloting
had been made known, Director T. A.
Bresnahan said that President Wales had
been present at every meeting of the club
since he had been its president, fre-
quently at much inconvenience to him-
self and his family, and the speaker
thought that the retiring officer had es-
tablished a precedent which would be hard
for any other president to live up to. For
the president's faithfulness, Mr. Bres-
nahan moved that the club give him a
rising vote of thanks. The members then
gave President Wales a rising vote of
their appreciation and wound up with
three cheers and a tiger.
D. W. Sullivan said that words of
praise should not alone testify to the re-
spect in which Mr. Wales was held by the
members. He held up a silver horse
shoe, the exact counterpart of those worn
by Rondo, the fast gelding owned by the
president and said that it had been made
by E. P. Denn, one of the club members,
but that both Mr. Denn and the speaker
were too modest to make the presenta-
tion. A7ice-president Morrill was then
called upon to make the presentation
speech, which he did. Picking up the
handsome gift, he read the inscription
which was : "S. Walter Wales, President,
Rondo 2.14 3-4 D. G. D. Club, 1901-
1902." On the reverse side was the
name of the donor, "E. P. Denn."
There was still another nresentation
during the evening, when the first presi-
dent, Charles L. Young, was given a
loving cup in commemoration of the
record made by Landlord, the pacing
champion of the Blue Hill avenue speed-
way. Director Almond S. Gushee made
the speech of presentation. Mr. Young,
in accepting the gift, thanked the mem-
bers for the trophy and said that he had
probably had as much fun in defending
the title of King of the Speedway as the
members had in seeing him do it.
The cup is a costly one of solid silver
with a gold lining. On one side is in-
scribed :
Landlord 2.16 3-4.
Champion
Dorchester Speedway
Nov. 21, 1900
to
Oct. 2, 1901.
On the reverse side is this inscription :
D. G. D. C.
to
C. L. Young.
The list of blue-ribbon winners shows
how keen was the interest in racing.
BLUE RIBBON WINNERS FOR 1902.
Alice B (W. E. Newbert) won from Mattie
Miller, March 27; Ramus, April 12. Lost to
Princess Ebilo, April 3; Ninety-One, April
19; Ramus, May 3.
Alizarine Black (J. W. Linnehan) won
from Nagaina, May 22.
Andrew May (J. H. McManus) lost to
Landlord, May 8; Gladys M, May 15.
Azote (E. O. Haddock) won from Ninety-
One, April 17. Lost to India Panis, April 19
and May 15; Princess Ebilo, May 10.
Baby Logan (W. P. Boutelle) won from
Dr. G, March 27; Budweiser (by forfeit)
April 24. Lost to Ida J, May 15.
Beauty (C. C. Blaney) lost to Budweiser,
Nov. 29.
Belle Lome (D. W. Sullivan) lost to Lady
Madison, Oct. 30.
Belmont (A. M. Johnson) won from
George Robson, Oct. 16. Lost to Billy Bar-
low, Nov. 16.
Billy Barlow (T. A. Bresnahan) won from
Belmont, Nov. 16.
Budweiser (J. W. Linnehan) won from
Captain Hall, April 12; Goldie, April 17;
W. W. Saylor, Oct. 16 and Nov. 20. Lost
to Silkey, March 27; Baby Logan (by for-
feit) April 24; Ida J. May, 8: Beauty,
Nov. 29.
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LADY MADISON (2.20 1-4), bay trotting mare.
By Tommy Britton, dam Lady Alice. Owned by Peter J. Fitzgerald.
SUSIE F (2.20 1-2), bay trotting mare.
By Emperor Wilkes. Speedway trotting champion and speedway trotting cup win-
ner for 1904. Owned by J. Rollin Stuart, Jr.
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Captain Hall (A. S. Gushee) won from
Dr. G, April 3. Lost to Budweiser,
April 12.
Chico (C. H. Morse) won from McNary's
Hal (by forfeit) April 19. Lost to W. W.
Saylor, May 22 and 24.
C L H (C. L. Hinds) won from Goodboy,
May 10.
Dollie S, runner (S. Walter Wales, Jr)
won from Landlord, May 15.
Dr. G (F. J. Brand) lost to Baby Logan,
March 27; Captain Hall, April 3.
Ella H (Jacob Mosser) won from
Silkey, April 3.
Evolutio (H. A. Haven) lost to Gladys M,
May 30.
George Robson (P. W. Hennessey) lost
to Belmont, Oct. 16.
Gladys M (R. K. Clarke) won from An-
drew May, May 15; Evolutio, May 30.
Goldie (A. M. Newbert) lost to Bud-
weiser, April 17.
Goodboy (J. N. Berry) won from Sunrise,
April 24 and May 1. Lost to Sunrise, April
17; C L H, May 10.
Ida J (C. W. Arnold) won from Bud-
weiser, May 8; Baby Logan, May 15.
India Panis (G. A. French) won from
Azote, April 19 and May 15. Lost to Prin-
cess Ebilo, April 24 and May 8.
Lady Madison (P. J. Fitzgerald) won from
Belle Lome, Oct. 30. Lost to Princess Ebilo,
May 15 and 30.
Landlord (C. L. Young) won from An-
drew May, May 8. Lost to Dollie S, runner,
May 15.
Mattie Miller (J. W. Linnehan) won from
Nagaina, Oct. 16. Lost to Alice B, March 27.
McNary's Hal (R. Y. Woodbury) lost to
Chico (by forfeit) April 19; W. W. Saylor,
April 24.
Nagaina (H. P. Gallup) won from Un-
known, May 8. Lost to Prince Henry,
May 10; Alazarine Black, May 22; Mattie
Miller, Oct. 16; Prince Zada, Oct. 30.
Newsboy (F. S. Eldredge) won from Ra-
mus, May 1.
Ninety-One (R. C. Richardson) won from
Alice B, April 19. Lost to Azote, April 17.
Prince Henry (J. A. Hart) won from
Nagaina, May 10.
Prince Zada (F. J. Brand) won from
Nagaina, Oct. 30
Princess Ebilo (F. J. Brand) won from
Alice B, April 3; Ramus, April 17; India
Panis, April 24 and May 8; Azote, May 10;
Lady Madison, May 15 and 30.
Ralph Sherman (E. S. Dearmond) won
from Sunrise, April 19.
Ramus (Carey Keith) won from Alice B,
May 3. Lost to Alice B, April 12; Princess
Ebilo, April 17; Newsboy, May 1.
Silkey (F. S. Eldredge) won from Bud-
weiser, Feb. 27. Lost to Ella H., April 19;
Sunrise (E. S. Harris) won from Goodboy,
April 17. Lost to Ralph Sherman, April 19;
Goodboy, April 24 and May 1.
Unknown (Mr. Brown) won from Na-
gaina, May 8.
EACES AT EEADVILLE JUXE 17
AND SEPTEMBEE 1, 1902.
Two big races were held at Eeadville
during the year 1902, one on June 17
and the other on Labor Day, which fell
on September 1. The results follow :
June 17, 1902.
Class 2.20 Trot; Best Three in Five; Mile
Heats; Purses $100 Each.
Princess Ebilo, ch m, by Don Carlos,
dam Lucy (F. J. Brand) 1 1 1
Gypsy Felix, b m, by Don Felix (H.
G. Turner) 2 2 2
India Panis, b g, by Panis, dam Mat-
tie Graham (George A. French)... 4 3 3
Captain Haff, br g, by Arion, dam
by Sultan (J. G. Cleary) 3 9 8
Ramus, b g, by Red Wilkes, dam
May (Cary Keith) 5 4 5
Alice B, ch m, by Edgardo, dam un-
known (W. E. Newbert) 7 5 4
Lady Madison, b m, by Madison
Smith, dam Lady Alice (P. J.
Fitzgerald) 6 6 7
Ninety-One, ch m, by Republican,
dam Betsy Trotwood (R. C. Rich-
ardson) 9 8 6
Newsboy, g g, by Smut (J. E. Wil-
ber) 8 7 9
Time— 2.23 1-4, 2.20 1-4, 2.21.
Class, Free-for-all; Best Two in Three.
George G, g g, by Roscoe (W. J. Fitz-
gerald) 1 1
Landlord, b g, by Albrino (Charles L.
Young) >. 2 2
W W Saylor, b g, by Young Ranger,
dam Edna H (H. R. Barry) 3 3
Bonnets o' Blue, ro m, by Raven, dam
Bluebells (Geo. W. D'Arcy) 4 4
J B S, untraced (R. H. Jenness) 5 5
Time— 2.18, 2.18 3-4.
Class 2.22 Pace; Best Two in Three.
Gladys M, br m, by Irvin M, dam by
Monte Cristo (R. K. Clarke) 1 1
Captain Hall, blk g, by Silvertail (A.
S. Gushee) 3 2
Ida J, b m, by Dictator Chief (C. W.
Arnold) 2 4
Budweiser, b g, by Bud Crooke, dam
Bessie Hal (J. W. Linnehan) 4 3
Lackawanna, b g, by Battle Axe, dam
Veike (J. D. O'Connor) 5 6
Billie Barlow, b g, untraced (T. A.
Bresnahan) 6 6
Time— 2.21 3-4, 2.22 1-2.
Class, Special, Slow; Best Two in Three.
Cartuna, br m, by Larrabee
the Great (Frank Hender-
son) 3 10 1 0 *1
Dexter, b g, by Glide (W. I.
Estabrook) 1 2 4 0 2
C E H, ch g, untraced (C. L.
Hinds) 2 1 3 3 dr
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DIRECTOR WALTER E. NEWBERT,
Chairman Racing and Sneedway Committee,
1904.
HENRY R. BARRY,
Chairman Racing and Speedway Committee,
1905.
EDGAR O. HADDOCK,
The First Clerk.
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FRED S. ELDREDGE,
Director.
Mutineer, bl g, by Lord Duf-
ferin, dam Alcantara (J. H.
Semple) 10 9 2
Belmont, b g, untraced (A. M.
Johnson) 4 3 5
Prince G, b g, untraced (Geo.
H. Greenwood) 8 4 7
Rex, b g, by Electricity, dam
Lady Index (Alb. Fellows).. 6 5 6
Good Boy, b g, untraced (J. N.
Berry) 5 S 11
Nagaina, b m, by Arion, dam
Bdgeline (H. P. Gallup) .... 9 6 10
Prince Henry, ch g, untraced
J. A. Hart) 7 7 8
Sunrise, b g, by Abbott
Wilkes, dam Kitty (E. S.
Harris) 11 11 9
Time— 2.32 1-2, 2.35, 2.32 1-2, 2.32, 2.34.
*Dead heat.
September 1, 1902.
Class, 2.30 Pace or Trot; Best Three in
Five; Mile Heats; Purses $100 Each.
Yellow Boy, ch g, by Bay
Cloud, dam Gold Shower
(L. E. Billings) 6 2 4 111
Lackawanna, b g, by Battle
Axe, dam Veike (J. D.
O'Connor) 2 1 1 2 2 3
Cartuna, br m, by Larrabee
the Great (Frank Hen-
derson) 1 7 5 3 3 2
Blue Hill Boy, b g, by Elec-
tricity (P. O'Hearn) 3 5 2 4 4 ro
Belmont, b g, untraced (A.
M. Johnson) 7 3 3 5 5 ro
C L H, ch g, untraced (C.
L. Hinds) 5 6 6 dr
Oxide, blk s, by Runner
dam Ode (J. W. Linne-
han) 4 4 dr
Dexter, b g, by Glide (P.
J. Fitzgerald) 8 8 dr
Time— 2.24 1-2, 2.30, 2.25 1-4, 2.29 1-2,
2.30 3-4, 2.30 1-2.
Class, 2.20 Trot.
India Panis, b g, by Panis, by
Pancoast, dam Mattie Graham
(G. A. French) 3 111
Lady Madison, b m, by Madison
Smith, dam Lady Alice (P. J.
Fitzgerald) 1 3 4 4
Alice B, ch m, by Edgardo (W. E.
Newbert) 2 2 2 2
'Ramus, b g, by Red Wilkes,
dam May (Cary Keith) 5 4 3 3
Ninety-One, ch m, by Republi-
can, dam Betsy Trotwood (R.
C. Richardson) 4 5 5 dr
Time— 2.22 1-2, 2.24 1-4, 2.24 3-4, 2.23 1-2.
Class, 2.15 Trot or Pace.
Rondo, b g, bv Alcanwood. (S W.
Wales) 1 1
Gladys M, br m, by Irvin M, dam by
Monte Cristo (R. K. Clarke) 2 2
Landlord, b g, by Albrino (C. L.
Young) 3 3
Rubsley G, br g, by Star Wilkes (H.
C. Briggs) 5 4
Aggie H, ch m, by Parker Gunn, dam
Agnes (R. W. Hickey) 4 7
W. W. Saylor, b g, by Young Ranger,
dam Edna (H. R. Barry) 7 5-
Bonnets o' Blue, ro m, by Raven, dam
Bluebells (Geo. W. D'Arcy) 6 6
Time— 2.16 1-2, 2.16.
Class, 2.23 Pace.
Budweiser, b g, by Bud
Crook, dam Bessie Hal
(A. M. Newbert) 2 1 2*2 1 1
Grover C, b g, by Young
Jim, dam by Daniel
Boone (E. O. Haddock) .323123-
McNary's Hal, ro g, by
Forest Hal, dam Katie
W. (R. Y. Woodbury).. 13 4 3 3 2
Captain Hall, blk g, by Sil-
vertail (A. S. Gushee) . . 5 4 14 4 4
Nellie Bly, ch m, by Gray
Harry (Jacob Mosser) . . 4 dr
Time— 2.23 3-4, 2.26 3-4, 2.26 1-4, 2.27,
2.26 1-2, 2.271-2.
*Last three heats decided at Readville
on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
Class, Special, Slow.
Polyphema, br m, by Senator
Blackburn, dam Creusa OR.
W. Balkam) 3 3 *1 1 1
Bonnie Patchen, blk g, by
Bonnie Boy, dam Ethelina
(T. R. Galvin) 113 2 5
Sunrise, b g, by Abbott W,
dam Kitty (E. S. Harris) ..44462
Emma R, b m, untraced (C. L.
Hinds) 5 6 2 4 6
Nagaina, b m, by Arion, dam
Edgeline (H. P. Gallup).. 6 5 3 3 3
Elvino, br g, untraced (H. S.
Clark) 7 7 6 5 4
Rex, b g, by Electricity, dam
Lady Index (Albert Fellows) 2 2 7 7 dr
Time— 2.32 1-2, 2.39, 2.41 1-4, 2.41 1-2,
2.42 1-2.
*Last three heats were decided on Sept. 2,
at Readville.
The principal changes at the election
in 1904 were the choice of Almond S.
Gushee as second vice-president in place-
of John M. E. Morrill, who declined
active office, although retaining his in-
terest in the club and later accepting the-
chairmanship of the membership com-
mittee ; and of Ernest H. Morgan, who,
since the resignation of Mr. Eichardson,.
had been press representative, as clerk
in place of George W. D'Arcy who de-
clined longer to serve, although he ac-
cepted a place on the board of directors.
The new names added to the board were-
those of Mr. D'Arcy, Jacob Mosser, P, J..
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RENO K. (2.15 1-4), bay pacing gelding.
By Kremlin (2.07 1-4), dam by Bay State. Owned by J. W. Linneban.
REX (2.13 1-4). bay pacing gelding.
By Ongate, dam by Dark Knigbt, sire by Searcbligbt (2.03 1-4). Owned by J. W. Linneban.
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Fitzgerald and J. W. Linnehan. The
full board of officers with the committees
were as follows :
President, Frederick J. Brand.
First vice-president, Bandolph K.
Clarke.
Second vice-president, Almond S.
Gushee.
Secretary, George H. Greenwood.
Treasurer, Bobert S. Fitch.
Directors, H. P. Gallup, G. W. D'Arcy,
J. W. Linnehan, P. J. Fitzgerald, Jacob
Mosser.
Finance committee, Albert Fellows,
chairman; Diedrich Eilers, J. A. Smith.
Pacing and speedway committee, W.
E. Newbert, chairman; E. 0. Haddock,
H. E. Barry, Wm. Brummett, F. S.
Eldredge, F. H. Eobinson, D. M. Biggs,
E. S. Harris, J. E. Stuart, Jr., E. W.
Berrigan, D. W. Sullivan.
Membership committee, Nelson Pierce,
chairman; E. C. Eichardson, G. E.
Griffin.
House committee, W. P. Boutelle,
chairman; H. E. Barry, J. N. Berry, C.
L. Young, E. W. Green, E. W. Hickey.
Entertainment committee, J. M. E.
Morrill, chairman; W. L. Terhune, Dr.
A. T. Davison, J. E, Stuart, Jr., C. L.
Hinds.
Clerk, Ernest H. Morgan.
Said the report of this meeting: The
result was a credit to all concerned and
a tribute to hard working officers. Under
President Brand's leadership the club
stands much higher in point of mem-
bership than a year ago and the cash
balance has increased by about 30 per
cent.
Good racing was enjoyed during the
year, an added incentive being the vote of
the club, of March 23, 1903, on motion of
Walter E. Newbert, that a silver cup to
the value of $25 be given each to the
trotter and the pacer winning the most
blue ribbons during the season.
During the season of 1903 eighteen
races were held on the Mattapan speed-
way, exclusive of one match made but
which did not come off, one of the horses
failing to appear, the ribbon going to the
other by forfeit. This was the India
Panis-Susie F race for Oct. 29 for the
trotting championship of the speedway.
By a mistake India Panis failed to ap-
pear and the ribbon was given to Susie
F. That horse has since demonstrated
her superior speed, however, and as the
records show, has held the ribbon against
all comers, has beaten fast pacers and
ended the season of 1904 without a de-
feat. Twenty-five different horses start-
ed in 1903 and the aggregate number
starting was 41. The racers and results
were :
RIBBON AND CUP WINNERS FOR 1903.
Bath Belle, br m, trotter (F. J. Brand),
lost to India Panis, March 26.
Beauty, ch m, pacer (C. C. Blaney), lost to
Mazie Sidney for the pacing championship,
April 2.
Captain Hall, blk g, pacer (A. S. Gushee),
lost to Fred H, May 28, and to W. W. Say-
lor, July 2, and Aug. 13.
Charlena, b m, pacer (C. C. Blaney) won
from W. W. Saylor, Oct. 29.
Don Wilkes, gr g, pacer (F. H. Robinson)
lost to W. W. Saylor, Nov. 12.
Early Bird, Jr., pacer (A. E. Kenney) lost
to Mazie Sidney for the pacing champion-
ship, Oct. 22.
Fred H, b g, pacer (A. J. Furbush), won.
from Captain Hall, May 28.
George K, gr g, pacer (Jacob Mosser), won
from Little Prudie, July 2.
Goodboy, b g, pacer (J. N. Berry), lost to
Mr. Fellows' Rex, Aug. 13.
Grover C, b g, pacer (P. J. Fitzgerald),
won from Lackawanna, April 23.
Guitara, b g, trotter (C. C. Blaney) lost
to Mr. Fellows' Rex, Oct. 29 and Nov. 12.
India Panis, b g, trotter (G. A. French),
won from Bath Belle, March 26, and the
trotting championship from Lady Madison,
August 13. Lost the trotting championship
to Susie F, on Oct. 29, by forfeit through
non-appearance.
Lackawanna, b g, pacer (J. D. O'Connor),
lost to Grover C, April 23.
Lady Madison, b m, trotter (P. J. Fitzger-
ald), lost the championship to India Panis,
August 13.
Little Prudie, b m, pacer (E. M. Green),
lost to George K, July 2.
Mattie Miller, b m, trotter (J. W. Linne-
nan), won from Sunny Jim, Nov. 12.
Mazie Sidney, b m, pacer (W. J. Furbush),
won from Beauty, April 2; Linnehan's Rex,
May 14; Early Bird, Jr., Oct. 22, all for the
pacing championship.
Miss Eckles, br m, pacer (F. H. Robin-
son), lost to Sunny Jim, Oct. 29.
Ned Wilkes, ch g, pacer (Louis Pfingst),
won from San Telmo, Nov. 12.
Rex, b g, trotter (Albert Fellows), won
from Sunrise, July 2; Goodboy, Aug. 13;
Sunny Jim and Sunrise, Oct. 8; Guitara and
Sunrise, Oct. 29, and Guitara, Nov. 12, thus
going through the season without a defeat.
Rex, b g, pacer (J. W. Linnehan), lost to
Mazie Sidney for the pacing championship,
May 14.
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DIRECTOR HOLLIS P. GALLUP.
Who has never missed a meeting.
EDWARD P. DENN,
in whose shop the club was born.
D. W. SULLIVAN.
JOHN W. LINNEHAN.
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Sanford L, ch g, pacer (T. A. Bresnahan),
lost to W. W. Saylor, May 7 and 14.
San Telmo, br g, pacer (Louis Tewhart),
lost to Ned Wilkes, Nov. 12.
Sunny Jim, b g, trotter (W. M. Brummett),
won from Miss Eckles, Oct. 29. Lost to Mr.
Fellows' Rex, Oct. 8, and to Mattie Miller,
Nov. 12.
Sunrise, b g, pacer (E. S. Harris), lost to
Mr. Fellows' Rex, July 2, Rex and Sunny
Jim, Oct. 8, and Rex. and Guitara, Oct. 29.
Susie F, b m, trotter (J. R. Stuart, Jr.),
won the trotting championship ribbon by
forfeit from India Panis, Oct. 29.
W. W. Saylor, pacer (H. R. Barry), won
from Sanford L, May 7 and 14; Captain Hall,
July 2 and Aug. 13, and Don Wilkes, Nov.
12. Lost to Charlena, Oct. 29.
The silver cups were won by Albert Fel-
lows' Rex for the trotters and Henry R.
Barry's W. W. Saylor for the pacers.
EACES AT EEADVILLE JUNE 17
AND SEPTEMBEE 7, 1903.
The usual matinees were held at Eead-
ville on June 17 and on Labor Day, which
fell on September 7. The results were :
June 17, 1903.
Mile Heats; Purses, $100 Each.
Class, 2.34; Trot or Pace; Best Two in
Three.
Nellie W, ch m, by Nelson (W. L.
Morrison) 2 1 1
Brightness, blk m, by Tarratine,
dam Nancy Pilot (E. O. Haddock) 14 5
Bertha B, br m, by St. Croix (A. J.
Morris) 4 2 3
Billy Barlow, b g, untraced (W. P.
Boutelle) 7 7 2
George K, gr g, untraced (Jacob
Mosser) 5 3 4
Belle Lome, b m, untraced (E. W.
Berrigan) 3 5 6
Don Wilkes, gr g. by Johnny Wilkes
(F. H. Robinson) 6 6 7
Time— 2.27 1-4, 2.24 1-2, 2.24 1-4.
Class, 2.19 Trot; Best Three in Five.
Authentic, blk g, by Autograph (D.
M. Biggs) .1 1 1
Susie F, b m, by Emperor Wilkes
(J. R. Stuart, Jr.) 5 2 2
India Panis, b g, by Panis, by Pan-
coast, dam Mattie Graham (G. A.
French) 2 3 3
Camden Boy, g g, by Cornish Boy
(W. J. Furbush) 3 5 5
Alice B, ch m, by Edgardo (W. E.
Newbert) 4 4 4
Quarter Note, ch g, by Quartermas-
ter (R. Y. Woodbury) 6 6 6
Time— 2.22 1-2, 2.23 1-4; 2.22 1-4.
Class 2.23 Pace; Best Two in Three.
Budweiser, b g, by Bud Crooke,
dam Bessie Hal (J. W. Linne-
han) 4 1 1 1
McNary's Hal, ro g, by Forest
Hal, dam Katie W (R. Y.
Woodbury) 1 2 2 '2
Grover C, ch g, by Young Jim,
dam by Daniel Boone (P. J.
Fitzgerald) 2 6 6 3
Goldie, blk m, by Airbon (A. M.
Newbert) 3 3 4 6
Hector H, ch g, by Hector Wilkes,
dam Mink (F. W. Hamlin) 5 4 3 4
Cartuna, br m, by Larrabee the
Great (Frank Henderson) .... 6 5 5 7
Captain Hall, blk g, by Silvertail
(A. S. Gushee) 7 7 7 5
Lackawanna, b g, by Battle Axe
(J. D. O'Connor) 8 8 8 dr
Time— 2.24, 2.21 1-4, 2.26 1-4, 2.23 1-4.
Class, Free-for-all; Best Two in Three.
Parker S, g g, untraced (W. J. Fur-
bush) 1 1
Rex, b g, by Ongate (J. W. Linnehan) . 2 2
Landlord, b g, by Albrino (C. L. Young) 3 3
Time— 2.17 1-4, 2.19.
Class, 2.19 Pace or 2.15 Trot; Best Two in
Three.
Lady St. Croix, ch m, by St. Croix
(A. J. Furbush) 2 2 1 1
Ornament, b g, by Red Bell (C.
H. Morse) 3 1 2 2
Gladys M, br m, by Irvin M, dam
by Monte Cristo (R. K. Clarke) 4 3 3 dr
King Princeps, b g, by Count
Princeps, dam Lady Almont
(E. P. Denn) 5 4 4 dr
W. W. Saylor, b g, by Young
Ranger, dam Edna H (H. R.
Barry) 1 ds
Time— 2.21 1-2, 2.19 1-4, 2.22 1-2, 2.24.
September 7, 1903.
Mile Heats; Purses, $100 Each.
Class, Special Slow; Best Two in Three.
Lucinda, blk m, untraced (A. D.
Gould) 5 1 1
Sunny Jim, b g, untraced (W. M.
Brummett) 1 2 4
Sunrise, b g, by Abbott Wilkes, dam
Kitty (E. S. Harris) 2 3 3
Rex, b g, by Electricity, dam Lady
Index (Albert Fellows) 4 4 2
Bonnie Patchen, blk g, by Bonnie
Boy (T. R. Galvin) 3 7 6
Bunny, wh g, untraced (Havelock
Keith) 7 5 6
Reliance, b g, by Armough (R. S.
Fitch) 8 6 7
Guitara, b g, by Ora Wilkes (C. C.
Blaney) 6 8 S
Time— 2.32 1-4, 2.33 1-4, 2.30 1-2.
Class, 2.34 Pace, or 2.29 Trot; Best Two in
Three.
Don Wilkes, g g, by Johnnie Wilkes
(F. H. Robinson) 1 1
Charlie H, blk g, by General Withers
(Lothrop Hedge) 2 2
Billy Barlow, b g, untraced (W. P.
Boutelle) 3 3
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JEWKTT (2.14), black pacing gelding.
The old "leader of the snow brigade." By Allie West. Owned by John M. E. Morrill.
BABY LOGAN, chestnut pacing mare.
Owned by W. P. Boutelle,;
Mattie Miller, b m, untraced (J. W.
Linnehan) 6 4
Newsboy, g g, by Smut (F. S. Eldredge) 4 6
Brick Wilkes, Jr,, by Brick Wilkes, dam
Kitty M (C. C. Blaney) 5 5
Time— 2.24 1-4, 2.24 1-4.
Class, 2.26 Pace, or 2.22 Trot; Best Three in
Five.
Captain Hall, blk g, by Silver-
tail (A. S. Gushee) 3 13 11
India Panis, b g, by Panis,
by Pancoast, dam Mattie
Graham (G. A. French) 2 4 1 3 4
Brightness, blk m, by Tarra-
tine, dam Nancy Pilot (E.
O. Haddock) 1 2 4 4 3
Douglas, b g, by Constantine,
dam Susie (R. S. Fitch) 5 3 2 2 2
Goldie, blk m, by Airbon. (A.
M. Newbert) 4 5 7 5 dr
Ramus, b g, by Red Wilkes,
dam May (Cary Keith) 6 7 5 6 5
Nellie Bly, ch m, untraced (Ja-
cob Mosser) 7 6 6 dr
Lackawanna, b g, by Battle
Axe, dam Vieke (J. D.
O'Connor) 8 9 8 7 dr
Emmaree, blk m, untraced (H.
A. Haven) 9 8 9 8 dr
Time— 2.24 1-4, 2.20 1-4, 2.21 1-4, 2.20 1-4,
2.21 1-4.
Class, 2.19 Pace, or 2.15 Trot; Best Three in
Five.
W. W. Saylor, b g, by Young Ranger,
dam Edna H (H. R. Barry) 1 1 1
Budweiser, b g, by Bud Crooke, dam
Bessie Hal (J. W. Linnehan) 2 3 2
Doctor Shorb, blk g, by McKinney,
dam Nannie Clay (A. M. Newbert) 3 2 5
Gladys M, br m, by Irvin M, dam by
Monte Cristo (R. K. Clarke) 4 4 3
Belle Curry, ch m, by Simmons (P.
OrHearn) 5 5 4
Nellie W, ch m, by Nelson (W. J.
Morrison) 6 6 6
Charlena, br m, by Arrowwood, dam
Pocas Baby (C. C. Blaney) 7 7 8
Aggie H, ch m, by Parker J, dam
Agnes (W. E. Newbert) 8 8 7
Time— 2.18 1-4, 2.18 1-4, 2.19 3-4.
The important changes at the begin-
ning of the 3^ear 1905 were the election
of Almond S. Gushee second vice-presi-
dent, to the presidency; of George W.
D'Arcy to the office of first vice-president,
and of Jacob Mosser to that of second
vice-president. At the same time Fred
S. Eldredge, one of the most popular
members of the club and who has trained
and driven many of her horses to victory ;
J. B. Stuart, Jr., owner of the champion
trotter of the club, Susie F; and Walter
E. Newbert, who had been the chairman
of the racing and speedway committee,
were added to the board of directors.
The contest at the election was a strenu-
ous one but after the smoke of battle had
cleared away the decision was accepted
with the utmost good humor by every
one. After President Gushee had made
his appointments the board of officers
stood thus :
President, Almond S. Gushee.
First vice-president, George W. D'Arcy.
Second vice-president, Jacob Mosser.
Secretary, George H. Greenwood.
Treasurer, Bobert S. Fitch.
Directors, the above and Peter J. Fitz-
gerald, Fred S. Eldredge, Hollis P. Gal-
lup, J. Bollin Stuart, Jr., and Walter E.
Newbert.
Clerk, Ernest H. Morgan.
Pacing and speedway committee, H. E.
Barry, chairman; D. E. Page, F. H.
Eobinson, J. F. Carey, W. A. Marsh, E.
0. Haddock, J. N. Terry, E.. C. Bichard-
son, E. S. Harris, Patrick Sullivan, C. A.
Blaney.
Membership committee, Nelson Pierce,
chairman; E. P. Denn, M. E. Harring-
ton.
Finance committee, Albert Fellows,
chairman ; J. A. Smith, Deidrich Eilers,
C. M. Mandell, C. H. Morse.
House committee, W. P. Boutelle,
chairman; Cecil Scudder, Havelock
Keith, F. H. Bellows, Dr. E. K. Balkam.
Entertainment committee, J. W. Linne-
han, chairman; J. M. E. Morrill, G. E.
Griffin, F. J. Brand, Deidrich Eilers, J.
N. Terry, Albert Fellows.
A part of the clerk's report for 1904
was as follows :
The club has held 48 regular meetings
this year. An aggregate attendance of
1944 members or an average of 40 1-2 for
each night. An election of officers was
held on January 4, but owing to a ques-
tion of its legality a second election was
held on January 18, the list chosen at the
second election being that which has
served the club the past year.
Several stag parties, whist parties, and
socials have been held and the annual
ladies' night and concert were not omit-
ted. The annual ladies' night was held
in the Woman's club house on Centre
street on the evening of April 17. The
appointments, entertainment, music and
attendance were of the highest class.
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HON. FREDERICK S, GORE.
LOUIS PFINGST,
First Vice President 1901-1902.
EDWARD G. RICHARDSON,
Press Representative
ERNEST H. MORGAN,
Clerk.
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Following the custom inaugurated last
year, a second annual banquet was held in
the Woman's club house on the evening
of October 27. The affair was very suc-
cessful, and the club cheerfully made up
the deficit in the receipts.- Many of the
city officials and members of other clubs
were present.
The long fight for the Franklin Field
speedway culminated on Thanksgiving
day when the speedway was formally
dedicated. The day was inclement, and
it was impossible to hold races, but a
goodly number took part in the prelimi-
nary parade, and many others gathered
along the line of the new speedway and
stood in the drizzling rain in the hopes
that the racing would take place.
Ground was broken on August 1, and on
November 21 the club was notified that
a quarter-mile track was completed.
The by-laws have been materially
altered in some instances, the most sig-
nificant instance being in the form of
voting for membership, the ball ballots
now being used, five adverse votes or
black-balls to reject. This was incorpo-
rated in the by-laws at the meeting of
December 12, and used for the first time
at the meeting of December 19. An-
other important change was in regard
to the right to challenge for the cham-
pionship ribbons.
Fifty-seven new members have been
voted into the club during the year.
Eacing, which languished during the first
half of the year, began with its old-time
interest after the appointment on October
3 of a matching committee to make the
matches among such horses as their
owners announced would race. Since
then there has been no dearth of races.
The club has held two public races at
Eeadville, one on June 17 and one on
Labor Day. The balance from the two
races was on the right side of the ledger,
notwithstanding the fact that the club
paid $250 for the track, instead of $100,
the sum which it had previously paid.
Five hundred dollars were paid in purses
for the June 17 race and $400 for the
Labor Day race.
The club did not take part in the open
air meeting of the New England Horse
Breeders' association in the fall, but did
take part in the horse show at Mechanics
hall in the spring and carried off the
second prize. President Brand with
Minetta, led the Dorchester contingent
of the parade, followed by Mr. Stuart
with the speedway champion trotter,
Susie F, Mr. Biggs with Authentic, Mr.
Nevens with Eichmond, and Mr. Haven
with Baroness. The cash prize of $50
was turned into the club's coffers.
The record of the races Avhich took
place on the speedway during the year
1901 is as follows : Forty-five different
horses have started, the aggregate num-
ber started is 176, and 82 races have
taken place. J. E. Stuart, Jr.'s, Susie F
held the trotting championship ribbon at
the beginning of the season and it has
never been wrested from her. Mr.
Hood's Camden Girl, Mr. French's India
Panis and Dr. Turner's Max G have been
the horses trying for the trophy. In ad-
dition, Susie F has gone up against two
of the fastest pacers in the club and has
never been beaten.
The pacing championship ribbon at the
beginning of the season was in the hands
of W. F. Furbush who had won it with
Mazie Sidney. On his selling the horse
the ribbon reverted to the club. Mr.
Linnehan with Eex and Mr. Clarke with
Gladys M contested for it on October 13,
Eex winning. Mr. Blaney with Charlena
tried twice for it unsuccessfully, and Mr.
Terry tried for it with Checkers also
twice, successfully on November 3, but
losing it on November 10, the trophy
ended the season in the possession of
Mr. Linnehan.
The cup winners are Susie F (Mr.
Stuart), for the trotters, with six ribbons,
and Mutineer (Mr. Blaney), for the
pacers, with seven ribbons.
BLUE RIBBON AND CUP WINNERS.
1904.
Ashmont, b g, trotter (H. P. Gallup), lost
to Dolly R, June 23.
B 4 U, ch g, trotter (H. P. Gallup), won
from Mr. Fellow's Rex, and Dolly R, Dec. 22.
Budweiser, b g, pacer (J. W. Linnehan),
won from Charlena, Oct. 13; lost to Check-
ers, Oct. 20, and to Charlena, Nov. 10.
Bertha B, b m, trotter (A. J. Morris), lost
to Gussuro, Nov. 26.
Bismarck, ch g, pacer (M. A. Nevens), lost
to Mutineer, Nov. 17.
Brightness, blk m, trotter (A. C. Haley),
lost to Little Bud, Oct. 20.
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DOX WILKES, grey pacing gelding.
By Johnnie Wilkes, by Wilkes 8571. First dam Stark Lady by Grey Don, bv Gideon, by Rysdyk's
Hambletonian; second dam by General Knox. Owned by Frank H. Robinson.
W. W. SAYYOR (2.18 1-2), bay pacing gelding.
By Young Ranger, by Ranger, by Castor, by Hambletonian 10. Dam, Edna, by Adrian Wilkes.
Pacing Speedway cup-winner for 1903. Owned by Henry R. Barry.
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Camden Girl, ch m, trotter (John Hood),
lost to Susie F, April 19 and May 28, and
won from Gussuro, Dec. 22.
Captain Hall, blk g, pacer (A. S. Gushee),
won from Little Bud, Nov. 3; Joe King,
Nov. 17 and 26, and from Gladys M, Dec. 15.
Lost to Douglas, April 19; Mutineer, Nov.
10 and Dec. 1, and to Reno K, Dec. 22. Won
red ribbon in race with Mutineer and Hel-
gamite, Nov. 10.
Charlena, b m, pacer, won from Budwei-
ser, Nov. 10. Lost to Budweiser, Oct. 13; to
Mr. Linnehan's Rex for the championship,
October 20 and 27; to Reno K, Nov. 3; to
Susie F, Nov. 17, and to Etta Powers, Dec. 1.
Checkers, b g, pacer (J. N. Terry), won
from Silver Electrite, Oct. 13; Budweiser
and Gladys M, Oct. 20; Silver Electrite, Oct.
27; Mr. Linnehan's Rex, for the champion-
ship, Nov. 3; Mutineer and Silver Electrite,
Nov. 26. Lost to Mr. Linnehan's Rex, for
the championship, Nov. 10, and to Reno K,
Nov. 17.
Dan S, b g, pacer (A. A. Stewart), won
from Sunrise, Nov. 26. Lost to Lightfoot,
April 19, and to George K and Brightness,
Nov. 17.
Dewey, blk g, pacer (H. P. Gallup), won
from Joe King, Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, and
from Little Bud, Nov. 10. Lost to Silver
Electrite, Sept. 29; Lampton, Oct. 13; Muti-
neer, Oct. 20; Gladys M, Nov. 17, and Goldie,
Nov. 26. Won red ribbon in three-cornered
race with Mutineer and Nyphen, Oct. 20, and
with Goldie and Helgamite, Nov. 26.
Dolly R, b m, trotter (F. H. Robinson),
won from Ashmont, June 23; Hector H,
Aug. 11; Fanny Van, Oct. 27; Brightness (by
forfeit), Nov. 3. Lost to India Panis, Aug.
18; Lampton, Oct. 20; Lady Madison, Nov.
17, B 4 U and Mr. Fellows' Rex, Dec. 22.
Douglas, b g, pacer (R. S. Fitch), won from
Captain Hall, April 19.
Etta Powers, b m, pacer (T. R. Galvin),
won from Uncle Dick, Nov. 26, and Little
Bud, Dec. 1. Lost to Gladys M, Nov. 3.
Fanny Van, gr m, trotter (M. E. Fleming),
lost to Dolly R, Oct. 27, and to Mr. Fellows'
Rex and Polyphema, Nov. 10.
George K, gr g, pacer (Jacob Mosser), won
from Mayor Johnson, Sept. 29; Mutineer,
Oct. 13; Polyphema and Dan S, Nov. 17.
Lost to Helgamite, Oct. 20; Nyphen, Oct. 27;
Mutineer and Helgamite, Nov. 3; Joe King,
Nov. 10; Little Bud, Nov. 26.
Gladys M, br m, pacer (R. K. Clarke),
won from Etta Powers, Nov. 3; Dewey, Nov.
17. Lost to Mr. Linnehan's Rex, for the
championship, Oct. 13; Checkers and Bud-
weiser, Oct. 20; Susie F, Nov. 10, and Cap-
tain Hall, Dec. 15.
Goldie, blk m, pacer (A. M. Newbert), won
from Helgamite and Dewey, Nov. 26.
Gussuro, b m, trotter (P. J. Fitzgerald),
won from Lampton, Nov. 3; Bertha B, Nov.
26; Minturn, Dec. 1. Lost to India Panis,
Oct. 27, Nov. 10 and Nov. 17, and to Camden
Girl, Dec. 22.
Hector H, ch g, pacer (Havelock Keith),
lost to Dolly R, Aug. 11, and to Helgamite
and George K, Oct. 20.
Helgamite, b m, pacer (F. H. Bellows),
won from George K and Hector H, Oct. 20;
Little Bud, Oct. 27, Dec. 15 and 22; Mutineer
and George K, Nov. 3; Uncle Dick, Dec. 15.
Lost to Mutineer and Captain Hall, Nov. 10;
Goldie, Nov. 26, and Little Bud, Dec. 1.
India Panis, b g, trotter (G. A. French),
won from Dolly R, Aug. 18, and Gussuro,
Oct. 27, Nov. 10 and 17. Lost to Susie F,
for the championship, Nov. 3.
Joe King, blk g, pacer (F. J. Brand), won
from George K, Nov. 10. Lost to Dewey,
Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, and to Captain Hall,
Nov. 17 and 26.
Little Bud, b g, pacer (W. E. Newbert),
won from May Wynne, May 28; Brightness,
Oct. 20; Ramus, Nov. 17; George K, Nov. 26,
and Helgamite, Dec. 1. Lost to Mr. Fellows'
Rex, May 5; Helgamite, Oct. 27, Dec. 15 and
22, and to Dewey, Nov. 10.
Lampton, b g, trotter (Henry Wood), won
from Mr. Fellows' Rex, Aug. 11; Dewey, Oct.
13; Dolly R, Oct. 20. Lost to Mutineer, Oct.
27; Gussuro, Nov. 3; Tabor, Nov. 17.
Lady Madison, b m, trotter (P. J. Fitz-
gerald), won from Dolly R, Nov. 17.
Lightfoot, b m, trotter (F. H. Robinson),
won from Dan S, April 19.
Magic, blk g, trotter (Henry Wood), lost
to Mr. Fellows' Rex, Dec. 1, and to Ramus,
Dec. 22.
Mayor Johnson, b g, pacer (M. A. Nevens),
won from George K, Sept. 29. Lost to Reno
K and Charlena, Nov. 3.
Max G, blk g, trotter (A. W. Turner), lost
to Susie F, for the championship, Dec. 1.
May Wynne, b m, trotter (H. R. Barry),
lost to Little Bud, May 28.
Minturn, b g, trotter (M. A. Nevens), lost
to Gussuro, Dec. 1.
Mutineer, blk g, pacer (C. C. Blaney),
won from Mr. Fellows' Rex, Aug. 18; Dewey,
Oct. 20; Lampton, Oct. 27; Captain Hall and
Helgamite, Nov. 10; Bismarck, Nov. 17;
Captain Hall, Dec. 1, and Etta Powers, by
forfeit, Dec. 22. Lost to George K, Oct. 13;
Helgamite, Nov. 3, and Checkers, Nov. 26.
Nyphen, blk g, pacer (Henry Wood), won
from George K, Oct. 27.
Polyphema, br m, trotter (R. W. Balkam),
won from Fanny Van, Nov. 10, and Ramus,
Nov. 26. Lost to Mr. Fellows' Rex, Nov. 3,
and George K, Nov. 17.
Ramus, b g, trotter (Carey Keith), won
from Magic, Dec. 22. Lost to Little Bud,
Nov. 17, and to Polyphema, Nov. 26.
Reno K, b g, pacer (J. W. Linnehan), won
from Charlena and Mayor Johnson, Nov. 3,
Checkers, Nov. 17; Captain Hall. Dec. 22.
Rex. b g, pacer (J. W. Linnehan), won
four races, each for the championship, as
follows: Gladys M, Oct. 13; Charlena, Oct.
20 and 27; Checkers, Nov. 10. Lost to
Checkers in championship race, Nov. 3.
Rex, b g, trotter (Albert Fellows), won
from Little Bud, May 5; Polyphema, Nov. 3;
Fanny Van, Nov. 10; Magic, Dec. 1. Lost
to Lampton, Aug. 11; Mutineer, Aug. 18;
B 4 U, Dec. 22.
Sunrise, b g, pacer (E. S. Harris), lost to
Dan S, Nov. 26.
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FRED H. BELLOWS.
JOSEPH N. TERRY.
T. R. GALVIN.
EDWARD B. SWETT.
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Susie F, b m, trotter (J. R. Stuart, Jr.),
has an unbroken list of victories, as follows:
Camden Girl, April 19 and May 28; India
Panis, Nov. 3 (the last two for the cham-
pionship); Gladys M, Nov. 10; Charlena,
Nov. 17; Max G, Dec. 1 (for the champion-
ship).
Silver Electrite, ch g, pacer (M. A. Nev-
ens), won from Dewey, Sept, 29. Lost to
Checkers, Oct. 13 and 27, and to Checkers
and Mutineer, Nov. 26.
Tabor, b g, trotter (M. A. Nevens), won
from Lampton, Nov. 17.
Uncle Dick, b g, pacer (R. C. Richardson),
lost to Helgamite, Nov. 17; Etta Powers,
Nov. 26.
Three-cornered races were inaugurated
the past fall, and red ribbons were given to
the horses coming in second, two red rib-
bons to count as one blue ribbon on the cup.
Red ribbons were won by Budweiser racing
with Checkers and Gladys M, on Oct. 20;
George K, racing with Helgamite and Hec-
tor H. on Oct. 20; Brightness racing with
Little Bud and Mr. Fellows' Rex, on Oct. 20;
Mutineer (2) racing with Helgamite and
George K, on Nov. 3, and Checkers and Sil-
ver Electrite, Nov. 26; Charlena racing with
Reno K and Mayor Johnson, Nov. 3; Poly-
phena (2) racing with Rex and Fanny Van,
Nov. 10, and with George K, and Dan S, Nov.
17; Captain Hall racing with Mutineer and
Helgamite, Nov. 10; Helgamite racing with
Goldie and Dewey, Nov. 26; Mr. Fellows'
Rex, one in July, racing with B 4 U, and
Dolly R, Dec. 22.
EACES AT READVILLE JUNE 17
AND SEPTEMBER 5, 1904.
Two of the best races ever given by the
club were held at Eeadville during the
year 1904, the first on June 17 and the
other on Labor Day, which fell on Sep-
tember 5. The results were :
June 17, 1904.
Mile Heats; Purses $100 Each.
Class, 2.13 Trot; Best Two in Thres.
Authentic, blk g, by Autograph (D.
M. Biggs) 1 2 1
Dr. Shorb, blk g, by McKinney, dam
Nannie Clay (J. W. Linnehan) .... 3 1 3
Susie F, b m, by Emperor Wilkes
(J. R. Stuart, Jr.) 4 3 2
Miss Pratt, blk m, by Heir-at-Law
(H. L. Haven) 2 5 4
Time— 2.18 1-2, 2.18 1-4, 2.16 1-4.
Class, 2.18 Pace; Best Two in Three.
Ornament, ch g, by Red Bell (C. H.
Morse) 2 1 1
Bob Fitz, ro g, by Allspur (A. E.
Kenney) 1 2 3
Budweiser, b g, by Bud Crooke, dam
Bessie Hal (J. W. Linnehan) .... 3 3 2
Capt. Hall, blk g, by Silvertail (A.
S. Gushee) 4 4 4
Time— 2.20 3-4, 2.19, 2.20 1-4.
Class, 2.25 Trot or Pace; Best Two in
Three.
Douglas, b g, Constantine (R. S. Fitch) . 1 1
Goldie, blk m, by Airbon (A. M. New-
bert) 2 3-
Uncle Dick, b g, by J. R. Shedd (R. C.
Richardson) 3 2
Bertha B, b m, by St. Croix (A. J. Mor-
ris) 5 4
Time— 2.22 1-4, 2.22 1-4.
Class, Free-for-all; Best Two in Three.
Ned Wilkes, ch g, by Wilkes (Louis
Pf ingst) 2 1 1
The Private, b g, by William M. Hill
CM. A. Nevens) 1 2 5
Rex, b g, by Ongate (John Neal) 4 4 2
Early Bird, Jr., br g, by Early Bird
CA. E. Kenney) 3 3 3
Time— 2.13 1-4, 2.13, 2.17 1-2.
Class, Special Slow Trot or Pace; Best Two
in Three.
Checkers, b g, by Red Sam (J. N. Terry) 1 1
Little Bud, b g, untraced (A. M. New-
bert) 3 2
Mayor Johnson, ch g, untraced (M.
A. Nevens) 2 3
Linus, b g, by Messenger Wilkes (D.
M. Biggs) 4 4
Time— 2.26 1-4, 2.28 1-2.
Sept. 5, 1904.
Class, 2.35 Trot or Pace; Best Three in
Five; Mile Heats.
Charlena, b m, by Arrowwood
dam Pocas Baby (C. C. Blaney) 17 11
Bismarck, b g, by Evolutio (M.
A. Nevens) 2 1 2 3
Prior, ch g, untraced (B. C.
Wilder) 3 2 6 6
George K, g g, by Document
(Jacob Mosser) 5 5 4 2
Lampton, b g, by Cyclone (H. R.
Barry) 6 3 3 4
Helgamite, b m, by Mount Arion
(Fred H. Bellows) 4 4 5 5
Dolly R, br m, untraced (F. H.
Robinson) 7 6 7 dr
Time— 2.22 1-4, 2.25 1-4, 2.23, 2.24.
Class 2.25 Trot or Pace; Best Three in Five.
Billy Barlow, b g, untraced (W. P.
Boutelle) 1 1 1
Bertha B, b m, by St. Croix (A. J.
Morris) 2 2 4
Etta Powers, b m, by Evolutio
(T. R. Galvin) 3 3 2
Hector H, ch g, untraced (Havelock
Keith) 4 4 3
Don Wilkes, g g, by Johnny Wilkes
(F. H. Robinson) 5 5 5
Time— 2.26 1-4, 2.26 3-4, 2.27 1-4.
Class, 2.18 Trot or Pace; Best Three in Five.
Budweiser, b g, by Bud Crooke,
dam Bessie Hal (J. W. Linne-
han) 2 1 1 1
Miss Pratt, blk m, by Heir-at-
Law (H. A. Haven) 1 3 2 3
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BRICK WILKES, JR., (2.22 1-4) brown pacing gelding.
By Brick Wilkes (2.18), dam Kitty M (2.27 1-2). Owned by Edward B. Swett.
„ D , „ , , „ BUD WEISER (2.18 1-i), bay pacing gelding.
By Bud Crooke, by George Wilkes. Dam Be-sie Hal by Gibson's Old Tom Hal. sire of Browm Hal.
Owned by J. W, Linneban.
Susie F, b m, by Emperor Wilkes
(J. R. Stuart, Jr.) 3 2 3 2
India Panis, b g, by Panis, by
Pancoast, dam Mattie Graham
(G. A. French) 5 4 4 4
Gladys M, br m, by Irvin M, dam
by Monte Cristo (R. H. Clarke) 6 5 5 5
Capt. Hall, blk g, by Silvertail (A.
S. Gushee) 4 6 6 dr
Time— 2.17 3-4, 2.18 1-4, 2.18 1-4, 2.19.
Class, Special Slow Trot or Pace.
Mutineer, blk g, by Lord Dufferin
(C. C. Blaney) 1 1 1
Fanny Van, g m, by Mambrino Star
(M. E. Fleming) 2 2 2
Magic, blk g, by Elder Boone (Henry
Wood) 3 3 4
Nagiana, b m, by Arion, dam Edge-
line (H. P. Gallup) 3 7 5
Sunrise, b g, by Abbott Wilkes (E.
S. Harris) 6 4 4
Alvino, br g, untraced (H. S. Clark) 5 5 6
Rex, b g, by Electricity, dam Lady
Index (Albert Fellows) 7 6 dr
Time— 2.29 1-4, 2.30, 2.32 1-4.
The last race held on the Keaclville
track was on June 17, 1905, four classes
being run off. The first three were for
$100 purses and the free-for-all was for a
$200 purse. The summaries follow :
2.18 class, trot or pace; best 3 in 5.
Ornament, ch g, by Red Bell (C. H.
Morse) 1 1 1
Budweiser, b g, by Bud Crock0, dam
Bessie Hal (J. W. Linnehan) 2 2 2
Captain Hall, blk g, by Silvertail (A.
S. Gushee) 3 3 3
Baby, ch m, untraced (H. P. Gallup) 4 4 4
Time— 2.20 1-2, 2.20, 2.18 1-2.
2.24 class, trot or pace; best 2 in 3.
Goldie, blk m, by Airborn (A. M. New-
bert) 1 1
Mutineer, blk g, by Lorn Dufferin (C. C.
Blaney) 2 2
Daisy G, b m, by Jay Gould, Jr. (M. A.
Nevens) 4 3
Cartuna, b m, by Larrabee ths Great
(Frank Henderson) 3 4
Time— 2.20 1-2, 2.19 1-2, 2.18 1-4.
2.35 class, trot or pace; best 3 in 5.
Roy Wilkes, b g, by Jersey Wilkes,
dam Lady Patchen (Solly Wolfson) 12 1
Ethel Wagner, b m, by Gambrel
Frank Chamberlain) 7 1 2
Charley King, blk g, by May King
(A. T. Wheelock) 2 5 5
May Barnes, b m, by Red Heart (E.
F. Collins) 3 3 6
Tribune, b g, by Edgemark (M. A.
Nevens) 6 4 3
Rex, b g, by Electricity, dam Lady
Index (Albert Fellows) 4 7 4
Toto E, br m, by Black Patchen (J.
N. Terry) 5 6 dr
Time— 2.28, 2.21 3-4, 2.24.
Free-for-all; best 3 in 5.
General Fiske, b g, by Lavaland
(W. J. Furbush) 3 111
Early Bird, Jr., blk g, by Early
Bird (A. E. Kenney) 1 3 2 2
Clinton B., b g, untraced (M. A.
Nevens) ..2 2 4 4
Rex, b g, by Ongate (W. E. Nsw-
bert) .' 4 4 3 3
Time— 2.20 3-4, 2.14 1-2, 2.19 1-2, 2.17 3-4.
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FRANK W. HAMLIN-
THOMAS J KENNEY.
SAMUEL MARZYNSKI.
S. WALTER WALES, JR.
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OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club
horses played a very important part in
the races which took place at Combina-
tion Park, Medford, at the Elks' Carni-
val July 30 and August 4, 1900, the
entries including many of the crack
horses of the club. As a result, Mr.
Belledeu's pacer, Kentucky Star, took
first money and lowered the half mile
record of the track, the Star's old antago-
nist, Landlord, beating him out for the
first heat, and taking second money by
closely following him for the next two.
Two days later Walter Farmer's mare,
Russell Maid, won an easy victory in the
invitation match, Mr. Fitch and Little
Fred taking second money, with J. A.
Hart's Glendale, driven by Mr. Gallup,
Mr. Boutelle's Baby Logan driven by Mr.
Morrill, Captain Hall and his then owner
Mr. May, Walter Newbert and his game
little mare, Alice B, and Mr. Abrams and
Billy Crocker following. Two days later
the crowd saw Mr. Clarke and Gladys M
come under the wire first, with Dr. G
(Brand), Bob Fitz (Gallup), Lida A.
(Hart), and Mr. Blaney's Randolph K,
driven by Mr. Morrill, in the above order.
Following scriptural injunction, the last
was first on the Saturday night closing
the carnival, and Mr. Morrill drove Mr.
Blaney's Little Fred (second money
taker a few days before as the property of
Mr. Fitch) to victory, Glendale again
driven by Mr. Gallup, Ramus (Carey
Keith), Ashmont (DeVee), and Light-
foot (Galvin), coming in the order in
which their names appear, at this carni-
val. Mr. Wales' gelding, Rondo, then a
new purchase, took second money in the
race for the $100 purse, being driven by
Mr. Gillies. At the Brockton fair
Mr. Blaney took a part of the purse
in the $600 event for double teams, with
S. R. and Randolph K.
Mention is made elsewhere of the cap-
ture of the first money in the free for all
at Readville on May 30, 1901. At this,
Carey Keith took first money in the
special trot, winning in straight heats and
defeating such horses as Camden Girl,
Alice B, and the old champion, Lady
Madison, in the above order. An event
worthy of much more than passing
notice was the wonderful showing of Fred
S. Eldredge's little mare, Silkey, at Cam-
bination Park on the evening of June 27,
1901. Mr. Tewhart had owned the mare
as a trotter and had sold her to Mr.
Eldredge. She was fairly good but Mr.
Eldredge did not like her gait and at the
cost of a good deal of skill, patience,
hard work and time had taught her to
pace. He had not intended entering her
in the races but to accommodate club
members who wanted to fill a special class
made for the club's benefit, Mr. Eldredge
consented to do , so. Baby Logan, with
the veteran reinsman Ed. Gillies driving,
was looked upon as an easy winner. Alice
B, Mr. Morrison's Nellie W, and Mr.
Abrams' Gem being the other contest-
ants. Silkey simply "smothered 'em."
At the start she kept with the bunch and
then, apparently aware that she couldn't
be fooling away her time, pulled ahead
with the greatest ease and came easily
down the stretch with a wide margin of
daylight between her and her nearest
competitor. It was a great day for the
graceful little animal and for her owner
and driver, one of the best liked men in
the club. A great crowd of Dorchester-
ites, headed by the then president, S.
Walter Wales, saw the race.
Two handicap races, one for a two-
minute harness, given by W. W. Grant,
and one for a whip, given by John Forgie,
were held on September 5, 1901. For the
• first, Elvino, the brown gelding, driven by
Mr. Clarke, started at scratch, Bright-
ness, the black mare, driven by Walter
Newbert, having a handicap of 39 feet
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CAMDEN GIRL (2.21 1-4 in a race and 2.15 at private trial), chestnut trotting mare.
By Veni Vici, by Robert Wilkes, by George Wilkes. Camden Girl's first dam, by
Harbinger, second dam by Rob Roy. Owned by John Hood.
HOWITZER brown trotting stallion.
By Bingen (2.06 1-4). dam Camden Girl by Veni Vici, by Robert Wilkes, by
George Wilkes. Owned by John Hood.
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and taking the race. Mr. Eldredge's
Silkey, with a handicap of 810 1-4 feet
took second money; Mr. Lally's Wilton
Boy, 'with 924 feet to overcome, third
money; Mr. Clarke's Gladys M with
814 3-4 feet handicap, fourth money,
the scratch horse being last, and Ken-
tucky Star, with the heaviest handicap
of all, 971 feet, being drawn.
Mr. Fellows' Bex was the scratch
horse in the race for the whip and took
second money. First money was taken
by Azote, owned and driven by Mr. Had-
dock, with a handicap of 678 feet; Mr.
Gallup drove Captain Hall, which took
third money with a handicap of 725 1-4
feet; the old King of the Speedway,
Landlord, handicapped 910 feet, coming
in fourth; and Bubsley G, owned and
driven by Mr. Moulton, coming in fifth
with the heaviest handicap of all, 992
feet.
A whip offered by J. W. Linnehan for
the horse making the most winnings on
the speedway for the first half of 1902
was won by Mr. Brand and Princess
Ebilo with seven races and no defeats.
At the annual field day at Combination
Park, July 26, 1902, in aid of the Work-
ing Boy's Home, Mr. Clarke with Gladys
M took first prize, a pneumatic-tired,
one-man road wagon in the style contest.
Mr. Linnehan and Budweiser took the
fourth prize, a cooling blanket and pair
of horse boots. In the special class,
open only to members of the Dorchester
Gentlemen's Driving club, Mr. D'Arcy
and Bonnets o' Blue took the first prize,
a $75 harness; Mr. Brand and Princess
Ebilo second, a pair of reins; Mr. Linne-
han and Budweiser third, a whip; and
Mr. Barry and W. W. Saylor fourth, a
collar and pair of horse boots.
On the evening of Memorial Day, 1902,
a special event was arranged at Combi-
nation Park for Dorchester Gentlemen's
Driving club horses alone. A big Dor-
chester contingent was present and six
horses participated. There were three
half-mile heats, each heat counting for a
race. India Panis (G. A. French) came-
under the wire first in each heat in
1161-2, 113 1-2, 114 3-4. The other
horses in their order were Ramus
(Carey Keith), Alice B (W. E. New-
beit), Ninety-One (R. C. Richardson),.
Azote (E. O. Haddock), and Mattie Mil-
ler (J. W. Linnehan).
A special class was also made up at
Combination Park on the Fourth of July
following. Walter E. Newbert's chestnut
mare, Alice B, was the winner after one
of the most exciting races ever held
under the club's auspices. Seven heats
were necessary to decide the event. They
were mile heats, the best time being in
2 27 3-4, but it was fight from start to-
finish. Newsboy (F. S. Eldredge), Ra-
mus (Carey Keith), India Panis (G. A.
French), Mattie Miller (J. W. Linne-
han), and Ninety-One (R. C. Richard-
son), came in in the order in which they
are named.
On July 19 following, a special class-
was made up at South Weymouth, India
Panis winning in straight heats in the
2 23 trot, Alice B, Ramus and Mattie Mil-
ler trailing. In the 2 23 trot or pacer
open to all, Captain Hall (A. S. Gushee)
and McNary's Hah owned by R. Y. Wood-
bury, and driven by Walter Newbert took
second and third money respectively.
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GEORGE A. FRENCH.
WILLIAM M. BRUMMETT.
SOLLY WOLFSON.
CHARLES M. MANDELL.
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BONS, PRIZE
CHAHPIONSHI
AND
From almost the first the club gave
ribbons to the winners of races and among
the most prized — the most prized — have
always been the championship ribbons, of
which there are two : one for trotters and
one for pacers. The history of how these
ribbons have shifted ownerships is of
interest.
THE TROTTING CHAMPIONSHIP.
The game little mare, Alice B., owned
and driven by Walter E. Newbert, was
the first holder of the trotting champion-
ship ribbon. A word should be said of
mare and driver. Both were always
ready to race anything at anytime. A
"cinch" was not necessary. If they were
beaten they were just as ready to race the
next time. Both went in to win, and the
pair have furnished as much genuine
sport for spectators as any man and horse
in the club. It was a distinct loss to the
club when the little mare was sold out
of it.
Alice B. first won the ribbon on the
Blue Hill Avenue speedway on November
24, 1900, in a race with Little Fred,
owned by C. C. Blaney and driven by J.
M. E. Morrill. On December 8 of the
same year Carey Keith and his gelding
Ramus, contested the championship, and
were victorious, but Alice B. was again
the winner in straight heats on Christmas
morning, 1900. On Patriots' Day, 1901,
E. S. Fitch, then vice-president, came on
the scene with his new purchase, Bessie
Rampart, and Alice B. went down to defeat
in straight heats. A great crowd saw
these two last races. A race was arranged
immediately between Bessie Rampart and
P. J. Fitzgerald's bay mare Lady Madi-
son but bad weather intervened and the
issue was not decided. After a few weeks
Mr. Fitch announced that his mare was
not in condition, that he did not think it
right to withhold the trophy under the
circumstances and it went to Lady Mad-
ison by forfeit, Mr. Fitch reserving the
right to again challenge if his mare came
around all right.
The first to take up the gage was Mr.
Newbert who tried with Alice B. to regain
the honors he had lost. The attempt was
futile, however. The race took place on
June 6, Lady Madison winning easily in
straight heats. Carey Keith with his bay
gelding Ramus was the next to try his
fortunes. This race took place on June
17 and more than 3000 people witnessed
it notwithstanding the many counter
attractions. Lady Madison was forced
to step a little faster than before but she
had the goods and although breaking and
losing the first heat, took the three fol-
lowing, the race and the ribbon.
The next fight was a trifle easier.
Charles L. Young,' then president, owner
of Landlord and possessor of the pacing
championship ribbon so many had tried in
vain to wrest from him, had bought a bay
gelding trotter, Roy K by name. A
match was made for Lady Madison and
the former record was repeated : Lady
Madison went to a break in the first heat
and took the next three. The race took
place on July 11. If the Lady had
earned a rest she was not allowed to take
it and a week later was compelled to
knock another two seconds from her best
time. At this time John W. Linnehan,
one of the gamest members of the horse-
loving and horse-driving community
became a member of the club and in
behalf of his mare Lady Banker, which
just then was enjoying the distinction of
a hard race at South Weymouth without
breaking in one of the heats, challenged
Mr. Fitzgerald and the other Lady. The
two came together on July 18. Walter
Newbert drove Mr. Linnehan's mare
which took the first heat, Lady Madison
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TENNIE WARREN, bav trotting mare.
By Wilton (2.19 1-4), darn Tennie G, by Robert McGregor (2.17 1-2), sire of Creseeus.
ELSIE MAY, bay trotting mare.
By Kennard (2.24 1-4), dam a Kentucky thoroughbred.
Owned by D. W. Chamberlain.
PARSON T AND DEACON B.
A pair of family roadsters for which Deacon F. J. Brand has made several offers.
Owned by Parson W. L. Terhune.
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as usual on the first heat going to a break.
The next heat was a fight to the finish and
was only won, as it was reported, by
"Lady Madison sticking out her tongue."
Again did Lady Madison break and the
other Lady easily won. The next two
heats were won by Lady Madison, every
inch, however, being fought. And again
did she go home with the coveted ribbon.
At a return match given October 10,
1901, the result was practically the same.
Mr. Belledeu challenged in behalf of
Ben H. late in the year but bad weather
intervened and the race did not take
place and Lady Madison was left in un-
disturbed possession of the ribbon until
April 10, 1902, when Mr. Haddock and
Azote tried to win it but could not, Lady
Madison being pushed no harder than
36 1-1. On May 15 of the same year she
clipped four seconds off that gait but Mr.
Brand and Princess Ebilo were there
with something a little faster and the
ribbon left the speedway tied on the tet-
ter's bridle. The mare wore it home
again on June 5 when a return match was
made. The Princess was then sold out
of the club the ribbon returning by the
rules to the club. On October 23, Lady
Madison the long time champion, and D.
W. Sullivan's Belle Lome raced for the
ribbon, the Lady having an easy win in 32
seconds. Later Mr. Fitzgerald drove her
over the track just for fun in 30 seconds.
For a time trotting for the champion-
ship languished; then George A. French
of Braintree, owner of India Panis, win-
ner of many races, took up the gage, and
on August 13, 1903, Lady Madison went
down to defeat. On October 29 of the
same year India Panis lost by forfeit
through non-appearance to Susie F, the
present champion. Mr. Stuart, owner of
the mare, did not want the ribbon in
that wa3r but was forced to accept it under
the rules. The ribbon was, however,
found to be well bestowed as from that-
time on, the gallant mare from Elm Hill
has met all comers and has never suffered
defeat. She met ' Mr. Hood's Camden
Girl on April 19 and May 28, 1901, win-
ning in straight heats each time ; defeated
her old rival India Panis in straight heats
on Nov. 3. and in what was one of the
hardest fought and prettiest races ever
seen on the speedway, defeated Dr. Tur-
ner's Max G on Dec. 1, 1904. It took five
heats to decide the event. Susie F took
the first and the two last heats, and closed
the year as the champion trotter of the
speedway, the cup winner for the trotter
winning the most blue ribbons, and with
the record of a season's races without a
defeat.
THE PACING CHAMPIONSHIP.
As one never thinks of the prize ring
without thinking of "John L." or of
base-ball without the peerless "Mike"
Kelley, so veteran members of the Dor-
chester Gentemen's Driving club think
always of Landlord when speaking of the
pacing championship. Landlord went
down in honorable defeat first on a mile
track and then on the speedway, but it
took one of the best horses in the country
to beat him, and for five years the grand
old pacer was the king. The first race
recorded for the pacing championship,
although there was then no championship
ribbon, was between Landlord and Dr. Gr
on June 7, 1900, the latter being owned
by Mr. Brand, later President Brand, and
driven by Mr. Gallup. Landlord was an
easy winner. On July 17 of the same
year, Mr. Blaney, • with Randolph K,.
tried conclusions with Mr. Young and
Landlord, the latter winning in straight
heats. The dose was repeated on October
18 of the same year with all the actors in
their original roles. A week later Jesse
Moulton and Rubsley G were after the
president and his gelding. Result : three
straight for Landlord. Another week and
it was another "G," this time George G,
owned by W. J. Fitzgerald and driven by
"Ed." Gillies. George G went the way
of the others.
This was on Nov. 1, 1900. On Nov.
12 the club voted to give a pacing cham-
pionship ribbon as well as one for trotters,,
and the first race for the trophy took
place on Nov. 22 between Landlord and
Ned Winslow, the latter driven by his
owner, Charles H. Belledeu. The race
was one of the Closest ever seen on the
speedway and thousands came to see it.
Landlord won in" three straight, but was-
forced to cut his record down to 31 1-1
seconds. Mr. Moulton had not got enough,.
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ALBERT FELLOWS.
HENRY M. SANDERS.
DR. A. T. DAVISON.
WILLIAM L. TERHUNE.
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and on Christmas Day, 1900, again tried
with Rubsley G- to carry off the ribbon.
This was a hard fought race, each horse
alternating with a heat, Landlord taking
the odd and winning out.
It was not until March 28, 1901, that
Landlord was again called upon to defend
his laurels, when G. W. D'Arcy, now first
vice-president, with his pretty mare, Bon-
nets o' Blue, essayed the feat. Bonnets
o' Blue, took the first heat, Landlord
going' to a break, but he was there with
the goods for the next three heats. And
yet again on June 20, 1901, Mr. Moulton
put up Eubsley G to win the ribbon, but
put John M. E. Morrill up behind the
gelding to lift him to victory. Stanley
Nichols tells of the "Rube" who tried to
drink all the rum there was in Boston.
He didn't succeed, but he "made 'em put
the price up." Mr. Morrill did not win,
but he "made 'em cut the time down."
Landlord, however, won in three straight.
Bonnets o' Blue tried it again on May 16
and again won one heat, but Landlord
was again victorious.
Just at this time, to show that he was
no quarter-mile horse, Landlord won in
straight heats in the free-for-all, mile
heats, at Eeadville, in a race held under
the auspices of the Jamaica Plain Driving
club. Mr. Stuart, owner of Susie F, the
champion trotter, was with his gelding,
Dempsey, among those pitted against Mr.
Young. No race ever created greater ex-
citement on the track or was witnessed
by more people. But Landlord's star was
about to set. On August 28, 1901, at
Eeadville, Mr. Belledeu with his pacer,
Kentucky Star, with a record of 2.08 1-2
to sulkey and 2.09 1-4 to wagon, and
which has since done the full mile
at Eeadville in 2.03 1-2, raced Mr.
Young and Landlord mile heatsy and
the latter was defeated in two straight,
the Star's time time being 2.16 1-4 in
each heat. On Labor Day following, at
Eeadville, Landlord was badly beaten in
the free-for-all. On October 2 the Land-
lord-Kentucky Star race for the cham-
pionship took place on the speedway, and
although Landlord lowered his record two
seconds on the quarter mile, there was
the Star a little ahead all the time, and
the pacing championship ribbon, so long
and ably defended, passed into new hands.
The time at this race was 29 and 29 1-4
for the quarter.
The history of the ribbon since then is
more varied and perhaps a little less spec-
tacular. Mr. Belledeu forfeited to Mr. Bla-
ney, who at first refused to take it in
that way, but who under the rules of the
club was compelled to accept it. He had
challenged for Charlena. Mr. Blaney for-
feited to Mr. Brand, who had challenged
for Dr. G. The first struggle for the
ribbon thereafter was on March 27, 1802,
when Mr. Boutelle drove his mare, Baby
Logan, to win against Dr. G (Mr. Brand
driving) , five heats being necessary to de-
cide. Mr. Linnehan's Budweiser, was the
next horse to win the ribbon, the race tak-
ing place April 24. Baby Logan was in
bad condition and her owner drew her
after the first heat. Budweiser's time as
a champion was brief, as on May 8
Charles W. Arnold of Haverhill came over
with his mare, Ida J, and won in straight
heats. Baby Logan being by this time
again in condition, Mr. Boutelle again
challenged for the ribbon and was de-
feated by the Haverhill contingent in 1, 2,
1, 1. Mr. Arnold later surrendered the
ribbon to the club, and on Oct. 16 Bud-
weiser and Mr. Barry's cup winner of the
next year, W. W. Savior, contested for it,
the judges deciding in favor of Budweiser,
with some of the spectators a little skep-
tical, so close was the match. At a re-
turn match en Nov. 22 it was Budwieser
1, 1, 1. A year before, when Landlord
won the ribbon and "Wilbur C. Littlefield
owned the mare Beauty, a challenge for
the ribbon was issued in behalf of the
mare. The race did not come off, but C.
C. Blaney, who had bought the mare, re-
newed the challenge, and Budweiser again
went clown in defeat, to slow music, how-
ever, the fastest heat being in 33 and the
slowest in 36 seconds.
Little more was done in championship
pacing in 1903. Beauty lost to W. J.
Furbush's Mazie Sidney on April 2, and
Mr. Linnehan at once challenged in be-
half of his pacer, Eex. The race, half-
mile heats, took place on May 14, and al-
though Eex was defeated, lie made the
Newton mare go in 1.05 to do it, Mazie
Sidney again successfully defended the
trophy on Oct. 22 against A. E. Kenney's
Early Bird Jr., and was then sold out of
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RICHARD AND GILLIS,
Prize winners in Memorial Day parade, 1900. Owned by Dr. A. T. Davison.
DOLLAR AND BILL,
Prize winners in Memorial Day parade, 1900. Owned by Hon. Franklin L. Codman.
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the club, the ribbon reverting to the club, same horses contested again, Eex losing
The ribbon then lay, metaphorically, on the first and taking the next three heats,
the table until Oct. 13, 1904, when Mr. A week later, or on Nov. 3, J. N. Terry
Linnehan's Eex and Mr. Clarke's Gladys came on the scene with Checkers and won
M raced for it on the Mattapan speedway, against Rex in straight heats, but lost
the former winning in straight heats. A again on Nov. 10, Rex losing, as usual,
week later Rex and Mr. Blaney's Charlena the first two, but taking the next three
fought it out, five heats being necessary heats. The season of 1904 closed with the
to decide. Rex lost the first two and won trophy in the permanent possession of Mr.
the last three heats. A week later the Linnehan as owner of Rex.
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A QUARTETTE OF HONORARY MEMBERS.
CAPT. CHARLES W. HUNT,
Station 11, Dorchester.
HOX. ALPHEUS SANFORD.
*-, '
EX- ALDERMAN JOSEPH I. STEWART.
EX- COUNCILMAN GEORGE 0. WOOD.
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THE FRANKLIN FIELD SPEEDWAY,
The active fight for a permanent speed-
way for Dorchester and vicinity began on
May 14, 1900, when a hearing was given
representatives of the Dorchester Gen-
tlemen's Driving club by the Boston board
of park commissioners, relative to a track
on the Talbot Avenue side of Franklin
Field. The petition, signed by 2000 men,
including such well-known horsemen as
John Shepard and the late John M.
Forbes, was presented by S. Howard Mil-
dram, then councilman for Ward 24, and
an active member of the club. The fight
ended on Thanksgiving day, 1904, when
with a drizzling rain overhead and several
inches of mud underfoot, a long proces-
sion of prominent men and women in
natty rigs, led by a tally-ho and brass
band, started from Codman square, and,
reaching the new speedway via Washing-
ton street, Columbia road, Blue Hill and
Talbot avenues, formally dedicated the
speedway to the public use. An interest-
ing program of races had been prepared
by Walter E. Newbert, chairman of the
racing and speedway committee, but
neither the weather or the track would
permit of their being pulled off. But the
indefatigable "Little Japs" of the Dor-
chester Gentlemen's Driving club had
won their five years' campaign and
entered the hard-won mud as their proto-
types a few months later entered the
hard-won Mudken, with flying colors.
Two or three days after the first hear-
ing in 1900 the board of park commis-
sioners unanimously passed an order set-
ting off a strip of land for speedway pur-
poses, providing the city council would
vote an appropriation of $25,000 for con-
struction purposes. Opposition began at
once, some of the daily newspapers treat-
ing the matter lightly, and at least two of
them coming out in strong editorial op-
position. The Boston Herald for Jan.
17 editorially estimated the first cost of
the speedway at $210,000, with no pro-
vision for annual maintenance, and the
necessary land at nearly one-quarter of
the playground. These attacks were kept
up and citizens and even high school
boys were asked to protest in written com-
munications, which were published.
Hearings were held before the finance
committees of the board of aldermen and
common council, but an item of $25,000
for construction was included in the loan
bill, was signed by Mayor Hart late in
1900 — and then the board of park commis-
sioners promptly rescinded its vote and
asked that the money be devoted to other
uses.
The story of the fight need not, and in
fact hardly can be, told in detail. It en-
tailed hopes and discouragements, prom-
ises kept and promises broken, an appro-
priation made and unspent, but looked
at with hungry eyes for a score of pur-
poses; attempts to divert it to other uses,
and "backing" and "filling" for five years.
The contention was that the city's' money
should not be spent to make a race track
for a few, and that if racing were permit-
ted, spectators would be bowled over by
the flying horsesTike nine-pins. The ad-
vocates, the horsemen and others, replied
that so far as danger was concerned there-
was none; that every kind of sport was
provided for at the expense of the tax-
payers, largely at the expense of horse
owners, as a man who can afford to own
one or more fast horses for pleasure driv-
ing is necessarily a man of substance;
that no place was provided for the horse
owners' amusement; and that, with all
the miles of bicycle tracks and automobile
roads, and riding horse tracks, and all the
acres of tennis courts and football
grounds, and baseball grounds, and golf
links, all the baths and gymnasiums,
everything that pertains to outdoor or
indoor athletics, a quarter or three-
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BEN G (with his mascot). ch<
By Ben Franklin, clam by Justin MorgE
<tnut trotting gelding.
q. Owned by Hollis P. Gallup.
KING PRINCEPS (2.15), bay trotting gelding.
By Count Princeps (2.27), son of Princeps, by Woodford Mambrino (2.21 1-2), son
of Mambrino Chief; dam, Lady Almont, by Almont Lightning, son of
Almont, by Alexander's Abdallah, son of Rysdyk's Hamble-
tonian. Owned by E. P. Denn.
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eighths of one mile was not much to ask
for horse racing.
The action of the park commissioners,
although it should be said that from the
first Laban Pratt, the Dorchester mem-
ber, did all in his power to bring the
speedway about, created consternation, in-
dignation, and not a little ridicule. Hear-
ings began again, and more than one
member gave up hopes of ever having
the coveted pleasure ground. When
Mayor Collins came up for election a sec-
ond time he was interviewed by members
of the club, and like his predecessor prom-
ised to do what he could. E. Gr. Bichard-
son of the Transcript, then the press
representative of the club, did a lot of
good work and got his fellow reporters
on the other dailies to do good work,
either actively or passively, either by talk-
ing or saying nothing, the last being
sometimes more efficacious than the first.
Some of the hardest work clone outside
of the club was by members of the city
council in trying to get the money for
some other purposes than that for which
it was set aside. Fortunately, the efforts
in that direction were futile. An effort
was made early in 1904 to enlist the aid
of the Jamaica Elain and South Boston
clubs, and the latter came out, was hand-
somely entertained and under the influ-
ence of hospitality, liquid, solid and
purely fraternal, agreed to help — and
then went home and the members were
''ripped up the back" by other members
for their pledges; the South Bostonites
wishing a track on the proposed new
Strandway, at the Calf Pasture or near it.
They were later brought a little more
into line, but even some of the Dorchester-
ites for a little time thought it better to
compromise on the South Boston location,
and Councilman Burr, an honorary mem-
ber of the club, who really wanted the
speedway here, told the club publicly that
there was little chance of its ever being
built. Another meeting was held later in
the winter in the club rooms at Codman
square in which doubt prevailed, and
there was something of a chance of a
stampede for the Strandway. President
Brand had not thought that he could be
present and had prepared and sent the
following letter which was read in the
club :
Dorchester, Mass. March 7, 1904.
To the Members of the Dorchester Gentle-
men's Driving Club:
Gentlemen — Realizing the importance of
the subject which will be discussed tonight,
I wish to add a word of caution. I was told
a few days ago that Park Commissioner
Laban Pratt had said that our chances of
securing a speedway on Franklin Field were
never as good as at the present time, and
that if we would take this subject up and
present it now, we would undoubtedly se-
cure our long cherished object. Mayor
Collins has been seen on the subject, and
has agreed to take the matter up imme-
diately. He will visit Franklin field with
the park commissioners, within the next
few days, as he is anxious to make good
the promise made to your committee just
prior to the last election.
With these facts in mind, I feel that the
club will agree that it would jeopardize our
prospect of ever getting a speedway on
Franklin field, should we in any way com-
mit ourselves to the speedway on the
Strandway. I believe that a committee
should be appointed tonight to wait on
Mayor Collins and urge upon him the
justice of our cause; and I believe in a very
short time our efforts will be crowned with
success.
If, after we have exhausted every re-
source, we find there is no hope of getting
the speedway where we want it, it will
then be time for us to try to secure it else-
where. I am not unmindful of the interest
manifested in this project by the members
of the South Boston Driving club, and I
believe their loyal support will be given us
in our efforts. I trust the interest they have
taken in the matter will be recognized by
our club tonight, and a vote of thanks ex-
tended to them for meeting with and co-
operating with us.
Very truly yours,
J. F. BRAND, President.
This was the turning point of the
affair. A committee of the Dorchester
club was appointed to meet a committee of
the South Boston club, with a view of
furthering the project. The committee
did what it could, but one of the present
members, Director P. J. Fitzgerald, a
man who has always kept himself modest-
ly in the background, did more and was
able to do more than all the others put
together. It is believed that no member
of the Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving
club will deny this. By what art or craft,
what argument or inducement it was
done, the writer certainly does not know,
but progress was constantly reported.
Mayor Collins' interest was aroused, lie
visited the site of the proposed track, and
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BECKY THISBB, bay trotting mare.
By Choralist (14516): dam Wanita, by OrviJle (3317); granddam B^ss Lightfoot, by
General Lightfoot (1763). Owned by J. E. Swendeman.
INDIA PANIS (2.21 1-4), bay trotting gelding.
By Panis (2.31), by Pancoast (2.21 3-4). Panis, by dam, Mattie Graham (2.21),
she by Harold, sire of Maud S. First dam of India Panis. India, by
Indiana; second dam Fernwood, by Lancewood: third dam
Jennie 2d, by Fleeting Ray. sire of Money Hunter.
Owned by George A. French.
finally pledged himself that it should be date," and under date of November 21,.
built if it could be done inside the appro- 1904 : "Franklin field speedway was
priation. completed today for a quarter of a mile-
Inscribed on the record book of the track." This is in brief, and very brief,,
club, in red ink on the margin, that "all too, the history of five years' contention,
who run may read," is this entry, under and formed a most spectacular windup for
date of August 1, 1904: "Work on the the final year of President Brand's-
Franklin field speedway begun on this presidency.
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SENATOR L (2.12 1-2) bay trotting gelding.
By West Cloud, dam Elfreda by Eldredge. Owned by John Shephard.
JOE KING (2.15 in four-year-old trial) black pacing gelding.
By May King dam Oneonta. Owned by Frederick J. Brand.
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LADIES' NIGHT, BANQUETS, ETC.
The social events of the Dorchester
Gentlemen's Driving club have always
been among its strongest features and to
give even a list of the parties and enter-
tainments, stag rackets, whist parties,
and little socials and dances in which the
ladies took part would be beyond the
scope of this article. Of some of the
more important, however, mention should
be made. The first "ladies' night" was
given on the evening of Dec. 11, 1899, in
the Dorchester Woman's club house where
the most or all of the state affairs of the
club have been held. A fine entertain-
ment was given, an equally fine supper
served and dancing was enjoyed until well
along toward daylight. Vice-president,
later President, S. Walter Wales, was
master of ceremonies, the committee in-
cluding President Young, Secretary
Belledeu, Treasurer Morrill, Councilman
Mildram and Messrs. Pfingst, Fitch,
Greenwood, Bresnahan and Dr. A. T.
Davison. More than 400 attended and
the success of the affair was unqualified.
Many of the members recall the spicy
and witty poem, "Horse Talk at the
Club." It was written by T. A. Bresna-
han, director, and one of the most
esteemed members of the club and was
read by Vice-president Wales at the open-
ing of the fall season with a clam supper,
Oct. 1, 1900. More than 100 were pres-
ent and the good-natured touches on the
tender spots were enj.oyed by victims and
onlookers alike. The poem follows, the
author being awarded the club's badge of
honor, a blue ribbon.
HORSE TALK AT THE CLUB.
There has been a lot of horse talk in the
season that's just passed,
And many would-be winners have found
themselves outclassed;
While others who said nothing, but always
wore a smile,
Have been doing all the winning, and have
made their little pile.
At the races held on Labor Day, stanch
"Landlord" took the dough.
He knew that Young would knead it; into
doughnuts it must go.
He found he had no pudding, for Morrill
drove "S. R."
And made him pace the closest race that
he has had thus far.
Grandma "Trinket" shed her years and went
a splendid mile,
It pleased the people one and all, to see her
put on style.
Not quite "so young as she used to be", but
yet she feels quite "Gushee",
And those who chase her on the road have
found her very brushy.
"Lewiston Belle" cut quite a swell, no rec-
ord has she got.
She would have found one Labor Day, but
Fitch says, "I guess not."
He thought at first he'd try to win, but later
changed his mind,
And got a little souvenir for jogging in be-
hind.
"Kentucky Star" is always game; he needs
no praise you know.
He's fairly won his laurels, which he wears
with modest show.
His gait is clean, his head is clear, and when
he gets the word,
He shoots out like a pickerel, and flies home
like a bird.
Another horse is "Rubsley G." This gelding
in dark bay,
Won three straight heats at Saugus, thanks
to his driver Nay.
The owner, Jesse Moulton, is a man all men
admire,
And it pleased them much to see his horse
the first to reach the wire.
"Ned Wilkes" has proved as game a horse
as anyone could wish him.
He held his own along the line; no other
horse could dish him.
He shook his mark by many points, and
still can shake it more,
For he has proved a finisher; a race horse
to the core.
"Art Alco" is another horse that's done
some noble deeds,
Too numerous to mention; but anyone who
reads
The horse news in the papers is always sure
to know,
The winner in the 2.10 pace; the hero "Art
Alco".
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MUTINEER (2.29 1-4) black pacing gelding.
Speedway pacing cup winner for 1904.
By Lord Dufferin. Owned by Cyril C. Blaney.
GEORGE K, gray pacing gelding.
By Document. Owned by Jacob Mosser.
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There is another pacer, and "Rondo" is his
name;
For stepping on the half-mile rings, he's
winning lasting fame.
He's won his races right and left, and yet
he sighs for more;
He's the king pin horse down at Grove Hall;
what could you wish for more?
There are many other horses, already with
a mark,
"Doctor G", "Alice B", that one owned by
Randolph Clarke;
"Bob Fitz", and "Ashmont", "Randolph K",
"George G" and "Baby Logan";
"Nellie Bly", who did not die, but comes up
at the slogan.
When "Newbert" went to Rockland, Maine,
he thought he had a cinch.
He saw the hayseeds on the train; their
money he would clinch.
He put his trotter in the race, his money
on the mare,
And when he left the track that night, his
pockets they were bare.
It was a race of seven heats and three were
won by "Alice",
And Newbert said he thought that day
that he could beat "Chehallis".
They tied up all his money, and robbed him
of his glory;
If you would know how he got left, he'll
tell you his own story.
Now Edgar Haddock wore a smile, I'm sure
you'd call it rich;
He got it on the speedway, when he had a
race with Fitch.
He thinks he'll rest his horse awhile, and
put him in the paddock.
Now if you want a good fish tale, just get it
straight from Haddock.
That day "Prince Wilkes" and "Little Fred"
were feeling on their mettle
They had a little matter which they were
bound to settle.
Belledeu hitched up "Prince Wilkes", and
Morrill "Little Fred",
And up on to the speedway, with both their
steeds they sped.
"Now we want the word," said Morrill, as
through the air he flew;
"And that is just my pudding" said the noble
Belledeu.
Although a half a length behind he said he
would not quarrel,
But before they reached the quarter pole
he was ahead of M'orrill.
The next time they came down the stretch,
John Morrill was behind,
With "Little Frederick," cutting ice; to win
he was inclined.
So they got the word and off they went; he
overtook the "Prince",
But he lost the two next heats so fair he's
not forgot it since.
Now, boys, we want a speedway, and this
we're bound to get,
For the "pols" are with us hand and glove,
we'll stick to them, you bet.
We must always pull together, so when you
go to vote,
Stand by the ones, who stood by us, their
interests promote.
Tonight we come together to have a little
lunch.
Of Hollis Gallup's choice steamed clams,
and Charley Young's rare punch.
If you find that you are getting gay, and
cannot stand the limit,
Just sing a song or make a speech, or else
you are not in it.
My story now is ended, and I hope it won't
be long
Before some other member will produce an-
other song.
And if I have not stated right the doings of
you all,
Just criticise my simple rhymes, or lay it to
my gall.
At the stag party which followed, a
month later, more than 200 were present,
and these parties were frequent thereafter
for two years or more. The ladies were
frequently entertained but the second
annual ladies' night was not held until
Jan. 30, 1901. Thomas N. Hart, the
Mayor of Boston, honored the occasion
with his presence. S. Walter Wales was
then president and John M. E. Morrill,
then treasurer, had charge of the floor.
Like its predecessor it was an unqualified
success.
The third big stag party of the club was
held on the evening of Jan. 30, 1902, and
again did Mr. Bresnahan contribute the
feature of the evening in good rhyme,
good wit and good sense. His poem was
entitled :
THE HORSES ON THE BOULEVARD.
Have you heard about the horses that were
out upon the snow,
Rushing down the boulevard where the
fastest speeders go?
They came for many miles around to take
part in the races,
And as they passed adown the stretch, I
saw these happy faces:
Our president with Rondo wore his pleasant
Grove Hall smile,
Though Charlie Young and Landlord (with
his whip) held him in style;
'Twas nip and tuck the whole way down,
and ne'er a one went faster,
While Jacob Mosser barely 'scaped what
might have been disaster.
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ORNAMENT (2.18 1-4) chestnut pacing gelding.
By Red Bell. Owned by C. H. Morse.
CHECKERS (2.24) bay pacing gelding.
By Red Sam. Owned by J. N. Terry.
Charles Belledeu with Winslow was as
proud as he could be;
He had a horse that stepped as fast as any
I could see.
He headed out some cracker-jacks, among
them Halle Rocket,
And never had to use his whip, but left it
in the socket.
The next familiar face I saw was John
Morrill as of yore,
Who drove a fine bay gelding, and knew
just how to score;
With four now coming down abreast, it was
a splendid sight,
And John won out so easily, it filled him
with delight.
Fred Eldredge started Silkey, and the crowd
knew there was fun,
For Sullivan went after him, like a shot
from out a gun;
Then, Boutelle joining in the race, the
three hung close together
Till Baby Logan nosed them out, for 'twas
her kind of weather.
Jesse Moulton's Rubsley G and Blaney's
Randolph K
Stepped by some of the fastest ones — it
seemed to them like play;
While Linnehan's Budweiser and Newbert's
Alice B
Were neck and neck, when Alice broke and
lost the race, you see.
Louis Pfingst and Fitch and Clarke and
genial George M. Potter
Went down the stretch just for a heat; the
heat grew hot and hotter;
'Til Gladys M, led by Ned Wilkes, that
famous race-track pacer,
Held on so fast she made him skip, but sure
he won the race, sir.
Hollis Gallup was in the swim, and thought
he'd try Bob Fitz,
His young roan lightning pacer, that has
made so many hits;
He struck a gait, and went so fast, it filled
the crowd with wonder:
Then Gallup said, "For cash or sport, I'll
race you all, by thunder."
Oh, where did Fred Brand keep himself with
famous Doctor G?
His scalp was sought by many, but his face
they did not see.
Littlefield was also missed, but Gushee's
Captain Hall
Had an argument with D'Arcy's mare, the
beauty of them all.
There were many other horses, but their
owners all claim glory,
So I will not interfere with them, but listen
to each story.
And when at night we hear them talk, while
sitting round the fire, —
I have my mind on one of them, a first-
class "horse-tale" liar.
Now it seems to me the speedway cranks
had better stay at home,
And patronize that quarter-stretch that we
now call our own;
But no, to Brookline they must go, have
their names and pictures taken,
And published in the morning news, while
our speedway lies forsaken.
This is our third stag-party, and I'm sure
you'll all agree,
That it pays to have them often, as it fills
us all with glee;
One gets full by drinking punch, another'll
punch a drinker,
And tell him that he's had enough, but he
don't care a tinker.
All hearts are filled with merriment, all
faces wear a smile,
Until the owners meet their wives, then
watch the kettle "bile";
The air gets hot, their legs get weak, they
wish that they were dead,
Till their wives just do the hustle act, and
bounce them into bed.
Then they fall off in slumber, hitch up an
old nightmare,
And dream that they have twenty heads, —
just nineteen "blocks" to spare;
The ones they have next morning would
fill the State House dome —
They are not fit for business, so they have
to stay at home.
Now, the moral of these rhymes, my boys,
while horsey as you see,
And meant to bring in mirth and fun,
where everything goes free,
Is: If you would be* popular, at the club
and on the road,
Just take your share and swallow it, but
don't take home a "load."
The club does not allow any champion-
ship honor to go unchallenged, not even
that of poet laureate, so a little later in
the year President Wales received the
rhymes which follow, and which he read
at the meeting of February 10, 1902.
They were sent in anonymously, but it
has been the general impression that there
may have been some connection between
the poem and the sudden increase in the
bills for midnight oil which Mr. Grusbee,
now President Gushee, was called upon to
pay at about that time.
A WINTER'S MORNING.
It was a winter's morning, and crisp and
chill the air;
And brightly shone the midday sun upon
the day so fair:
And silver sweet the tinkling bells, o'er hill
and valley rung,
And in the streets of Dorchester were
gathered old and young.
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BETSEY (2.35), black trotting mare.
Owned by J. W. Dannahy.
BELLE LORNE. bay trotting mare.
Owned by E. W. Berrigan.
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Now rushes down the speedway track, in
fiery haste along
With panting steed and merry chime, a jol-
ly sporting throng.
Here comes the well-known "Alice B", al-
though sometimes erratic,
We think she's going mighty well since
Newbert got rheumatic.
If he would only let her be, and did not al-
ways fret her,
Perchance sometimes she'd win a heat, at
least she'd go much better.
Can "Azote" trot? the question comes.
Why doesn't Haddock answer,
And tell Fitzgerald to produce his fiery lit-
tle prancer?
Now white-faced "Ramus", Cary says, is
game as e'en the best,
And if they do not give him room, will
knock them "galley-west."
Fred Eldredge too, is very slick with his
converted trotter,
And when he brings him out my boys, look
out, there'll be a slaughter.
So "Gladys M." is in the swim; she never
wears a blinder,
But always stays well in the bunch, when
Randolph K's behind her.
On Labor Day, when she got hot, her own-
er got still hotter,
Although the mare had won the race,
Clarke drove another quarter.
Here's Littlefield with "Beauty" bright; he
never has to lash her,
But let's her sail the quarter-stretch with
tail strung o'er the dasher.
Now listen friends and you will hear that
stern though distant slogan:
"If tracks be good and skies be clear, I'll
come with Baby Logan.
"And if perchance some doughty knight does
think that he can size her,
Then bring your plug in haste that day, I'll
not except 'Budweiser.' "
Why Walter Wales should keep his nag so
closely in the stable,
And only let the Mrs. drive, is queer's an
Aesop's fable.
If I owned "Rondo" for one day I'd never
stop to parley,
But trot him out upon the stretch and tackle
smiling Charlie.
John Morrill says that he must buy a regular
old bruiser,
And drive him in the foremost ranks; he
cannot bear a loser.
Now Morrill, sure, may take his pick and
later on may rue it,
For every horse that comes along does not
turn out a "Jewett."
When Semple gets his "Mutineer" hitched
right and steady going,
There's not a youngster in the club can
make a better showing.
The belle unrivalled of the club "Bonnets
o' Blue" is surely,
And on her throne this stately queen in
triumph sits securely.
Now Gushee, too, drives "Captain Hall"
and drives him very steady;
Next year he'll beat you every one, so get
your horses ready.
Now don't disturb him in his glee, but let
poor "Gushee" think it
For on the sly, my boys, you know, he has
not got a "Trinket."
"George G", "Brand's G", and "Rubsley G",
make a trio great and speedy;
And if some Reuben picks them up, he'll
find that he is seedy.
Then there's that colt of high degree, that
finely bred "Nagaina";
No doubt she'll make a race horse too if
Gallup does not train her.
When Sullivan, with rosy cheeks, his steed
'gainst others pits,
You might as well give up the fight as
tackle lithe "Bob Fitz".
Upon the track you seldom see that horse
of Louis Pfingst's;
But when he's feeling like himself he'll
streak it like a lynx.
"Kentucky Star" that race horse true, who's
in the fastest racket,
Has never dropped a race for blood, nor lost
his "yellow jacket".
There's "Camden Girl" and "Wilton Boy",
with "Aggie H" worth shunning,
And Hollis P., you plainly see, has "Emma
Westland" running.
Then "Ella H" and "Nellie Bly," with
Wales and Mosser driving;
Who always do the proper thing to keep the
club a-thriving.
The day is spent, the night draws on, and
all are homeward going;
Now Where's the club, go far or near, can
make so fine a showing?
The third annual ladies' night took
place on Feb. 11, 1902. President and
Mrs. Wales led the grand march at the
dance which followed the entertainment
and supper. George W. D'Arcy was
chairman of the committee of arrange-
ments. John M. E. Morrill was floor-di-
rector, assisted by Secretary Greenwood,
Councilman W. E. Hannan, Henry E.
Barry and Edward G. Richardson. A
year 'later, or on Feb. 12, 1903, the
feature of the ladies' night was the pres-
entation to the retiring president, S.
Walter Wales, of a costly gold stop-watch.
President Brand introduced Mr. Morrill,
who made the presentation speech. The
watch is inscribed :
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CAPTAIN HALL, black pacing gelding.
By Silvertail. Owned by Almond S. Gushee.
REX, bay gelding trotter.
By Electricity, dam Lady Index. Speedway cup winner for trotters in 1903. Owned
by Albert Fellows.
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"Presented to S. "Walter Wales by the mem-
bers of the Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving
club as a small token of their esteem and ap-
preciation of his efforts in behalf of the
Driving club, while he was president.
"Boston, February 12, 1903."
The evening of April 9, 1904, was again
given up to the ladies, the programs for
the evening being gems of art from both
a literary and mechanical point of view.
On January 19 of the present year
(1905) a ladies night was held, E. K.
Clarke having charge of the affair.
Former successes were repeated.
The first state banquet, dedicated espe-
cially to the men, took place at Hendrie's
on the evening of Nov. 5, 1903. The
affair was both formal and informal.
The members turned out in goodly num-
bers, and many invited guests were pres-
ent, private, political and otherwise,
although politics in the club is debarred.
The long-table idea was passed by in the
arrangements, and the members and
guests gathered around small tables,
choosing their own companions. Ran-
dolph K. Clarke, then first vice-president,
was at the head of the committee of ar-
rangements. The affair was a "wet" one,
which, of course, did not dampen the fes-
tivities. A fine entertainment was given
and there were some excellent speeches.
One of the features of the evening was
the presentation to Almond S. G-ushee,
now president, but then finishing up a
three years' service as chairman of the
racing and speedway committee, with an
eas}r chair. Mr. Gushee has given very
largely of his time, thought and money
to the welfare of the club and no man
contributed towards the gift without re-
garding it as a pleasure. Ex-President
Wales made the presentation speech.
The event so auspiciously inaugurated
was repeated on the evening of October
27, 1904, Mr. Clarke being again chair-
man of the committee of arrangements
and toastmaster. The banquet was held
at the Woman's Club House. Members
and guests were present in even greater
numbers than on the year previous. The
Franklin Field speedway, the construction
of which was hanging in the balance
and discussion of which was taboo at the
previous annual banquet, was at the
1904 meeting almost completed and was
the subject of a good deal of talk and
congratulation.
JOE KING.
Four-year-old trial 2:15.
Half-brother to Tot Macey 2:26 1-4.
Owned by Frederick J. Brand.
Pacer; bred by Lookout Farm, So. Natick, Mass.
Foaled 1900; black gelding; 15 hands. Standard.
I Electioneer 125
Sire of 166 including Arion
2:07 3-4. Sunol 2:08 1-4,
f May King 10272 { Palo Alto 2:08 3-4.
Record 2:20. |
Sire of 16 including Bingen ( May Queen
2:06 1-4 Chestnut King Record 2:20.
2:12, Genevieve 2:12 1-4, Dam of 2 in list, etc.
Pie Lijero 2:12 1-2.
by
Oneonta
I Dam of Tot Macey 2:26 1-4.
f Pocahontas Bov 1790
Sire of 21 including Clav
Hontas 2:11 1-4. Buffalo
Girl 2:12 1-2: dams of 30
■{ including Hontas Crooke
2:07 1-2. Royal Victor
2:08 3-4.
I Volunteer Belle
Hambletonian 10.
Sire of 40 in list. etc.
Green Mountain Maid,
Harry Clay 45.
Dam of 9 in list, etc.
Norman 25.
Sire of 2; dams of 19.
Jenny, by Arab'n (Crockett's)
hi great brood mare list.
Tom Rolfe 306.
Sire of 7: dams of 3.
Fanny Benson, by Jerry.
In great brood mare list.
Volunteer 55.
Sire of 34; dams of 78.
Joe King is one of the best sons of the great May King, the sire of Bingen. 2:06 1-4;
of fine conformation: a young, handsome, rugged, well-built animal, with one of the
best dispositions and 2:10 speed. Absolutely fearless of all objects on the road, and is an
exceptional roader. always on the pace: has no tricks or bad habits, and is a fast, game race
horse. As a three-year-old. was second in a race at the Brockton Fair in 2:19 1-2. and
timed separately in 2:18. This is a half-mile track, and even this was no measure of his
speed. Last fall he stepped the Mattapan speedway, which is 3-8 of a mile long, re-
peatedly in 48 seconds, a 2:08 gait, and he will surely beat 2:10 this year.
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JOE KING.
Owned by Ex-President Frederick J. Brand.
(For pedigree see opposite page.)
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PUBLIC PARADES
The first public parade of the club was
held on Memorial Day, 1900, and no affair
of the kind has created greater local
interest. Almond S. Gushee, now presi-
dent of the club, was chief marshal,
assisted by the dashing young rider, S.
Walter Wales, Jr. The formation was in
Peabody Square, Ashmont, and the route
to Codman Square via Talbot Avenue to
Grove Hall via Washington street and
Blue Hill avenue to the speedway. Prizes
were awarded for the best turnouts, John
Jewett of the Boston Herald, E. E. Cogs-
well, then of the Traveller, and T. F.
Anderson of the Globe being the judges.
The prize-winners were :
Four-wheeled speed-wagons, one man — C.
H. Belledue, Kentucky Star; C. L. Young,
Landlord.
Pneumatic road-wagons, double — W. F.
Hall, Delegate; Randolph K. Clarke,
Gladys M.
Special prize for stallions — W. F. Hall,
Delegate; C. C. Blaney, Brick Wilkes, Jr.
High-wheeled wagons, single — E. P. Denn,
Lady Wentworth; R. S. Fitch, little Fred.
Double-hitch, road-wagons — E. F. Gould;
A. W. Davis.
Special Prize, double hitch — C. L. Hinds
and A. H. Langille, pair of blacks.
Pneumatic road-carts — John Hood, Cam-
den Girl; Jacob Mosser, Nellie Bly.
Hiigh-wheeled road-carts — F. J. Brand, Dr.
G; W. C. Littlefleld, Beauty.
Single-hitch, open and covered, ladies to
drive — Mrs. H. M. Sanders; the Misses Da-
vison.
Double high-steppers — Dr. A. T. Davison;
Alderman Franklin L. Codman.
Goddard buggy — G. A. Whitney; George
H. Greenwood, Prince G.
Special prize, depot-wagon — A. H. Morgan.
Interesting brushes filled out the after-
noon. The club entertained at its head-
quarters on Centre street and Secretary
Belledeu entertained the officials and
newspaper men in royal style at his home
in Ashmont.
The big parade, the biggest ever seen
hereabouts, scheduled for May 14, 1901,
several times postponed on account of
weather, and finally held on May 30, 1901,
was not a distinctly Dorchester affair but
it was so largely tinctured with Dorches-
ter that it is fairly given a place in this
book. By far the largest entry list for
any locality was from Dorchester, and B.
K. Clarke, later first vice-president of the
club, was chief marshal of the day.
Prominent on the committee of ar-
rangement were Messrs. Wales, Pfingst,
Fitch, Belledeu, Morrill, Brand, Timber-
lake, Gore and Moulton. The parade, ac-
cording to a reporter, "twice postponed
because of weather conditions suited only
to ducks, devil-divers and black bass" was
started "under a grief-gray sky that
wrapped all the world in twilight. Top
coats, racing wraps, blue shivers and exe-
crations against a month that had nothing
better to offer rioted together." But in
spite of all this the parade was a success.
Below are given the Dorchester entries
with the marks of the horses at that time.
An examination will show the phenome-
nal and unparalleled average speed.
This has since been somewhat reduced as
many of the horses have made much lower
marks.
The local entries are as follows:
Class 1. Single Horse, Trotter or Pacer,
One-man wagon or buggy.
President S. Walter Wales, b g Rondo,
2.14 3-4.
George W. DArcy, ch m Bonnets o' Blue,
2.18 3-4.
Wilbur C. Littlefleld, ch m Beauty.
Jacob Mosser, Ella H, 2.19 1-4.
J. R. Stuart, Jr., Little Edgar, 2.10 1-4.
Dr. A. B. Gordon, Allie B.
Edward P. Denn, Lady Wentworth.
Frederick J. Brand, Dr. G., 2.21 1-4.
Jesse Moulton, Rubsley G., 2.16 1-4.
J. N. Berry, Good Boy.
William P. Boutelle, Baby Logan.
Charles L. Young, b g Landlord, 2.16 1-4.
Secretary Charles H. Belledeu, ch g Ben H..
2.12 3-4; br g Prince Wilkes. 2.22 3-4; b g
Kentucky Star, 2.0Sl-2;blk g Ned Winslow,
2.12.
David Nelligan, b g Revielle, Jr.
Charles Abrams, Gem, 2.23 1-4.
H. B. Cook, ch g Ponemah, 2.25 1-4.
E. W. Barry, Dandy O., 2.11 1-4.
John Shaughnessy, b g Lucrea.
C. C. Blaney, b g Randolph K
George A. Whitney, blk g Dandy.
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PRINCE WILKES (2.22 1-2), brown trotting gelding
By Maxie Wilkes. Owned by Charles H. Belledeu.
POLYPHEMA, brown trotting mare.
By Senator Blackburn dam Creusa. Owned by Dr. R. W. Balkam
Class 2. Single Horse, Trctter or Pacer,
Two-man Wagon or Buggy.
Louis Pfingst, Ned Wilkes, 2.12.
Robert S. Fitch, Bessie Rampart, 2.31.
E. S. Desmond, ch g Ralph Sherman.
H. P. Gallup, br g Ashmont.
Frederick J. Brand, Tom Reed.
Representative Wilbur F. Adams, Miss
Lithie, 2.19 1-4.
George B. Fowler, Happy Union, 2.20 1-4.
G. W. Cobleigh, Lou M., 2.19 3-4.
Joseph H. Hall, Emma Westland, 2.19 1-4.
Cary Keith, Ramus, 2.30.
Jacob Mosser, Nellie Bly, 2.25; Kitty Wells.
George E. Griffin, Ben G.
Albert T. Drake, Narcissus, 2.21 1-4.
George H. Hicks, Lulu Mapes.
J. A. W. Silver, Pussy.
Albert Fellows, Rex.
John D. O'Connor, Lackawanna, 2.30.
Andrew M. Tyner, blk g Archford.
Henry N. Barry, Prince.
P. W. Hennessey, George Robson.
Edward M. Green, Daisy.
William M. Brummett, Lothair Girl.
Michael Crowne, Mollie.
George M. Potter, Lothair Boy, 2 19.
Randolph K. Clarke, Gladys M., 2.22 1-4.
H. H. Dinsmore, Harry D.
Bacon & Tarbell, ch m Viola.
Fred S. Eldredge, ch m Silkey, 2.29 1-4, by
Nelson.
A. M. Beniro, ch g Prince, 2.27.
W. R. Butler, ch g Hazelnut.
Peter J. Fitzgerald, b m Lady Madison,
2.20 1-4.
George H. Greenwood, b g Prince G.
Henry Cook, b m Doris E., 2.26 1-4.
W. E. Newbert, b m Ora.
E. 0. Haddock, b g Azote, 2.34 1-2.
C. L. Hinds, b g Tommy L., 2.19 1-4.
M. A. Nevens, ch g Australia, 2.25.
N. T. Kerr, b g Johnnie.
E. S. Harris, b g Sunrise.
T. A. Bresnahan, b g Sanford L., 2.12 1-2.
A. M. Johnson, blk g Richmond.
M. F. Drinkwater, gr m May-Day Medium,
2.18 1-2.
E. S. Hoffman, b g John H.
2.18 1-2; b g Messonia, 2.22 1-2.
H. B. Cook, Colonel Ralph; b g George,
2.18 1-2.
A. S. Gushee, Chico; b m Trinket, 2.14, by
Princeps.
R. E. Dyer, blk m Miss Neltian.
William B. Emery, b m Eagle Girl.
Lewis S. Timberlake, br m Dora; ch m
Dora M.
J. H. McManus, ch g Andy May.
George Goodfellow, b m Elitha.
G. G. Richmond, bik m Madge.
Henry S. Clark, br m Mambrino.
W. J. Fitzgerald, b m Polly.
C. C. Blaney, br s Brick Wilkes, Jr., by
Brick Wilkes.
Frederick S. Gore, b s Sidney McGregor,
2.14.
Dr. A. T. Davison, b g Dr. Kellar.
Charles J. Farr, b m L. M. F.
T. E. L. Kemp, b g Violet Wilkes.
T. J. Kenney, blk m Jennie Lambert, 2.20.
P. Sullivan, b m Lucy B.
C. Henry Hetu, br m Genevieve, 2.30.
Class 4. Double Team, Trotters or Pacers,
Two-man Wagon or Buggy.
Park Commissioner, Laban Pratt.
Walter E. Newbert, Alice B., 2.25 3-4, and
Brightness.
C. L. Hinds, b g Hobson and b g Sampson.
John F. Fitzgerald, b gs Jack and Jim.
W. B. Haley, blk m Dinah and blk g Fred.
A. G. Carroll, blk g Don and blk g Sambo.
C. C. Blaney, blk m Emma C B., by Allan
Mack, and b m Ella F. B., by Brick Wilkes.
Milton C. Paige, M. C. P. (w) and Belle
(blk.).
Dr. A. T. Davison, b gs Dick and Gillis.
Class 5. High Steppers, Trap, Brake and
Coach.
George M. Potter.
E. O. Fitch.
Bacon & Tarbell, brake with four black
geldings.
Class 6. Ponies, Pony WTagon or Trap.
George B. Harriman, Dulcie and Betty.
Class 7. Road Carts.
C. C. Blaney, ch m, Lady Hannis.
The Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving
Club formed the second division, the aid
being George B. Fowler. The club's dis-
play was led by a four-horse brake con-
taining the committee and guests. The
brake was decorated with the club's colors,
yellow and blue, and small yellow and
blue flags were attached to the heads of
the horses. Behind the dray was
"Junior" on horseback and bearing the
banner of the club, yellow and blue and
gold. Brushes followed the parade.
On Decoration Day, 1902, the Dorches-
ter Gentlemen's Driving Club gave
another big parade with the route as
before and with Bandolph K. Clarke as
chief marshal.
Mounted police.
Chief Marshal Randolph K. Clarke.
President S. Walter Wales, b m Rondo,
accompanied by Buglers Lovesy and Lewis.
C. H. Belledeu, driving Kentucky Star,
2.08 1-2.
George W. D'Arcy, driving Bonnets o' Blue.
2.18 3-4.
C. Abrams, driving Gem.
R. M. Bailey, driving Robin.
Mr. Hazeltine, driving C. W. Arnold's mare,
Ida J., holder of the champion pacing rib-
bon of the Dorchester Club.
A. S. Gushee, driving Capt. Hall.
R. W. Balkam, accompanied by Gertrude
Savage, driving Polyphema.
J. W. Semple and wife, with Mutineer.
The Misses Bessie and Emma Fottler, with
Prince.
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RONDO (2.14 1-4), bay pacing gelding.
By Aleanwood. Owned by S. Walter Wales.
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Fred S. Gore, driving Sidney McGregor.
J. F. Mcintosh, with California Conn.
W. M. Brummett and wife, driving Laddie
Boy.
John Dannahy, driving Betsy.
C. L. Hinds and wife, with Prince.
Mr. Ward and Miss Howes.
L. S. Timberlake, driving Auburn Boy.
P. W. Hennessey and daughter, driving Geo.
Robson.
H. A. Breas, driving Sunbeam.
Representative W. F. Adams and wife.
J. E. Wilber, driving Newsboy.
J. J. Estabrook and wife, driving Alice H.
C. L. Young, driving Landlord.
F. J. Brand, driving Princess Ebilo.
H. R. Barry, driving W. W. Saylor.
George M. Potter, driving Anna Held.
E. S. Harris, driving Sunrise.
Albert Fellows, with Rex.
Carey Keith, driving Ramus.
H. P. Gallup, driving Rubsley G.
J. N. Berry, driving Good Boy.
SECOND DIVISION.
Four-in-hand brake containing the following
guests of the club: Mrs. S. W. Wales,
Mrs. W. P. Boutelle, Mrs. H. R. Barry,
Mrs. Grace E. Markell, C. A. Bagnell,
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Smith, J. W. Linnehan,
A. Bresnahan and Triscom White.
Edward G. Richardson, driving Frank.
E. S. Desmond and wife, driving Ralph
Sherman.
E. H. Hughes, driving Margaret.
Fred S. Eldredge and wife, driving Kitty.
Henry Hetu, driving Sylvian.
A. M. Brown, driving Prince Boy.
J. B. Obrien, driving Honest Tommy.
Charles J. Farr, driving E. W. F.
J. W. McEnany, driving Dimple.
Councilman George O. Wood and wife, driv-
ing Edna Brown.
Secretary George H. Greenwood and wife,
driving Prince G.
J. C. Stevens and wife.
J. A. Joy. Walter E. Newbert.
George W. Stevens, driving Alice B.
Dr. R. F. Scales., driving Maud S.
Augustus Muerer, driving Golden Rod.
J. Corbett, driving Roy.
C. H. Morse, driving Chico.
F. Desmond, driving George H.
Richard Jenness and wife, driving Dan.
S. Hayden, J. M. E. Morrill and family,
Warren H. Pattee and friends, Havelock
Keith, Diedrich Eilers, Nelson Pierce and
party, John Miller, Mrs. Arthur Crane and
friend.
E. P. Denn and wife, driving King Princeps.
J. M. Johnson, G. A. Whitney, W. F. Dacey.
George E. Griffin and wife.
W. L. Terhune and friends.
J. F. Fitzgerald and Miss Bresnahan.
George W. Hinkley.
At the conclusion of the parade several
match races between horses owned by
club members were decided.
The club voted to attend the big parade
on the Charles Eiver Speedway held on
June 7. Eandolph K. Clarke of the Dor-
chester club was chief marshal of the day.
The Dorchester club formed the second
division, S. Walter Wales, Jr., acting a&
aid to the chief marshal, and President S.
Walter Wales leading the division with
Eondo. The participants were :
Aid, S. W. Wales, Jr.
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club.
President S. Walter Wales, b g Rondo,
2.14 3-4.
Randolph K. Clarke, br m Gladys M., 2.22 1-4.
C. H. Morse, b g Chico, 2.26 1-4.
James F. Mcintosh, br s California Conn,
2.15 1-4.
M. A. Nevens, ch g Evolutio, 2.13 3-4.
Charles Abrams, b m Gem, 2.23 1-4.
Jacob Mosser, b m Ella H, 2.19 1-4, and ch
m Nelly Bly, 2.25 1-4.
George M. Potter, br m Belle Lome, 2.26.
George M. Potter, b m Maggie Hal, 2.16 1-4.
Frederick J. Brand, ch m Princess Ebilo,
2.24 1-4.
Frederick J. Brand, b g Tom Reed.
Charles J. Farr, b g E. W. F.
James J. Gearin, b m Myrtle.
Joseph H. Hall, ch s Gobreino.
A. M. Johnson, b g Belmont.
Waldo T. Pierce, ch m Chausie.
J. H. McManus, ch g Andy May, 2.18
P. W. Hennessey, ch g George Robson,
2.26 1-4.
Edward A. Hanly, b g Stubb Wilkes, 2.27 1-4.
D. W. Chamberlain, b m Belle Van.
Charles H. Dow, ch g Harry L.
John W. Dannahy, blk m Betsey, 2.35.
W. B. Hasty, ch g Phil.
W. M. Brummett, b g Laddie Bay.
George H. Greenwood, b g Prince G.
W. E. Newbert, ch m Alice B., 2.22 1-4.
George M. Potter, b m Maggie Hal, 2.16 1-4.
Hiram A. Haven, b m Maud Thorne.
T. A. Bresnahan, b g John and b g Bill.
J. M. E. Morrill, family turnout.
A. S. Gushee, blk g Captain Hall, 2.25 1-2.
The star attraction of the day was Mr.
Belledeu's Kentucky Star, the fastest
horse ever owned in any club hereabout.
Mr. Belledeu on this day entered with
the Boston club to which he also belonged.
No prizes were awarded.
The last parade in which the club took
part was on June 10 of the present year
when it acted as escort for the guests at
the celebration of "Dorchester Day."
Ex-President S. Walter Wales was mar-
shal of the day, and about 70 teams were
in line. The club furnished ribbons for
each team entering under the club
auspices and the exhibit was the most
marked feature of the day.
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MRS. H. M. SANDERS, DRIVING "BILLY.'
Ribbon winners at Memorial Day parade, 1900.
SANPORD L (2.12 1-2), chestnut pacing geldinj
Owned by T. A. Bresnalian.
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'H
IVOLUTION OF THE RACER,
The hvo veteran road-drivers of the
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving club, as
they are in point of service, among the
oldest road-drivers in New England, are
the first president of the club, Charles
L. Young and former First Vice-Presi-
dent Eandolph K. Clarke. The former
as a driver slightly antedates the latter,
and was driving fast horses when the
parents of some of the present members of
the club were in short dresses or knick-
erbockers.
"Most things go by comparing" said
David Harum. "I suppose if the general
run of horses never got better'n three n a
half that a hoss that c'd do it in three'd
be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowa-
days." Old Dexter was a wonder and a
world-beater when he touched 2.40. To-
day no one would dispute his eligibility
to that breeder of dissension, the Special
Slow Class of the Dorchester Gentle-
men's Driving club. Ex-President
Young's span as a driver of fast horses
furnishes a fair exemplar of the evolution
of the road horse. As he tells the story
most entertainingly we will let him tell it
in his own words.
"The first horse I owned," said the
genial ex-president, "was a trotter named
Tige. That was in 1875. He couldn't
do a mile better than three minutes, but
at that could beat eight out of ten horses
going over the road. I kept him about a
year, and then thinking that I wanted
something that could go a little faster,
swapped him with my brother, who said
he would give me something that could
fly. He gave me a western pacer that
had always been driven double. He had
no name, but I found one for him as quick
as I had my first ride.
"I paid my boot and got my nice looking
bay horse on Friday night. Now the boys
all know that I don't race on Saturday,
as the beans and brown bread must be
looked after, but that time I could not
wait till Sunday, so I hitched up Satur-
day afternoon. It was a fine, pleasant
afternoon in the fall. Brighton avenue
was the only place then of any account
where there was driving, and the road
was filled with the best turn-outs in the
city. So I started with my bay pacer.
"He was all style and I guess had never
been in a crowd before. I never had any
fear of a horse, and always supposed I
could hold one as long as the reins held
together. That was where I made my
mistake, for before I went a hundred
rods I found out that I had my hands
full, and pulled in behind a big express
wagon to get a better grip. When I
thought I was all right I pulled out
again, and then the fun (for the boys)
began. The first thing the horse did was
to make some leaps that couldn't have
been less than thirty feet. I 3relled to
clear the road, and everybody who could
get out of the way got out of
the way. By this time the pacer
was going like a ' wild horse, and all I
could do was to hang on. I had neither
time nor nerve to steer him, and could
only trust to luck. Everybody was yell-
ing 'clear the track, Young is running
away.' That was where the boys made a
mistake, for 1 wasn't going any faster
than my horse was — that is not till a
minute later when I struck a lamp-post
and went into the air.
"I sailed for about fifteen feet and
landed on about even terms with my
pacer, and with everything bottom side
up. I struck on my feet and hung on
to the horse, which made another jump
and wrecked a team which the owner said
cost him $450. I was shaken up a little,
but wasn't scared. My head was clear,
and I was the first one to my horse's head ;
and the reins and the bridle and I were
all that stuck to him. Then I named him
]STo Good, and swapped back with my
brother.
"This time he gave me a Lambert named
Wevmouth Bov, and there were few
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RUBSLEY G. (2.16 3-4), brown pacing gelding.
By Star Wilkes, dam by George Wilkes. Owned by Hollis P. Gallup.
ASHMONT. Brown pacing gelding.
By Hebron, by Princeps, by Woodford's Mambrino, by Harnbletonian 10. Dam by
Daniel Boone, by Harnbletonian 10. Owned 10 years by Hollis P. Gallup and not for sale.
horses on the road that could beat him.
Lady Morrill, 18 years old and with a
record of 2.29 1-2, made some time back
in the seventies, was my next find, and
she was a good one and could beat nine
out of ten horses she tackled. One day I
went out to Concord to a horse race and
saw a nice looking horse warming up. I
got over the fence, looked him over and
bought him on the spot. He was 17 hands
high, young and sound, but I could not
get speed enough out of him to suit me.
I swapped him with John Morrow for
Cleo, one of the best little horses that
ever went over the road, and the one with
which Mr. Hall of the Adams House
used to have so much sport. The game
little mare was burnt to death in a stable
a few years later.
"The next horse I owned was Eclair,
a good horse in his day, but his day was
a little gone by before I got him, so I
swapped him with a man in the country.
Eight there is where I made another mis-
take, and found out that the city fellow
don't know it quite all when it comes to
swapping horses. I saw an advertisement
and went to see the horse. He was a
dapple gray with a banged tail. One
shoe would weigh four ounces and one
about a pound and a half. I had heard
that the man was too mean to shoe his
horses properly and supposed it was shod
out of the scrap heap; so I traded, and
much to my surprise got fifty dollars to
boot. The man said he would not put
me to any trouble, but would deliver the
horse at my end instead of half-way, as is
the custom where the parties are thirty
or forty miles apart. The next day I
took my new find to the shop and had
him shod properly and went out to show
the boys what a fine family horse I had.
I started in to trot and thought I started
an Anvil Chorus. Say ! he forged to beat
the band, and you could hear him half a
mile away. I did not go very far or say
very much, but I walked my handsome
dapple gray around to the blacksmith
shop, had his old shoes put on, and the
next day sent him to the sale stable.
"My next horse was a sorrel pacer from
Prince Edwards Island. It was said that
he went a mile clown there in 2.18 with
a load of ladders. Pacers were of little
account around here then, so I changed
him over into a trotter. It took a 3-lb.
shoe forward to bring him down to a 2.10
clip, which was fast then. This was in
1880. When I was sleighing I used an
old-fashioned cow bell up under the sear,
and when I let that ring there were few
horses, you bet, which could take my sor-
rel's measure. He was what we used to
call a corn-cracker. 'May Bird was the
next, fast but unsteady; and the next
was a big road horse, but I had speed on
the brain and let him go. Henrietta was
the next, and she was a corker. She had
one spavin, and if she had had two I
would have been all right. It cost me
something for laudanum and ether to
make her go sound, but when she got lim-
bered up she had speed to burn, and
horses costing up in the thousands had to
take her dust. I could name a good many
who went up against her, but it isn't good
taste to do so, for the owners felt bad
enough at the time, and I'll let the mat-
ter drop. Old Beacon Park was her
stamping ground. She cost me $300.
That was my long price then.
"The old war-horse, Northern Spy, was
my next purchase. He was the fastest
half-mile horse known at that time, and
had sold for a brush-horse to wheels or
runners as high as $5000. James Golden
had trotted him four quarters in two min-
utes on the ice at Spy pond. His stride
was 28 feet and he travelled three feet
wide behind in action. He pulled -175
pounds a quarter in 35 seconds at old
Beacon Park. I waited till the owners
came to my price and then bought him.
They did not make the running gear
very wide then so I had shafts eight feet
long put in so that he would not hit the
runners. This did the trick. If I had
had a sleigh built as they make them
now people would have thought me crazy.
I waited till I got the old horse on edge,
and one fine Sunday went out on the
Arsenal road where the sports congregate,
the Beacon Street boulevard not being
then in existence. I felt the old horse
out a little in spots, and found that I had
speed for anything on the road and a lit-
tle extra to burn, and then I put in one
of the pleasantest afternoons, I believe, in
my life. As it was Sunday we couldn't
vent our feelings — simply sat stiff and
said nothing. Lamp-posts looked like
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BTJDWEISER (2.211-4), bay pacing gelding.
By Bud Crooke, dam Bessie Hal. Owned by John W. Liimehan.
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SENATOR L (2.12 1-2 and BORALMA (2.07).
Mile in 2.12 1-2. Driven by owner, John Snepard, at Readville, Oct. 17, 1900.
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candle sticks, and we seemed to melt the
snow behind us, but we did leave the road.
The next morning the old horse was as
good as dead and I never rode fast behind
him again. Northern Spy was then 22
years old, and as I wanted him every day
the sun shone he could not do my work.
I sold him for fifty dollars, but the one
Sunday afternoon's fun I had with him
was worth five hundred — and it cost me
about that amount.
"The little 'D. P.' (Detective Patchen)
was my next horse and one of the best
brush horses that ever went down a speed-
way. I drove him four 3-ears over old
Beacon Park and all the roads in Boston
and vicinity, and over the track at
Brockton in 2.30 1-2. This was in 1885
and the time was considered fast in those
days. He was a trotter, sound as a nut
and cost me $180 when he was nine years
old, and it took their thousand dollar
horses to take his measure. He would
seldom break and kept everybody guessing
as to whether he would beat or get beat.
"Next came Mabel Scott. I used her
eleven years and raced everything that
cared to tackle her. She was steady, sel-
dom broke, and there were few that could
beat her. She is still living, is about 20
years old and is owned by a private family
in Milton. A good many of the boys will
recall my last r?ce with her when she
proved herself a safe and gentle horse by
running away and not breaking either my
neck or her own. Tt was on Washing-
ton's Birthday, 1895. The sleighing was
fine and the speedway at that time was
clown Talbot Avenue from the White
Church to Peabody Square. I was a new
comer to Dorchester then. It was Sat-
urday and if I had been at home looking
after the beans and brown bread as I
had ought to have been, it would not have
happened. I had been out to Beacon
Park and coming back, about four
o'clock, found about fifteen good horses on
the speedway. I went down twice and
did up the gang to the queen's taste. The
third time I scored around, the shaft-iron
broke and the sleigh runner went in be-
tween the mare's hind legs. I was a little
ahead which was a good thing for the
mare began to run to get clear of the run-
ner which was cutting her at every jump.
The more I pulled the mare in the worse
it cut her. 1 won the heat all right,
and when the policeman stopped us, up
this side of Milton, the sleigh was a
wreck and I was sitting straddle of the
only runner.
"And then came Landlord, well known
by almost every one who has had any-
thing to do with horses. They ran up
against him for five years and the horse
that could beat him had to do the first
quarter at a two-minute and the second at
a 2.01 clip. Landlord was never beaten
on even terms on the speedway but once.
That was by the Star which went four
quarters in 1.58 1-1. Otherwise the grand
old pacer was king of the speedway for
five years."
TEINKET.
Mention is made elsewhere of this
wonderful animal whose picture taken
when she was 26 years old, also appears
on another page. Trinket was a bay
mare, foaled in 1875. She was by Prin-
ceps, dam Ouida by Hambletonian 10 ;
grandam. Morning Glory, by imported
Consternation. She was bred by E. S.
Veach of St. Mathews, Ky. As a four-
year-old, in 1879, she was the sensation of
the year, obtaining a record of 2.19 3-1
which was the fastest for the age at that
time. In 1880 she came out in fine form
and met her great rival, Maud S, which
was one vear older. They met at Chicago
July 21th, and Maud S won in 2.13 1-2.
Trinket lowered her record to 2.19 1-1
that season and was bought by John W.
Shaw of New York for $11,000. She
was then placed in the hands of John E.
Turner who overcame her peculiarities,
and after a series of easy races in the West
she started down the Grand Circuit in
the 19 class and won all along the line.
At Fleetwood Park, Morrisania, N. Y..
Sept. 22, she reduced her record to 2.11.
During the season she started in 22 races,
winning 11 and netting $10,000 in purses.
Her name appeared but once in the year-
book as she was retired from the turf
before the first volume appeared in 1885.
During her trotting' career she won over
20 races and more than $27,000.
After her racing days were over
Trinket was bought by Mr. Hobart of
California for breeding purposes and was
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ROY WILKES (2.24), bay pacing gelding.
By Jersey "Wilkes 25216, sire of Phenol (2.07 1-4), dam Lady Patchen. by Mambrino
Patchen. Roy Wilkes' 1st dam Strathnew, by Strathmore 408; 2nd dam Kittie John-
son by Mambrino Patchen 58; 3d dam Jenny' Johnson by Sweet Owen. Owned by Solly
Wolfson.
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HELGAMITE, bay pacing mare.
Mount Arion. Owned by Fred H. Bellows.
the stable companion of the great Stam-
boul. She had several foals, all but two
or three of them still-born. One which
lived was Trinket Boy, by Stamboul,
which as a yearling sold under the hammer
for $5000. Trinket Boy never surpassed
his dam in speed but was the sire of sev-
eral fast ones. After Mr. Hobart's death
his stable was sold under the hammer and
the late J. Malcolm Forbes, who was then
scouring the country for fast horses for
his breeding stable, bought Trinket for
$3200 at auction. The mare was not a
regular breeder and Mr. Forbes never suc-
ceeded in getting a foal from her. She
was sold by Mr. Forbes to Mr. Gushee.
Trinket's history would not be complete
if it were not followed down to her
twenty-fourth year and noted what this
evergreen mare did when her days were
nigh unto a quarter of a century.
She was then owned by Almond S.
Gushee, now president of the Dorchester
Gentlemen's Driving Club. On Septem-
ber 4, 1899, Mr. Gushee started her in
the free-for-all at Beadville. It was
the first race he ever drove, but the grand
old mare, game to the last, lighted up the
closing day of her illustrious career /by
winning the race in 2.20 3-4 - 2.20 1-2, a
rate of speed equal to her flight as a
four^ear old when her name was first on
every tongue. She could easily have made
the mile at Beadville in 2.17 or 2.18 if
her owner would have let her have her
head. Her old sporting blood stood by
her to the last and the sound of the gong
drove her half wild. She was gentle as a
kitten in the stable or anywhere where
there was no racing, but it took three men
to harness her at the track, and she would
pick up a 200-pound man with her head
easily. She was simply a bunch of nerves.
She would easily, when she was 25 years
old, road 15 miles an hour. She was a
fine road and driving horse except that
she would not walk.
KENTUCKY STAB.
There is standing up in Ashmont. in
quarters better than the average human
enjoys, his strenuous work done, and the
most considerate care ensured for his
old age, and yet as sound of limb and
wind as ever, without blemish, one of the
grandest little horses which ever stood on
feet. This is Kentucky Star, the bay
gelding pacer, owned by Charles H. Belle-
deu, with a racing record of 2.08 1-2
made in a field of 11 horses, which has
been the full mile at Beadville in 2.03 1-2,
has been a half mile on the ice in a min-
ute flat, and which competent judges
believe with proper early handling could
have paced the full mile in two minutes.
His history is of the greatest interest to
horsemen.
Kentucky Star, foaled in 1887 is of the
very highest breeding. His sire was the
famous Bobert McGregor, with a record
of 2.17 1-2 made to the old-fashioned
high-wheeled sulky, one of the gamest of
fighters, and which died a few years ago
at the great age of 27 }^ears. McGregor
was also the sire of the famous Cresceus
(2.02 1-4) and Lurline (2,11 3-4) to both
of which the Star is half-brother, and
80 others in the list. Bobert McGregor
was by Major Edsall, and his dam was
Nancy Whitman by American Star.
Kentucky Star's dam was Lalla by
Fetoskey, and his granddam was Lalla
Bookh by Vidette, a son of Vindex by
Hambletonian 10. Betoskey's sire was
by George Wilkes (2.22) one of the great-
est trotting sires that ever lived. Her
dam was by Iron's Cadmus, sire of the old-
time pacing champion Bocahontas
(2,17 1-2) and grandsire of the old pacing
champion stallion Smuggler (2.15 1-4).
Kentuck}*- Star was bred by J. F. Hern-
don of Lexington, Ky., and as a youngster
was not particularly valued. He was
used in the stud when young and was the
sire of Bay Star with a record of 2.08.
He was brought on by Mr. Stearns of
Springfield and was bought by Mr. Elliott
of Springfield for $125, as a three^ear-
old. The latter raced him in New Hamp-
shire and Vermont but he was full of
what Artemns Ward would call "excen-
trissities," he pulled and ran and was
altogether too much horse for his owner.
His mark was then 2.32 when he was five
years old. It was at Greenfield that it
dawned on people that he was a great
little horse.
As all the parties are dead, and living
or dead no one would be harmed, a little
inside history is admissible. The Star's
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LADY WENTWORTH, bay trotting mare.
Owned by Edward P. Demi.
TRINKET (2.14), bay trotting mare.
Hy Princeps, dam Ouida by Hambletonian 10. Grandam Morning Glory, by imported
Consternation (see sketch). Owned by Almond S. Gusbee.
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owner and driver had struck Greenfield
flat broke, without even money enough to
pay the entry fee. They got trusted for
the latter and went in to the race. It was
as much of a case of "must" to win as it
was for the boy to out dig the woodchuck ;
with the minister at the house and the
family out of meat. The track was
muddy and heavy and the Star tired out.
He won the third and fifth heat, lost the
sixth and went into the stable to be
cooled out for the seventh so tired and
weak that he could not stand. It seemed
a crime to send him out again but the
conditions were desperate. A man on
either side held him up while the shafts
were droj)ped over his back, and he reeled
rather than paced out to the track. He
scored down once or twice and then
seemed to pull himself together and all
the old fighting blood of his forebears
came to the surface, and he went in and
easily outfooted the field.
This bull-dog gameness coupled with
marvelous speed have been the Star's
strong points. His mark was brought
down to 2.18 and the next year to 2.16.
T. P. Eadiker bought him about this time
for $1600 and Fred Howard drove him.
He was entered all down the big line the
next summer and brought his record down
to 2.12. He was sick but was raced
through sickness and all, and altogether
was in 18 races. It has been charged that
he was not always allowed to win when
he had an easy stunt if his managers could
make more money by pulling him. If
this is true it would account for some of
his unevenness and "exeentrissity."
It was at Eigby Park, Portland, Me.,
in 1896, that he made his mark of 2.08 1-2
in a field of 11 horses for a $2000 purse.
The class was a 2.12 pace, and the time
and place was the same in which John E.
Gentry paced a mile in 2.00 1-2. The
horsemen called the Star's performance
scarcely less remarkable. He made the
three heats all in less than 2.10. Said
the report of the race :
"In a field of 11 horses he drew ninth
position and Howard (his driver) .was
content to trail with him until after
passing the half where the Star was ask-
ing for his head and getting it paced
through the field and passing the three-
quarters was up third. Here he broke but
quickly recovered and set sail for the
leaders. At the seven-eighths he had
Simmons disposed of on a break and it
was only a second more when Brennan
went into the air, the Star coming home
in 2.09 1-2. In the next heat the Stal-
led the procession coining home in
2.08 3-1. In the third heat Kentucky
Star was blocked by a solid wall and How-
ard had to sit still going down the back
side letting one and another pass him
until reaching the half when he was in the
sixth horse place. At this point Howard
saw an opening and pointing the Star for
it he went through, passed the leaders
handily, and came in under a pull in
2.08 1-2. The quarters were 32, 1.01,
1.36, and he must have stepped the last
half in 1.03."
Mr. Belledeu bought him for $1000 at
Combination Park ten years ago and since
then his record has been well known. He
has stepped the last eighth at Combina-
tion Park in 13 seconds, has stepped a
full mile at Eeadville in 2.03 1-2 and has
beaten everything put up there against
him and a good many have been brought
forward to lower his colors. And at 17
years old he was apparently as good and
speedy and with as sound wind as at seven
years old. He was, the first horse to go
over the Charles Eiver Speedway after it
was formally opened, being closely fol-
lowed by Eandolph K. Clarke with Ean-
dolph K.
Kentucky Star has won more blue rib-
bons than any horse in Xew England.
In 1903. in the Boston Gentlemen's Driv-
ing club at Eeadville he won twelve
straight races. He has never been
beaten in the Boston Gentlemen's Driving
club or in the Dorchester Gentlemen's
Driving club. His owner, Mr. Belledeu.
who has driven and won more races than
any amateur reinsman in New England,
has many silver cups in his den in his
handsome home at Ashmont, Dorchester.
The race which excited the most inter-
est in the Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving
club in which the Star took place was
probably the Kentucky Star-Landlord
race for the pacing championship of the
speedway, a title which the latter had held
and defended for several years. The race
took place on October 2." 1901. The fol-
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AZOTE (2.28), bay trotting gelding.
By Constantino, dam by Sultan. Owned by Edgar O. Haddock
ALICE B (2.22 1-4), chestnut trotting mare.
By Elgardo. Owned by Walter E. Newbert.
lowing account was printed at the time.
It was written by John M. E. Morrill and
is a fine, vivid bit of description :
"This race/' said Mr. Morrill, "had been
a long time in coming, but when it did
arrive proved to be the greatest race ever
seen on any sjseedway. I doubt if there
were ever four quarters as fast as these
paced on any race track in the world. I
say four quarters, for these two horses
went the third heat without getting the
word, but driving at top speed all the
way, and this one quarter must surely
have been as fast as the fourth quarter,
which was in .29 3-4. The Star won this
heat, really making four heats he won
instead of three. It was a great race to
see, and those who missed it will probably
never have the chance to see its like again.
The conditions were right, and both horses
were right on edge, and although Land-
lord was defeated, he was not disgraced.
He put up a noble fight, but there is not
a horse in the world today, in my opinion,
which can take Kentucky Star's measure
on that speedway when he is on edge.
The race was timed very carefully by
three gentlemen of experience in timing
and in driving speedy horses. If the
four quarters which were done separately
had been put in together, the mile would
have been in 1.57 3-4. Just think of it !
A faster mile than the world has ever seen
at the trot or pace.
"Well ! Now for the race itself. It is
a beautiful afternoon — one of those lovely
fall days when all nature smiles, and the
owner of a fast horse smiles also. Ken-
tucky Star comes on the Speedway with
that easy, gliding gait for which he is
noted, and he certainly lookecl and acted
as if he felt confident that he was to
dethrone the/King of the Speedway — that
good horse Landlord which has heretofore
defended his title against all comers.
First one and then the other comes flying
down the stretch getting warmed up for
the greatest effort in their lives, and the
cranks are eagerly watching every move
of both horses and drivers. After a little
delay Starter S. Walter Wales gives the
warning bell and instructs the drivers to
go up and turn and come together for the
word. They swing around just below
Morton street and come for the wire like
an express train let loose on a western
prairie. They don't get the word, as our
friend Young is too far ahead, well know-
ing that every foot he can get the best of
at the start is worth so much at the finish.
After scoring a few times more, Starter
Wales gives them the word, with Land-
lord a little in the lead. The race is on
and both men driving like demons — Mr.
Belledeu to set the fastest record the
speedway has ever seen, and Mr. Young
to get at least one heat, if possible, for he
realizes he is up against the stiffest game
he has ever struck. Down to the eighth
Kentucky Star is out in the lead and grad-
ually pulling away, but Young is driving
for all he knows and Landlord -is respond-
ing nobly. It is of no use, for the Star
holds him safe. And now they are near-
ing the finish line, and such pacing that
it makes one's hair stand on end to see it.
On and on they come, and both men
yelling like Indians and both horses
straining every nerve. Kow they cross
the line, Kentucky Star about three
lengths ahead; time .29. Kow they jog
back for the second heat, and after a little
jockeying for the start, they are off, both
Young and Belledeu driving right away
from the wire for all that's in them.
Landlord is working at Young, while the
Star is coming on with that powerful
stride. He is up beside Landlord and by
him like a flash of greased lightning. As
they near the finish line the clip is too hot
for the old Boman, and he drops back a
bit. The Star comes on, ever increasing
his lead at every stride, and he crosses the
line ahead of Landlord by several lengths ;
time .29 1-4.
"Once more they jog back for the word,
and as they turn and come for the wire it
is plain to see that each driver is playing
for the best start he can get. So eager
are they that they go the full course with-
out getting the word. The Star wins,
but it doesn't count ; time for this heat
.29 3-4. They go up by the starter, and
as they swing for the word, Mr. Young
sits down for one of those old-fashioned
drives, with grim determination written
on every feature of his face. Mr. Belle-
deu is no less determined, but much more
confident. This time they get the word
and they go away boiling, on the last heat
of a most wonderful race. They are driv-
ing like madmen and thev are coming
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ALICE R., bay trotting mare.
By Bobby Bums. Owned by Allan C. Mahon.
TOM REED, bay trotting gelding.
By Smugwood, by Nutwood; Dam, Belle Smuggler, Tom Reed's dam. Laura. Owned by
Frederick J. Brand,
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better than a two-minute clip. The Star
is soon out in the lead, but the least mis-
take on his part would lose the heat; but
he is not making any mistakes, he is put-
ting up a world's record. Three hundred
feet from the finish now, and he is pull-
ing away from Landlord at every stride,
and crosses the line about seven lengths
ahead, in .29 3-4, the winner of the fastest
race of its kind on record."
DE. G ATO VONDELL.
A race which excited fully as much
interest as the Kentucky Star-Landlord
contest was held on the speedway on
Patriot's Day, 1900, between Mr. Brand's
Dr. G (whose picture appears on another
page) and Mr. Morrill's Vondell. The
ground had been fought over twice by the
same horses previously, each having one
race to its credit. Excitement, therefore,
over the decisive race ran high among
club members and their friends. It was
estimated that 4000 people lined the Blue
Hill avenue speedway, covered the fences
and walls and utilized every hillock and
"coign of vantage" in the vicinity. Many
handsome equipages were out especially
for the race, among the turn-outs being
a four-horse tally-ho which came loaded
with gentlemen and ladies from Jamaica
Plain. The weather had been bad and
the regular stretch used for racing was
like a ploughed field so a track was laid
out further down the avenue towards
Grove Hall.
S. Walter Wales was the starter and
the judges were Fred S. Eldredge, W. P.
Boutelle, Hollis P. Gallup and Council-
man S. Howard Mildram. The owners
drove. Yondell made a break in the
first heat just when things were going
well and Dr. G came under the wire in
32 seconds. In the second Dr. G returned
the compliment and the heat was Yon-
dell's. The best heat was the third when
neither horse broke but fought every inch
of the way Dr. G winning by a nose in
32 1-4 seconds. For the fourth and
deciding heat each driver realized that no
advantage could be given and the horses
scored clown fully twenty times before
getting the word. Everv inch was fought
but just before the finish Voridell both
broke and threw a shoe, and Dr. G came in
the winner in .32 1-4. The event was fully
celebrated later at the club house. Echoes
of this famous race are still heard among
the old guard.
A FAMOUS OLD SNOW HOBSE.
The Boston Herald of Jan. 29th, 1897,
had the following regarding Jewett, the
famous old snow horse long owned by
John M. E. Morrill.
Jewett has gone and his place is still un-
filled. There has not been sleighing enough
this winter to determine what horse is
champion of the Boston snow path, but it
is doubtful if there soon appears another
such distinctive leader of the snow
brigade in this city as was Jewett (2.14)
the black pacing son of Allie West.
Although his gait in late years was that
of the pacer, this famous horse first
appeared upon the turf as a trotter and
acquired a record of 2.20 at the lateral
gait, and was champion three-year-old of
the world. For three years Jewett was
king of the road among the merry sleigh
riders, and that, too, after he was 15 years
old. Jewett was a remarkable horse. "I
never expect to breed another as good,"
said Uncle Isaac Smith of Lexington.
Ky. "He was the best horse I ever had
or expect to have," said Mr. Morrill, his
Boston owner. It was at Lexington, in
Otober, 1879. that Jewett trotted into
prominence and the world's record of
2.23 1-2 for three-year-olds, and for the
next 14 years, in both grand and minor
circuits, he was a prominent and success-
ful actor. Sold a few months ago and
shipped to Buffalo, he met with an acci-
dent just before he was to be unloaded
that caused his death.
It is a coincidence that in the wide-
awake horse city of Toledo, the home of
so many fast ones, the chestnut pacer
Charley Friel, another son of Allie West,
now 20 years old, should be this season
as for several seasons past, the monarch
of the snow road. Says a local paper.
"All sorts of money has been spent and
all kinds of horses rmrob^sed and brought
here to beat Cbarlev "Friel. but today as
for even vears past. Cbarlev Friel is the
unbeaten horse on the snow."
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GEORGE B. HUGO.
HON. JOHN F.. FITZGERALD.
ALLAN C. MA HON.
JOSEPH E. SWENDEMAN..
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A FEW OF THE PROHINENT HEflBER!
ALMOND S. GUSHEE.
President Almond S. Gushee is a
charter member and has been one of
the hardest-working and most useful
men in the club. He was secretary
of the racing and speedway com-
mittee for two years and the chairman
for three years, and has given very largely
of his time in the performance of detail
work to further the interests of the club.
A proof of his popularity was shown at
the first annual banquet of the club, when
he was given a handsome and costly
chair by the members. Mr. Gushee
was born in 1856, in Appleton, Me.,
and passed his early years on a farm.
He had received the ordinary country
school education, but, aspiring to some-
thing better, came to Boston in 1875,
almost penniless, and worked for a
year. He then returned to Maine, and,
taking the money he had earned to pay
current expenses, and working for his
board, he graduated from the state nor-
mal school at Castine, and later taught
for two years. He returned to Boston in
1879, and in 1880 began the milk busi-
ness on the spot where he now lives, at
the corner of Washington and Fuller
streets, Dorchester. His early years in
business were days of the hardest work,
but hard work and honesty brought their
reward, and later years have brought
more leisure. . He likes and drives good
horses, and is the owner of Captain Hall,
a black pacer with a mark of 2.20 1-4.
Captain Hall was the wonder of the day
at Marshfield last year, and won the high-
est encomiums. Few horses owned in the
club have more speed. The most famous
horse that Mr. Gushee has owned was
Trinket (2.14) which held the world's rec-
ord for four-year-olds for eight years,
being finally dethroned by Jay Eye See,
named and then owned by J. I. Case, and
which at . one time trotted the world-
famous Maud S for the world's cham-
pionship, losing by a half second. More
extended mention of Trinket will be
found elsewhere in this volume.
GEOEGE W. D'AECY.
First Vice-President George W. D'Arcy
was born 37 years ago, in Apponaug,
E. I., was educated there, and came
to Boston in 1882. He began business
for himself in 1896, and is the proprietor
of several large furnishing goods stores
and the president of the Brattleboro
Overall Co., with offices at 77 Summer
street. He has lived for the past
ten years at 49 Dix street. Among
the speedy horses he has owned are Ken-
wood, 2.14; B. C, 2.14 1-4; Ben Strath-
more, 2.18, and his present pretty mare,
Bonnets o' Blue, 2.18 3-4.
JACOB MOSSEK.
Second Vice-President Jacob Mosser is
a charter member of the club, a Boston
business man, and known also as a lover
and owner of good horses. He is a mem-
ber of the leather firm of Keck, Mosser &
Co., with offices at 54 Lincoln street. He
comes of the best German stock and was
born and educated in Allentown, Pa.,
coming to Boston and entering business
in 1883. He is a charter member of the
Colonial club of Dorchester, but is affili-
ated with no other social or secret bodies.
In horse-flesh he affects pacers, and has
owned Ella H, with a mark of 2.19 1-4,
and Eosewood, with a mark of 2.22. He
owns Nellie Bly, one of the best known
horses in the club, which has a mark of
2.25 1-4, and the handsome grey gelding,
George K, the speediest and best horse
he has ever owned.
GEOEGE H. GEEENWOOD
Secretary George H. Greenwood proba-
bly enjoys a larger acquaintance with men
than any other man in the club. For
nearly 30 years he has kept the store for
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DR. G., (2.21), bav pacing gelding.
By Charles Caffrey, Owned by Frederick J. Brand.
GENEVIEVE, brown pacing mare.
By Guy Kohl 10724, son of Guy Wilkes 2867: dam Genevieve, by Roland 4088.
Owned bv J. E. Swendeman.
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smokers' articles at the corner of Wash-
ington and Boylston streets, Boston. He
has been, in a business sense, but once
away from the corner in all these years,
and that was while his present location
was being rebuilt, and he was the first
man back when the building was complet-
ed. Mr. Greenwood has a large trade
among business and theatrical folk. He
has a wife and son, and the family have
lived in Dorchester about 18 years. His
present home is at the corner of Mellville
avenue and Wellesley park. He is a
charter member of the Colonial club, and
Mrs. Greenwood is prominent in the af-
fairs of the Dorchester Woman's club. Mr.
Greenwood is a member of the Massachu-
setts lodge of Masons. He was born in
Westboro and has lived in Boston for
about 30 years.
EOBEET S. FITCH.
Treasurer Bobert S. Fitch has lived in
Dorchester about 20 years. For the. past
14 years he has been in the real estate
business here and has the care and dis-
posal of some of the largest estates. His
home is on Morrill street. He has owned
and driven several speedy horses, includ-
ing Little Fred, with a mark of 2.19 1-4;
Lewiston Belle; and the brown gelding,
Douglas, which he drove to a record of
2.22 1-4. Mr. Fitch was one of the first
members of the Dorchester Gentlemen's
Driving club, was chairman of the racing
and speedway committee in 1900, second
vice-president in 1901, and was made
treasurer in 1902. He is a member of
Union lodo;e of Masons.
PETEB J. FITZGERALD.
Director Peter J. Fitzgerald was born
in Ireland, 58 years ago, but came to this
country with his parents when a child.
After his education, he entered the street
lighting business, in which he has ever
since been engaged. His early life was
passed in Pennsylvania. He has been in
business in Boston and lived in Hyde
Park for about 15 years. He is president
and general manager of the Rising Sun
Street Lighting Co., with offices at 186
Devonshire street. He has owned Lady
Madison, 2.20 1-2, for years the trotting
champion of the speedway; Grover C, a
pacer with a- mark of 2.27; Prince
Eda, by Broomeall, he by Stranger, a very
promising five-year-old and other speedy
ones. No man in the club is more highly
respected.
HOLLIS P. GALLUP.
Director Hollis P. Gallup is Boston born
and has lived in Boston and Dorchester
the most of his life. His father was a
stable keeper, but died when Mr. Gallup
was a child. The latter has been a dealer
in horses and cattle, milk dealer, coal and
wood dealer, and stable keeper at the
same time. For some years his stable was
on Dorchester avenue, opposite Melville
avenue. For about ten years his large
boarding and sale stable has been on
Barnes street, and it was in his office that
the Easy club (which furnished several
members to Dorchester Gentlemen's Driv-
ing club) met. Mr. Gallup is the
only member of the club who has never
missed a meeting, and he has put in more
new members than any other man. He
has owned a good many speedy and valu-
able horses, among them Velvet by Edge-
mark; Bob Fitz, 2.17 1-4; Rubsley G,
2.16 3-4; Queenie, 2.20 1-4; Dark Secret;
Celia; Nagaina by Arion; Dewey by son
of Electioneer, dam Josephine by Daniel
Lambert; and the reliable old Ashmont
needing no introduction.
FRED S. ELDREDGE.
Director Fred S. Eldredge was born in
1863 in South Harwich, where he re-
ceived his education. He came to Boston
when he was 18 years old and entered
the employ of C. D. Swain & Co., the
Roxbury grocers. He began business for
himself as a grocer 21 }^ears ago. Mr.
Eldredge was always a lover of horses, a
good driver and a good judge of horses.
He bought and sold horses for a good
many years and of late years has trained
them for and driven then in races. He
was the owner of Silkey, the pacer which
made such a phenomenal win at Combina-
tion Park a few years ago, and which Mr.
Eldredge converted from a trotter, and
he has handled the lines and won money
in many a hard-fought race. Mr.
Eldrede,e is married and lives on Anarell
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GEORGE ROBKON (2.26H), chestnut pacing gelding.
By son of Hambletonian Star. Owned by P. W. Hennessey.
PERCY R., bay trotting gelding.
By Gillie. Owned by F. L. Robbins.
street, Dorchester. He is pleasant, genial,
gentlemanly, and it is doubted if he has
an enemy in the club or out of it.
J. ROLLIN STUART, JE.
J. Eollin Stuart, Jr., who was this year
made director in the club, of which he
was one of the earliest charter members,
was born in historic Tarrytown, N. Y., on
January 13, 1866. He went as a boy to
Milwaukee where his early years were
spent . and his preliminary education
gained. Coming to Boston, he gradu-
ated from the English High School
and entered business in 1883. In
1887, with others, he established the
blacking house of Pike, Ordway & Stuart,
which in 1890 was incorporated as the
Boston Blacking Company at 96 Beverly
street, Boston. The business is a very ex-
tended and prosperous one, with dealings
all over this country and in many foreign
countries. Mr. Stuart, although a quiet
member of the Dorchester Gentlemen's
Driving club, has been a valued one. He
is the owner of Susie F (2.10 1-4), the
fastest trotter in the club, holder of the
championship ribbon, winner of the
silver cup in 1904 for the trotter winning
the most races on the speedway, and
which has never been defeated in a race
on the speedway. Mr. Stuart has also
owned the pacer Dempsey (2.10 1-4),
Willie Bobs, a pacer (2.14), and Vixie
Adams, a fast pacer but without an offi-
cial mark. Mr. Stuart lives in a hand-
some home at 156 Ruthven street, in the
Elm Hill district, Boxbury.
WALTER E. NEWBERT.
Director Walter E. Newbert was born
in Appleton, Maine, 31 years ago, and
was rocked in his cradle by the present
president of the club. Mr. Newbert was
educated in his native town and after
leaving school went to New York, where
he was six years with the Oaks Manufac-
turing Co., dealers in dye stuffs, and was
later six years with the same company in
Boston. He began business for himself
about three years ago. With his brother
he forms the Newbert Color Company of
Milk street, Boston. He is a charter
member of the Dorchester Gentlemen's
Driving club and has always been one of
its most active members. He has served
on many committees and for the year
1904 was chairman of the racing and
speedway committee. He was elected
director this year. Mr. Newbert was for
some years owner of the chestnut mare
Alice B, the first horse to hold the
championship trotting ribvon. He is
married and lives at Ashmont.
ERNEST H. MORGAN.
Clerk and Former Press Representative
Ernest H. Morgan was born in South
Coventry, Conn., and came to Boston as
a boy. He has lived in Dorchester about
25 years. He is well known in news-
paper circles and is a member of the
Boston Press club, Suburban Press club
and Massachusetts Press club. He was
for many years editor and manager of the
Dorchester Beacon, later was advertising
manager for the New England Publishing
company, publisher of educational jour-
nals, and is now connected with a New
York trade paper. He has been through
the chairs in Norfolk lodge and Shalom
encampment, I. O. O. F. ; is treasurer of
the Dorchester Odd Fellows Mutual Bene-
fit association; financial secretary of
Enterprise lodge of the New England
Order of Protection; and a member of
Lafayette lodge of Masons and of Everett
lodge, A. O. U. W. He has one daughter
and lives with his wife on Robinson
street, Mount Ida.
HENRY R. BARRY.
Henry R. Barry was born in South
Boston 43 years ago and was educated
there. He is proprietor of a thriving
business in children's wear at 131
Kingston St., Boston. He is married and
lives in the Grove Hall district. He came
to Dorchester about six years ago and
shortly after joined the Dorchester Gen-
tlemen's Driving club of which he is one
of the most active members. He has
acted on many committees and this year
was appointed chairman of the racing and
speedway committee, an office he now
holds. Mr. Barry is owner of the fine
pacer W. W. Saylor, which took the sil-
ver cup for winning the most races at his
gait on the speedway in 1903.
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EARLY BIRD, JR., brown pacing gelding.
By Early Bird. Owned by A. E. Kenney.
PRINCE G. bay trotting gelding.
By Nuncio (2.16 1-2 by the great Nutwood. Owned by George H. Greenwood.
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CHAELES L. YOUNG.
Charles L. Young, the first president of
the club, was born in Bethel, Maine, in
1848, and came to Boston as a young
man. He entered the baking business,
and began business for himself in Boston
30 years ago or more. He came to Dor-
chester about nine years ago, and is the
proprietor of the Home bakery, corner of
Washington and Boslin streets. He owns
the real estate, and also lives there. Mr
Young is a veteran horseman and one of
the "foxiest" drivers in the club. He was
driving fast horses when some of the pres-
ent veterans were in their swaddling
clothes, and at an earlier period even
than that. He has owned many fast
horses among them the famous Landlord,
for five years the unbeaten "King of the
Speedway."
S. WALTER WALES.
S. Walter Wales, the former president
of the club of which he is a charter mem-
ber, is a member of one of Doi Chester's
oldest and best families. He was born in
Dorchester, educated there and has always
lived there. Few men are better known,
few as well loved and none are more
highly respected. He has been in the
stable business at Grove Hall for the past
twenty years and is the proprietor of the
Boulevard stables. He has given unstint-
edly of his time for the club, and for
several years acted as starter on the speed-
way, never missing a race. As an instance
of his faithfulness to duty it should be
said that as president he was never absent
from a meeting. His son, S. Walter
Wales, Jr., commonly called' "Junior" by
his father, is the dashing young horseman
who has acted as marshal for the club at
the Readville track, and for other races
at the same place. Mr. Wales is the owner
of Rondo, a pacer with a mark of 2.14 1-4.
He has owned Chrome, a trotter with a
mark of 2.26 1-4, made in a seven-heat
race ; Clara, a trotter with a mark of 2.30
and a record of 15 miles an hour ; and
Kitty, a trotter with a mark of 2.28.
a young man. He began as salesman
for the firm of A. B. Crocker & Co., then
the largest felt house in the country. On
the death of the senior member he or-
ganized the Boston Felting company, of
which he was the head, and which was
conducted with great success until the
formation of the American Felt company
which merged all the leading felt inter-
ests in the country. The Boston Felting
company was among others absorbed,
and Mr. Brand was made manager of the
Boston branch, a position he still holds,
with offices at 112 Beach street. For
several years he made his home at the
South End, in old Ward 17, but about
ten years ago bought the estate num-
bered 4 Melville avenue, one of the
handsomest on that aristocratic street,
where he lives with his wife. Mr. Brand
is a charter member of the Dorchester
Gentlemen's Driving club, of which he
was clerk for several years. He is a
member of St. John lodge and Dorchester
Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, a
charter member of the Colonial club of
Dorchester, a member of the Boot and
Shoe club, and of the Trade club of
Boston. He has always had a love for,
and interest in, horses and has been and
is the owner of some speedy ones.
Among them may be mentioned Dr. G,
pacer, 2.20 1-4; Princess Ebilo, a trotter
with the same mark; Bath Belle, a trot-
ter with a mark of 2.26 1-2; King Wilkes,
a trotter with a mark of 2.26 1-4; Joe
King by May King, a pacer from the
celebrated Lookout farm, which as a
three-year-old took second money at
Brockton in 2.19 1-2 ; and Helvetia, a
handsome brown filly by Bingen, now
owned by J. M. E. Morrill. He was part
owner with Mr. Linnehan of the pacer
Reno K, later owned by Mr. Linnehan,
with a mark of 2,17 1-4.'
FREDERICK J. BRAND.
Ex-President Frederick J. Brand was
born in Connecticut, and received his
education there, but came to Boston as
CHARLES H. BELLEDETJ.
Charles H. Belledeu, one of the found-
ers of the club, its first secretaiw and the
secretary for the first few years of its ex-
istence, is a native of Stonington, Maine,
where he was born 40 years ago. He
Avofked on his father's farm until he was
17 years old, but was no- less a T over of
fast horses as a bov than as a man — with
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LAMPTON, bay pacing gelding.
By Cyclone, dam Madame Beatty. Owned by Henry Wood.
ETTA POWERS, bay pacing mare.
By Evolutio. Owned by T. R. Galvin.
less leisure and less money, however, than
in later years. He came to the city un-
known and almost penniless, but with
good, honest, down-east grit and self-con-
fidence. He learned the carpenters' trade,
began business for himself while a very
young man, and as a contractor and fitter-
up of fine offices now does one of the larg-
est businesses in the city. He owns a
beautiful home at Ashmont, where he lives
with his wife, who was a charming south-
ern lady. A spacious and finely appoint-
ed stable on the grounds shelters his stud
of horses. Mr. Belledeu is one of the most
prominent horsemen in Boston, and one
of the most prominent members of the
Boston Driving club, of which he was for
some years chairman of the racing and
speedway committee. He refused to serve
on any committee last year, preferring to
have "a year of fun." He won 32 races
during the season, a record never equalled
by an amateur. Mr. Belledeu is a 32nd
degree mason and a member of the Mys-
tic Shrine. He is the owner of Kentucky
Star with a record of 2.09 1-4 to wagon,
.and has owned Ben H, 2.12 ; Ned Wins-
low, 2.12; Susie K, 2.14 1-2; Ludlow,
2.19 1-2; Doctor G, 2.21 1-4; Prince
Wilkes, 2.22 1-2; Black Diamond, 2.32;
Mollie B, 2.35.
JOHN M. E. MOBBILL.
John M. E. Morrill, the first treasurer
■of the club, has for the past twenty years
been one of Boston's prominent builders,
and Greater Boston and other towns and
cities have many handsome and costly
structures, public and private, which he
has reared. He is a native of Connecticut,
wrhere he was born 45 years ago. He came
to Boston as a young man and almost im-
mediately began business for himself. He
is a 32nd degree Mason, a Knight Tem-
plar, member of the Boyal Arcanum, the
Knights of Honor and the Order of the
Pilgrim Fathers. He is married and
lives on Alpha road, Dorchester. He is
.a skillful driver, a devoted lover of the
horse, and has owned many fast ones.
His name is inextricably interwoven in
the history of the club.
EANDOLPH K. CLAEKE.
Eandolph K. Clarke, .first vice-president
in 1904, is a native of New Brunswick.
He came to Boston in 1869, and has for
many years been prominent in the whole-
sale clothing trade. He is on the directo-
rate and is manufacturing manager of the
Ehodes & Eipley company, of Lincoln
street. He is one of the early members
of the Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving
club and has for a good many years been
prominent as a lover of horses and owner
and driver of some speedy ones. He is
one of the oldest and best-known road
drivers in or about Boston. He is a mem-
ber of Gate of the Temple lodge of Ma-
sons, of St. Matthews chapter and of St.
Omer commandery. He lives at 14 Wol-
cott street. Among the speedy horses
be has owned are Grey Dan, Black Pilot,
Blackstone Maid, Bonny Doon, Creole
Maid, all fast roadsters; Eandolph K.
(for three years king of the snow speed-
way), and his present speedy, graceful
pacer, Gladys M, with a mark of 2.21 1-4.
Mr. Clarke has been marshal at most
of the big parades of horsemen held for
a good many years in Boston.
JOHN W. LINNEHAN.
Former Director John W. Linnehan, one
of the most active and hustling members
of the club, was born in Topsfield, Mass.,
44 years ago, was educated there, and came
to Boston about 14 years ago. He was
for two years cloth examiner for A. Shu-
man & Co. ; for several 3rears on the road
for Boston and New York trade papers
and then entered the employ of Gilbert
Brothers & Co., importers of dye stuffs and
chemicals. He began business for him-
self in 1890, as a dealer in anilines and
colors at 185-7 High street. He is the
gamest of sportsmen. He has been- the
owner of Budweiser, 2.211-4; Eex,
2.13 1-4, and Beno K, 2.17 1-4, all pacers,
and all well known in the New England
circuit; of Mattie Miller, a trotter with
a mark of 2.30; of Little Bud, a phenome-
nal little pacer, and of other speedy ones.
Mr. Linnehan, with his wife, a pretty
and charming woman and genuine
"chum" for her husband, and daughter
lives on Grace street, Ashmont.
CYEIL C. BLANEY.
Cyril C. Blaney, charter member of
the club and the first man to put up his
check for the maintenance of the speed-
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CHARLENA (2.22 1-4) bay pacing mare.
Owned by Cyril C. Blaney.
By Arrowood, by Nutwood. Dam Pocas Baby, by Wimbledon, son of Belmont No.
fA. Second dam Poeas, by Pocahontas Boy, son of Tom Ro'.fe.
FRED, bay pacing gelding
Owned by S. Marzynski.
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wa}r, and one who has owned more fast
horses than any man in the club, not a
])rofessional horse dealer, is the most.
"Boston" man in the organization. He
was born in Boston as were all his fore-
bears on both the jDaternal and maternal
side, back to the early part of the seven-
teenth century when the original settlers
of Boston came from the other side. Mr.
Blaney has lived all his life in Boston.
He is in the metal business with offices
on Devonshire street. He lives at 981
Morton street, Dorchester. He is a game
sportsman and usually has from one to
three horses at the Beadville or speedway
races. His black pacer, Mutineer, won
the silver cup for the speedway races last
year. Among the horses owned by Mr.
Blaney are : General Tracey, chestnut
gelding, by Einaldo; Lucy Hunter, bay
mare, not traced; Foxey, black mare, by
David Hill's Black Hawk; Lady Knox,
black mare, by Pilot Knox; Baby, bay
gelding, said to be by Manchester; Belle,
bay mare, by Harry Clay; Lady Brick,
bay mare, by Brick Wilkes; S E, chest-
nut gelding, by Almonarch ; Randolph K,
bay gelding, by Harrolcl; Boney, bay
gelding, by King's Protector; Lottie M,
bay mare, by son of Electioneer; Bonnie
L, bay mare; Eunice B, black mare, by
Allen Mack; Mina Wilkes, red roan, by
Roy Wilkes; Black Ned, by Eoyal Alcan-
tara; Myrtie, bay mare, by Edgewood;
Nip Westland, bay horse, by Westland;
Cockleburr, bay mare, by Brick Wilkes;
Beauty, chestnut mare, by Allectress;
Belle Johnson, bay mare, by Magic
Wilkes; Fiorina, bay mare, by Florida;
Tribune, bay gelding, by Eclgemark;
Lady Harris, roan mare, by Combina-
tion; Jerome Napoleon, gray gelding, by
Louis Napoleon; Little Fred, black gel-
ding, untraced; P B, black gelding, by
Brick Wilkes, Jr. ; 2 Years Bay Filly, by
Alclayone; Yearling Colt, by May King;
Mutineer, black gelding, by Lord Duf-
ferin; Walter B, bay gelding, by Wilkes
(said to be) ; Charlena, bay mare, by Ar-
rowood; Guitara, bay mare, by Ora
Wilkes; Tony Swift, bay gelding, by
Rocky Mountain; Brick Wilkes, Jr.,
brown gelding, by Brick Wilkes; Lady
Hanson, brown mare, untraced.
EDWAED G. EICHAEDSON.
Edward G. Eichardson, the press rep-
resentative of the club, is one of the best
known newspaper men in Boston and is
connected with the staff of the Transcript.
He "does" the city hall as a steady thing
but has reported all the most important
murder and sensational cases, military
encamjmients, etc., for his paper for a
long time. He was born in Eoxbury in
1871 and comes of the best old revolu-
tionary stock, his great-grandfather hav-
ing been one of the Boston Tea Party. He
began his newspaper work when he was
14 years old on the Transcript, was a
full-fledged reporter at 17, left to help
form the City Press Association and re-
mained with it for the six years of its
existence and then went back to the
Transcript where he has since remained.
In 1902-3 he was grand dictator of the
Knights of Honor in Massachusetts. He
is married and lives at Ashmont. Mr.
Richardson has been of great assistance to
the Driving Club and by his pen and
through his influence with politicians and
newspaper men has helped materially to
procure favors and improvements.
EDGAE 0. HADDOCK.
A charter member of the club, its first
clerk, and one of the best known drivers
on the New England circuit is Edgar 0.
Haddock, who knows a horse "from A to
Izzard." Mr. Haddock was born 45 years
ago in Portsmouth, N. H., and when Tit-
tle more than a boy went out West, and
for a number of years was a "cow
puncher," a vocation which he looks back
upon with infinite relish. He was just
the age for that kind of life, and describes
it as "camping out and getting paid for
it." He came to Dorchester about 20
years ago, was in the hay and grain
business for a Avhile with his brother, the
old league pitcher, and for some years has
been inspector of lights for the Eising
Sun Street Lighting Company. Mr.
Haddock is married and lives in the Grove
Hall district. Said Mr. Coggswell, the
well known writer on horse matters, of
Mr. Haddock a year ago: "In the sulky
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LANDLORD (2.16 1-4). bay pacing gelding.
By Allirino. Former "King of the Speedway." Owned by Charles L. Young.
KENTUCKY STAR (2.0S 1-2)
By Robert McGregor, by Mayor Edsall, dam Nancy Whitman. Kentucky Star's dam Lalla
by Totoskey, dam Lalla Rookh. Owned by Charles H. Belledeu
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at the club's matinees he has been a
power and is usually behind a horse in
every race. In these events he has
driven to their records Grover C. (2.27),
Brightness (2.24 1-4), Azote (2.28), Yel-
low Ash (2.24 1-2), Billy Barlow
(2.26 3-4), Authentic (2.20 1-4), made
Princess Ebilo get her mark of 2.20 1-4,
won the 2.19 class two years in succession
with Ornament (2.18 1-4) over Budweiser,
Capt. Hall, Susie F., etc., made Capt. Hall
step better than 2.17 to beat Brightness,
and Kentucky Star pace in 2.10 to beat
Wilton Boy (2.11), while last fall he drove
Early Bird, Jr.. in the match against May-
sie Sidney for the championship of the club
that took six heats to decide the latter a
winner. Not a heat was slower than
1.04, and a couple were officially timed
in a minute flat. It was the fastest race
ever held on the Mattapan speedway.
Mr. Haddock's skill with the reins is at-
tested by the fact that he has not been
back of the money in all the races in
which he has taken part."
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RAEl'II W. BALKAM, M. D. V
CAREY KKITII.
EDWARD W. BERRIGAN.
I I'AZIEK L. O'LEARY.
Clerk of the Course at Readville Races.
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CONSTITUTION
AND ARTICL!
EEflENT.
OF
The constitution and by-laws of the
club have been changed from time to time
as exigency has demanded or convenience
has dictated. At present they are as fol-
lows:
AET1CLE I.
This Body shall be known as the Dor-
chester Gentlemen's Driving Club.
ARTICLE II.
The object of this Club shall be to unite
the lovers of the noble horse more closely ;
to promote an interest in matinee and
speedway racing; to secure a speedway in
Dorchester, and to have a headquarters
where the members may meet to discuss
their favorites and enjoy a social hour to-
gether.
ARTICLE III.
Membership.
Section 1. Membership to be limited
to two hundred and fifty (250).
Sect. 2. All applicants for member-
ship (except honorary) must be by appli-
cation blank signed by two members of
the Club in good standing, and accom-
panied by the fee of five ($5) dollars, the
same to be remitted to applicant if not
elected. If elected, balance of semi-an-
nual dues to be paid in advance to April
1 or October 1. All applications must be
approved by a majority of the Member-
ship Committee and must lay on the table
at least one week before final action, and
then shall be balloted for by secret ballot,
five (5) black balls to reject a candidate.
A rejected candidate cannot again be
voted upon for membership until the ex-
piration of ninety (90) days from date of
first application.
Sect. 3. No professional trainer or
driver can become a member of this Club,
except he shall agree not to drive in any
race, etc., given by this Club for members
only; but he may enter and drive in any
class given by said Club which is open to
the public.
Sect. 4. The annual dues shall be ten
($10) dollars per annum, payable semi-
annually in advance from April 1 to
October 1.
ARTICLE IV.
Officers.
Section 1. The officers of this Club
shall consist of a President, a first Vice-
President, a second Vice-President, Sec-
retary, Treasurer and five fo) Directors,
who. with the above-named officers, shall
constitute the Board of Directors, and
they sball hold office for one (1) year or
until their successors are elected.
Sect. 2. The officers shall be elected at
the first regular meeting in January, to
serve for one (1) year or until their suc-
cessors are elected.
ARTICLE V.
Committees.
Section 1. Tbere shall be a Racing
and Speedway Committee, consisting of
nine (9) or more members appointed by
the Board of Directors to serve for one
(1) year or until their successors are ap-
pointed.
Sect. 2. There shall be a Membership
Committee, consisting of three (3) mem-
bers appointed by the Board of Directors
to serve for one (1) year or until their
successors are appointed.
Sect. 3. The Board of Directors shall
appoint a Clerk to serve for one (1) year
or until his successor is appointed. They
(directors) shall also appoint a Finance
Committee and a House Committee to
consist of not less than three (3) mem-
bers each.
ARTICLE VI.
Business meetings shall be held every
Monday evening at 8 o'clock until further
provided.
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LANDLORD (2.16 1-4), bay pacing gelding.
By Albriuo. Former "King of the Speedway." Owned by Charles L. Youn
ROT*. FITZ (2.17 1-4), roan pacing gelding.
By Allspur. by Don Carlos. l>v Curler Clay. Dam Grev Kit bv sou of Lewiston Boy.
Owned by Hollis P. Gallup.
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AKTICLE VII.
Section 1. Any member who shall
allow his clues to remain unpaid until
said dues shall amount to $10, shall be
notified by the secretar}r, and if not paid
within fifteen days from the date of said
notice, his name, together with the
amount due the club, shall be posted in
the club room, and remain posted until
paid. Provided, however, that any mem-
ber who does not pay said dues in thirty
days after being posted shall be suspended
from membership.
Sect. 2. A member suspended for non-
payment of dues or assessments from this
Club cannot again become a member until
all arrearages are paid, and not then un-
less the Club agrees thereto, as laid down
in Article III., Section 3.
AETICLE VIII.
A quorum shall consist of eleven (11)
members.
AETICLE IX.
Duties of Officers.
Section 1. The President shall pre-
side at all meetings of the Club; decide all
questions of order subject to an appeal to
the Club ; shall call a special meeting up-
on the written request of seven (7) mem-
bers, or when he may deem it advisable;
shall appoint an Auditing Committee of
three (3) members in good standing, who
shall audit the books of the Club and re-
port the findings of the same to the Club
at the first regular meeting in January.
Sect. 2. The first Vice-President in
the absence of the President shall preside
and shall perform all duties as the laws
and rules enjoin.
Sect. 3. The second Vice-President in
the absence of the President and the first
Vice-President shall preside and perform
all duties that the laws and rules enjoin.
Sect. 4. The Secretary shall keep a
correct account of all receipts of the Club ;
collect initiation fees, dues and assess-
ments, and shall pay all money received
by him over to the Treasurer, taking his
receipt therefor; notify the members of
their arrears, and issue all necessary no-
tices.
Sect. 5. The Treasurer shall receive
all money of the Club, giving a receipt
therefor; pay all bills of the Club ap-
proved by the Finance Committee; shall
keep a correct account of all money re-
ceived and paid, and shall make a report
of the same when requested by the Club.
Sect. 6. The Directors shall have the
general superintendence of the convertible
property of the Club. They shall invest in
such securities as the Club may direct and
such sums as the Club orders to be drawn
from the Treasury for that purpose. They
shall have the custody of all securities of
the Club for money loaned or invested.
They shall collect or realize all such sums
where so directed by the Club. They shall
collect all interest and rents or other
money arising from such investments be-
longing to the Club and pay the same to
the Secretary and shall have the general
control of the Club. -
Sect. 7. The Clerk shall keep a record
of all meetings; read the records of the
previous meeting;, read all communica-
tions and bills, and all applications for
membership.
Sect. 8. The Pacing or Speedway
Committee shall have charge of the rac-
ing; look after the track; see that proper
judges are appointed for race days. They
shall make up the classes and purses, and.
submit the same to the Club for approval
at least two (2) weeks before the meeting
is to be held.
Sect. 9. The ' Membership Committee
shall examine the standing of all parties
proposed for membership and report to
the Club or Directors. The acts of all
Committees shall be subject to the ap-
proval of the Board of Directors.
AETICLE X.
Section 1. These by-laws after adop-
tion can be amended only by a two-thirds
(2-3) vote at a meeting, notice of which
shall be sent to each member of the Club
thirty (30) days previous to said meeting,
stating the article or .articles to be
amended.
Sect. 2. When not conflicting with
these by-laws, this Club will be governed
by Cushing's Manual.
AETICLE XL
Section 1. Any member directly or in-
directly connected with entering a horse
out of his class, upon conviction thereof
shall be expelled from the Club and shall
lose all monev and interest he has in the
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WARD A. MARSH.
FREDERICK L. WALKER
HON. EDWARD B. CALLEXDER
Honorary Member.
ALBERT C. HALEY.
101
Club; and further, all horses entered in
Club races shall be owned by and in pos-
session of members entering the same.
Sect. 2. Members must drive their
own horses in all Club races when it is
possible to do so, or they must get some
other member of this Club who is not a
jDrofessional to drive for them.
Sect. 3. Members must be in good
standing at the time of entering their
horses in Club races.
ARTICLE XII.
All races given by the Club shall he gov-
erned by the rules of the National Asso-
ciation, except otherwise advertised.
ARTICLES GOVERNING CONTEST
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP RIBBONS
ARTICLE I.
The ribhons shall be known as the
"Perpetual Championship Ribbons."
ARTICLE II.
All challenges for the same to be made
through the chair, at the regular weekly
meetings of the club.
ARTICLE III.
It shall be optional with the holder
of the ribbons, when challenged, whether
they shall race the first or second Thurs-
day following said challenge.
ARTICLE IY.
A man losing a Championship Race
shall have the first privilege of challeng-
ing the winner at the first regular meet-
ing thereafter, and in case no such chal-
lenge is issued a third party may chal-
lenge, but no two horses shall race more
than twice for the Championship until a
third horse shall have raced for the
Ribbon.
ARTICLE X.
An owner losing two out of three races
shall not again be permitted to challenge
with the same horse, until the expiration
of three months from date from his last
race with the holder of ribbon, unless by
consent of the Racing Committee.
ARTICLE XL
Should the holder of ribbon, through
unavoidable cause, be unable to race on
the day specified, he shall notify the
starter by twelve o'clock on the day pro-
ceeding, the cause thereof; and, if in two
weeks from the challenge he be still
unable to race, he shall forfeit the ribbon
to the challenger and abide by Article IV.
ARTICLE AIL
Should the challenger be unable to race
in the day specified, he shall he governed
by Article VI.
ARTICLE VIII.
The holder of a Championship Ribbon
must deposit the same with the starter
upon the day of a race.
ARTICLE IX.
In order to obtain a Championship
Ribbon a match must he made and a
Race take place when said Ribbon is in
the possession of the Club.
ARTICLE N.
Any matters for discussion arising not
specified in the preceding Articles shall
he referred to the Racing and Speedway
Committee.
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SUNNY .TIM 02.92 1-4). Iwv pacing geldinj
Owned by A. T. Wheelock.
SUNRISE, bay pacing gelding.
By Abbott Wilkes, dam Kitty" by Ben Morril
Owned by E. S. Harris.
10£
ROSTER.
Ames, Fred, 41 Pembroke Street.
Babcock, H. C, Norwood.
Balkam, Dr. R. W., 113 Central Avenue,
Hyde Park.
Baker, Edward, 634 Exchange Building,
Boston.
Barry, E. W., 294 Eighth Street, South
Boston.
Barry, H. R., 131 Kingston Street, Boston.
Bates, W. J., Scituate.
Belledeu, C. H., Roslin Street, Dorchester.
Bellows, F. H., 1293 Massachusetts Ave-
nue, Boston.
Berrigan, E. W., 192 Neponset Avenue,
Dorchester.
Berry, J. N., 367 Neponset Avenue, Dor-
chester.
Bickford, H. S., 632 West Park Street,
Dorchester.
Biggs, D. M., 115 Marsh Street, Dorches-
ter.
Blaney, C. A., 981 Morton Street, Dorches-
ter.
Blaney, C. C, 981 Morton Street, Dorches-
ter.
Blaney, Percy C, 981 Morton Street, Dcr-
chester.
Boutelle, W. P., Chester, Vt.
Bradley, D. J., 46 Oak Avenue, Dorchester
Brand, F. J., 4 Melville Avenue, Dorches
ter.
Bresnahan, T. A., 176 Humboldt Avenue
Roxbury.
Briggs, H. C, 112 East Elm Avenue, Wol
laston.
Brine, R. S., 43 India Street, Boston.
Brown, A. M., 2004 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester.
Brown, H. T., Jr., 80 Washington Street
Boston.
Brummett, Wm. M., 49 Holborn Street
Roxbury.
Burnes, John J., 26 Willis Street, Dorches
ter.
Cahill, Morris J., P. O. Box 201, Hingham
Carey, James F., 260 Freeport Street, Dor
Chester.
Casey, J. M., 166 Ashmont Street, Dor-
chester.
Cavanaugh, Charles, Braintree.
Chamberlain, D. W., 826 Shawmut
Avenue, Boston.
Chamberlain, Frank, 131 Federal Street,
Clark, Henry S., 6 Montague Street, Dor-
chester.
Clarke, Randolph K., 72 Lincoln Street,
Cleary, John G., 1536 Tremont Street,
Roxbury.
Colburn, Sidney, 90 Federal Street, Bos-
ton.
Collins, E. F., 31 Way Street, Boston.
Conlon, Thomas J., 26 West Concord
Street, Boston.
Cook, H. B., 1175 Harrison Avenue, Rox-
bury.
Costello, J. A., 516 Talbot Avenue, Dor-
chester.
Cushman, L. N., 291 Congress Street, Bos-
ton.
Dannahay, J. W., 23 Exchange Street, Dor-
chester.
DArcy, George W., 49 Dix Street, Dor-
chester.
Darling, J. H., Natick.
Davison, Dr. A. T., 394 Washington Street,
Dorchester.
Delano, E. H., 34 Chauncey Street, Boston.
Denn, E. P., 14 Edwin Street, Dorchester.
Desmond, D., 12 Quincy Avenue, Quincy.
Donnally, J. J., 16 Churchill Place, Dor-
chester.
Doyle, D. F., 263 Freeport Street, Dor-
chester.
Dugan, John, 124 Emerson Street, South
Boston.
Edwards, Justin, 283 Franklin Street, Bos
ton.
Eilers, Diedrich, 17 Montague Street, Dor
Chester.
Eldredge, F. S., 3 Angell Street, Dorches
ter.
Estabrook, W. J., 717 Dudley Street, Dor
Chester.
Fellows, Albert, 1870 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester.
Fennell, John, Virginia Street, Dorchester
Fitch, R. S., 79 Milk Street, Boston.
Fitzgerald, Hon. John F., 15 School Street
Boston.
Fitzgerald, Peter J., 281 East River Street
Hyde Park.
Fitzgerald, Wm. J., 58 Norton Street, Dor
Chester.
Fleming, M. E., 769 Tremont Street, Bos
ton.
Forgie, John R., 10 Merchants Row, Bos
ton.
Foster, Capt. Ira C, Washington street
and Burt Avenue, Dorchester.
French, Geo. A., So. Braintree.
.Furbush, A. J., 200 Washington Street,
Brighton.
Furbush, Fred C, Newton.
Furbush, W. J., 64 Chestnut Street, West
Newton.
104
ALBEKT A. STEWART.
OIEDRICI-I KILERS.
GEORGE E. IIILDRETH.
CARLETON H. MORSE.
105
Gallup, H. P., 148 Welles Avenue, Dorches-
ter.
Galvin, T. R., Braintree.
Gillies, E. M., 413 Highland Avenue, Som-
erville.
Gleason, W. L., 22 Federal Street, Boston.
Goodnow, E. L., 100 Boylston Street, Bos-
ton.
Gore, Fred S., 1016 Adams Street, Dor-
chester.
Gore, Oscar J., 135 East Cottage Street,
Dorchester.
Grant, W. W., 31 Otis Street, Boston.
Graves, George A., 35 Hawkins Street,
Boston.
Greenwood, G. H., 56 Melville Avenue,
Dorchester
Griffin. George E., 175 Ashmont street,
Dorchester.
Guild, Frank O., 705 Boylston Street,
Boston.
Gushee, A. S., 92 Fuller Street, Dorches-
ter.
Haddock, E. O., 1 Cheney Street, Rox-
bury.
Haley, A. C, 23 Broadway, South Boston.
Haley, Joseph A., East Braintree.
Hamlin, F. W., 24 West Street, Boston.
Hanley, E. A., 78 North Street, Boston.
Harrington, M. E., 8 India Square, Boston.
Harris, B. A., 181 Portland Street, Boston.
Harris, E. S., 203 South Street, Boston.
Harris, S. C, 217 Friend Street, Boston.
Harrison, M. C, 922 Tremont Building,
Boston.
Haven, H. A., 784 Massachusetts Avenue,
Boston.
Henderson, Frank, 46 Cottage Street,
Hyde Park.
Hennessey, P. W., Wilber Street, Dor-
chester.
Heustis, F. A., Angell Street, Dorchester.
Hildreth, George E., 19 Richmond Street,
Boston.
Hinds, C. L., 17 Brent Street, Dorchester.
Hirtle, S. L., Wollaston.
Holmes, A. D., 12 Maple Street, Hyde
Park.
Hood, John, 178 Tremont Street, Boston.
Hopkins, Edward L., 362 Broadway, South
Boston.
Hugo, George B., 147 Shawmut Avenue,
Boston.
Hunt, W. D., 30 Warren Street, Brook-
line.
Hudson, J. W., 14 Nott Street, Hyde Park.
Irving, Robert H., 34 Ridge Road, Hyde
Park.
Jenness, Richard, 26 Mather Street, Dor-
chester.
Jewett, C. M., Readville.
Johnson, George, 41 Pembroke Street,
Boston.
Keeler, A. H., 29 Ruhland Square, Boston.
Keith, Cary, Wollaston.
Keith, Havelock, Wollaston.
Kellar, George K., 1323 Washington
Street, Boston.
Kenney, A. E., 95 Beverly Street, Boston.
Kenney, Thomas J., 877 Washington
Street, Boston.
Kerr, Neil T., 87 Stoughton Street, Dor-
chester.
Linnehan, J. W., 185 Fort Hill Square,
Boston.
Loughlin, Joseph, Station 11, Dorchester.
Mahar, E. T., South Braintree.
MacBride, George W., 11 Tonawanda
Street, Dorchester.
Mahon, A. C. 778 Dudley Street, Dorches-
ter.
Mandell, C. M., 10 High Street, Boston.
Marsh, Ward A., 26 Welles Avenue, Dor-
chester.
Marzynski, Samuel, 55 Esmond Street,
Dorchester.
May, J. Walter, P. O. Box, 2466, Boston.
Meehan, Thomas F., 845 Tremont Building,
Boston.
Merritt, Arthur, 32 Custom House Street,
Boston.
Morgan, Ernest H., 43 Robinson Street,
Dorchester.
Morrill, J. M. E., 24 Alpha Road, Dor-
chester.
Morris, A. L., 109 Green Street, Jamaica
Plain.
Morrison, W. L., 169 Glenway Street,
Dorchester.
Morse, C. H., Hillside Terrace, Dorchester.
Morton, A., 13 Avon Street, South Boston.
Mosser, Jacob, 89 Elm Hill Avenue, Rox-
bury.
Moulton, W. J., 47L Adams Street, Dorches-
ter.
M<cCurdy, John J., 11 Goldsmith Street,
Jamaica Plain.
McDonald, D. J., 43 Butler Street, Dor-
chester.
McEnaney, J. W., 84 Edson Street, Dor-
chester.
McLean, S. J., 579 Columbia Road, Dor-
chester.
McManus, J. H., 78 Mayfleld Street, Dor-
chester.
Neal, J. A. Weymouth.
Nelligan, David, 10 Mather Street, Dor-
chester.
Nevens, Mellen A. 82 Northampton Street,
Boston.
Newbert, W. E., 15 Roslin Street, Dor-
chester.
Nutting, Dr. W. W., 706 Tremont Street,
Boston.
O'Connor, J. D., Monroe Street, Roxbury.
O'Hearn, P., 1152 Washington Street, Dor-
chester.
O'Leary, Frazier L., 185 Fort Hill Square,
Boston.
Page, D. E., 361 Warren Street, Roxbury.
Patterson, Charles, 45 Bailey Street, Dor-
chester.
10(5
STANLEY GUY, bay trotting gelding.
Bv Warren Guy, by Princeer, by Kentucky Prince; dam Lady Emery, dam of Bonier
(2.11 1-2), by Monte Carlo; 2nd dam Red Rose by Nutwood (2.18 3-4). Stanley
Guy's dam Lambertia, by Prince Lambert, by Daniel Lambert, by Ethan Al-
len; dam Grace Darling by Kentucky Prince by Black Chief.
Owned by F. S. Eldredge.
RANDOLPH K. CLARKE,
With "Rastus," the champion trotting donkey.
Pfingst, Louis, 31 State Street, Boston.
Pierce, Nelson, 214 Harvard Street, Dor-
chester.
Pool, George W., Mattapan.
Pope, Benj., 774 Albany Street, Boston.
Potter, G. M., 2143 Washington Street,
Roxbury.
Prescott, George W., 78 Northampton
Street, Boston.
Rice, E. B., 1025 Beacon Street, Brookline.
Richardson, R. C, 49 Rockwell Street,
Dorchester.
Robbins, F. L., Quincy House, Boston.
Robinson, F. H., 22 Gleason Street, Dor-
chester.
Rowan, J. F., 547 Shawmut Avenue, Bos-
ton.
Ruddock, Austin E., Haverhill.
Salloway, Geo. H., 1760 Dorchester Ave-
nue, Dorchester.
Sanders, H. M., 27 Eliot Street, Boston.
Sanderson, F. A., 47 Langley Road, New-
ton Center.
Scales, Dr. Robert B., 740 Washington
Street, Dorchester.
Scott, Wm. F., Hyde Park.
Scudder, Cecil, 77 Alban Street, Dor-
chester.
Shepard, John, 30 Winter Street, Boston.
Small, Sanford, Neponset.
Smith, J. A., 71 Stanton Street, Dor-
chester.
Stever, J. C, 429 Washington Street, Bos-
ton.
Stewart, A. A., 5 1-2 Dock Square, Boston.
Strough, Ford B., 28 Grove Street, Dor-
chester.
Stuart, J. R., Jr., 93 Beverly Street, Bos-
ton.
Sullivan, D. W., 40 Dix Street, Dorchester.
Sullivan, Patrick, 283 Norfolk Avenue,
Roxbury.
Swendeman, J. E., Station Street, Rox-
bury.
Swett, Edw. B., 115 Pearl Street, Boston.
Sylvester, Dr. Chas. P., 746 Dudley Street,
Roxbury.
Talbot, John, Milton.
Terhune, W. L., 18 Melville Avenue, Dor-
chester.
Terry, J. N., 60 Commercial Wharf, Bos-
ton.
Terry, Kelley, 637 Washington Street, Dor-
chester.
Thompson, B. C, 72 Northampton Street,
Boston.
Thyng, Chas. W., 82 Northampton Street,
Boston.
Traiser, R. E., 99 Sudbury Street, Boston.
Van Namen, R. D., 705 Boylston Street,
Boston.
Wales, S. Walter, 460 Blue Hill Avenue
Roxbury.
Wales, S. Walter, Jr., 90 Geneva avenue
Dorchester.
Walker, F. L., 110 Melville Avenue, Dor-
chester.
Warren, Charles M., Neponset Avenue,
Dorchester.
Weekes, James A., 94 Lonsdale Street,
Dorchester.
Wheelock, A. T., Boston Street, Dorches-
ter.
White, W. H., 181 Huntington Avenue,
Boston.
Whittemore, W. A., 60 Sawyer Avenue,
Dorchester.
Wilber, Charles, 299 Norfolk Street, Dor-
chester.
Wilder, Bradford C, Hingham.
Wolfson, Solly, Paisley Park, Dorchester.
Wood, Henry, Wellesley.
Woodsome, Charles A., 429 Washington
Street, Boston.
Young, C. L., 726 Washington Street,
Dorchester.
Atwood, Hon. H. H., 61 Alban Street, Dor-
chester.
Burr, H. W., 21 Mellen Street, Dorchester.
Baldwin, Hon. John E., 51 Emerson Street,
South Boston.
Callender, Hon. E. B., 95 Mill Street, Dor-
chester.
Coggswell, E. E., Press Writer.
Duntley, W. F., Boston Herald.
Farwell, F. W. 44 Harvest Street, Dor-
chester.
Hannan, W. E., 31 Beaumont Street, Dor-
chester.
Hatch, C. M., American Horse Breeder.
Hibbard, George O., Postmaster, Boston.
Horton, Walter G., Station 11, Dorchester.
Hunt, Capt. C. W., Station 11, Dorchester.
Jewett, J. M., Boston Herald.
Leavitt, Thomas, Dorchester Beacon.
Mildram, S. Howard, Mellen Street, Dor-
chester.
Miller, George R., Greenheys Street, Dor-
chester.
Moulton, Jesse G.
O'Connor, Eugene, Boston American.
O'Toole, Hon. Frank J., 11 Westminster
Street, Roxbury.
Peare, Lieut. Oscar H., Station 11, Dor-
chester.
Pratt, Hon. Laban, Boutwell Avenue, Dor-
chester.
Richardson, E. G., Boston Transcript.
Sanford, Hon. Alpheus, 56 Kingsdale
Street, Dorchester.
Stewart, Joseph I., Bloomfield Street, Dor-
chester.
Trott, Frank G., Boston Globe.
Williams, P. J., Station 11. Dorchester.
Wood, George O., 333 Park Street, Dor-
chester.
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CHARLIE KING (2.30 1-2 at trot), bay pacing gelding.
By May King. Dam Oneonta by Pocohontas Koy, 2nd dam Volunteer Belle by Old
Volunteer.
Owned by A. T. Wheeloek.
ALLAN' BELLE, bay trotting mare.
By Allan Mac. by Allandorf. Dam Belle Clay by Harry Clay, dam Amerian Girl.
Owned by R. D. Van Namen.
TH
iASY CLU
On another page will be found a pic-
ture of certain members of the "Easy
Club/' an unincorporated, unofficered, un-
known-to-the-general-public body but still
in its day a very live and jolly one. Its
membership embraced some fifty or sixty
men, many of whom boarded their horses
at Hollis P. Gallup's stable, and the club
gave several members to the Dorchester
Gentlemen's Driving Club. The "club
house" was Mr. Gallup's spacious and
cheerful office, and the meetings were fre-
quent although not regular. The club
was not, however, without its social func-
tions, one of the most notable being a
genuine "barn dance" at the stables. The
main floor was cleared for dancing, for
which and for a promenade concert an
orchestra was engaged; even the horses
took part in the affair for fancy straw
was strewn in front of the stalls, and the
handsome animals were led out for inspec-
tion; and 150 members and guests of the
club sat down to an elaborate supper
served in the wagon and harness rooms.
The situation was unique, and the whole
affair was highly enjoyed. Another
notable night was in 1895 when Mr. Gal-
lup was summoned from his stable to his
home, which he found in the possession of
his friends and fellow members of the
club who presented him with the hand-
some picture of which a reproduction is
here given. The men whose faces appear
are W. F. Greene, for many years the
Ashmont Square druggist ; Albert Fel-
lows, the Ashmont grocer, whose horse
Rex won the blue ribbon for trotters in
the Driving club in 1903 ; James A. Hart,
the fish dealer of Ashmont, for some time
chef of the Driving' club ; C. T. Reming-
ton (now dead). M. T. Pooler, H. F.
Chandler, F. E. Burden, L. J. Malonev,
Dr. C. H. Miller, W. H. Ellis, Hollis P.
Gallup, George E. Griffin, Asaph
Churchill, Bert Stiles, J. G. Gallup and
E. P. Denn. The presentation was
only a feature in a long and very jolly
evening. The picture hangs in Mr. Gal-
lup's office.
The reproduction of a little corres-
pondence which took place about that
time will revive pleasant memories :
Mr. T. T. Hartford, Ashmont.
Dear Sir:— The members of the Easy club
are desirous of getting up a gentlemen's
road race, for $500 a corner, to determine
the fastest horse, owners to drive, and the
winner to take the purse. Mr. Clarke, Mr.
Chandler and Mr. Gallup have agreed to
enter. We understand that you think you
have a fast one, and if agreeable we would
be pleased to hear from you at an early date
as to your feelings in the matter.
The following entries have been made:
Randolph K, 2.14 1-4, Mr. R. K. Clarke;
Smitty Monwood, 2.16 1-4, Mr. H. F. Chand-
ler; Joe Davis, 2.22 1-2, Mr. H. P. Gallup.
Appended are records.
Respectfully yours,
THE EASY CLUB.
To this the following reply was re-
ceived :
Boston, December, 17, 1895.
To the Executive Committee of the Easy
Club.
Gentlemen: — Your favor without date at
hand. As you state therein that you are
anxious to determine who owns the fastest
horse, this seems to me a dead easy matter.
I am satisfied that Mr. Clarke has the fastest
horse, and from what I have seen of that
gentleman I thing he is capable of taking
care of his own affairs without consulting
the executive committee of the Easy club.
My advice to you would be to trot horses
more and talk less. As I keep my horse for
family and pleasure driving I shall in all
probability have him on Talbot avenue every
pleasant day when the sleighing is suitable,
and as he is always ready for a brush, and
does not require any preliminary fitting, you
will have a chance to satisfy the desires of
the Easy club without the trouble of taking
up a collection. And in regard to driving:
In . view of what I saw recently on Talbot
avenue, I would suggest that others than
owners had better drive.
Respectfully,
T. T. HARTFORD.
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The Easy Club then got in this parting
shot:
Boston, December 4-11-44.
Mr. T. T. Hartford.
Dear Sir: — In reply to yours of the cur-
rent date the executive committee of the
Easy club begs to state that, wishing
to foster the speed of Ashmont, and be-
ing desirous of determining who possesses
the most of this coveted article, we have
sent invitations to several gentlemen to
enter a friendly contest for money, mar-
bles or a bucket of pigs' feet, the prize
to be of secondary importance; and from
many large, double-breasted and voluminous
expressions of the wonderful speed and en-
durance of your trotter, we certainly sup-
posed that you would come in out of the wet.
We beg you to excuse the omission of the
date on our previous communication, and re-
spectfully remind you that the above date
should be a winner.
Respectfully yours,
THE EASY CLUB.-
The respective speed of the horses, it
should be added, was never determined,
as the races never took place but the palm
as a letter writer was unanimously voted
to Mr. Hartford.
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MAGGIE HAL (2.16 on half-mile track) bay pacing mare.
Owned by George M. Potter.
GOVERNOR BODWELL (2.29 3-4), sire of Louise E. 2.14 3-4. black trotting gelding.
By Mahlon (full brother of Grover Cleveland), by Alcantara. Mahlon's dam, Susie
Jefferson, dam of Blanche P, 2.17 1-2, by Thomas Jefferson. Governor Bodwell's
dam, Mamie, dam of Cobflen Boy. by Winthrop Morrill; 2d dam Old Kate,
dam of Diana, 2.24 1-2, by Whalebone Knox.
JOHN SHEPARD.
The Dean of American Gentlemen Horsemen.
ETHEL'S PRIDE (2.06 3-4), bay trotting mare.
By Directum (2.05 1-4), by Director (2.17). Directum's dam, Venture. Dam of Ethel's
Pride, Ethelwyn (dam of Impetuous, 2.13), by Harold; 2d dam Kathleen (dam of
Eager, 2.14 1-2), by Pilot Jr.; 3d dam Little Miss, a thoroughbred daughter of
imported Sovereign. Ethel's Pride as a three-year-old had a mark of 2.13
3-4. This year she has won the Ponkapoag at Readville, Mass.; the $10.-
000 purse at the Grand Circurit meeting at Buffalo, N. Y., and the clas-
sic Transylvania at Lexington, Ky., in straight heats in 2.08 1-4,
2.06 3-4. 2.07 1-2, the fastest ever trotted for that rich event
with the exception of last year, when Sweet Marie
(2.04 1-4) defeated Tiverton (2.04 1-2) in the
fastest five-heat race on record.
Owned by John Shepard.
WILLIAM B. HAWKINS.
SADIE WILSON, dappled chestnut mare.
White stockings behind, off forward foot white to coronet joint, blazed face. Height
15.3, weight 1025 pounds. Combination saddle and harness horse. Foaled in 1898
and a prize winner as a yearling, two-year-old and three-year-old. Sire a full-
blooded Red Eagle combination saddle and harness horse; dam a high-
bred hackney Morgan cross.
Owned by William Benjamin Hawkins.
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PHIL AND JOHNNIE, chestnut geldings, fast road team.
Owned by W. B. Hasty, proprietor of Fourth Street stables, South Boston, and Har-
rison Square Stables, Dorchester.
H. T. GALLUP. H. P. G- ASHMONT. NAGAINA.
H. P. Gallup and his stable.
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FORD B. STROUGH.
FRANK II. ROBINSON.
A. M. NEWBERT.
MARTiN E. IIAUKINGTON.
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GEORGE M. POTTER.
L. EDWARD BEDELL.
JOHN P. ROWAN.
WILLIAM H. WHITE.
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MRS. JACK, bay trotting mare.
By Athanio (2.10), by Junio (2.22), by Electioneer. Athanio's dam, Athalie, by Hark-
away, clam Mag. Jnnio's dam, Nelly, by Granger. Mrs. Jack's dam, Dorris, by
Mambrino King; 2d dam, Windsweep, by Almont, Jr. (2.26); 3d dam, Ameri-
can Girl, By Hamlin Patehen. Owned by Albert C. Haley.
DIMPLE, bay pacing mare.
By Lothair, Jr.; dam a srev pacing mare (2.19 1-4). pedigree
Owned by J. W. McEnany. Foaled in May, 1897.
untraced.
MAJOR (trotting record 2.14), bay pacing gelding.
MAGGIE HAL (2.16 on half-mile track), bay pacing mare.
Owned by George M. Potter.
LORETTA COOK, brown trotting mare,
Bv Golden Eagle.
ELYOL WORTH, brown trotting gelding.
By General Worth, by Electioneer. Dam by Elyol
Owned by Ford B. Strough.
G.
MELLEX A. XEVEXS.
RICHARD H. JEXXESS.
HIRAM A. HAVEN.
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EZRA S. HARRIS.
TOMAH H, bay trotting gelding.
By Hector H. Dam Little Mink.
Owned by F. W. Hamlin.
SIR ROCKET, bay trotting stallion.
By Pentucket, by Warders; dam Lady Monarch, by Monarch, by Hambietonian 10.
Lady Monarch's dam by Flying Morgan. Sir Robert's dam, Belle Lam-
bert, by Daniel "Warders.
Owned by Frank W. Hamlin.
PRANK H. chestnut pacing gelding.
By Mascot (3), by Jot C, by Blue Bull. Mascot's dam. Puss. Dam of Frank
Lady Bess (2.12 1-4). by Claud Mambrino, by Mambrino Chief.
Owned by Frank H. Hamlin.
PANDER, chestnut trotting gelding.
By Autograph (2.16 1-2). by Alcantara (2.23), by George Wilkes (2.22). Autograph's
dam, Flaxy, by Kentucky Clay. Alcantara's dam, Alma Mater, by Mambrino
Patchen. Pander's dam Pandora, by Patron (2.14 1-2), by Pancoast (2.21 3-4).
Pandora's dam, Myopia, by Monaco.
Owned by J. W. Linnehan.
GOVERNOR BODWELL (2.29 3-4), sire of Louise E, 2.14 3-4, black trotting gelding.
By Mahlon (full brother of Grover Cleveland), by Alcantara. Mahlon's dam, Susie
Jefferson, dam of Blanche P, 2.17 1-2, by Thomas Jefferson. Governor Bodwell's
dam. Mamie, dam of Cobden Boy, by Winthrop Morrill; 2d dam Old Kate,
dam of Diana, 2.24 1-2, by Whalebone Knox.
ROY WILKES (2.24) bay pacing gelding.
By Jersey, 25,216, sire of Phenol (2.07 1-4) ; dam Lady Patchen, by Mambrino Patchen.
Roy Wilkes' 1st dam, Strathnew, by Stra thmore 408: 2d dam, Kittie Johnson, by
Mambrino Patchen, 58; 3d dam Jenny, Johnson by Sweet Owen.
Owned by Solly Wolfson.
HON. FRANKLIN L. CODMAN.
Honorary Member.
HERBERT W. BURR,
Honorary Member.
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FREDERICK W. FARWELL,
Honorary Member.
HENRY S. CLARK.
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CHESTNUT, chestnut pacing mare.
By Bob Proctor, by George Wlikes; dam Hattie Allen. Chestnut's dam Lara, by
Orange Duroc; dam Lucy Boroc.
Owned by George L. Johnson.
ADA WILKES, brown pacing pace.
By Brown Wilkes, by George Wilkes; dam, Dot Brown. Ada Wilkes' dam, Jane C, by
Tom Hall; dam Anna C.
Owned by John F. Currier.
FRANK L. ROBBINS
GEORGE L. JOHNSON.
EDGAR J. AMES.
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FRANK CHAMBERLAIN.
Max G (2.12 1-4 to sulky, 2.12 3-4 *o pole), brown trotting gelding
By Romancer, by Happy Medium. Dam by Little Mac.
Owned by M. A. Nevens.
ROB B, bay pacing gelding.
Owned by M. A. Nevens.
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SfeSlaS2 HISSES*1,
1-8*-
KITTY R, roan trotting mare.
Owned by Patrick O'Hearn.
WILKESBRINO (2.14 1-2), seal brown pacing gelding.
By Marvelous, by Woodbrino (2.25 1-2). Woodbrino's dam, Aetna, by Belmont 64.
Aetna's dam* Suzette. by Pilot, Jr. Wlkesbrino's dam, Louisa, by Patchen
Wilkes (2.29 1-2); 2nd dam by Allie West, 2.25.
Owned by George A. Fales.
THE MINUTE MAN (three-year-old separately timed, in the race at Readville, 2.15,
last half in 1.05), bay trotting stfllion.
Three years old, registered 37,283. by Bingen (2.06 1-4). Dam Miss Pratt (matinee rec-
ord 2.16 1-2 to wagon, race record 2.17 1-2), by Heir-at-Law, by Mambrino King.
Miss Pratt's dam. Letter B (2.35), by Taggart's Abdallah; 2d dam, Topsv, bv
Flying Cloud; 3d dam by Grey Eagle. The Minute Man has started in *
only one race as a three-year-old, and was saparatelv timed in 2 15,
making the last half in 1.05. At stud at Stonymeade, Concord, Mass.
Owned by Benjamin Pope.
POLKA DOT, bay trotting mare, three years old.
By Baron Wilkes,; dam Amorita. a registered mare with a three-year-old mark of
2.36 1-2 made at Worcester to high wheeled sulky. Amorita's sire, Mambrino
Startle; dam Fanny, by Enfield.
This is the rig Hiram A. Haven drives and the way he looks while taking orders
for the Curtis & Pope Lumber Co.
Owned by Benjamin Pope.
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Best of care Veterinary near at hand
At Stud: THE MINUTE MAN, BY BINGEN.
Three -year -old trial 2 15, last half in 1.05
SERVICE FEE $50.00
For further particulars address Benjamin Pope,
Concord, Mass., or care of
CURTIS & POPE LUMBER COMPANY
Telephone, Tremont 173 774 Albany Street, Boston, Mass.
131
GOLDIE. black pacing mare.
By Airbon. by Contoocook, by Mambrino Wilkes.
Owned by A. M. Newbert.
GENEVIEVE, brown pacing mare.
By Guy Kohl, 10,274, son of Guy Wilkes, 2867; dam Genevieve, by Roland, 40SS.
Owned by J. E. Swendeman
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JOHN F, bay pacing gelding
Owned by W. I. Estabrook.
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Food, I can't get hold of anything better.
Yours trulv,
CHAS. H. WILSON, Mgr.
The following are a few who use and endorse " White's Food "
A. G. Vanderbilt, Oakland Farm, C H. Wilson, Mgr., Newport, R. I.
F. J. Brand, President Dorchester Driving Club.
R. S. Fitch, Treas. "
J. W. Linnehan, "
R. K. Clark,
E. O. Fitch,
J. Frank Howland "
Geo. G. Hall, Adams House, Boston, Mass.
Wm Byers, Newton
Col. Isaac L. Goff, Providence, R. I.
J. Howard Ford, Stony Ford, N. Y.
W. R.Janvier, N. Y.
John S. Larhey, Cambridge City Ind.
Hon. J. M. Johnson, Calais Stock Farm, Breeder of Sadie Mac
Chas. Whittemore, Lookout Stock Farm, Home of May King
W. N. Burgess, E. Lynne Stock Farm, Home of Lynne Bel
B. H. Whitely, White River Stock Farm, Home of Advertiser
W. J. White, Two Minute Stock Farm, Home of Star Pointer
James Hanley, Providence, R. I., Home of Prince Alert
WHITE FOOD CO.
223 Cohannet Street,
Taunton, Mass.
144
NORRIS BROS.
DEALERS IN
Choice Groceries and Provisions, Butter,
Cheese and Eggs.
FANCY TEAS AND COFFEES A SPECIALTY.
587 to 593 Washington St., - DORCHESTER.
^^3,];^^ INCORPORATE* 1 900
THE FENSMERE COMPANY,
L. E. BEDELL, Manager,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
WIHES JLKTD LIQUORS.
STERLING ALE, VIENNA and PAVONIA BEER.
FINE FAMILY TRADE A SPECIALTY.
BOSTON, MASS.
Ladies Entrance,
5 and 7 Dundee St
202-204 Massachusetts Ave.,
and 1-3-5 and 7 Dundee St.
Albert Fellows
GROCER
and Tea Dealer
1872 Dorchester Ave., Ashmont
DORCHESTER, MASS.
Tel. Dorchester 54-2
A. S. CUSHEE
DEALER IN
Pure, Fresh Milk&Cream
From His Own Herd of Inspected Cows
No. 92 Fuller St.
NEW DORCHESTER
W. M. ROBINSON
Hay, Grain and
Poultry Food
Adams and Park Streets
DORCHESTER
J. C. TALBOT
Staple and Fancyi Groceries
1157 Washington Street
DORCHESTER
Branch Store:
ASSOCIATES' BUILDING,
MILTON.
Established 1815.
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It is worth something to you
to know where you can get your prescriptions filled by
careful, reliable men — men who realize the responsibility
of their position and employ registered pharmacists as
their assistants. We make cost a secondary consideration
when preparing for the sick.
3
STORES
CONNOLLY & DAVIS
D R U G G IS TS
DOR C H E S T E R
3
STORES
RYAIV BROS.
GROCERS and IMPORTERS
Tel. 691 Dorchester
1096-1098 DORCHESTER AVENUE, NEAR SAVIN HILL
DORCHESTER, MASS.
D. J. Cutter & Company
TELEPHONE CONNECTION
GOAL AND WOOD
WHARF:
COMMERCIAL POINT
420 FREEPORT STREET
DORCHESTER
D. DOHERTY,
DEALER IN
COAL and WOOD
2 64 Freeport St., Near Harrison Sq.
DORCHESTER DISTRICT.
Orders by Telephone, Dorchester 13 lt or by mail,
will receive prompt attention.
KING'S STABLE
M. A. NEVENS CO., Proprietors
Boarding, Livery
-AND -
Sale Stable
First Class Teams to Let by the
Day or Week
BEST OF FEED AND CARE FOR
BOARDING HORSES
138 WORCESTER STREET
Formerly at 72 Northampton Street
BOSTON, MASS.
Telephone Connection
146
ESTABLISHED 1870
W. P. WHITTEMORE
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
HAY anJ2 GRAIN
1232 Dorchester Avenue, (Glover's Corner,) Dorchester
TEL. 88-4 DOR.
Mills, Elevator and May Sheds at Mt. Hope Station, Roslindale P. O., Mass.
TEL. 422-3 J. P.
3371 Washington St., Jamaica Plain. Tel. 422-2 J. P.
Storage Capacity— 100,000 bushels of Grain, IOOO tons Hay,
Notary Public
Justice of the Peace
Geo. O. Wood
REAL ESTATE, MORTGAGES, INSURANCE
31 MILK STREET, BOSTON
207 Adams St., Fields Corner, Dorchester
TELEPHONE CONNECTION
references:
Hon. William Claflin, Ex-Gov., and Vice-Pres. International
Trust Co.
Edward D. Bliss, Brighton Savings Bank.
E. M. K1GGINS
CODMAN SQ.
PHARMACY.
Washington St., cor. Talbot Ave.
DORCHESTER, MASS.
TELEPHONE CONNECTION.
GRANITE STATE MARKET
GROCERIES
AND
PROVISIONS
Cor, PARKMAN ST. and DORCHESTER AVE.
W. E. WATTS
C. H. STEELE
LET US DRESS YQTJ
Fred H. Bellows
Gentlemen's Tailor
TWO STORES
181 Tremont Street, Boston
125 Circuit Avenue, Cottage City
Rain Coats Sporting Goods
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
TELEPHONE 21310 ROXBURY
Undent Zavcxn
POTTER'S HOTEL
GEORGE M, POTTER, PROP.,
2143 AND 2145 WASHINGTON ST, BOSTON
EDW. J. McCORMICK
REAL ESTATE,
AUCTIONEER
and INSURANCE
1447 Dorchester Ave-, Field's Corner,
DORCHESTER, MASS.
Telephone Connection.
147
home: of
HELGAMITE (F. H. Bellows) ADA WILKES (J. F. Currier)
GENEVIEVE (J. E. Swendeman) CHESTNUT (Geo. L. Johnson)
BECKY THISBE (J. E. Swendeman) CHIME BELLS (Geo. P. Leonard)
QUEENIE (Fred Ames) BABY J. (George D. Jewett)
GOLDIE (A. M. Newbert) ANABEL W. (H. C. Jackson)
PERCY B. (F. L. Robbins) ARMELLA (H. C. Jackson)
LA GAZELLE (F. O. Guild) PANDORA (H. C. Jackson)
CARRIE V. (F. L. Robbins) SADIE WILSON (W. B. Hawkins)
CUTICLINE (F. E. Kimball)
CARRIAGES FURNISHED FOR ALL OCCASIONS
Stable Open Day and Night
35-45 PEMBROKE STREET
BOSTON
Branch Offices and
HUNTINGTON AVENUE
s WEST NEWTON ST.
Carriage Stands at | and TRINITY COURT
TELEPHONES: 1151, 1152, Tremont
HAVE YOU USED THEfl? WHAT?
Pike's Solus Veterinary Remedies
Blister Liniment
White Mountain
Salve
Health Powders
Fever Cure
Thrush Cure
Colic Compound
Wart Destroyer
Hoof Oil
ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THEM OR WRITE TO THE flANUFACTURER
HENRY L. PIKE, Lexington, hass.
Send for sample order.
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Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Folg'er (& Drummond
High Grade Carriages
AMESBURY, MASS.
No. 265 BEVERLY.
No. 250 CUTUNDER RUNABOUT.
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HIS BIRTHPLACE
CrLDELLCbCU
Contracting Builder and
Interior Finisher
OFFICE AND STORE FITTINGS, COUNTERS, DESKS, CASES
SHELVING, ETC., A SPECIALTY
5 Province Court, BOSTON
TELEPHONE, BOSTON, 14-26
II
817-823
824-830
THE
Telephone 375-2
Roxbury
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Telephone 375-2
Roxbury
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Dorcbeeter Savinge Bank
5ft« COLUMBIA ROAD
(Columbia Sq. Building)
BANK HOURS: 2 to 7 P. M. Saturdays 2 to 9 P. M.
President, FREDERICK L. WALKER
Vice-Presidents,
I W. W. WHITMARSH
1 BENJ. B. WHITTEMORE
Treasurer, GEO. W. BRADFORD
Clerk, FRANK M. WHITMAN
===== BOARD Of TRUSTEES ===== =
HENRY G. ALLBRIGHT, L- AUSTIN BASSETT, GEORGE E. FROST,
J. B. L. BARTLETT, GE0- w- BRADFORD, GEORGE A. HIBBARD,
LAWRENCE J. LOGAN, H- w- BURKE, MENRY S. MacPHERSON,
GEORGE B. PHIPPEN, BENJ. B. WHITTEMORE, ALBERT A. STEARNS
FREDERICK L. WALKER, EDWIN S. WOODBURY, WM. W- WHITMARSH.
GEORGE A. HIBBARD, Treasurer
FRANK T. MASON, President HERBERT W. BURR, Secreiary
Hibbard & Mason
Incorporated
♦ . . Gailore . . .
414 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
A Few Doors North of Summer Street Telephone, Oxford ^-jq
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THE BOULEVARD STABLE
460 BLUE HILL AVENUE, (GROVE HALL,)
— ROXBURY.—
S. WALTER WALES,
PROPRIETOR.
HACK AND BOARDING STABLE.
Telephone Connection.
RALPH W. BALKAN!, M.D.Y.
VETERINARIAN
46 Warren Avenue
phone HYDE PARK, MASS.
HYDE PARK 138-3
Telephone 146-3 Dorchester Established 1802.
J. H. UPHAM & CO,
(E. P. UPHAM.)
GROCERS
UPHAM'S CORNER,
DORCHESTER,
MASS.
Six Days in Every Week
we give demonstrations of
the advantages of paying
cash for provisions at the
CORNER GASH MARKET
1442 DORCHESTER AVENUE
E. BANKS &. CO.
H. R. CRANE & CO.
Funeral Directors, Undertakers
and Embalmers
WAREROOHS:
1857 Dorchester Avenue, Ashmont.
Cor. Talbot Ave. and Norfolk St., Dorchester.
Telephone — Dorchester, 666-4
Milton (night) 68-4
Residence — 51 Van Winkle St., Dorchester.
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DORCHESTER 1
. Mutual Fire Insurance Co., |
INCORPORATED 1855.
BOS1X)IV, JS? J& MASS.
THE HOME OFFICE.
FIFTIETH ANNUAL
STATEMENT.
JANUARY 1,
1905.
Amount at Risk,
$37,809,990.00
Cash Assets,
507,409.07
Deposit Notes,
627,581.17
Available Assets,
1,134,990.24
Total Liabilities,
338,543.29
Cash Surplus,
168,865.78
Gain in Surplus in 1904,
7,458.47
Gain in Assets in 1904,
35,012.93
Losses paid in 1904,
103,055.43
Dividends paid in 1904,
68,294.25
Receipts in 1904,
244,429.85
Disbursements in 1904,
228.975.58
DIRECTORS.
THOMAS F. TEMPLE,
President and Treasurer.
W. D. C. CURTIS,
Secretary.
W. D. C. Curtis. Thos. F. Temple.
J. B. L. Bartlett. Laban Pratt.
Clarence Burgin. Chas. T. Gallagher.
Sarell J. Willis.
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TELEPHONE 607
B^jB:
NOTARY PUBLIC
MAIN
4-4-9-5 DORCHESTER
HORSE
Locate his lameness with
Dr. Roberts'
Chameleon Oil
Cure him with
CHAMELEON OIL
OFFICE 37 DOVER ST, And at all Dealers
H. B. COOK
Hack, Boarding
and Livery Stable <&
*
46 Warren St., and
U 75 to 1179 Harrison Ave.
The best of care and personal attention paid
to Boarders and all orders connected with
the business.
Telephone 959-1 Roxbury
GEO, W. MacBRIDE
Hotel; Restaurant and
Steamship Supplies
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Beef, Lamb, Poultry and Game
15-16 DOCK SQUARE.
BOSTON, MASS.
Telephone Connection
THE BOSTON REGALIA CO.
Horse Show
Prize Ribbons
(Prize Badges for this Club furnished by us)
Flags, Banners and Prize Ribbons
for Coaching Parades, etc.
THE BOSTON REOALIA CO.
38T WASHINGTON STREET
BOSTON, MASS.
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These Carts
Are Ideals
For Training
And Matinee
Cart No. 7. Price $66.
This is the latest production of the
cart maker's skill.
Very Simple. Very Strong.
Nearly as fast as a sulky.
Has comfortable leather seat.
Cart No. 3.
Stock Color, Carm
Fitted with high back cus
Mud Boot and a Foot Rac
pet, which is removed in
for Speeding.
Easy Riding, Beautiful
Finish.
WE FURNISH CARTS
MILLER CART CO.
GOSHEN, N. Y.
Family Wine {Store
CONDUCTED ON THE
Bass' Ale and Guinness' Porter
In Quarts and Pints.
King's Bohemian Food Beer and
Van Nostrand's P. B. ALE and PORTER,
In Halves, Quarters and Cases.
Highland Spring Sterling and XXX Ales
And McCormick's India Pale Ale
In Halves and Bottles.
California Wines of all Kinds from $1 to $2 a gallon.
JOHN J. HAGERTY £> CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
1404 Dorchester Ayenue, Field's Corner Dorchester. Telephone 233-2 Dorchester
Van NostrancTs P. B. Ale On Draught.
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BEST OF PRINCIPLES.
KENTUCKY PRIVATE STOCK
PURE ROURBON AND RYE
WHISKIES
Matured in the wood and of the highest
type of excellence.
ALL GOODS DELIVERED EREE
I Henry 5. Harris & Son \
9
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
1 Harness, Horse Clothing, \
Saddles, Stable Tools, Etc.
I 134-148 Portland and 83 nerrimacSts. S
a
J Benj. A. Harris
BOSTON, MASS.
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Near North Union Station (J
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EDWIN 3. DAVIS
DEALER IN
Hay, Grain, Coal
and Wood
467 BLUE HILL AVENUE
GROVE HALL
ROXBURY, MASS.
Sales Agent for the
Union Coal Company, . . Boston
Orders from Quarter ton upwards
delivered Direct from Wharf.
Personal attention given to orders
for Winter Supplies.
TELEPHONE 972-3 ROXBURY
N. T. KERR
DEALER IN
GROCERIES
AND
PROVISIONS
8T Stoughton St.
Telephone, 156-4- Dorchester
James Lyons
Ales, Wines
Liquors f^f
Cigars
Glover's Corner, Dorchester
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Hotel Belleclaire
Broadway and 77th St., New York
gjggp*' Seventh Avenue, Amsterdam Avenue, and West 130th Street Cars pass the door.
gjcgp"' Subway Express Trains two minutes walk from the Hotel.
g@^° Ten minutes from City Hall.
§£j§P* Luxurious Rooms for permanent or transient guests.
Restaurant a Feature Exquisite Palm Room Art Nouveau Cafe Royal Hungarian Orchestra
"Most Artistically Beautiful Hotel in the World." Can offer a few single rooms, with hath,
beautifully furnished, suitable for two people. $60.00 per month.
TRANSIENT RATES
One Room, with bath $2.50 per day.
Parlor, bedroom, with bath $3-00 and $5.00 " "
Parlor, two bedrooms, with bath $5.00 and $7.00
(( 6(
Every improvement known to modern ingenuity.
Write for our magazine, "The Hotel Belleclaire World." Sent free.
Affability and courtesy guaranteed from every employee.
MILTON ROBLEE, Proprietor,
157
Telephones
* Z Dorchester
1167-3
ANY TIME
ANY WHERE
The H. fl. White
Funeral
Establishment
728 Dudley Street, Upham's Corner,
DORCHESTER, HASS.
MRS. WHITE— Lady Assistant and Embalmer
R. H. BILLINGS
Apothecary
FIELD'S CORNER, BOSTON, MASS.
FRED H. BELLOWS.
Fred H. Bellows, one of the gamest and
sportiest members of the Dorchester Gentle-
men's Driving Club, and who has "hung up"
a $50 suit of clothes to be given to the
member winning the most points in races
for the season of 1905, is the well-known
gentlemen's tailor at 182 Tremont street,
Boston. Mr. Bellows came to Boston un-
known about 13 years ago and without
influence other than energy and merit has
succeeded in building up one of the most
lucrative businesses in his line. He has a
very large theatrical and professional trade
and is always in the forefront as regards
fashions. He has monthly importations of
both goods and fashion-plates from the
principal European centres, and patrons
always know that they can be accommo-
dated with the most extreme styles if it is
their desire. The manufacturing is done on
the premises under the personal supervision
of Mr. Bellows and his able assistants. This
fall the entire third floor at 182 Tremont
street has been leased by Mr. Bellows who
is thus better equipped for trade than ever.
Rain coats and sporting garments are among
his specialties. Mr. Bellows is the owner of
Helgamite, the beautiful little pacer, one-
time champion of the Dorchester speedway
and many times a blue ribbon winner, whose
picture appears elsewhere in these columns.
THE
21 West St., Boston
LEADING PHOTOGRAPHER
Headquarters
for high grade photographs of all kinds, also
lUater Colors, Sepias, Ivory miniatures
and Porcelains
Out door views of every description
The photographs for the Member's portraits in this book were taken by
Elmer Checkering.
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INDEX
MISCELLANEOUS.
Page
Charter 3
Dedication 4
Blue Ribbon Races— 190(1. 6; L901, 10;
1902, 16; 1903, 22; 1904, 28
Readville Races — June 18 and Septem-
ber 3, 1900, 8; September 21, 1901,
12; June 17 and September 1, 1902,
IS; June 17 and September 7, 1903,
24; June 17 and September 5, 1904,
32; June 17, 1905, 34
Presentations — Cup for C. L. Young and
Landlord, 16; Watch for S. Walter
Wales, 60; Chair for A. S. Gushee, 62
Notable Events — Elks' Carnival at
Combination Park, July 30 and August
4, 1900; Free-for-All at Readville,
May 30, 1901; Remarkable Perform-
ance of Silkey (Eldredge) at Com-
bination Park, June 27, 1901; Handi-
cap and other races at Combination
Park and South Weymouth, 36
The Trotting Championship 40
The Pacing Championship 42
History of Franklin Field Speedway.. 48
Ladies' Nights, Banquets, etc 54
Club Poems— "Horse Talk at the Club,
54; "Horses on the Boulevard," 56;
"A Winter's Morning," 58
Public Parades 64
"Evolution of the Racer" (Young's
Story) 70
Trinket 74
Kentucky Star 76
Race between Kentucky Star and Land-
lord 78
Race between Dr. G. and Vondell 82
Jewett 82
Biographies 84
Constitution and Rules 98
Roster 104
The Easy Club 110
PORTRAITS.
Ames, Edgar J 127
Balkam, Ralph W 97
Barry, Henry R 19
Bedell, L. Edward 118
Bellows, Fred H 31
Berrigan, Edward W 97
Blaney, Cyril C 15
Brand, Frederick J 11
Brummett, William M 39
Burr, Herbert W 125
Callender, Hon. Edward B 101
Chamberlain, Frank 127
Clark, Henry S 125
Clarke, Randolph K 9
Codman, Hon. Franklin L 125
D'Arcy, George W 7
Davison, Archibald T 43
Denn, Edward P 23
Eilers, Deidrich 105
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Page
Eldredge, Fred S 19
Kales, fienrgo A
Farwell, Frederick W 124
Fellows, Albert 43
Fitch, Robert S 7
Fitzgerald, John F 83
Fitzgerald, Peter J 15
French, George A :;!i
Gallup, Hollis 23
Galvin, T. R 31
Gore, Fred S 27
Greenwood, George H 7
Gushee, Almond S 7
Haddock, Edgar 0 19
Haley, Albert C 101
Hamlin, Frank W 35
Harrington, Martin E 117
Harris, Ezra S 121
Haven, Hiram 121
Hawkins, William B 115
Hildreth, George E 105
Hugo, George B 83
Hunt, Charles W 47
Jenness, Richard H 121
Johnson, George L 127
Keith, Carey 97
Kenney, Alphonsus E 9
Kenney, Thomas J 35
Linnehan, John W 23
Mahon, Allan C 83
Mandell, Charles M 39
Marsh, Ward A 101
Marzynski, Samuel 35
Morgan, Ernest H 27
Morrill, John M. E 15
Morse, Carlton H 105
Mosser, Jacob 7
Nevens. Mellen A 121
Newbert, Alonzo M 117
Newbert, Walter E 19
O'Leary, Frazier L 97
Pfingst, Louis 27
Potter, George M 118
Richardson, Edward G 27
Robbins, Frank L 127
Robinson, Frank H 117
Rowan, John F , 118
Sanders, Henry M 43
Sanford, Alpheus 47
Shepard, John
Stewart, Albert A 105
Stewart, Joseph 1 47
Strough, Ford B 117
Stuart, J. Rollin Jr 9
Sullivan, Denis W 23
Swendeman, Joseph E 83
Swett, Edward B 31
Terhune, William L 43
Terry, Joseph N 31
Wales, S. Walter n
Wales, S. Walter Jr 35
Walker, Frederick L 101
Wheelock, Adna T 9
White, William H 118
Page
Wolfson, Solly 39
"Wood, George 0 47
Young, Charles L 11
OUR HORSES.
Ada Wilkes, J. F. Currier 126
Alice B, W. B. Newbert 79
Alice R, A. C. Mahon 81
Allan Belle, R. D. Van Namen 109
Ashmont, H. P. Gallup 71, 116
Azote, E. O. Haddock 79
Baby Logan, W. P. Boutelle 25
Becky Thisbe, J. E. Swendeman 51
Belle Lome, E. W. Berrigan 59
Ben G, H. P. Gallup 49
Betsey, J. W. Dannahy 59
Bob Fitz, H. P. Gallup 99
Bonnets O'Blue, G. W. DArcy 13
Boralma and Senator L, John Shepard 73
Billy, H. M. Sanders 69
Brick Wilkes Jr., E. B. Swett 33
Budweiser, J. W. Linnehan 33, 73
Camden Girl, John Hood 37
Captain Hall, A. S. Gushee 61
Charlena, C. C. Blaney 93
Charlie King, A. T. Wheelock 109
Checkers, J. N. Terry 57
Chestnut, G. L. Johnson 126
Dimple, J. W. McEnany 119
Dollar and Bill, F. L. Codman 45
Don Wilkes, F. H. Robinson 29
Dr. G, F. J. Brand 85
Early Bird Jr., A. E. Kenney 89
Easy Club, The Ill
Elsie May, D. W. Chamberlain 41
Ethel's Pride, John Shepard 114
Etta Powers, T. R. Galvin 91
Forgie, James' Sons 135
Frank H, F. W. Hamlin 122
Fred, Samuel Marzynski 93
Genevieve, J. E. Swendeman .85, 132
George K, Jacob Mosser 55
George Robson, P. W. Hennessey 87
Gladys M, R. K. Clarke 13
Goldie, A. M. Newbert 132
Governor Bodwell, D. W. Sullivan. .113, 124
H. P. G., Ashmont, Nagaina 116
India Panis, G. A. French 51
Jewett, J. M. E. Morrill 25
Helgamite, F. H. Bellows 75, 134
Joe King, F. J. Brand 53, 63
John F, W. I. Estabrook 138
Kentucky Star, C. H. Belledeu 95
King Princeps, E. P. Denn 49
Kitty R, Patrick O'Hearn 129
Lady Madison, P. J. Fitzgerald 17
Lady Wentworth, E. P. Denn 77
Page
Lampton, Henry Wood ". 91
Landlord, C. L. Young 95, 99
Lorette Cook and Elyol Worth, Ford
B. Strough 120
Maggie Hal, G. M. Potter 113
Maggie Hal and Major, G. M. Potter.. 120
Max G, M. A. Nevens 128
Minute Man, The, Benjamin Pope 130
Mowitzer, John Hood 37
Mrs. Jack, A. C. Haley 119
Mutineer, C. C. Blaney 55
Ornament, C. H. Morse 57
Pander, J. W. Linnehan 122
Parson T and Deacon B, W. L. Terhune 41
Percy R, F. L. Robbins 87
Phil and Johnnie, W. B. Hasty 116
Polka Dot, Benjamin Pope.. 130
Polyphema, R. W. Balkam 65
Prince G, G. H. Greenwood 89
Prince Wilkes, C. H. Belledeu 65
"Rastus," R. K. Clarke 107
Reno K, J. W. Linnehan 21
Rex, Albert Fellows 61
Rex, J. W. Linnehan 21
Richard and Gillis, A. T. Davison 45
Rondo, S. Walter Wales 67
Rob B, M. A. Nevens 128
Roy Wilkes, Solly Wolfson 75, 124
Rubsley G, H. P. Gallup 71
Sadie Wilson, W. B. Hawkins 115
Sanford L, T. A. Bresnahan 69
Senator L, John Shepard 53, 73
Sir Rocket, F. W. Hamlin 122
Stanley Guy, F. S. Eldredge 107
Stonymeade 130
Sunny Jim, A. T. Wheelock 103
Sunrise, E. S. Harris 103
Susie F, J. R. Stuart Jr 17
Tennie Warren, D. W. Chamberlain .... 41
Tom Reed, F. J. Brand 81
Tomah H, F. W. Hamlin 122
Trinket, A. S. Gushee 77
Wilkesbrino, G. A. Fales 129
W. W. Saylor, H. R. Barry '. 29
ADDITIONS TO ROSTER.
Alden, George A., Quincy House, Boston.
Bedell, L. Edward, 202 Massachusetts Ave-
nue, Boston.
Brown, Charles R., 136 Rossiter Street, Dor-
chester.
Currier, John F., 19 Seaverns Avenue, Jamai-
ca Plain.
Hawkins, William B., 440 Washington Street,
Boston.
Sandberg, A. G., 36 Faulkner Street, Dor-
chester.
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