The Augusta herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1890-1908, September 18, 1898, Image 14
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Mo baa avver ta.-ad a karoo la money
darlni hla Ufa.
Mr Robert frontier la "not (, l 'hr ImM
known figures In Ihr irnttina world H*
kaa |ltrtn many free rxhlbltlona of
■peed on thr Proa pro I park. I'nlon.
Fieri wood and Fashion tracks and on
our raada, where tha public haa had tha
•PfnrtnnMjr of aeetna the home* driven.
Mr Honner haa bred aome of the fast
rat trotting horaea on the turf at hla
farm at Tarrytoan, N T . (jMldra hav.
In* purchased many of the great record
breakers. Inrludlng am h relehrltlea an
Dexter. Karin. Maud K and Hunol.
Among tha well known trotters he haa
bred are Mary'a Hamblrlontan. the sire
of Bosque Bonita, the Itrat Amerlron
trotter to heal all the record* that had
Over been made In Kuri'p' There were
Also bred at hla farm Partridge. f:I4V
Majolica, f:ll; Cheyenne, t US l *; In
■tant. 2:1414, and othera attll faster, but
with no public reeorda.
The dam of I.lghtnjng. till, the fait
hat trotter that the great Alcantara has
aired, waa also bred by Mr. Bonner, aa
were the dan- of Kdjth It. f:1044. the
best one that Ducalintt evH- sited. Ihe
■lre of the dam of Kmma CMTutt, 2:11*0,
the fastest one that Uambelta Wilkes
ever aired, and the dam of Protaln,
In fact, about 100 horses, with
public records, ean be traced to animals
bred on Mr. Bonner's farm.
Mr. Bonner’s great hobby In connec
tion with his horses, besides the 4« nettt
to hit health derived from driving them,
which necessarily keeps him out of
doom. Is the Improvement h>- has been
able to make In the speed of those he
purchased and the relief from suffer
ing and lameness he has 111 many cases
been aide to give the horse* after get
ting possession of their, by treating their
feet. Mr Bonner Is probably the great
est expert on the foot of the horse In Ihe
world. Some of the most famous train
ers and drivers defer to his opinion In
treating their charges.
He has been known to relieve horses
that have been blistered and otherwise
tortured and mistreated by their own
ers by simply readjusting the set of the
*hoe as the result of a little paring of
the hoof.
Mr. Bonner was asked to read a pa
per.on "The Foot of the Horse" before
the New York Farmers, which is an
association of the very wealthy nabobs
of New York who own country places
about the city. They meet and dine
several times a year and listen to pa
pers which may Interest and Instruct
them In keeping up their magnificent
"farms." Mr. Bonner's paper was said
to be one of the finest ever listened to
by the members.
Mr. Bonner recently published a cata
logue containing the names of the trot
ters on his farm at Tarrytown. In It
are the names of two horses that
made the fastest time ever recorded
previous to the introduction of the won
der working bicycle sulky in 1892. Maud
6 s 2:08*4 was the fastest ever done ,>n
a regulation track, and Spool's 2:OS*4
was the best on a kite shaped track un
til the horses had the advantage of the
ball bearing axlea and pneumatic tires.
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sulky.
U la interesting to know, by the wny.
that Mr. Bonner has the body and
wheela of the buggy In front of which
the wonderful mare made her grant tec
ord all crated up eurefully at hla atoek
farm. The mare la also there, and It
lias been Mr. Bonner'B great hope to
act her In foal to some noted sire, but
thus far the effort has not been attend
ed with success. Aa Maud Bls 24 yearn
of use, It la doubtful If any of her
progeny Would show phenomenal speed.
1 askeif Mr. Bonner whether, In hla
opinion. Alla a record of 2:0,'4 4 would be
laaten. He replied that without a doubt
trotters would In the future cut aeveral
seconds from the present tig urea, that
breeding knowledge and science were
still In their Infancy, that tracks might
by the Invention of some better machine
than the one now used for harrowing
and smoothing be made at least a sec
ond faster and that the sulkies would
probably be made faster In time. "Still."
he said, "there Is no living horse that
can beat Maud S's record to the old
sulky. Allx has been twice advertised
to try for It and has failed."
1 asked Mr. Bonner why he had given
j so murh time and attention to the horse
! and his treatment, and hls reply was
this: "Besides the pleasure derived from
i relieving pain and distress in the no
blest of all the lower animals was the
gratification 1 gained by the knowledge
that 1 could do what no one else could
accomplish. My'apparent egotism in
thus speaking of my ability In this line
I will mitigate by saying that I would
never have been able to accomplish
many things 1 am enabled to do were
it not for the knowledge I have gained
from the eminent French veterinary
surgeon, the late David Roberge, with
whom I exchanged views for over 25
years. He was the greatest genius, in
i my opinion, on the form of the horse and
THE AUQ-I/BTA TIMES HERALD.
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ROPERT BONNER.
bad. but would warm up and lose the j
| lameness every day. Some one told Mr. j
! Bonner Hbout It, and he closely exatn
j ined the animal and Instructed the
j trainer to make certain changes In the
set of the shoe. The change was made,
and Immediately Sunol mended and was
I never lame again. The same thing ns
f every one knows, was true of Maud 8 ;
; when Mr, Vanderbilt sold her to Mr.
i Bonner, and she was cured as easily as
| was the California horse.
In speaking of the efTeet of the Intro- .
, ductlon Of the bicycle sulky. Mr. Bon- ;
net- said that, although the average gain
I over the old time sulky was six seconds.
! In many eases the advantage secured
was much more, Especially was this
| the case, he said, in regard to young
I horses which have not yet gained their
weight pulling strength and to which
every extra pound is a great effort. In
! their case the difference In many In
i stances amounts to as much as 10 or
12 seconds. He told me of a case that
recently happened on hls own three
quarter track. A young animal that had
a record of 2:38 to an old style sulky
the first time she was harnessed to a
pneumatic machine trotted the mile in
2 ->T»i and another colt, with a record
of 2:3*14. made 2:2»H the first time he
was hitched to the bicycle wheeled con
trivance.
The wonderful ability possessed by
! Mr. Bonner In training and developing
the qualities of a horse Is evidenced by
! the case of a mare named Maud C.
When she was owned by Mr. Frank
Rockefeller of Cleveland, she was said
by (Jeers, who trained her for one sea
son. to have as much speed as any
horse in the world, but she was ex
tremely nervous and unsteady. This
was on account of the had Condition of
her feet, in consequence of which he got
: her very cheap.
Mr. Bonner remedied that trouble, and
I she is now as steady as a clock. Very
| recently she trotted a mile on Mr. Bon
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dally routine I* to atari out early In
the morning: from hia beautiful home ui
Fifty-sixth street, New York, for hla
farm at Tarrytown-on-t! c-Hudaon and
spend the day* there, returning about
half past 6, In time for dinner.
How the life he leads has benefited
him Is best learned from a little Inci
dent he related to me Just as I "'as
leaving his house. He said that about
five years ago he was taking a trip
through the southern at**** on a pri
vate car with a party of gentlemen.
When they arrived at Atlanta, they fol
lowed the route of Sherman** army to
the sea. One day they stopped at the
small town of Lexington. Ca., as the
guest of Colonel Eeeles, a well known
member of the bar of the state.
When he was Introduced to Colonel
Eccles, that gentleman said. “Mr. Bon
ner, do you still keep any of the famous
horses your father used to own?” Ev
ery one laughed. Including Mr. Bortner.
The gallant colonel blushed and stam
mered. not knowing what break he had
unintentionally made. Some one told
him that this was Mr. Bonner, Sr., and
Mr. Bonner then owned up to 70 years
of life. Today he is hale and hearty,
with a clear eye and a* steady stride.
He walks several miles each day and
would easily pass for 60 or even less.
The horse will lose its best friend
when Robert Bonner crosses that bourne
from which no traveler returns.
LEO ETHERINGTON.
New York.
Paul Dunbar, the negro poet, who is
now filling a government position as a
clerk in the Congressional library in
Washington, and Wtlliam Cook of that
city are writing a megro comic opera.
Dunbar in a recenfc interview said: “I
want to have the played entirely
by colored singers. v .The heroine is the
daughter of a waiter who has become
rich from the tips received at a winter
hotel in St. Augustine.'’
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F«r a inrtar of a f*«liifT brtorr iw
rlvti war and for II a U jrenr# later
Char# waa (rnuina encouragement of
this Inrm nf Ihratlan art IB every large
.-.immunity In the Dntted Mlalaa To
.very afnall lown and villa** lb* ad
v*Bl of a min*ir*l abna was of aa mu* h
enihuamalh inl*r*al aa a clrru#
T*» Kit«ln P. Christy. whoa* nam* la
In thn mlnatrel tdatform what ihal of
I'd* In Forreat la lo Ih* dm marl, ala**,
la du* th* credit of eatabtlahln* this
form of popular entertainment In New
York city In IMI
Jual why lh« public lon* It* *■ n*r*l
Inlrrral In ibla aprrtaa of *nt*rt*lnm*nl
It la v»r> dim. uli to rxplain. Th.- * I* a
atrona probability, bnwavw, Ihal lh"
!ar*r e* of th* **nuln* n«*«r» from
Ihr ainit. th* north*™ and *«*t*rn
»tat*a dl*r !i“d th* amtlmantal lllualon
with which h* had h*. n r**ard*d aa a
*up*rlutiv*ly comic bclnit.
There atlll remain Cleveland A 'Vll
aon'a c’onaolldated. Prlmroae Thnti-h
--er. William H. Weal. Al O Field*. |h». k
•tnder and a few other or*anl*ullon«,
but they are monater equipment* for i
the road, omnblntnc In thema*-lvea all
the feature# of modern farce comedy
and the mualcal element a of mlnatrelay.
They advertlae laritely ihelr "reltned
programme/* hut many acta are today
given with while fa. -a. and choice bal
lad Ringing la alwaya the favored spe
cialty. There lan't more than 10 per
cent of the old time rollicking humor
and acting In the preaent delineations.
Hut WP shall ever sigh fee that an
cient burlesque slump ape*, h. We
know that the glamour of youth has
fallen from our eye#: that no such crca
lion ever existed In fact, on earth or ih
the sen. as the tattered black Individual,
with the never falling gre.m colored
cotton unmbreUa. who mounted a har
'rcl. n table or a chair and delivered the
most aenseloas concatenation of word*
that could be contrived. If he dtdn t
manage to fall off to the Door to punc
tuate the end of hi* oration, the audi
ence felt that It had been defrauded of
a large portion of Its legitimate and ex- J
pected fun.
Then there was the everlasting Inter
lude. where a manager was suppos d to
be engaged In hiring talent for a dramat
ic combination of his own. It was always
the same "business." The new applicant
rehearsed "Hamlet" and "Damon am)
Pythias," and w ho n. til response to the
Grecian's exclamatory lament. The sun
goes rushing down the west, thtr
would be aspirant for histrionic honors
shouted. "l.et her rush!" or, in a sup
pos'd Richard 111 representation, In an
swer to the tragic demand of "A horse - i
my kingdom for a horse!" the trembling
knave humbly acknowledges, "Master,
forgive me. but 1 slewed your mule."
how every one did laugh! There w*er*
the incongruity and the absurdity to
tickle the spectators. There were also
the plantation songs and dances, which
were perhaps more correct phases cf
genuine slave life than anything else.
Hut. alas, negro minstrelsy has had
its day. and, to paraphrase what the
Prince of Denmark said of Yorick. “We
shall not look upon its like again."
W. THORNE DEVOI.E.
New- York.
Money Spent on Golf.
People who profess to think that golf
is merely a passing fad do not realize
the amount of money which has been
invested in the game. One of the surest
indications that the sport has come to
I stay is the enormous outlay fpr golf
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HI6S HILDA MOODY
The illustration shows Miss Hilda Moody as Antonia in A Greek Slave at
Daly's theater, London. She will come to this country during this season. Miss
Moody is a Cornish woman, the youngest of a family of 13. which “has provided
the musical world with two sopranos, two contraltos and two prose ssional mu
sicians. One of her sisters. Miss Fanny Moody, the wife of Mr. Charles Man
ners. is the well known grand opera singer, and another, Miss Lily Moody, haa
won fame on the concert platform.
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