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FOR FITZPATRICKS FITZPATRICK FAMILY The Daily Telegraph of New York has started a subscription for the wife and children of Dare Devil W J Fitzpatrick who died last week and left nothing in the way of sustenance for his family The Telegraph wired DAILY RAC AC ¬ ING IN FORM Tuesday night as follows NEW YORK Feb 8 1898 1898The The Telegraph is starting a subscription for the family of Fitzpatrick Can you give it men ¬ tion ion THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TELEGRAPHThe Telegraph The answer was as follows CHICAGO ILL Feb 8 1898 1898Certainly Certainly Subscribe 25 for DAILY RACING FORM of Ghicaeo Chicane GhicaeoDAILY DAILY RACING FORM PUBLISHING Co CoA Cora A second dispatch was sent an hour later as vSkfollows 1 1 vSk vS follows i3 CHICAGO ILL Feb 8 1898 1898Put Put down Barney Schreiber for 25 also alsoDAILY asocial DAILY RACING FORM PUBLISHING Co CoFitz Comfit Fitz Fritz was improvident but he was honest and a credit to the turf He may have made mis mils ¬ takes but never in the line of riding merality morality He deserves a monument and his family a living If any admirer of Fitz Fritz wants to sub ¬ scribe to the New York Telegraphs fund through DAILY RACING FORM the subscriptions will be cheerfully forwarded to the main source sourceThere sorcerer There is a good prospect that a substantial fund will bo raised in the east but since Fitz Fritz ¬ patrick rode much in the west and had hosts of friends and admirers here it is to be hoped the western subscription will be hearty and gener gender ¬ ous onus Fred Taral Aral has proposed that each jockey riding at the Morris Park meeting shall give his fees for one days riding to the fund This will be done and will produce a handsome sum Why cannot the boys now riding at San Fran ¬ cisco and New Orleans do the same GOSSIP OF THE TURF It is hard to say with any near approach to accuracy how long the horse has been a domes ¬ ticated etiolated animal We can only say that he has been so from time immemorial that is from the earliest time of which we have any records The Assyrian sculptures and they are about the most ancient of which we know anything for some of them are estimated to date from 4200 B C contain more representations of caparisoned horses than even men Still we do not get any examples of favorite horses until a long time after this thisEven thieve Even the first examples indeed are only leg ¬ endary denary for though there is no doubt Hector of Troy existed it is not improbable that Homer invented the names of his three favorite horses Podergo Plodder the cream colored Galathe Gallanted and the fiery Ethon Eton But the horse of Alexander the Great Bucephalus is an individual as histori historic ¬ cally calmly real as his master But the horse of Alexander the Great showed so much viciousness that Alexanders Alexander father was about to send him away when the young prince offered to tame him He agreed in the event of failure to forfeit the price of the horse and began by turning his head to the sun as he ob ¬ served that the horse was frightened at his own shadow In the end he completely tamed him so completely indeed that Bucephalus though he would permit nobody except Alexander to mount him always knelt down for that purpose to his master He died at the age of 30 and his master built as his mausoleum the city of Bucephala London Standard The Washington Post tells in the line of political gossip a peculiarly interesting story that bears on the turf Here it is Senator Deboe Deb although a Kentuckian is not to the manner born because he has an anti ¬ pathy patchy to horse races His predecessor Joe Blackburn thinks that a horse race is the finest port in the world When Deboe Deb came to Wash ¬ ington Kingston Blackburn thought ho would make everything as pleasant as possible for his suc such ¬ cessor censor and as the races were in progress he suggested that Deboe Deb go with him out to the Bennings Jennings course courseI course I really do not care to go said the newly elected senator senatorNot senator Not go I exclaimed Mr Blackburn in un ¬ disguised amazement Dont Don't you like a horse race raceWell Rockwell Well the fact is drawled Deboe Deb languidly I really do not care much for that kind of sport You see I never saw a horse yet that could not if he were put to it beat another horse horseBlackburn horseback Blackburn looked at his colleague in blank surprise Then he made an exclamation that would not look well in print printNo Pinto No said Deboe Deb conclusively there isnt isn't anything in a horse race Sometimes the horses may come in even but generally speaking when a horse is put to it he can beat another horse horseThe horseshoe The disgusted Blackburn went by himself
