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CROKER ERECTS STATUE OF DOBBINS. Hi. -hard Croker though! ■ great deal of Dobbins. aa he had ■ right to. The ••inner of the Lawrence Beallratlon Stakes Is 1894 was the best bone the Tammany chieftain ever owned. Jus! bow muck be thought of Dobbins i- illustrated In the. fact thai he baa placed in the stable yard . i his aatablisbmen in Ireland ■ marble statue of the son of Mr. Pick i.-k and Tbora. The statue bt the work of an Italian sculptor. At the Croker farm, which is aboafl eight mites Iri.m Unl.lin. the Behls irr all walled in with gi ml in square Mocks, ipiarried from the Dublin inouniaiiis. adjofashag tbe farm. On the train ins t, rounds the turl is so thick thai the youngsters revel on it. Then i- a stralghl course one and ■ half milo long. The stables are all bull! of granite, fieri- in forty box stalls adjoining each other, farming a circle, with rough cemented Boors, j.eiic ij. . ili.j-iut-u .-j*U ventilated, and *jo a lli.lt the ■ horues nit- j»t sxdn!-ely * le from in.i All the hntldhixs ,«n„ , -, -1 viilt the » M.-ildes are - t *.t«tre- -iit eVftnit* ftsrlM*. m het style. In short. rt js the aWl .■•nnpl.-ie ra.-ins .«l-it!;- - T 1:i t _»■ .-ii.-i i h . -. - have ever seen. All the lmi»rovenients have been made t, tbe Croker farm in less than two years. Every balldbig oa the | lace Is ligiited by elei ricity, supplied bj i dynamo on tbe grounds.
