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DEATH OF A NOTED TURF WRITER. Charles P. Trevathan passed away at West Baden. Indiana. Saturday last, a i,titn of coiisiimpi ion He BBS a Slim awful writer in various fields, hut was most widely known as a turf official ami turf writer. •• He was a racing judge on the Ban Francisco tracks. Montana tracks and at Hawthorne In this city, and I - : , : served one term as presiding steward at Washington 1 Park. He was the author of an exhaustive history r of the American thoroughbred that received high 1 praise from English critics. In another field he :• esaupeaed for the popular actress May Irwin, a , number of the •coon" songs that won favor from 1 coast to coast and of late wrote some extreinely effective short stories of frontier life. He was but 1 , forty-one years of age and his taking aaray wis » untimely ami a sad blow to a great array of Meads.
