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WIDELY KNOWN TURFMAN PASSES AWAY. W. H. Laudeman died at Lexington, last Wednesday. He was well known in Chicago when racing flourished here and owned and raced many good horses. With -the Hanover . colt Hermando he won the Latonia Derby of 1901, besides many other valuable races. Death was due to urcmis poisoning, from which he had suffered for about four months. Hope for recovery was practically abandoned several days ago, as he grew gradually worse, and for the last few days reports from his bedside indicated that he Avas barely living. Mr. Laudeman was 55 years old. He was known to hundreds of friends throughout the country as "Hops" Laudeman. He was the eldest son of D. D. and Elizabeth Montague Laudeman. His father is well remembered by the old residents of Lexington as a miller and grain merchant. The Hernando building, which lie bought a number of year ago, he named for the horse that had helped him own it. He was an exceptionally apt mathematician and expert calculator, and above all had the confidence and respect of the public as well as of the men of the turf. Mr. Laudeman is survived by a widow, who was Miss Kate Maguire, sister of Mrs G. D. Wilson, Mrs. Rogers Wilson, Mrs. Lulie Ferguson, and Dr. John D. Maguire; one daughter, Mrs C. D. Calloway; a brother, Harry Laudeman, and a sister, Mrs. George B. Taylor, of Cincinnati. When it became necessary to insure integrity of the mutuels on the Kentucky tracks, it-was done by appointment of "Hops" Laudeman as supervisor of betting. The public regarded his name ns a synonym for honesty.
