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STARTER A B DADE FAMOUS RACING OFFICIAL DEAD NEW ORLEANS La January 11 Deep mourning prevails here as it undoubtedly did on other parts of the American continent where the fport of racing is popular as a result of the death of Arthur Barrett Dade monarch of starters man of integrity and high ideals and scholarly gentleman gentlemanHis His deatli came during the night at ono of tho local hotels after an illness that con ¬ fined him TO his room since his arrival here last November His devoted wife was at Ins bedside as she has constantly been when the end came His remains will be shipped tonight to liis former home in Henderson Ky where he will be buried Saturday His body will be accompanied by Joseph A Mur ¬ phy steward at both New Orleans tracks tracksMr Mr Dade came here intending to officiate as starter it Jefferson Park as well as the Fair Grounds He was not feeling at his best at Dale Park named in his honor at the Henderson Ky inaugural meeting and only worked there two days of the ten that the meeting lasted but he thought his indis ¬ position was only temporary and that with a short rest he would be well enough to carry on his work during the winter Valvular leakage of the heart however became more pronounced and then pneumonia aggravated his illness finally causing his demise demiseAll All the officials and many owners con ¬ tributed their floral homage and orders for floral tokens expressing their grief came from many parts of the country Judge Francis Nelson and starter Harry Morrissey at faraway Tijuana were among the first to send condolence to Mrs Dade and an order for flowers to accompany the casket The entire staff of Mr Dades assistants assistantswere were grief stricken by his taking off During his illness William Snyder and William Hamilton had officiated in his stead and he made it a rule to divide the work between them William Hamilton was so overcome that he begged to be excused from working today and William Snyder would have also refrained from work today only there would have been no one to do the starting startingMost Most of the racegoers had their first intimation of Dades passing to the great beyond early this morning when the Fair Grounds management ordered all flags at the plant half masted mastedBands Bands of mourning soon became in evidence encircling arms of jockeys officials assistant starters and intimate friends of the dead starter starterThe The deceased is servived by his wife who was Miss Florence Swan of Brooklyn and his mother and a brother A B Dade was born in Virginia fiftyseven years ago but at an early age his parents moved to Henderson the county seat cf the ccjnty of the same name contiguous to Indiana in the vicinity of Evansville where Mr Dade always made his home when not engaged at his chosen lifes work workAfter After a brief business career at Henderson he embarked as an owner and during the early nineties campaigned a limited numbdr of horses which included A B Dade and Guilty both carrying the late starters colors at the Fair Grounds and achieving some iccess iccessMr Mr Dade obtained his first experience in the starting of races on minor tracks In the South His initial engagement on an important course was at St Louis in the days when racing flourished at the Fair Grounds and Delmar He made good from the beginning and engagements at other important racing centers followed with the result that his services have since bfen in continuous demand on practically all the tracks of Kentucky Canada Canadalino111 latic iy ars ir Dade s work Vith the barrier has been wellnigh perfect In lino111 1909 he discarded the absolutely flatfooted style of starting that he had previously employed and has since been obtaining wonderfully good results with practically no delay in getting his fields away Jt seldom happened that he kept the horses at the post for a longer period periodth mmes an1 most instances they were sent away almost fmmcdlately TO r hlns th the hnrH barrier His work has been warmly commended on several occasions by tutf men from foreign lands who unhesitatingly pronounced it as the best they had bedn DrivUeBed to witness h anywhere In the light of the general excellence of his starting it is no wonde entrusted with the important task of sending the horses aW WDerever M Dad been As was at one time pointed out b a writer who newspaper paid a welldeserved tribute to starter Dade and his methods theabsencc of horses left at the5 onT T post fa i on onthin thin that has greatly endeared him to the devotees of racing No matte vhat the weathfr hi never hurried his work It may well be remarked that to be successful as a starter a man must have a wonderful stock of patience in addition to a quick eye and the abilit to grasp a situation instantly Few men combine these qualifications Mr Dadls patience was little short of marvelous and he controled the jockeys without inflicting the severe penalties which some other starters find absolutely necessary in order to maintain discipline No horse was too bad an actor for him to handle with good results and his tactics in getting down from his stand ard personally taking charge of a fractious animal frequently coped successfully with a situation that appeared wellnigh hopeless He made it a practice to study the peculiarities of every horse with which he had to deal and this doubtless had much to do with the success that he had achieved achievedPersonally Personally Mr Dade was affable in disposition a gentleman in all that the word implies and was universally esteemed by his associates and the racing folks with whom he came into contact
