The Great Si Watts Quarter Race That Split a Mining Camp
In 1883 Ed Corrigan and Dan Lamasney bet against Red Buck at Si Watts Colorado in a legendary two day quarter horse start race. Little Casino ridden by Charles Cross won by a neck to claim the $5,000 side and leave Si Watts ruined as Corrigan and Lamasney fled with winnings and camp fortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles Pettingill
Boundless
United States
Ed Corrigan
Dan Lamasney
Colorado
Si Watts
Red Buck
St Watts
West
Rocky Mountains
Kansas City
Corrigan
Little Casino
Lamasney
Red Suck
Charles Cross
April Fool
Old Jerome Park
Cross
Casino
Watts
Tamusney
Easi
Col Lewis Helps Protégés Win Pacific Railway Posts
Col Charles H. Lewis of Camden Vermont funded thirteen Norwich University youths to study. He asked Gen Grenville Dodge to write a letter guaranteeing each graduate a position on the Texas and Pacific Railway at 100 dollars a month with thirty days leave and transport to El Paso. The plan secured all graduates fine posts and the colonel spoke of the value of practical education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Lewis
Camden
Fifth Avenue
Pacific
Lewis
Norwich University
Northfield
Vermont
Col. Lewis
New York
Grenville M. Dodge
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Gould
Gen. Dodge
Dodge
Texas and Pacific Railway
el Paso
Texas
Art Notes on Ball and Dallin Sculptures in New York
The article reviews Thomas Ball aging eighty three, his Webster statue in Central Park, and Cyrus E. Dallin’s Medicine Man statue and Paris prize. It covers exhibitions at the National Arts Club, Vienna replica offer, and Philadelphia and Austrian government interest. It notes the Jefferson Davis Memorial Arch plans for Richmond by Gudebrod, site moves, and its $75 000 target with $42 000 raised. It also mentions Christie London sales, Picassos and Rembrandts, and Chicago arts events and prizes at the Art Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Ball
Daniel Webster
Central Park
Florence
Montclair
N. J
Mr. Ball
Cyrus E. Dallin
Sculpture Society
National Arts Club
Fairmount Park Association
Philadelphia
Strawberry Hill
Dallin
Vienna
Richmond
Louis Albert Gudebrod
New York
Broad Street
Monroe Park
Rome
Waller
van Dyck
London
Sir Henry Bedingfield
Thomas Howard
Earl of Arundel
Arundel
Greece
Henry
Duke of Norfolk
Countess Arundel
Bedingfield
Memline
Edward VI
Edward
E. F. Milliken
Rembrandt
Milliken
Velasquez
Turner
Christie, Manson & Woods
Poker debt settles fine during court recall
Col James E Jones recalls paying a $50 fine imposed by United States Judge John Pettit of Indiana on the Kansas and Nebraska circuit. The judge, famed for integrity yet fond of poker, fined Jones after an all night poker session at Leavenworth. Jones quips that the debt was already settled by the earlier game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E. Jones
Aquarium
United States
John Pettit
Indiana
Kansas
Nebraska
Leavenworth
Kan
Col. Jones
Colt Jones
Brooklyn to Build a Model Police Court on Gates Avenue
Plans for a new Gates Avenue Court House were presented to Borough President Swanstrom. The three story building will replace the old Gates Avenue Police Station on Gates Avenue between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues. It will cost about 40000 and house the Sixth District City Magistrate's Court Fourth District Municipal Court and civil court on the third floor with spaces for lawyers clerks stenographers and private rooms for officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Gates Avenue Court House
Swanstrom
Public Works
Redfield
Gates Avenue
Marcy and
Tompkins Avenues
Sixth District City Magistrate’s
Fourth District Municipal
Discovery of extinct volcano crater and ancient sea beach
In the Grave Creek mining district of Southern Oregon H C Perkins, a surveyor and geologist, reports finding a mammoth dike of gossan with gold and an extinct volcano crater. Below the crater lies an ancient ocean beach with sea shells, bones, and a huge sea serpent vertebra, suggesting long ago oceans and creatures. Prospector activity previously focused on gold, missing the beach and volcano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Washington
H. C. Perkins
Upper Grave Creek
Oregon
Gossan
Grave Creek Mountains
Gambling tools adapt to reform era in New York clubs
An examination of New York reform era changes shows gambling houses shifting to light portable furniture and folding bed like devices. Manufacturers race to supply concealment friendly roulette tables and related paraphernalia while police scrutiny grows and prices rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reform
New York
Harlem
Edgewater Creche Seeks Funds For Summer Work
The Edgewater Creche appeals for donations to support city children during the hot months. Tickets are available via the Charity Organization Society at 105 East Twenty second Street. Contributors can send to F Delano Weekes President 45 William Street or Charles D Kellogg Treasurer 1123 Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgewater Créche
Charity Organization Society
East Twenty-second Street
F. Delano Weekes
William Street
Charles D. Kellogg
Broadway
St Gabriel's School Alumni Forms Association
A committee of St Gabriel's School Alumni Association led by Judge Daniel P. Martin informed Bishop Farley at the rectory of the permanent organization and asked him to attend as guest of honor at the upcoming banquet. The event, postponed due to Archbishop Corrigan's death, will occur in early Fall. Officers include President Judge Daniel P. Martin and John J. Killian Vice President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Gabriel’s School Alumni Association
Martin
Bishop Farley
Church
Farley
Europe
Holy Land
Corrigan
St. Gabriel’s School
William N. Clowry
Western Union Telegraph Company
State of
New York
St. Gabriel’s Church
Daniel P. Martin
John J. Killian
John J. Delehanty
Daniel J. Gallagher
Francis Reynolds
Explaining a Cow in School in Brooklyn Class
A Brooklyn teacher on Herkimer Street near Kingston Avenue had pupils write about a cow using a displayed bovine image to spark ideas. Students offered lively lines such as Get on to her cow Ain't she a beaut Can she get a gait on Bet her life she can Kin she lick a race horse Not on your tin type.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herkimer Street
Kingston Avenue
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Y. C. Cruises Schedule With Prize Mileage
Commodore Henry R. Cook announces a season of short cruises by the Brooklyn Yacht Club flag officers the program includes two mileage prizes for June through August for yachts under thirty feet and over thirty to fifty feet. Regular cruises list routes to Keyport New Jersey Staten Island Horseshoe Sandy Hook and Atlantic Highlands with clambake events and overnights on select dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry R. Cook
Brooklyn Yacht Club
Keyport
N. J
Staten Island
Orchard Shoal Lighthouse
Club Anchorage
C. H. Humphreys
Henry J. Heath
Horseshoe
Sandy Hook
Southwest Spit
Romer Shoals
Atlantic Highlands
Totterville
S. I
Swinburne Island
New Fifteen-Foot Design To Rival Seawanhaka Start
Seawanhaka-Corinthian YC plans a new class one design fifteen footers to rival 1897 knockabouts. A design contest selected from 32 entries awarded prizes to Allen D Woods Morgan Barney Charles H Hale Alfred E Luders. Boats will be keel sloops with main sail jib spinnaker up to 350 sq ft and open cockpits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club
Seawanhaka
Clinton H. Crane
A. Cary Smith
John Hyslop
J. Rogers Maxwell
Allen D. Woods
New York
Morgan Barney
Charles H. Hale
Brooklyn
Alfred E. Luders
Newark
Excursions for Children at Union Settlement Plan
The Union Settlement on One Hundred and Fourth Street seeks a $1,000 fund to expand summer activities for thousands of children and mothers. Plans include open air days, a nursery under a nurse’s care, a Seashore trip to Coney Island, Bronx Park rambles, and an evening garden concert. Checks go to Thatcher M. Brown at 69 Wall Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Settlement
Fourth Street
Second
Third Avenues
St. John’s Guild
Edgewater Créche
Coney Island
Bronx Park
Thatcher M. Brown
Finance Committee
Wall Street
Politicians on Vacation In Kings County And Nearby Resorts
Brooklyn political figures reveal summer and winter vacation habits. Hugh McLaughlin and James Shevlin split summers between Jamesport and Saratoga while wintering in Florida and North Carolina respectively. Other leaders visit Saratoga, Lake George, Adirondacks, and various upstate retreats reflecting posturing and social ties among Tammany and Republican rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Willoughby Street
Democratic Party
Kings County
Hugh McLaughlin
Jamesport
James Shevlin
Saratoga
McLaughlin
John McCarthy
Gotham
N. Y
Edward M. Shepard
Lake George
Philadelphia
Shepard
New York
Tammany Hall
Tammany
Michael J. Dady
Manhattan Beach
Col. Dady
Gov
Woodruff
Adirondacks
Walter Atterbury
Moose Lake
Michael J. Coffey
Lake Placid
Senator Coffey
Sullivan County
Luke Stapleton
White Lake
John Byrne
Appellate Division
Lake Kiamesha
Coler
Liberty
Goodrich
Europe
Woodward
Fredonia
Gaynor
Great Barrington
Mass
Country Life for Cripples Branch II Opens Summer Home
The Guild for Cripple Children of the Poor of New York opens Sunnyside cottage in Sloatsburg Rockland County for forty disabled children ages six to sixteen. They will spend three months under Dr W L Taylor Orthopedic Hospital care with hopes of improved mobility. Donations welcome sent to Miss F Tyler Edwards at the Sloatsburg home or to Mrs Daniel P Hays at 9 West 121st Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guild For Cripple Children of the Poor of
New York
Daniel P. Hays
David Leventritt
Julius Hart
Sunnyside Cottage
Sloatsburg
Rockland County
W. L. Taylor
Orthopedic Hospital
F. Tyler Edwards
West One Hundred and Twenty-first Street
Miner reunites with fifty year old Jump-Off Joe discovery
S D Johnson arrived at Grant's Pass with gold dust and nuggets from Jack Creek in Jump-Off Joe district. The discovery, lost fifty years, was grubstaked by a Colorado Springs capitalist who once mined there and later guided Johnson to the site. Johnson bought claims for 1500 dollars and plans a hydraulic plant to develop a potentially vast placer mine in Southern Oregon.
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Tacoma
Washington
S. D. Johnson
Grant’s Pass
Oregon
Jack Creek
Joe
Johnson
Colorado Springs
Col
Colorado
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Rules OF
Bach
Marcillat
Christie’s
Cortona Cathedral
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Emlen
Priscilla Cresson
William Emlen Cresson
Chicago Press
The
Art Institute
Press Artists’ League
John .T. McCutcheon
Charles Lederer
A. S. Harkness
C. E. Newman
W. Bradford
Frederick Richardson
William Schmedgen
Otto Schneider
J. S. Gaspard
Norman W. Harris
Art Institute of
That City
Union League Club of
Hoppner
Mary
Redy Arundel
Wardour
Willis
Wertheimer
Colnagh
Agnew
Stowe
Duke of Buckingham
Chandos
Lady Mary
F. Wellington Ruckstuhl
Daughters of the Confederacy of Maryland
Baltimore
Mount Royal Avenue
Druid Hill Park
New York Times
Ruckstuhl
Municipal Art Society
St. Louis
California
NEW Police Court
Edgewater Creche
H. H. Rogers
John D.rockefeller
Bernd Greeff
Martha T. F Collard
Carola
Frederick Thomas H. Hubbard
Jacob H. Schiff
R. T.auchmuty
N. E. Ten Bruce
Emily Redmond
J. Kennedy Tod
William A. Read
William C. Scherhorn
Phebe
Thorne
Mary A
L, H
Grace Wilkes
F. S. Bangs
Charles W. Ogden
Mary F. Ogden
Mary W. Henderson
Andrew C. Zabrisie
Stewart ‘Brown
Calvary Baptist Sunday School
Sarah L. Wise
H. L. Congdon
H. Alexandre
Mary. Lb. Barber
Robert Bayles
T. H. Bauchle
Marie L. Chard
Gustav Schwab
Graham F. Blandy
Charles A. Runk
Blair & Co
William V. Martin
Gertrude
McCoy
Sea iMiss
Elizabeth B. Valk
Brooklyn Y. C. Cruises
Marionfeld
Renault
Country Life
Ramapo Valley
James Crow
Paris
H. B. Kirk & CO
N.Y
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