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VOLUME XXIII—NO. 4. > MORRISTOWN, N. J., F-R3DAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THE M. F.C. HORSE SHOW.
Morristown’s Surpassing Autumn Exhibit of the
Best Strains of Blooded and Other Stock.
Hardly had the echoing cheers that bounded from hill to hill in
the great golf championship matches ebbed away into stillness ere
the note of another all-alluring field event announces its triumphal
entry. The second annual horse show of the Morristown Field Club
will begin at the driving park near this city on Thursday, October
6, continuing on the 7th and 8th. That two such popular attractions
as that lately past and this immediately to come should have been
successfully launched with such skillfulness and zeal and within the
short interval that separates them is creditable in the highest degree
to the executive acumen of the projectors and managers; and that
Morristown is the chosen centre of both is flattering to the charm of
location and social elegances that make this city a favored resort on
many occasions of widespread and captivating public interest.
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The term “horse show” is a commonplace for signifying what in all
the civilized world is esteemed the most meritorious and fascinating
form of exhibition, for the horse in all countries is considered the
most devoted, tireless and patient of the dumb servants of man. cYet
there would be drawn to these levees no greater, more representative
or resplendent swarms of admirers and critics of the horse were the
title of a “horse show” swollen into hifalutin by a higher sound
ing noun. For it is the horse which is the magnet, and not the plac
ard of the arena where he is assembled and where his friends flock
to see him. And he is worthy of all that man can do to do him proud
and of all that woman may do to make him kind and gentle. Though
he does at times get hallucinations and cut up smash, and though
at others he pirouets and kicks and snorts and breaks his neck, all'is
forgiven. If we could tell him of his faults and deficiencies he would
correct them; if he could speak of his merits he would tell us that
he has been on the fighting line of battle since before the days of
Saul and that no other animal ever posed in imperishable bronze on
the top of a monument.
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The ancients associated the horse not only with all the h.e and
grandeur of war, but this immemorial companion and aid of man in
every age and estate was given pre-eminence in appropriate festi
vals and pageants. The Greeks were appreciative in the highest
sense of his indispensable utilities both in peace ana war, and he was
often shown at the national games gorgeously caparisoned and be
decked with baubles and ribbons. And the same with the Romans.
In the knightly era of early Spain the horse was the inseparable ad
junct of a vaunted chivalry that survived many centuries, while it is
true that though forms and orders among men have passed away, the
relative attitude of the horse toward affairs of civic, martial and so
cial popularity and pomp has remained unaltered. In our own time
there is little of the carnival customs or of the pretentious exhibitions
of former years that drew to great centres of fashion and population
the lovers of the horse from all over the .world. It is not now even
a “fair.” It is only a “show.” The name is plain and simple, but
the horse is the same that cantered into human admiration at Eden.
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And it is the horse show, then, as we have said, which is to engage
—- -the enthusiastic attention of the people of Morristown and a great
many others within a fortnight. Although this will be the second
only of the kind held by the Field Club, the great demand for boxes
assures already the success of the event. That society will have a
gala week replete with functions for the regalement of its guests, goes
without saying. The sale of boxes took place at the Field Club on
Monday evening, with a large attendance of bidders and ladies. The
first box was purchased by L. S. Sire, and sixty of the seventy-five
boxes weTe disposed of at an average price of $50. Thus, while last
year’s sale netted $1,200 that of Monday reached $3,000, demonstrat
ing increased interest in this species of exhibition since its introduc
tion. The parking spaces in the infield, too, are in as great demand as
the boxes. So that there will be present many four-in-hands and
other traps. A marked feature of the program will be the music, to
be rendered by a band led by W. J. Styles. This gentleman has
composed a march entitled the “Morristown Field Club.” This will
be played each day, accompanied by Styles with the coach horn.
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That nothing will be left undone at the driving park that might
conduce to prestige and success and to the entertainment and pleas
ure of the club’s guests and visitors is well attested by the energetic
and effective personnel of the committee in charge. This is compos
ed of Elliot Smith, President; John M. Shaw, Secretary; William J.
Romaine, Treasurer; John I. Waterbury and Robert H. McCurdy.
These names include those of the president and treasurer of the Field
Club, of which R. B. Duyckinck is the Secretary, who was one of the
Board of Governors when, in 1893, from the chrysalis of the Morris
town Lawn Tennis Club was sprung the ampler and more general or
ganization under the present well known title. The restricted asso
ciation of that date, that numbered 130 members and was content in
the single ambition for superb tennis,’is today represented by rolls
that show many hundred devoted names, and there is scarcely a lim
itation of the club’s objects or of its courageous interest in respect
of the enhancement of all appropriate outdoor sport and recreation.
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The officers in 1893, at the reorganization upon the present lines,
were: Charles D. id. Cole, President; George J. Little, Vice-Presi
dent; Morris G Sutphen, Secretary-Treasurer, with Messrs. Douglas
F. Cox, Richard King and W. G. Van Tassel Sutphen as members of
the Board of Governors. The membership had at this time risen to
171. It was undej. this administration that the tennis championship
was won by the club and that the present home was built and for
mally opened, this last on July 4,1894. In that year a golf course,
also, was laid out, and bowling alleys were opened on Christmas of
1895, a skating rink having also been built Use of the latter, how
ever, was interrupted by the breaking of the dam improvement. In
1895 the club also won the championship in singles in the Morris
and Essex Tennis League matches. The year 1896 marked an era of
Continued on Fourth Page.
Regular Republican Nomination
by the Trenton Convention.
Attorney-Geueral Griggs Presides and De
livers a Telling Address — Sound Party
Platform Adopted—Pitney Seconds Voor
hees1 Nomination—An Enthusiastic and
Influential Gathering.
Hon. Foster M. Voorhees, the Repub
lican nominee for Governor and who by
virtue of his position as President of the
Senate officiated, and very acceptably,
as Acting Governor of New Jersey
since President McKinley called Gov.
Griggs to the Attorney Generalship of
the United States, is so well known that
little need be said by the Chronicle in
the way of introduction.
Mr. Voorhees is a Jerseyman, coming
from a good old ancestry that has always
been prominent in public affairs. He was
born at Clinton, Hunterdon county, No
vember 5, 1856, and was graduated from
Rutgers College, Class of ’76. He stud
ied law with Hon. William J. Magie,
HON. FOSTER M. VOORHEES.
now Chief Justice, and soon after his ad
mission to the bar he opened a law office
in Elizabeth and at once became promi
nent in politics. He was elected to the
Assembly of 1888,1889 and 1890, and he
has represented Union county in the Sen
ate since 1893.
Senator Voorhees was the unanimous
choice of his Republican colleagues for
the Presidency of the Senate in 1898, and
became Acting Governor in February.
The very earliest stage of the war found
him hard at work organizing and arrang
ing for the equipment of the New Jersey
militia, becoming in fact as well as in
form commander of the State troops ren
dezvoused at Sea Girt; and it is a matter
of record that no detail connected with
the work of organization failed to receive
his personal attention.
The result was apparent when the New
Jersey volunteers were ordered to the
front. They were thoroughly armed and
equipped—a fact not recorded of the sol
diers from any other State.
As a war Governor, Foster M. Voor
hc ", is d< "erving of the highest praise.
Thoroughly informed upon matters af
fecting the varied interests of the State,
sound upon the financial question, a tried
servant of the people, able and eloquent,
it is safe to predict his election by a ma
jority which will emphatically prove
that the Republican and independent vo
ters of staid old New Jersey propose to
continue an honest and fearless adminis
tration.
Bearing all these things in mind, Mor
ris county will roll up a surprisingly
large majority in November for Voorhees
and the whole Republican ticket.
The Republican convention held at
Trenton yesterday for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for Governor
was perhaps one of the most enthusiastic
in the history of the party. A number
of the party leaders and the majority of
the Morris county delegates went to
Trenton on Wednesday night. The
Morris county delegation organized rs
follows:
Chairman—Mahlon Pitney, Morris;
secretary, S. L. Garrison, Boonton.
Committees—Credentials, Charles Lum,
Chatham; Rules, F. H. Beach, Dover;
Resolutions, G. W. Stickle, Rockaway;
Permanent Organization, James H. Mc
Graw, Madison.
Luther Kountze of Morris was elected
one of the vice presidents of the conven
tion.
Chairman Murphy called the conven
tion to order at noon, when prayer was
offered by the Rev. J. K. Manning of
Trenton. Attorney General Griggs, the
temporary chairman, received a greeting
which was so hearty that the usual self
composed Jerseyman seemed embar
rassed. After the cheers Mr. Griggs de
livered an address, which was listened to
with the closest attention and frequently
interrupted by cheers. He clearly set
forth the issues of the campaign, refer
ring to the work of reform in New Jer
sey accomplished by the Republican
party—the importance of locking closely
after local and State affairs, the good
fortune of the Republican party in hav
ing at its head so clear-headed and able a
representative as William McKinley was
dwelt upon; also the policy of the nation,
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REGULAR SOLDIERS HERE.
Memorial Hospital Entertains Some Heroes
of the Cuban Campaign.
The appearance of soldiers in groups
on the different streets has prompted
several persons to humorously inquire if
the town is under martial law. While
such a question is perhaps justified it
may be timely if not enlightening to
state that these representatives of Uncle
Sam’s service are entirely harmless, for
they have entered this bailiwick-unarmed
and are at the mercy of our citizens.
And it is doubtful if many could carry a
gun even if they so desired, for their ex
perience in Cuba left them in a condi
tion not calculated to make labor or
duties of any kind welcome for some
time to come.
These, to which reference Is made, are
regulars and came to Morristown on the
invitation of the Naval Hospital Aid.
Of the number at Memorial Hospital,
where the soldiers testify to having re
ceived every attention, nine obtained
furloughs and on Saturday night and left
for their|homes or for posts where their
respective regiments were stationed be
fore the war. In the party were one
sergeant and two corporals. One soldier
had been in the service 18 years and in
three Indian campaigns. Another had
spent 12 years in the army and had also
seen Indian fighting. The others who
left the hospital have worn the United
States uniform for periods covering from
two to six years.
There are eight regulars at the hospital
now, all suffering in greater or less de
gree from the effects of malaria or
typhoid. Several more are expected
from Montauk. Of those who arrived
late last week Sergeant John Broadfoot
of Co. A, Seventh Regiment, is the oldest
soldier, having seen twelve years of
service which included the Sioux cam
paign of ’90 and ’91. He was out of the
service several years but re-enlisted.
Two other members of the same com
pany are with the sergeant. They are
George E. Busey and James U. Mc
William. Other members of the regi
ment here are John Sullivan, Co. E; John
Keefe, Co. E, and James E. Chase, Co. M.
Everything possible for the comfort of
the sick heroes is being done by the doc
tors and nurses at the hospital and the
soldiers declare that they will never for
get their sojourn in Morristown. The
new hospitaljjuiiv'g hrs been opened
for the accommodation of the soldiers
and its appointments are such as to make
it seem almost a palace to the men who
have spent the past four months sleeping
on the ground and existing on a diet of
salt pork and a limited quantity of hard
tack.
Soveral of the convalescents have
visited the Market Street Mission and a
party of them attended the South Street
Presbyterian Sabbath school on Sunday.
CONDITIONS AT MONTAUK.
Dr. McCarrol Visited the Camp end Th’nks
It is Favorably Located.
Dr. Harry B. McCarroll was selected
to visit Montauk Point and to return
with a number of sick soldiers who were
to be provided for by the Naval Hospital
Aid at Memorial Hospital. He per
formed his mission to the satisfaction of
those interested, and in securing for the
soldiers lurloughs, or in some instances
only permission to leave camp, he was
obliged to visit the several regiments.
In an interview with a Chronicle re
porter a day or two ago Dr. McCarroll
said that conditions at Montauk had im
proved in marked degree and that tke
sick were receiving the best of attention.
Barraoks are being put up which, it is
said, will be for permanent use of the
army. The water'is tested daily and the
Morristown doctor thinks the site a
good one.
Dr. McCarroll was impressed especial
ly with a novel but effective work being
conducted by Mrs. Louise Hogan under
the supervision of the government. This
woman went to Montauk bearing a let
ter of endorsement from President Mc
Kinley, and in each regiment she is open
ing what she calls a “Diet Kitchen.”
Here suitable food is prepared to meet
every case of sickness as soon as it arises.
Two or three nurses in each kitchen
make regular trips through the regiment
and carry the nourishing foods to the
soldiers. The project was begun at
Montauk and Mrs. Hogan hopes to
establish the kitchen in camps through
out the country. She believes in this
way the soldiers may be taught to cook
delicate and nourishing foods and ulti
mately be able to take care of the sick.
Soldier Wechlsler Seriously III.
Eugene Wechlsler, .whose son is a
soldier in the 14th N. Y. Volunteers, has
received a letter stating that Charles is
ill with tpphoid fever. The writer is
John L. Macumber, Major and Brigade
Surgeon U. S. V., and he announced his
ability to see young Wechlsler daily and
if there is any change for the worse, will
notify the father. He further states that
while the Morristown boy is very ill
there is hope for his recovery ultimately
and that good medical attendance and
nurses are provided. Mr. Wechlsler ex
pects to visit his son at the hospital In
Camp Shipp, Anniston, Ala.
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Ruminations Along the Late
Championship Links.
How the Great Contest Was Enthusias
tically Cor eluded—Medals for the Lead
ers—Expressions by the Winners—And
Everybody Happy—Golf Now a National
Game.
The big golf championship tournament
has ended, the country residents, their
guests and the host of golfers from
Greater New York have returned to
their homes and a week of genuine sport
and social gayety, such as the Morris
County Club has never before known,
was declared a great success. The scores
of the contestants up to Thursday night
were published in last week’s Chronicle.
On Friday Findlay S. Douglas beat W.
J. Travis 8 up and 6 to play, and W. B.
Smith won from C. B. Macdonald 2 up
and 1 to play. On the same afternoon
the tie for the silver medals in the quali
fying round on Monday between C. B.
Macdonald, R. H. Crowell and W. B.
Smith was played off, Smith winning the
first and Macdonald the second medal.
There was a great concourse of on
lookers at the club house Saturday to
witness the start in the final match of
the United States Golf Association
amateur.championship of 1898 between F.
S. Douglas of the Fairfield County Golf
Club and formerly a player on the team
of the St. Andrew’s School at St. An
drews, Scotland, and W. B. Smith,
holder of the golf championship of Yale
University and entered from ther On
wentsia Club near Chicago. Douglas
won by 5 up and 3 to play. That Smith,
a youth who has known the use of golf
clubs for only three years, should have
been able to play such a close match with
a man like Donglas who has known the
game since his days of childhood almost,
may be regarded as a remarkable
achievement.
Before the players started in the
morning a rope was stretched across the
course in order to keep the “gallery”
from interfering with the play of the
golfers. The rope was borne by some
caddie boys, under the guidance of of the
members. Owing to the crookedness of
the course after the first tew holes the
rope and the onlookers were often in a
hopeless tangle. The members of the
club wh<5 directed the actual play were
Ransom H.Thomas, J. B. Dickson,G. G.
Kip, R. H. Williams, W. Y. Marsh,
W. D. Vanderpool and A. H. Tiers. The
members were the generals in an army
of enthusiasts numbering nearly a thou
sand, which was probably the largest
crowd that has ever followed a golf match
in this country.
During the week it seemed to be the
policy of Douglas to save himself in the
morning and to do his hardest work in
the afternoon. For this reason a dash
was expected of the Fairfield player in
starting out for the second round Satur
day, but the reverse happened, for partly
by good play and partly by good luck,
Smith won the first two holes. Although
Smith had the “gallery” with him, it was
evident from the beginning that he must
succumb to Douglas’ steady style of
play.
The victorious golfer received a gold
medal and the custody for a year of the
championship cup, the gift of Theodore
A. Havemeyer. Smith received a silver
medal, and the defeated men in the semi
finals, W. J. Travis and C. B. Mac
donald were awarded bronze medals. In
their different matches during the week
Douglas played out 191 and Smith 199
holes, while each walked about sixty
miles in the course of the play. The
tournament was the greatest test of
endurance that golfers have ever under
gone in America.
At the conclusion of the final day’s
play cheers were given for both the victor
and the vanquished and for the Morris
County Golf Club. Lawrence Curtis,
president of the U. S. G. A., in a brief
speech congratulated the club on the
capable management of the event and
then presented medals to Douglas and
Smith- Neither made a speech in re
sponse but later Douglas gave out the
following official statement:
“The tournament throughout has been
faost perfectly managed. The contes
ants have been men whom it has been a
great pleasure for me to meet. Every
match was fought out in the pluckiest
and most manly way, and I confess to an
honest pride in my success in such
company.”
Smith expressed himself in a similar
vein, and said that if the title was not to
stay in the West he was glad that it had
been won for the East by such a worthy
exponent of the game. John Reid, the
ex-president of the St. Andrew’s Golf
Club, made this statement:
“The match has revealed that golf is
part of the life blood of young America.
The game is destined to flourish and grow
like a green bay tree. We who have in
troduced golf to the United States feel
confident to-day that it will not be long
before our young players will hold their
own with the golfers of the wide world.”
JUST A SORT OF SALAD.
Some Casual Personages, Things and Themes that
Serve Anon for a Piquant Entremet.
If one wishes to view a fascinating spectacle of animated gayety
limned by vari-hued sidelights and lined under electric arcs, he can
nightly regale his eyes along tha thronged walks of the Park section
of Morristown. There are grander promenades, and greater towns,
and more illumination and more people abroad. But that doesn’t
make a panorama elsewhere like it better than ours; and if it is more
studied and stiff than ours it isn’t as good. And the forms that flit
swingingly by in the glint of the well-lighted store windows and that
glimmer under the blinding chandeliers of the streets are the forms
generally of the home folk, drawn into the night by the delights of
the weather and the joys of health and recreation. They artlessly .
gravitate and unconsciously mingle, and then, without self-volition,
make up a sort of procession and move mechanically in one direction
or another. They don’t dream that in the kaleidoscope of the scene
they are, by some divinity or other, being fitted just into harmonious
niches to make a picturesques spectacle, and they don’t dream, either,
that any one is affected by the suggestiveness of so pleasant a nightly
exhibition. Yet it is tirelessly enjoyed by critical numbers partic
ularly of more sedate strangers and others, and w’ho, by the way, re
gard these nightly groupings as a social specialty in Morristown.
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But at the stroke of ten, and as if by a legerdemain, this mass of
humanity dissolves and disappears, and directly the Parkways are
darkened. The concourse has separated for their homes, of course,
and turned into lanes and streets and avenues not all too luminous at
best. And presently there is somewhere a flutter of white forms, a
clatter of thin, clear voices, a piping cry of pain, a mild,, muffled im
precation, a titter, then a ramble of running criticism. That one
or more of the party had “stumped her toe,” was obvious at first, and
that others before and still others afterward were doomed for similar
mishaps at night is quite as obvious. For at one or more points in
each flagged street of Morristown there lies an elevated, uneven
granite edge, projected clearly upward above its fellow by the grad
ual encroachment of a tree-root beneath it on one side or through
depression of the adjoining flag from a washout. To be sure, when
an unwary pedestrian is brought to a poignant halt by a stumble in
the dark where most of all the flag footing of the sidewalk should be
flush and safe, he or she is in no mood for philosophizing over the
exact origin of the cause, the cause of the shock and injury, pain and
profanity lying bare enough by day in a score of places. The ques
tion that rushes congestively to his consciousness is something like
this: “Whose business is it to repair these dangerous places, and why
are they neglected?” The city is responsible in damages in the event
of serious or fatal injury to a citizen by reason of a dangerous walk.
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The town has been resonant with the tramp of soldiers for a week
in particular, the detachments at the Kuntze estate and the Memo
rial Hospital, who are convalescents representing regiments from a
number of States, having been added to by an escort to Private Bab
cock’s body on Saturday and later by members of Company M, Sec
ond New Jersey, which regiment is about to be mustered out. Still
other soldiers of Uncle Sam have been observed to come and go dur
| ing the interval. So that the town teems with troops and the aspect
I on the thoroughfares is uniquely military by day and by night. The
lads volunteer unstinted expressions of praise for Morristown and its
people, and our citizens have done many things to make this sojourn
a pleasant recollection to those of them who will have to leave us.
It has been noticeable that the best contented and apparently most
healthy men that have reached this city from the various encamp
ments, North and South, are those from the Seventh Corps, under
Major General Fitzhugh Lee, which is stationed at Jacksonville, Fla.
The troops in this corps speak in enthusiastic praise of their veteran
commander, in whose competency and skill they declare unequivocal
confidence. They yearned for battle under Lee’s leadership.
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Morristown is quite innocent of the isms, we believe—not of rheu
matism, maybe, nor, evidently, of magnetism, but of socialism, spir
itualism and isms of that ilk. And speaking of one of these, a lady
in Washington, D. C., “almost persuaded” to embrace Spiritualism,
resolved to put its merits to a severe and decisive test, and invited us
to witness it. On the way to the headquarters of the greatest trance
medium in the country she disclosed, while telling it, that we were
the ©ne and only person at the.Capital who knew that she possessed
valuable real estate in Chicago and intimated that any statement to
that effect by the trance medium would at once convert her to the
faith of Spiritualism. In a short time our friend and we, with the
medium and a putative sister, making four persons, were seated in
a darkened room, and in due time the presence of the spirit of the
dead husband of my widowed friend was announced, who most calm
ly and seriously entertained the information. “Any questions?” asked
the medium’s sister, through whom all communication had to pro
ceed. “Yes,” said the widow; “Ask him if he is happy.” “Very hap
py,” came the answer, through the intermediary. And then there was
a pause, the widow’s air and manner denoting that she was being won.
“Ask him what about my property in Chicago.” “Don’t sell it,” came
the reply, quick as a wink. “Let’s go,” she said. On our return she
exclaimed: “I am convinced. I am a Spiritualist. There was no
way in the world for that woman to know I had property in Chicago!”
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October and the horse are to prance in tandem this time—that is,
here at Morristown. There are animals and animals, and pets and
pets. Some people fancy dogs or cats, others rabbits or elephants.
A lady once told her husband it would kill her if her parrot died. So
he killed the parrot. And we knew of a man who went bareheaded
to warm a wet kitten in his hat. But these are all evanescent fancies.
The horse alone retains the enduring fondness of the human species,
and he will pretty nigh own this town during the horse show that is
to begin at the Morristown Driving Park on the 6th of next month.
For three days the variegated world of style and fashion will view
with rapt admiration the horse as he appears in every possible form
of advantage and where he is always found at his best.