. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November n. 1901"! the Zpveettev mtcr grpwrsmcut I'iiti'ii'ii'iiti'ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'ij'ii'ii'ii'ii'i # ⢠HIDALGOS GOSSIP. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. LONDON, October 2H, 1901. To-morrow I start for Paris, thence to the Riveira and so back to Boulogne, where I take the steamer of November Tth for New York. To say that I am glad of it does not fully express what I feel; and yet, no man was ever treated with more uniform courtesy than I have been ever siuce my arrival in British waters. But the fact remains that I have become so habituated to the off-hand ways
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November n. 1901"! the Zpveettev mtcr grpwrsmcut I'iiti'ii'ii'iiti'ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'ij'ii'ii'ii'ii'i # ⢠HIDALGOS GOSSIP. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. LONDON, October 2H, 1901. To-morrow I start for Paris, thence to the Riveira and so back to Boulogne, where I take the steamer of November Tth for New York. To say that I am glad of it does not fully express what I feel; and yet, no man was ever treated with more uniform courtesy than I have been ever siuce my arrival in British waters. But the fact remains that I have become so habituated to the off-hand ways of Pacific Coast life that l am unlit to live elsewhere; and I have no doubt but I should feel equally ill at ease in New York, where I was bom nearly seventy years ago. The truth is, that America is a progressive country, while England is weighted down by the musty tradi- tions of the past. This is more or less evident in all things, out especially so in racing. At Newmarket they have six or seven different courses and the Cesare- witch, through which I stood through a pouring shower of rain, is run over half a mile away from the finishing post of the two year old race, which had just preceded it. On our American courses, all the races are terminated at one given point; and yet, if there was one man that walked across the field to see the finish for a great autumn handicap, there were five thousand. How long would any American track lastâ as a business investmentâwhere people would have to pay for admission to three separate stands in one after- noon? Such methods are not only pliocene, but asi- nine. I gave these otherwise practical people credit for more sense. But they seem to be tied up to what their forefathers did in the years that have flown. My only wonder is that they do not wear steel armor iu battle like they did in the days of Cressy and Agin- court, and yet I have met with uo more hospitable people than these are; and when they have invited you to their houses
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