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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 7, 1906.
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GEORGE ADE, whose meteoric
flight from a humble Chicago re
porter to our most facile and suc
cessful writer of comic nlays. Is
firm believer In agriculture as a rec
reation.' but not only that, for he bc
lievos in it from a strictly pecuniary
standpoint. And - really, Adc's opinion
in this respect is worthy of considera
tion, for it Is not mere theory with
him; he has demonstrated it -in prac
tice. His farm of 300 odd acres near
Brooke, Jnd., has developed into an
per cont investment, although he has
put a small fortune Into It. It is a
magnificent place and it 1b seldom that
a house party is not' enjoying Mr. Adc's
hosoitality Ihere. All the conveniences
of city life are combined with the
comforts of rural existence on this
modern farm of Ade's and improve
ments are constantly being added. The
main residence building is spacious
enough to accommodate many guests
and those who have been so fortunate
as to onjoy hospitality there say that
Ade. as a host, is beyond compare. It
is no joke to assert that Mr. Ade
promises to excel as a practical farm
er, not merely as an agriculturist,
there being, according to Mr. Ade him
self, quite a distinction between the
two. "A farmer," says Mr. Ade, "is a
person who gets his living out of the
soil, while and agriculturist is one
s the Automobile the Swiftest Thing in the
Hamburg Belle equaled the Musketeer's
7 furlongs record of 1 minute and 25 sec
onds, made in 1902. It may be worth tell
ing that the Derby course Is about a mile
and a half and that the best (unofficial)
recorded time made by a Derby winner
in the last ten years was 2 minutes and
40 2-5 seconds, made by W. C. Whitney's
Volodyovski, an American horse, by the
way, in 1901. The nearest approach to
this time on the' Derby course was 2:42.
Persimmon, entered by the Prince of
Wales, now King Edward VII., in 1896.
The best American record for a mile and
a half, 2 minutes 30U seconds, was made
by Goodrich in Chicago in 1S9S.
Harness-Racing First Developed
in This Country.
BUT however creditable the records
of this country may be in the rac
ing of running horses, running races
lack the distinctive element that is
the chief feature of our harness racing
records, for it is In this country that
harness racing has had Its principal,
vlmost its only, development.
Though this form of racing received
Its first Impetus here in 17S8, when
Messenger, the greatest trotting sire,
was imported, it was not till 1843
that records began to be preserved of
ficially and the vogue of the reigning
monarch of the sulky track king or
queen, as the case might be of the
harness turf began to be an idol with
those people who like better to see
trotting machines than running races.
Lady Suffolk was the first trotting
queen; she reigned from 1843 to 1853
with a record of 2:26. Tacony came
next with 2:25. then, Flora Temple,
with 2:24. and In the 48 years since
Lady Suffolk the. record has gradually
been lowered till now it stands at
1:58. made by Lou Dillon in 1903.
Between Lady Suffolk and Lou Dil
lon there have been seven or eight
trotting monarchs; of them all Maud
S., who succeeded St. Julian (record
2:114) in 1880t was a greater popular
favorite over a larger area of the
country than any other horse, cither
trotter or runner or pacer, has ever
been in America. Her reign lasted sev
eral years, when she was withdrawn
from the track with a record of 2:38?i,
but her popularity didn't wane percep
tibly till her death some years later.
Years after her last appearance on the
track, she was still better known
among ali classes in all parts of the
country than any other quadruped In
existence whatever. The reigning track
.favorites would be better known to
. ' the young man. n -N. , '" ' mii
cJi a P5;-.G eor,cp,"id .the oldM; V- :
JaVv WNfeTKCNv- Ade 1 tlloUBht might be a good JO . - - .. " ? -v' wSJKf
vsX NgCjlj5- Idea for you to buy it. You know, my K "'.fr. ': ' gk1' 'j'?
who puts his living into the t-oil."
Ade declares that his books are open
to show that he is really a farmer, not
an agriculturist- There is nothing from
the secretive radish to the assertive !
English bull pup, that Ade docs not
raise at Brooke. The bull-dog indus
try is his latest venture, and he fig
ures that it will prove a very profit- j
able one. His friends, however, .are not j
so sanguine, for Farmer Ade has shown
regular race devotees every year, of
course, but Maud S. would be known
by name and stand for the standard
in speed in the most remote regions,
regions where the champion runner
and trotter of the year would never
be heard of at all.
The cause of the bonny trotting
marc's remarkable vogue over all other
horses has always been a puzzle to
foreign horsemen and even to many
Americans, though It isn't at all hard
to explain.
Maud S. made her record just when
the most famous men of their day
drove their own fast roadsters. They
included General Grant, ex-soldier and
ex-President; Cornelius Vanderbilt,
first of the name, and his sou William
II.; Robert Bonner, publisher of the
unique New York Ledger, and many
others of the men best known by the
mass of the common people.
These men were interested in trot
ting horsQS as horses they owned
them for their personal usb and con
venience. Bonner and the old Com
modore drove their fast horses in the
streets of New York, on old Harlem
Lane in particular, in friendly brushes
against one another, and all who cared
to look' might see them. In every city
big and little, in every, village, almost,
Bonner and Vanderbilt had local Imi
tators, who owned trotting horses,
trained them, drove them and in
dulged In friendly brushes with their
neighbors which all might -witness
exactly as Bonner and Vanderbilt and
General Grant did In New York, at
Newport, Saratoga ana Long Branch.
Although Bonner withdrew Maud S.
from speed contests for money as soon
as he bought her, ho allowed her to
givo exhibitions ln many places and
wherever she trotted, there he drew
vast crowds. After her, as trotting
champions, came Jay Eye See, Sunol,
Nancy Hanks, Cresceus. Major Del
mar, and now Lou Dillon reigns.
Though every one of these has bet
tered the best records of Maud" S., none
has ever won nearly as great popular
favor and it Is doubtful whether any
other horse ever will.
It should be added for the benefit
of those who are unfamiliar with the
later development of trotting speeds
that Maud S. always trotted without
a wind shield and before an old-fashioned
high sulky with plain bearings.
The later trotting champions have trot
ted before ball-bearing sulkies and
nearly all of the phenomenal records
have "been made with the aid of a wind
shield hauled In front of the trotter
by a running horse. Only one of the
trotters appearing: ln the ''best rec
a disposition to make each new pup a
permanent member of the family.
Fifteen of them have already been de
clared not for sale and each one is
named after a character in an Ado
play. "Widow." called after the title
rolu in her master's most conspicu
ously successful play, is the bright
particular favorite of the Ade kennel.
Tnc Ade farm Is beautifully located,
being but a few miles from the live
ords" today made his record before a
high sulky; that was Major Delmar,
who made his 2-07 record in 1904 under
conditions similar to those under
which Maud S. made her records.
Major Delmar's record of 1:59 was
made in 1901.
Pacing is near akin to trotting, but
the trotting and pacing records have
always been kept well Separated. The
best mile pacing record mado by Dan
Patch. ln October of -1985. in 1:55 4-5
was against time, paced by a runner
carrying a wind shield.
Though still popular in many parts
of the country, trotting and pacing
have largely lost the great hold they
had upon the people 20 and 20 years
ago. Trotting meetings are still held
In the vicinity of New York, but tho
mass of the people neither attend th'em
nor road the reports of the trotting,
and Sysonby, Jim Keene's running
horse. Is known and worshiped by
thousands to every dozen New Yorkers
who give Lou Dillon or Dan Patch
more than a thought.
In other places, like Rochester, for
instance, where the first oval trotting
track was Jald out. where Maud S.
and Jay Eyo See and St. Jullen used to
make their records before crazy mul
titudes, numbering tens of thousands,
the old trotting trucks have long been
abandoned and built over; horse-racing
being entirely given up and tho speed
madness of the people given over en
tirely for the present to the automo
bile. High and Long-DIstancc Railroad'
and Steamship Speeds.
GETTING back to the speed of wheeled
machines, it may be said that so far
as the figures are known on this side of
the water, America holds the short-distance
railroad record. It is often claimed
that tho fastest regular trains over long
distance are operated In this country, but
any statement to that effect should be
taken with at lepst a grain of salt; still,
we hold up our own nd and fairly well.
The two fastest trains In the world, con
sidering the distance, are the cighteen
hour trains between New York and Chi
cago over the New York Central and
Pennsylvania lines, respectively. By the
Pennsylvania the distance is 912 miles; by
the Central & Lake Shore, 9S0. Conse
quently the Pennsylvania rate is 50.63
miles an hour, while the Central Is 54.44.
The Sud Express from Paris to Bay
onne, France, has a shorter run, 4&S miles,
and does it at tho rate o 54.13 miles aa
hour. The Empire State Express between
town of 1'tfayctte, where is situated
Purdue University, from which Ade
was a graduate. He bought these acres
when at the height of his early suc
cess. One dai his old father came to
him in Chicago, where one of his plays
was being produced, and. after look
ing gravely at a rehearsal which
George was superintending, said to his
son- "George, there is a fine farm for
sale in the Town of Brooke."
World ?
New York and Buffalo does its 545 miles
at the rate of 5X33 miles an hour. The
English East Coast Express, from Lon
don to Edinburgh, does Its 393 miles at a
rate of 50.77 miles an hour. The West
Coast Express from London to Glasgow,
401 miles, at the rate of 50.1S miles. The
only regular GO-mllc-an-hour train In the
world Is tho Paris-Calais express, which
covers its IS miles daily In 1S4 minutes.
Special trains have run "longer dis
tances than this run at 63 and 64 miles an
hour, but no other train makes such a
speed as that regularly, cither in America
or anywhere else.
This article Is written a year or. two too
early to deal intelligently with electric
railroad speed.
It is expected that the electric trains
which the New York Central, .the New
York, New Haven & Hartford and per
haps the Pennsylvania Railroad plan to
run In and out of New York as soon as
they can perfect their electric lines, will
develop greater speed than any steam lo
comotive has yet shown. At Schenectady,
where the Central has been comparing the
work of its old steam locomotives with
the work of its new electric machines, the
latter have won every time, but exact
records have not yet been given to the
public
The experiments ln fast olectric rail
roading made two or three years ago by
Emperor William of Germany produced
speeds of 125 miles an hour on a short
overhead trolley line, but nothing like
them has ever been maintained regularly
ln practice anywhere, cither on trolley or
third-rail lines.
Although the speed of the modem ocean
steamship Is the pride of the seagoing
world today, it is a fact that no new
records between New York and Queens
town, the trans-Atlantic route taken by
the British and American steamers, have
been made for nearly 12 years, when the
Lucania. of the Cunard Line, ln ISM made
the westward passage In 5 days. 7 hours
and 23 minutes.
However, the Deutschland, of the Ham-Durg-Amerlcan
Line, bettered the Luca
nia' s best run in 1903, making the west
ward passage from Cherbourg, France, to
New York, over a considerably longer
course than the Lucania's. in 5 days, 11
hours and 5t minutes. The Deutschland
in 1S0O made the eastward passage from
New'York to Plymouth in 5 days, 7 hours
and SS minutes. The best record for that
course Is also claimed by the North Ger
man Lloyd liner Kaiser Wllhelm IT. which
made It ln 5 days. 11 hours and 5S minutes,
the claim for superior speed being based
on the fact that this ship sailed a greater
distance than the Deutschland and made
the unmatched hourly time of 23.5S knots.
This Is no place to settle the claims of
either; the fact remains that the German
Well, what of it, father?" queried
young man.
'Why, George." replied the older
"I thought it might be a good
for you to buy It. You know, my
I don't believe in hentlnr- nmnnii
the bush. Some say the American pub
lic Is going tc tire of your nonsense
and then"
"I see your Idea, dad," interrupted
George, "and I'll go and look it over."
And so he did. He liked the place,
immediately struck a bargain and the
deal was made. Then came Improve
ments which opened the eyes of the
residents thereabouts. Carpenters, ma
sons and landseane rrard
called Into service and the old plae
was speedily transferred into what is
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ships are generally conceded, today, to be
the fastest In the world; the Dcutsch
land's day's run of 601 knots. 21.19 an hour,
made In 1901, Is certainly without a par
allel. The cause of the lack of speed increase
in trans -Atlantic steamers is due. not to
inability to build faster boats, but to the
fact that slower vessels with greater
capacity and consequently more comfort
able, more luxurious passenger quarters
are more profitable than the faster boats.
It Li predicted by the friends and backers
of the new turbine engines that as soon
as the ships which have been and are
being fitted with these machines have
been got Into perfect working order the
lowering of the trans-Atlantic records
will be begun anew.
It Js nearly 14 years since the United
States held a trans-Atlantic record, when
the City ot Paris crossed the western
ocean In 5 days. 14 hours and 24 minutes.
The yachting record has been lodged
on this side of the water since 1S51,
when, as the reader need not be remind
ed, the America won the Queen's cup,
possession of which has been striven for
so unsuccessfully by the British every
few years eror since.
The latest yachting victory was won
last year by the three-masted American
schooner Atlantic which sailed from
Sandy Hook to the Scllly Isles in 11 days.
16 hours and 22 minutes, breaking the
record and distancing all competitors.
On May 24. in the course of the race, she
sailed 341 knots ln 24 hours, thus breaking
the world's sailing records for fore-and-aft
vessels.
In motor-boats " and steam yachts the
United States has done very well, but
Italy has recently beaten America and
the whole world beside In that sort of
speed, for on September 8. 1S06. on Lake
Gavda. Italy, the 26-foot motor boat
Antoinette HI. covered 150 kilometers
(33.15 statute miles) In 3 hours. 2 min
utes and 42 seconds, traveling at the rate
of 3?i miles an hour. This Is better
speed than has ever been made by any
torpedo-boat of the same size over any
such distance, though some of these demon-like
craft have done stunningly fast
work In the last few years.
The best steam yatch speed, better than
45 miles an hour, made by the Arrow
when owned by Charles R. Flint beats
this by 50 per cent and is the fastest
time ever made by anything afloat.
Single sculling has gone the way of bi
cycling ln America, though 2 years ago,
thanks to the fostering care of certain
patent medicine concerns, people used
to flock by the tens of thousands to see
Courtney, the American, and Hanian;
the Canadian, contest for the first place.
.The American, really the abler oarsmant
was always beaten by his lack of nerve
and perhaps that's why there is so little
interest In single sculling in this country
today.
The Interest in college rowing is still
as great as ever, perhaps greater, but
the only new rowing record of 1905 was
made at Baltimore when the Argonaut,
clght-oared crew of Toronto, covered a
mile in 7 minutes and 2S seconds.
Running records and swimming records
are too Intricate to follow, but the fast
est mile running record was made in
4.12I by W. G. George; Duffy, though
disqualified as an amateur, is the fast
est short-distance runner by reason of his
making 100 yards in 9 3-5 seconds, and the
fastest mile swimming record by A.
Keran In Australia last year. He cov
ered the distance, making 52 turns, In 23
minutes, 164-5 seconds.
The Iceboat speed game is a highly In
tecestlng one, and mlie-a-mlnute records
have been made at It on the Hudson,
but there are many reasons why few of
us can ever engage In or even witness an
iceboat race.
After all. the swiftest thing In the
world Is. a bird, If the frigate bird,
sometimes known as the man-of-war's
bird, files as fast as estimated. Some
observers say it can easily make 150 miles
an hour, and some accord it even greater
speed. F. M. Chapman, of the Metro
politan Museum of National History ln
regarded as one of the most attrac
tive gentlemen's country places in the
country.
When the elder Ade looked it over.,
he remarked: "I'rs too darn fine for
me; George, and I don't suppose you'd
be here much for a while anyhow."
But contrary to his father's expec
tations, young Mr. Ade- has spent a
great deal of time on his farm, In fact
he has done most of his literary work
there.
In the warm Summer days, his fa
vorite spot Is beneath a large Inviting
oak, and, beneath its shading- branches,
he sits with pad of soratcW paper, Jgt
tlng down Ideas.
Unlike most playwrights. Ade writes
his dialogue piecemeal and docs the
fitting in later.
Those who have visited the Ade farm
add verification to the assertion that
the master of these picturesque acres
is a really out-and-out farmer. He
rises early, often assists in the chores
and not Infrequently takes a hand in
the milking of the restless bovine. Oc
casionally he is seen topping a load
of hay bound for the Lafayette mar
kets. The house is a model, of beauty.
The Interior garniture Is characterized
by an appearance of quiet, restful lux
ury. The libi-ury Is Adc's- particular
Joy and here' the major part of his lit
erary work is done.
Leading Citizen of Brooke.
1 he populace of Brooke regards Ade
as its leading citizen and this Is not
without Its drawbacks, for. whenever
an enterprise of public spirit is sug
gested. Ade is always asked to head
the list of contributors. Last Summer,
the young men of the community de
cided to organize a baseball team
and. of course, uniforms became one of
the Important early questions to con
sider. They waited upon Ade in a
body. "Mr. Ade." said the spokesman?
"we have a purely business proposi
tion te make. We are getting up a
ball team to represent the town and
we thought, you might like to furnish
us the uniforms."
"How much will they cost?' asked
the leading citizen of Brooke.
"About $150," was the reply. .nd
Cor an Inducement, we will name the
team The Widow after your new
play."
"But what good will that do me?"
asked Mr. Ade.
"Why," was the unhesitating reply,
"look at the advertising you will
get.'
1
New York, who has studied this bir
somewhat, hesitates about' giving a guess
even as to its speed.
He says, however, that its flying appar
atus Is marvelous- Its body Is little
larger than a well-grown chicken's, but
the spread of its wings In flight Is be
tween 6 and 7 feet.
The homing pigeon, however, speedy as
It is supposed to be. Is slow compared
with the steam locomotive and the auto
mobile. The best long-distance pigeon
record was made in 1902 by a Pittsburg
bird, which flew S36 miles In 43 hours and
11 minutes. The fastest pigeon speed re
ported for 100 miles was considerably
more than a mile a minute. To be ex
act, the rate was 7536 feet, or 'between
SO and SO miles an hour. The bird be
longed ln Buffalo.
But who cares about the frigate bird
or the homing pigeon with the Ormond
Beach auto races less than two 'weeks
oft?
(Copyright, 1000. by Dexter Marshall.)
Byes and Hair Harmonise.
Indianapolis News.
The latest shade in women's hair Is
amethyst. It Is usually worn with violet
or dark gray eyes, black hat and black
gown. Brown, green and yellow ejres and
black, brown and lemon-colored hair are
entirely out of date, and are wora oaly
by people who don't read the &ag&zl&9&,