The San Francisco Sunday Call WOMAN MANAGES FAMOUS BREEDING FARM

Miss Elizabeth P. at Famous Kentucky Breeding Farm. Mo Bargain Sales in Chinese Retail Shops Love for Horses Her Heritage, Miss average Chinese shop of any goes into a Chinese shop and makes a kind in Tientsin or Peking is a considerable purchase the store- Elizabeth Daingerfield Delights in THE building keeper willhave it delivered at his ho- one story without doors the Care Late R. or windows to the street. The entire Chinese houses. The typical Chinese tel, but he willbe expected to give a of James front is closed by shutters at night; house is only one story in height and gratuity to the messenger. Ordinary Thoroughbreds on His is built on four sides of a square retail sales to the masses of the Beautiful courtyard. If more room is needed people are for cash; those made to Kentucky Farm there is a second courtyard in the rear the Chinese of standing and wealth brought fame to the old farm in with a communicating door, and so are usually on credit. Kentucky is too long to enumerate, on. The yamens, or official resi- An American manufacturer asks: but the names of Novelty, Maskette, dences, of the various Chinese of- "Would Chinese merchants bux from each other, one New York and the in Cap and Bells, Castleton, Commando, ficials in Tientsin are all erected in catalogues issued by United States other in Kentucky, adds a new re- Disguise, Sweep, Celt and Court firms." To answer this question in- this way?one courtyard after another sponsibility to Miss Elizabeth Pick- Dress are names that will stir many volves an explanation of the mode of by opening ney Daingerfield. memories. In my opinion, Com- surrounded buildings, all doing business with the Chinese. For- Love for horses is a Daingerfield mando and Hanover were the two into the court. eigners are not allowed to reside for heritage, and sex could not bar Miss greatest stallions that America ever This traditional style of construc- business purposes and to open busi- Daingerfield, daughter of Major Dain- produced. tion is followed in the shops along ness houses anywhere in China except gerfield. from haunting the stables and "As grooms, I prefer the negroes, in the treaty ports. Tientsin is the paddocks the streets. The courtyard behind is as a child and growing up as my father always has. What is treaty port for north China, and all usually very small, but it is there, with an intimate knowledge of the often objected to in the negro as his foreign goods sold in north China are beautiful thoroughbreds there, making laziness is really a quiet manner that nevertheless. The family residence of imported here. Many large foreign her widely known as an expert. Miss seems especially pleasing to the the shopkeeper is in the rear build- firms are engaged in the import and Daingerfield's sorrow for a long time thoroughbred horse and makes him ings, or the rear rooms are 'used as export trade here. .has been that the horses that have the friend, not only of the horse, of these firms has a wealthy warehouses to keep surplus stock for Each j!ent luster to the racing annals of this but of the excitable young colt." Chinese in its employ as a compra- country are going abroad and that The Daingerfields are an old Vir- dor. It is the comprador's business there is apparently no future in Amer- liMES R. KEENE. to keep himself acquainted with the ica for the beautiful young creatures Chinese merchants in the various growing up on the Kentucky stock lines of trade in which his house is interested in Tientsin., Peking and the James R. Keene was the owner of other cities of north China. If his this famous breeding place and, gt MAJOR DAINGERFIELD. firm imports foreign goods, he goes while he was confined to his room by among his friends engaged in the various infirmities, his mind was clear business requiring such goods and en- and his interest in horses had not deavors to dispose of the importa- slackened. By means of the tele- tion. On the other hand, if his em- phone he sold advantageously and ployer exports wool or cotton or furs gave directions about shipping of or any other of the produces of north horses to foreign countries. But the China, it is the comprador's business details of caring for the horses and to obtain a cargo for his firm. He re- looking after their welfare from day ceives a commission on all that he to day belonged to his niece, Miss buys or sells for the firm. In return, Daingerfield, whose cares were more if credit be given to any Chinese shop onerous because of her father's ill- SYSONBY. or firm, the comprador guarantees the ness. Both of these aged horsemen obligation, and if the shopkeeper does trusted implicitly to the judgment of Babies To-Day, Winners of Classic Prizes Three Years Hence. not pay at the appointed time he must this enthusiastic and capable woman, which there is not space in the main pay out of his own pocket. a business- who, twice month, made ginia family, but they had lived in excelled the noted horses of the blue shop. It is utterly impossible to do busi- reports to the owner of the farm. like California before going to Castleton, grass section. There is in Tientsin a street about ness with the Chinese merchants here "I am in charge-of the Kingston Daingerfield has seen all "Many fields that have spread their 300 yards in length, between the on any other terms. farm, where are stabled the nine and Miss kinds of life in many places, but her pleasant unbroken greensward before bridge over the Grand canal and one stallions, more than 40 brood mares over the Peiho, which was lined with ITALY'SPLANS FOR TRIPOLI composing the loyalty to the blue grass region of the eye for generations are now for and 36 weanlings shops of all kinds. On the night of Mr. Kentucky is as stanch as if she had the first time being plowed and the breeding establishment of March 2 all these shops were looted following is the condensed Daingerfield. "We never been out of it. woods and pastures disappearing to Keene." said Miss and burned. They are now largely translation of an article from the getting settled at this "One can not exaggerate the beauty make way for tobacco, that exhaust- are only now rebuilt of brick, two stories in height. THEMessaggero of Rome concerning and strength of the blue grass," she ing crop, or for hemp, so unlovely in place, which Mr. Keene took over re- These shops are only about 15 feet in the resources and development of Mackay, remarked. "It is green throughout comparison with grass." cently from Mr. Clarence depth. The upper story is used either Tripoli in Barbary: it, which he gave the year and is particularly adapted Miss Daingerfield finds it nothing who had a lease on for living purposes or for storage. "The foreign office has published a deciding his horses to the horse, which is very particular out of keeping with the dignity of up after to send In the looting and burning on the report of Professor Borzi on the ag- to France. We had lived at Castle- about its food. Nowhere throughout women to care for horses. She sees a glory idyllic Kentucky, about the same number the following in the daytime the shutters are re- night referred to the silk merchants ricultural future of Libya, on the ex- 20 years that, and this favored land is there a spot more in the life of ton for before year. he had been selling moved. These shops are 14 to 16 feet heavily. In rebuilding isting crops, and on those which of this beautiful or more fertile than this far in which the distinguished horse Since tijen suffered their even before father took charge wide on the street, and the room is adopted an introduced into that prov- grass country' played so prominent a part, and she more and more of the animals that shops they have entirely should be breeding farm the thorough- famed 'blue of central this. Three or four Atanious rejoices part had made his place so famous. Not not deeper than new plan for their protection. The ince. won my greatest in- Kentucky. Yet what a blight has to have had a in it. She bred horse had ago feet back from the front a counter entrance is a narrow door made very "Professor Borza divides Tripoli- my been cast upon it by legislative action does not regard the breeding of long W. K. Vandcrbilt bought terest and shared in my love for heavy and plated with iron. One or tania into four zones, the first of some states against racing. Here horses as a gamble, but as a science, seven mares, for which he paid $60,- collie dogs. For five or six years ! in which, along the sea, is covered with fatal results of the legisla- and she loves the genial, hospitable --000, and Frank J. Gould paid $50,000 feet stallion in the country; Voter, two small windows opening on the have been practically the manager o the most palm, olive, and fruit trees. against racing in that ways that prevailed among the horse for five mares. Twenty-one colts were Delhi, Hippodrome, Disguise, Sweep, street are protected by iron bars. lemon the farm and have seen every anima tive enactment the raising people in that community. sold at auction for $57,000 about four Superman, Ben Brush and Celt. These new structures are built in two The second zone is formed by on the place at least once in 24 hours state have been felt. The men who feeding and the handling months ago, one of them, a Rock Despite her enthusiasm for horses stories and there arc larger windows highlands of Gebel and Tarhuna; the when I have been at horne ?and I am owned and loved their few race The care, worthy Sand, out of Fairy Slipper, bringing Miss Daingerfield has other interests. on the second floor for the sake of former has olive groves and palm and seldom away from home." horses were compelled to give them of horses she considers as of study as anything to $14,000. Peter going abroad is She is the literary critic for several examining the goods. fig trees, while cereals and saffron are Miss Daingerfield's judgment abou up, as there was no encouragement and attention Pan's recent history, and the great Kentucky newspapers and is ex- Shops or stores are owned either by also grown. The country, however, is her knowledge of what to for them to raise horses as a business which one devotes one's self. Colin her horses, England, although tremely well read. She has contrib- one individual or by a co-partnership. rather barren. The Tarhuna land is they sick an< and they could not afford it as a lux- "The thought that has been put into and Ballot are in do for them when arc magazines to sons of family assist rich in esparto grass. The rest of the ury. As for the wealthy owners, they the American thoroughbred has been both of them were still owned by uted, too, to devoted Usually the the her understanding of their character- taken in the business. Foreign help is second zone, which includes the hills have been shipping their horses nobly spent. That is why it is such Keene at the time of his death. the interests of women and has istics, with her unremitting attention in the educational and never employed in them for various of Mesellata and Bondara, as well as reputation abroad, where no bigotry interferes a tragedy that what has been ob- Miss Daingerfield can tell the his- an active part to them, have given her a horses, behalf of the reasons. First, a Chinese clerk can numerous valleys, is most fertile, and in with the development of the finest tained through years of devoted and tory of these famous the pedi- philanthropic work in which is equaled by few men the employed for $5 to $8 American olive trees are abundant. The third horses that can give pleasure to man. intelligent effort should now be frus- gree of everything on the place and mountaineers in her state. be country. currency month, boarding himself, zone consists chiefly of oases and is means ultimately the extinc- trated." a lot about their individuality, be- Yes, love of horses is certainly in a Castleton was noted for the grea "This palms. oases, which thoroughbred Castleton, with its thousand beauti- sides. There are still some good the blood. Major Daingerfield, 74 and no foreigner could afford to work rich in The of horses that went forth to win races tion of the in this coun- charge and she is very years old, while ill in a hospital, for such wages; second, no foreigner Gadames is the most important, are and to im try and the impossibility of replenish- ful acres, has been sold to David horses in her in all parts of the world future, thought about the horses he had bred works for a Chinese employer; he some distance apart. The fourth zone every ing the blood from which the differ- Look, and the greatly reduced stud anxious about their especially prove the strain of race horses they all caste at once. In the is covered with palms, figs, vines and classes of horses draw their removed to Kingston, a few miles that of the baby horses that would be and the fame have won. would lose where. ent offices of the almonds. a disaster, distant, which is less than a third as looking forward races in Keene, from the room where he was shops, warehouses and "Colin, think, was the grcates strength. It is national cypresses I years now were they not confined, looked out, with perfect foreign concessions, all clerkships are "In Cyrenaica olives and Castleton," said too, for the cavalry and artillery are large. It was Castleton that sent three from un- horse ever bred at derstanding upon the prospects for filled by Chinese, but the reverse predominate. Pasturage is abundant Daingerfield, than bound to suffer beyond any power of horses to win races in all parts of barred by the cruel fate that has over- Miss "and, more Op- thoroughbred, personally bar- never happens. and cattle could be bred on a vast ours to estimate. Our best horses are the globe, and for many years taken racing. There are sons of the and that, the greatest horse that the gained horses that Instead of window displays the scale. Bananas are grown at Derna. to other countries, where the Keene's name led the list of winning time, Maid of Erin, Half Crown, for the sale of the American turf has ever seen. The going shop puts staring signs. in Tripolitania does are only too glad to take owners everywhere. The combina- Noonday, Running Stream and For- are coveted by horse lovers every- out Vertical "Cultivation great race horses bred by my fathe governments to much, though cotton, presence for the tion of Keene and Major Dain- bidden Fruit, with wonderful promise where. Algernon Daingerfield, the signs are extremely common, the not amount part of the turf history o advantage of their saffron, here are a gerfield things, and fillies from Step- major's son, is secretary of the characters often being carved out of tobacco, castor beans, indicus $181, improvement of army horses. If this was an ideal one, for the lat- of great the country. Colin, which won Jockey from his in wood and heavily gilded. The multi- and henna are grown. Ninety million country were to be suddenly involved ter had made horses his lifelong study ping Stone, Cap and Bells, Meggs club, and office 000; Sysonby, which brought hi of his plicityand gaudiness of the signs take pounds of esparto are exported from in war the people would realize what and had evolved a pronounced theory Hill, Pope Joan, Pink Domino, Run- New York shares the feelings owner $184,500; Ballot, $155,000; Pc cf window displays. Such the region. Borzi advises had been committed in let- about inbreeding, and Keene had away Girl, True Love and Olivia that sister, who is the center of action in the place Professor ter Pan, $116,500; Delhi, $115,700, al a blunder cotton and of sisal a which are exceptionally good and uniform. Kentucky. things as special "bargain days" and the cultivation of very winners o ting the best horses of the country passion for blooded horses i in the small list of Among still at the No one could talk with any one of sales are of course unknown. Store- and the introduction of Sicilian vines, anc be doomed to extinction. I say best, would not let him rest content with the stallions 'more than $100,000 in stakes Kentucky are Ultimus, them without hoping with them that keepers as a rule do not deliver goods. olives, mulberries and almonds, with- and for even England, which has been the anything short of perfection. Four Keene farm in purses, were bred by my father may The consumer carries his pur- out neglecting the cultivation of the standard of excellence for thorough- years ago Keene made a shipment which was pronounced by a United the horse come into his own native were foaled and raised at Castleton. per- speedily away him. If a foreigner plants already existing in the colony." breds for hundreds of years, has not of 40 horses to South America and States commission as the most again, and that chases with