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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.