— 483 — 



again for a three weeks' season. His tour was continued to Portland 

 and Lewiston, Maine, and to Montreal, Canada. The last named 

 place was the home of the stallion "Rysdyck," which had been so 

 thoroughly subdued in New York, and there was, of course, much 

 eagerness to see the horse trainer who had accomplished that extra- 

 ordinary feat. " During my stay," says Professor Gleasou, "I learned 

 from Mr. Kimball, the owner of * Rysdyck,' that he had had that 

 horse at the Dominion Fair, Sherbrook, Canada, and had slept with 

 him every night in his stall, proving the thorough and practical utility 

 of my work." 



The next city visited was Albany, and then he returned to New 

 York, and was seen again at the Cosmopolitan Hall for several 

 weeks, handling horses for many of the wealthiest and best-known 

 horse-owners in the city. A tour was then made through Rochester, 

 Syracuse, and Utica ; thence to Lancaster, and Pittsburgh, Pa. At 

 the last-named place he gave 21 exhibitions, and haudled 436 horses. 

 Next he visited Newark, N. J., and then conceived the daring plan of 

 leasing the vast Madison Square Garden, in New York, which had a 

 seating capacity of 7,000. His friends tried to dissuade him from this 

 enterprise, fearing it would prove disastrous, but he persevered. For 

 six nights the place was crowded, 57,330 tickets being sold and taken 

 at the doors. 



Baltimore was next visited, and then Washington, where the mem- 

 bers of the Cabinet and both Houses of Congress attended his exhibi- 

 tions. Among the many notices and testimonials received by him at 

 the national capital was the following : 



" House of Representatives, ) 



" Washington, D. C, April 9th, 1887. 3 

 " This is to certify that I own a mare who has been justly termed 

 * the star kicker of Prince George's County, Maryland.' The person 

 who attempted to harness her took his life in his hand, so dangerous 

 and vicious was the animal that she would relieve herself of the har- 

 ness. Hearino- that Professor Oscar R. Gleason, the celebrated horse 

 tamer, was in Washington, I had the mare brought up from my farm 

 in Maryland and took her to the Professor. After one trial the mare 

 was thoroughly subdued, and is now as docile as a lamb. I give this 

 certificate to Professor Gleason unasked, as a testimony to his skill 



