268 LIFE WITH THE TROTTEES. 



was a horse trainer and driver is proven by the success he 

 had with a great number of horses. At the present writing 

 lie is trainer and manager of Mr. Mortimer McRoberts' 

 Rock River stock farm at Dixon, Ills., the only one in the 

 country I believe devoted entirely to the breeding and rais- 

 ing of gentlemen's road-horses. 



Jack Haverly, one of the best-known men in this country, 

 whose large theatrical and other amusement interests have 

 made him a iiublic character for years, was always a lover 

 of the turf, owned some good horses, and when they trotted 

 was willing to back them as long as there was anyone to bet 

 against him. It may be truly said that he is the only Jack 

 Haverly. I have known him from my schoolboy days, and 

 have seen him without a dollar in the world, and at other 

 times with a fortune at his command. Whether broke or 

 wealthy his manners and treatment of other people were the 

 same. The boy who blacked his boots in the street was 

 treated by him with the same courteousness and considera- 

 tion that a king w^ould receive at his hands. Jack Haverly 

 may die poor or may die rich, but in either case he will leave 

 a monument behind him in the number and love of his 

 friends that I would rather have over my grave than a x>iUar 

 of granite that would reach to the clouds. 



"Con'' SuUivan, also one of the okl guard, was con- 

 nected with the turf when Chicago was a village, and although 

 his time is now entirely taken iq) with his large breeding 

 interests, he enjoys a horse-race as well as ever. He made 

 his bow to the public in connection with Joseph Cairn Simp- 

 son, a man whose connection with the turf has been one of 

 long years and great activity; he having bred, owned, trained 

 and driven trotting horses all his life. He also owned some 

 of the best thoroughbred race-horses in this country, and 

 with all that found time to edit a newspaper devoted to the 

 turf and its interests, has written a number of very valuable 

 works on the same subject, and if the Society for the Pre- 

 vention of Cruelty to Animals wants to do a humane act to 

 horses, they should send a copy of his book entitled ' ' Tips 



