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affairs. He is a devoted admirer of the light 

 harness horse and enjoys nothing better than 

 spending his spare time at the race tracks, 

 working out some of the fast horses. In the 

 'Winter season, Mr. Trott is an enthusiast of 

 ice-boat racing, he having owned some of the 

 fastest boats that have raced on the ponds 

 north of Boston. Air. Trott resides at 

 Winchester, Mass. 



LEMUEL G. TROTT 



Lemuel G. Trott was born in Woolwich, 

 Me., in 1844. After attending Kent's Hill 

 Seminary, he was graduated from Bates 

 College. He started the Spirit of the Hub, a 

 weekly turf paper, in 1887, a publication that 

 was much appreciated by the horsemen dur- 

 ing its years of existence With the dispos- 

 ing of the Spirit of the Hub, Mr. Trott was 

 associated with several of the Boston daily 

 papers, gathering the local turf news of im- 

 portance. 



Mr. Trott was one of the instigators of the 

 Metropolitan Driving Club, his series of 

 articles arousing the local horsemen to the 

 first gatherings held in Young's Hotel. It 

 was he who engaged the room at that 

 hostelry for the initial meeting in the organ- 

 ization of the club. After the club was 

 started he was an earnest worker in securing 

 members, and was the first official pro- 

 grammer in the matinees at Charles River 

 Speedway. 



Mr. Trott met his death in a railroad 

 accident in 1908, and his sudden demise was 

 a distinct shock to his horde of friends and 

 acquaintances throughout New England. He 

 had spent nearly a lifetime in the interests 

 of the trotter and pacer, and had seen the 

 sport and the breeding farms grow to one of 

 the most important industries of this section 

 of the country, the trouble days of racing 

 having just begun when his death occurred. 



EARL W. FARNUM 



Of the newspapermen who have been 

 closely connected with various activities of 

 horsemen and who are still enthusiastic turf 

 writers, Earl W. Farnum, sporting writer of 

 the Lynn Item, the largest daily in Essex 

 county, is among the more prominent. Nearly 

 five years in Lynn has made something of a 

 Bay Stater of him, but he is a native of 

 Providence, R. I., and for many years was 

 the leading sporting writer of "Little Rhody," 

 as sporting editor of the Providence Tele- 

 gram and the Tribune which succeeded it. 

 During that period he was a familiar con- 

 tributor tn the American Horse Breeder and 

 other turf papers. He has a rich store of 



memories of road racing in Providence ana 

 Narragansett Park Grand Circuit sport. 



In iyio Mr. Farnum published the New 

 England Horse Journal in Providence. It 

 was a lively weekly while racing flourished 

 at Narragansett Park, Hillsgrove, and 

 Wbonsocket and, when forced to succumb 

 because of the changed conditions, it re- 

 funded every dollar advanced. 



In Lynn Mr. Farnum has done much to 

 keep interest alive in the horse. In 1912 his 

 work as secretary of the Lynn Work-Horse 

 Parade helped materially in the turning out 

 of more than 500 horses, the biggest parade 

 of the kind New England has ever had, with 

 the exception of the Boston parades. 



In 1913 he was made matchmaker of the 

 Lynn Driving Club's championship matinees, 

 at Rockdale Park, and the season was one of 

 the most interesting and successful that club 

 had enjoyed for some time. For three years 

 he had served in the judges' stand, without 

 missing a meeting. In recognition of his 

 services, he was made the third honorary 

 member of that club. Similar honors have 

 been conferred upon him by other clubs, the 

 first being by the Providence Driving Club a 

 dozen years ago. 



Over a period of 15 years, Mr. Farnum has 

 been a familiar figure in the press box and 

 among the "regulars" of New England rac- 

 ing. Before that time he had become an en- 

 thusiastic road driver in Elmira, N. Y., while 

 studying law with a relative, and learned some 

 of the angles of the sport by association with 

 such horsemen as Harry Hersey, since 

 famous as the pilot of Dan Patch, Jud Par- 

 sons, B. T. Birney, Lish Gulick and other 

 horse spirits of the Chemung Valley. This 

 knowledge was of value when he entered 

 newspaper work, as the racing at Narragan- 

 sett Park, of that period, had no difficulty 

 in being recognized in Providence as the 

 "sport of kings." 



CYRUS C. MAYBERRY 



Cyrt*s C. Mavberry was born in Casco, 

 Me., in 1851. After passing the common 

 schools of his native town, he was graduated 

 from the Bridgton (Me.) Academy, and the 

 Bryant & Stratton Business College of Bos- 

 ton. His first work in Boston was in 1872 

 as accountant for C. R. Richardson & 

 Co., Water Street. Later he was employed 

 in the law office of Judge G. A. Upton, and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1882, since which 

 time he has conducted a law and real estate 

 office at 28 School Street, Boston. 



Mr. Mavberry was one of the first mem- 

 bers of the Metropolitan Driving Club. In 

 the earlv davs of the club he was greatlv 



