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of I :oo flat, she was the champion at the 

 close of the season of 1914, of having raced 

 the two fastest consecutive heats, in 1 :oo and 

 1 :oi 1-4. Mr. Young resides at 6 Medway 

 Street, Dorchester, Mass. 



J. ROLLIN STUART, JR. 



J. Rollin Stuart, Jr., was born in Tarry- 

 town, N. Y., in 1866, and. when a boy, went 

 to Milwaukee where his early education was 

 gained. Coming to Boston he graduated 

 from the English High School in 1884, and 

 that year started to work as an errand boy 

 for Whittemore, Woodbury & Co. In 1887, 

 with others, he started the house of Pike, 

 Ordway & Stuart, making blackings, shoe 

 dressings, etc. This firm was incorporated in 

 1890 as the Boston Blacking Co., with its 

 office in Cambridge, Mass. 



Mr. Stuart became a member of the Dor- 

 chester Gentlemen's Driving Club in 1901, 

 and has served on the board of directors. He 

 is also a Mason and belongs to several of the 

 social clubs of Boston. In the matinee end 

 of the club, Mr. Stuart was very prominent 

 with his trotting mare, Susie F., 2:20 1-4, 

 which, in 1904, won the silver cup offered for 

 the trotter winning the most races on the 

 speedway and, the following year, was the 

 fastest trotter in the club. He also owned 

 Dempsey, 2:10 1-4; Willie Robbs, 2:14; 

 Little Edgar, 2:10 1-2, and Yixie Adams. 

 Mr. Stuart resides at 561 Ward Street, New- 

 ton Center, Mass. 



ALBERT FELLOWS 

 Albert Fellows was born in Athens, Me., 

 in 1849, a 'M received his education in the 

 common schools and academy of that city. 

 He came to Boston in 1872 and entered the 

 employ of Henry E. Cobb & Co., grocers. 

 Six years later he began business for himself 

 in the same line, opening a store at 163 1 

 Washington Street, where he remained fifteen 

 years, then removing to Ashmont, where he 

 has been located twenty-two years. Mr. 

 Fellows is one of the oldest members of the 

 Dorchester Driving Club, of which he is a 

 charter member. He succeeded R. S. Fitch in 

 the office of treasurer, which he had held for 

 seven years, to the close of 1914. He is alst 

 a member of the Dirigo, Odd Fellows, and ? 

 Mason. For many seasons he raced the 

 gelding. Rex, on the speedway, and was a 

 contender in all events in which he took part. 

 Mr. Fellows resides at 75 Bailey Street, Dor- 

 chester, Mass. 



schools in Great Shenogue, N. B. He came 

 to Boston in 1880, and went to work for 

 Clark A. Wells, shoeing horses. He started 

 in the horseshoeing business for himself in 

 1889, in Reading, Mass., where he is still lo- 

 cated. He was one of the charter members 

 of the Quannapowitt Driving Club, and has 

 been constant in attendance and a devotee of 

 the matinee sport ever since the inception of 

 the club, in 1907. Mr. Wells is an Odd Fel- 

 low and belongs to the Pilgrim Fathers. 



In the matinee sport, he has owned, among 

 others, Woodland, matinee record 2:20 1-4; 

 Orrion Wilkes, matinee record 2:18 1-2; 

 Bolivar. 2 130, and Border W. The last named 

 is the one he is now enjoying his favorite 

 sport with. She is a very handsome, good 

 gaited trotting mare, that would take a blue 

 ribbon in high society for her conformation 

 and her general good points. Mr. Wells' home 

 is in Reading, Mass. 



CHARLES D. WELLS 

 Charles D. Wells was born in Richi- 

 busto, N. B., in 1862, and attended the 



MARTIN J. HEALY 



Martin J. Healv is a member of the Lynn 

 and Quannapowitt Driving Clubs and owner 

 of the trotter Saranac, 2:14 1-4, that good son 

 of Todd, which took his record over the 

 Haverhill track in 1914. Mr. Healy has also 

 owned a dozen or more other fast matinee 

 performers. He bought Saranac, as a two- 

 year-old, for $240, and has earned more than 

 $2,000 with him. When a three-year-old, 

 Saranac had six matinee races and dropped 

 his winning time from I :20 to I :oj, in the 

 half-mile matinee races of the Quannapowitt 

 Club at Reading track. In 1914 Saranac 

 broke the Rockdale Park trotting record, 

 which had been held many years by Xelson, 

 when he stepped the Peabody two-lap track, 

 at a matinee meeting, against time, in 2 :i8. At 

 the opening matinee of the Metropolitan Driv- 

 ing Club's half-mile track, an invitation affair 

 in which all of the Greater Boston clubs par- 

 ticipated, Saranac was winner of his race and 

 a handsome trophy cup. 



Mr. Healy has a big fruit business in 

 Lynn and racing horses is his only pastime. 

 In the last dozen years he has been a promi- 

 nent figure in many of the leading interclub 

 matinees of Greater Boston and his good 

 natured wit has enlivened many a race. In 

 the famous interclub meets of Greater Bos- 

 ton, in which Lynn was so prominent, Mr. 

 Healy drove many races for his club. With 

 the pacer Uncle Angus, 2:17 1-4, he won the 

 day against Dorchester, at Rockdale Park, 

 with considerable fun thrown in. Mixed- 

 wood, 2:10 1-4; Widlar, 2:163-4; Hazel Dell, 

 2:14 1-4; Peter Healy, Dare Devil, Jr., 

 General Cord, Beauford Hall, Arthur Mc- 

 Kinnev, and several others are among- those 



