"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



ladles and gentlemen would descend from the club- 

 house, down the hill, through the fir-grove, and across 

 the course to the Members' Stand. The 



c2j ion a 1^^^^ citizens of the metropolis and their 

 the Races . . ^ 



families, governors of states, and even ex- 

 President Fillmore, supported racing by their presence, 

 and all was gentle and eminently well-bred. 



The grand stand was double-tiered and divided into 

 three sections, the centre one being for members and 

 their families. The great gates of the park were of 

 iron and a pleasant sporting feature were large medal- 

 lions of horses galloping, with jockeys up, in the colors 

 of Mr. Belmont, Mr. Jerome, Mr. Cameron, Mr. 

 Francis Morris, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Lewis 

 G. Morris and Mr. Watson. 



There were few more agreeable places than the club- 

 house at Jerome Park. Apart from its architectural 

 beauty and charming surroundings, there was some- 

 thing baronial to its interior; and while the fir-crowned 

 eminence on which it stood was hardly a "heaven-kiss- 

 ing hill," it was something of an Olympian abode. Its 

 saloons, its cheerful halls, its spacious ball- 

 TT room where melody so often echoed, and 



which, as the door of the south wing opened, 

 burst upon the view with its great quaint old Louis XIV 

 fireplace and arm-chairs, casting a grey light of an- 

 tiquity upon the scene — all these contributed to the 

 senses of comfort and pleasure. 



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