| Show MAKE QUEER NEIGHBORS By Singular Tide of Events Racetracks Race- Race i tracks and Cemeteries ries Are Ar Brought Together How very strange It is that race racetracks racetracks racetracks tracks and cemeteries nearly always go hand in hand The old Ivy City r race racecourse racecourse ce course which became ame a terrible stench In the nostrils of the national g government government govern govern- vern- vern ment was midway between the Harmony Harmon Har- Har mon mony cemetery on the northwest and the Mount Olivet cemetery on the southeast It is now converted Into Int a 1 f burying ground says the New York Press Famous old Guttenberg The gut place plade pla e of a a. a million mimon crimes in inI racing Is to-day to one of the loveliest I graveyards beyond the Palisades To reach the tr track ck c of the Brooklyn Jockey club at Gravesend Gravesend you you must pass by several cemeteries and I have have no doubt the the track itself will soon become as asgood asgood asgood good as as a burial ground for dead men menas menas menas as for dead horses hoses To get to Gravesend think of that name for a race track track the the graves grave's gravesend way half around beautiful beautiful beau beau- end you pass Greenwood and split Washington cemetery into three sections To reach the Sheepshead bay course of the Coney Island Jockey club via Thir Thir- ty-fourth ty street ferry you are flanked flanked- on one side or the other by such homes of ot the dead as Calvary cemetery New Calvary cemetery Linden Hill cemetery cemetery cemetery tery Lutheran cemetery Cemetery of ot the Evergreens Union Field cemetery ce Fresh Pond cemetery Cemetery of the Holy Cross Kings county insane asylum asylum asylum lum Mount Olivet cemetery cemetery- Mount Nebo Cypress cemetery-Cypress Hills tery etc To leach reach Belmont park you must take all these in and more It is the same with Aqueduct and Jamaica The most celebrated of ot all an southern race tracks was converted into a cemetery cemetery tery not many years ago ag the old Ie Me- Me tarie tarie track track N Nothing like it ever was known kno In the north and probably never will be With that semi-French semi freedom of ot conscience conscience that lack of of strict social re restraint the course was But sul generis in its heyday The Infield was reserved for tor the lo 10 above the canal and the frail fraU sisterhood below elow it it- itIn In the grand grandstand grandstand grandstand stand only the mothers oth rs wives sisters and daughters of the aristocracy were allowed t to circulate But again with that semi French h freedom the rich rakes of the uPI upper r ten the swell bachelors bachelors bachelors bach bach- elors the young youn men nen with sweethearts among the elect of or the crescent city would think nothing of courting for foran foran foran an hour in the grand stand and then crossing to flirt for another hour with some lovely Thais Phryne or Delilah DeUlah This was considered ed quite the proper thing And is a cemetery And Oaklands is next door |
