Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — Horse Racing in Cologne. [ARTICLE]

Horse Racing in Cologne.

Illustrated American. An interesting experiment has been tried in the ancient city of Cologne. A race track was started by some enterprising capitalists. But it came to sudden grief because! the citizens displayed an enterprise on their own part which was unexpected in 60 staid a community. They got on to all the latest devices of the American juvenile base ball crank who saves his quarter and gets an excellent view Of the performance by perching on neighboring trees and telegraph poles, It appears that the_adjacent heights offered an excellent coup d’ sell of the track and the 500 people who came to witness the race declined the seductions of the grand stand and the field, and remained interested spectators on the outside of the fence. Betting had been forbidden by the police, on the ground that all the horses belonged to one man, which showed an intuitive knowledge of the latest devices of the horse lover that is very creditable to the heads, at least, if not the hearts, of the Colegne authorities. It’s singular that when a girl wants to show her lover how fond she really is oi him she always turns down the light?