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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1938
Horse Tradition Persists Despite Changes In England
England is gradually changing, ¡horses up and down, and where the
| and memories of the days of horses "Iron Duke” might have been seen and carriages are slipping away, getting into his saddle from the
Nation Of Horse-Lovers
But at the top of the steps leading mounting block which still stands from St. James's Park near the there. statue erected in 1838 to the Duke of York, once commander-in-chief of the British army, there is a spot that has retained the same appear- But although horses are now for- ance for more than 100 years. It [bidden during certain hours in some takes one back to the reign of of the busiest streets of London the George IV.
British are still a nation of horse- lovers, and within the past few On one side of this open space years there has been à considerable
built in 1815, the year of the Battle Riding schools have sprung up all of Waterloo. On the other side is over the country, and parties of the Athenaeum Club, which opened young people in the various stages its doors to literary and learned of tuition may be seen in charge men in 1930. On the curb on each of riding-masters.
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side stands a mounting block for Riding in London means riding riders, on which a plaque records (in such of the parks as have dirt that the blocks were erected at the tracks for the purpose. But in the request of the Duke of Wellington country, once off the main roads in 1830. At the corners of the road with their hard surfaces, there are way are iron posts with the letters still quiet lanes and open downs to “G.-R. IV" on them. The monogram, tempt the riders out of a walk "G. Rex," appears also on the stan- dards of the lamps, which at that date were, presumably, oil burners. These details take one back through the reigns of George VI, Edward VIII, George V, Edward VII, and Victoria.
Mounting Blocks
And those mounting blocks. One might wait now for months, years, probably for ever, without seeing them used. The days have gone when smart grooms brought their masters' horses around and the riders would amble off down Pall Mall, through Marlborough Gate and past the sentries at St. James's Palace into St. James's Park. There they could get onto the soft dirt track and canter up Constitution Hill, and so into Rotten Row where the "quality" disported themselves on horseback-as they still do.
Now the majority of the riders reach the park by bus, taxi or mo- tor, and mount their horses there. The open space between the
FILLED WIT EXCITEMENT AND BREATH-TAKING EVENTS![Athenaeum and the United Service
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Club is a parking place for cars, and taxis line the curb where in time past the grooms led their
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GIFT FROM THE KAISER
With Warm Greetings
“For practical reasons" the exiled Robert Willis, Jr., 15-year-old of German Kaiser Wilhelm didn't send
lichmond, his autograph, after Bob- y wrote twice to Doorn asking for .t.
Bobby studied the Kaiser's life in school and became interested enough to write for the autograph.
It never did come, but a present came from the Kaiser to the Rich- mond boy. It was a copy of Wil- helm's autobiography,
"Aus Mei- en Leiben." The following letter accompanied the book:
"To Bobby Willis. To those writ- ng to His Majesty the Kaiser, the Chamberlain answers respectfully hat for practical reasons, His Ma jesty is rareful never to give his utograph. For historical study I have sent His Supreme Majesty's work, From My Life.'
: “With warm greetings which is the especial wish of His Majesty."
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