"CHERRY AND BLACK"
ladies and gentlemen would descend from the club-
house, down the hill, through the fir-grove, and across
          the course to the Members' Stand. The
Fashion at first 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
The Club- saloons, its cheerful halls, its spacious ball-
House     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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