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I occasionally went to these with my uncle and remember the faces in the [[?]] of the important financial magnates of  New York - Mr William H. Vanderbilt with his pendulus black side whiskers. The pictures were most all foreign. A Toulumouch or a Verbokoben bringing the highest prices. It was the same then as now. The product of the talent of our own country being held in quite secondary esteem. It was the fashion for gentlemen of wealth to drive every afternoon in the Park, their own fast horses; which resulted some fifteen years later, when Harlem was developed, in the construction of that municipal bit of foolishness called the Speedway, a fine road along the Harlem river, where the millionaires,