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...VANDERBILT...
Looking for socialites in the crowd of 15,000 that watched Col. Bradley's Balladier win the United States Hotel Stakes, photographers found: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (whose Discovery has run second to Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade in four major races this year); Mrs. John Hay Whitney (who goes for morning rides on the backstretch of the racetrack) ; Joseph Widener (just back from Europe, wearing button-shoes); Samuel D. Riddle (who gives a party every time a descendant of his famed Man o' War wins a race); old John Sanford (whose son "Laddie" was playing polo...
...recurrent phrases "watch the drivers roll," exactly like the wording of the song "Vanderbilt's Daughter" written in Virginia?if I recollect correctly many years earlier? strongly indicate that either Newton & Seiberg drew chiefly on the older song rather than on any origination of Saunders, or that Saunders merely applied new names and a few facts to the older song as he had heard...
...Vanderbilt's Daughter," an old Virginia ballad appearing in Eight Negro Songs collected by Francis H. Abbott in 1923, includes lines which might well be the source of parts of "Casey Jones." Samples...
...Vanderbilt's daughter said befo' she died dey wuz two mo' roads dat she wanted tuh ride, When ev'vy body wonduh what roads dem could be, 'twuz de Eas' Coloraydo an' de Santy...