The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1895, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1%95. HERE was a crush at the horse show on its closing night, and | society was lost in the crowd. All | the seats were taken and the aisles filled so that promenading in front of the boxes was hard work. The managers say that their receipts for the five days were about 40 per cent more than | they were last year and the profits will be | large. | All day yesterday the attendance was | larger than it had been before, and it was | a crowd that came to be interested, and | the applause was more liberal than usual. The great feature of the day was the dis- play made by the Fire Departments of S8an Francisco and Oakland. The judges dealt a hard blow to the pride of the owners of four-in-hand rigs in refus- ing to give a biue ribbon to any of the ex- hibits in class 47. The specifications of the class call for four-in-hands to be judged before a coach or drag, horses to count 50 per cent and the coach or drag and appoin{ments 50 per cent. The judges have admitfed that the horses of this class are up to the standard and worthy of blue ribbons time andagain during the show, but by this aecision de- clare that none of the rigs shown are. Hobart, J. D. Grant, the Burlingame Club | and 'Talbet Clifton had their turnoutsin the arena. In the afternoon the crowd was larger than it had been any evening before. This was partly due to its being Saturday, but alarge proportion had come to see the contest between the Fire Departments of San Francisco and Oakland. It was nota contest between No. 2 and No. 12, as far Sketched from life at the Mechanics’ Pavilion by a “Call” staff artist. VAN WAA AL e as San Francisco firemen went. They knew that Oakland had put in a great team and cared little which team won, so long as it was either that from Bush street or the one from Drumm street, and when the blue ribbon finally went to the beauti- fully matched grays which puiled No. 2 | Chief Sullivan and his men raised a shout that threatened to take the roof off the | Pavilion. It was a great show. When the bugle sounded John Hayden plied his whip over his horses and dashed into the arena at a “‘general-alarm” gait and started around the arena, followed by No. 2's hose- wagon, 12 engine and the Oakland engine. Around the arena they dashed, with bells clanging and horses jumping, as if some hotel was on fire. Engine 2 from Bush street was pulled by three well-matched grays, driven by John Hayden, with Engineer Edward Culligan in his place. Itis a new engine, up to date in every respect, and was polished till it glistened all over, as were in fact all the turnouts. No. I'shose wagon was pulled by Jim and Bob, two chemical engine borses, driven by William Durham. They area well-matched pair of whites. The horses in No.12 were Baby, Duke and Dock, three large bays, driven by John | Little, with Engineer Kiehl at his post. Their engine arrived here only a few days ago from the East and this was its first turnout. It is_an up-to-date machine, weighing five tons, and gave the big horses little opporturity for high-stepping as they hurried it around the ring. The driver for the Oakland engine was Sam Short, & veteran: of the department, | while B. E. Lawton, son of the Oakland Chief, acted as engineer. Chief Lawton was on hand, as were also the Fire Com- missioners, Mayor Davie, Attorney Peri- soll and Engineer Wilson, and many mem- bers of the Oakland Fire Department and others from across the bay, so that the magnificent gray Normans received as much cheering as did the local teams. The driving of the heavy engines about the small arena at breakneck speed with- outaccident was a sight worth seeing, for the drivers displayed wonderful skill in guiding their engines past each other at close quarters at fire-alarm speed. After they had stopped and lined up in the center the judges, Captain Taylor and James McNab, looked the horses over. and when they finally awarded the blue ribbon to No. 2's grays the cheering was the greatest that has been since the show opened. Oakland engine’s Norman grays got the second prize and red ribbon, while the yel- low ribbon of high commendation went to engine 12's bays. Before this contest chemical engine No. 2, which has been stationed in the Pa- vilion, was driven apout the arena by Joseph Burnett. The most dramatic event of the whole show was not down on the bills and oc- curred yesterday at noon when there were very few people in the audience and when John McAuliffe, J. M. Cunningham’s coachman, furious because the judges had awarded him only a yellow ribbon, flung it back at them and drove furiously out of the arena, and later after refusing to apologize to the judges was ordered by | which he did, driving his veam. e FAIR DAUGHTERS OF CALIFORNIA WHO WERE AT THE HORSE SHOW. President Crocker to leave the Pavilion, The trouble was over the decision in class 73 for the best performance of professional coach- men driving a pair of horses. Posts were set up in the arena at different points with bareiy space between for the passage of carriages, and through these the coachmen drove, one after another. TIirst came Mc- Auliffe, who made the circuit without striking a post. He was followed by John Carroll, Henry J. Crocker’s coachman, who knocked a post over. The others went through without striking. The judges awarded the first prize to Joseph Dyer, Hobart’s coachman, the sec- ond to John Carroll, who had overturned a post, the third to James Stewart and the yellow ribbon to McAuliffe. The manner of holding the ribbons and other points