The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1895. 8 e sAa e e e ey, ————— THE KING OF BODEGA, Millionaire Hitchcock Has Made His Will and Is Sinking Fast. DIAGNOSIS OF DOCTOR LANE. Eccentricities of a Man Whose Vast Fortune Will Be Divided Among Many Relatives. The exclusive story in THE CALL yester- day that Hollis Hitchcock, the eccentric millionaire of California, was_sick unto death at Dr. Lane’s hospital caused a t deal of talk among the tens of thou- who know him. Throughout the Sonoma Valley the name of Hitchcock is good for loads of gold. He owns thousands upon thousands of rich land there, and the seat of his resi- dence is at Bodega, where as the king of Bodega he was master of the finances. But his domain extends to a vastly richer region, and his lands and possessions oth- erwise appear on the taxlists of many counties. In Sonoma he owns in many banks—the one in Tomales, all of those in Petaluma, and in one in Santa Rosa; how many others nobody knows. When it comes to talking of Monterey, Fresno and other counties, the old gentleman owns rolling acres in them, reacting over many miles. It is hard to st what he has got. Even his most mate irien reely know, and his wealth, therefore, can only be guessed It is howe Asa Czar of Grizzly 1sland, in the Sac- ramento River, where the landed financier zo secured 3000 acres, he is well known in that part of the country. he $1,000,000 which he was at first guoted to be worth is said to be much too low a fi 1f property worth as much t was four or five years ago in C ia he would be worth probably $5,000,000 or $6,000,000. As it is his estate should approach $2,000,000 or $3,000,000, so those who know him well aver. s worth more than $1,000,000, nothing about his other property,” said one of his neighbors yesterday. B sides the land he has $75,000 or $100,0X the Donabue Railroad and interests in the Petaluma and Santa Rosa banks. No doubt he has large areas of land and the; also that I know noth- gr reac a few vyea ing of. The ola gentleman, who is now 75 years old, bas neither wife nor children. After he came here from Eastern Canada in 52, and had made some money, he re- red home end brought out a wife. vas a disagreement aiter a few ver, and the wife, went back He never had any how and has since died. children by this marriage. years, no immediate heirs, how- ever, heh host of nephews, nieces and other relatives in California and Canada. It is said the number will reach thirty or forty anyway, and these, or at least some of them, it is presumed, will fall beir to his great patrimony. The oid man has become convinced that he cannot in all probability survive the Bright’s disease of the kidneys with which he is afflicted. Accordingly his nephew, L. V. Hitchcock, ex-District Attorney of C came down at his request in reference to his will. Th=will has since been made and the designation of his mil- lions indicated. Dr. L. C. Lane, at whose hospital on Clay and Webswer streets the old money king now is, said yesterday that the af- flicted man conld not possibly get well. “He may live a day or two,” he said, “and it is possible he may live longer, but this kidney disease is fatal.” It is said that seven or eight relatives of Hitchecock will, according to the will, get the fortune. Those who know him, how- ever, anticipate the not unusual dissatis- faction among other relatives at such a time, with the possibility of struggles fora portion of the property. Hitcheock, who laid the foundation of his fortune by driving beef-cattle to the gold mines, has lived an eccentric life for many years. He would notspend a doliar unless there was an absolute need of it. He acquired in the course of his land ac- cumulations a large house near Bodega, designated as a castle by his neighbors, and here for a long time he lived alone. When he grew sick finally he was taken to the family of his nephew at Valley Ford, not far away, and they cared for him till he was finally brought to the City for treatment. Then he went to Dr. Lane’s hospital. Though having an income of from $35,000 to $40,000 a year, he bewailed the expense, and said the cost was liable to ruin him. Two small rooms there, with the auxili- aries, cost $3 a day each. The money king said it was too much, that he couldn’t stand it. As there was no fire in the room, and as one was necessary, the relatives moved bim to two larger and better rooms, where he could have sufficient warmth and other comforts. The relatives had to assure him, however, that his new rooms did not cost much as the others, in order to pacify him and make him satisfied. In later years the money-getter has added materiallv to his wealth by interest on loans. In this way it issaia many very valuable ranches have come into his pos- session. The farmers who gave the mortgages could not stem the tide of big interest and succumbed. In this way thousands on thousands of acres were added to the nucleus of acres. Both ex-District Attorney Hitchcock and Ben Hitchcock, nephews, who have been visiting the old man, left for their homes i Red Bluff and Balinas, respectively, yesterday. DEATH OF DR. JAMES W. BLAKE, Another Prominent Physician Passes 3 Away—Dies Near Creston. The death -of Dr. James W. Blake occurred Jast Tuesday night at his fruit farm near Creston, in S8an Luis Obispo County, where the doctor had gone to regain his fast-failing health, but an at- tack of pleuro-pneumonia coming on about a week before hisdeath was more than his strength counld withstand. The doctor was born in London, Eng- land, February 7, 1844, and came to Cali- fornia in 1865, just at the end of the Civil War. He engaged at once in the drug business in Visalia and was very prosper- ous, building up quite a large business. In 1872 he moved to this City with his family and pursued the study of medicine at the Teland Medical College, graduating in 1874 with high honors. Since then he has been in active practice for twenty years, but from overwork and failing health he was compelled in 1894 to give up practice and retire to his ranch ior a time to regain his health, if possible. He wasa member of several societies, Thoug h h: ) 5 -4 4 8 ® & 1) g among them being the Masons, 0dd Fel- lows, Workmen and other kindred orders. He will be buried Sunday at2 o’clock from Masonic Temple by King Solomon’s Lodge, F. and A. M.,of which he was past master, assisted by California Com- mandery No. 1, Knights Templar. The doctor leaves a widow, a daughter and two sons to mourn his loss. VARLEY ON CALIFORNIA. Life Here a Long Anthem Were It Not for Sin. Henry Varley, the evangelist, thus summarizes his impressions of California in a letter to The Christian of London: As for California, I am in love with the cli- mate and deeply attached to the people. It is never really hot, and scarcely ever cold in the sense of frost, whilst there is a marvelous ex- hilaration in the cool currents of air which come with constant and balmy freshness to Ban Francisco. I have not once been troubled with cold or bronchitis, ana never felt more robust and strong than now. I have seen much of the world, but that State, 1 think, surpassesall. Its productive wer is simply marvelous; for fruits and ngers itis beyond description. The days and months of peerless sunshme, mingled with Wwhite mist upon which the direct rays of the sun appear to feed, effectually prevent the in- tensity of the heat of its direct rays. Poverty shounld be unknown, and life a long anthem of praise. This would be ro were it not ior sin. Intemperance, the worship of money,and deem\'i(y of the most attractive and fascinating character literally blight the land and prevent its development and prosperity. Crime and sin, hideous and degrading, bid fair to change ‘‘this fruitful land into barrenness hfi reason of the wickedness of those that dwell therein.” TALBOT PARTS WITH BUD. Mr. Hauser No Longer Dispenses the Coin of J. Talbot Clifton. The Secretary Was Too Lavish With the Lord’s Coin and They Separate. J. Talbot Clifton has parted with his Bud. Not the rosebud that sometimes adorns the | lapel of his English-cut coat, but Bud Hauser, his secretary and business man- ager. Hauser is a young New Yorker, who ap- | peared upon the present racing horizon | some months ago. He isa good dresser, and one of the frequenters of the Palace Hotel billiard-room. At the races he posed as a plunger, but never created the sensa- tion that Riley Grannan or Pittsburg Phil have. During the horse-show Hauser ingratiated himself in the good graces of J. Taibot Cli fton, the wealthy Englishman and dar- ing horseman, and his lordship was so taken at the free-and-easy way of the young Easterner that he offered him a handsome salary to enter his employ. Bud then blossomed forth as the gayest kind of a sport. Swell dinners at h' ployer’'s apartments in a downtown restaurant and scented cigar- ettes had a most invigorating effect on the young man. stylish turnouts gaudily arrayed in a dove-colored boxeoat and dashing Alpine hat and spent money with lavish hand. In fact this latter item, it is said, caused his lordship to dispense with the services of his trusted secretary. During the absence of Mr. Clifton for a day or so Bud invited friends out for moonlight rides and terrapin-stews, all, it is said, at his employer’s expense. Gossipers told the news to J. Talbot Clifton, and his blue blood boiled in vir- tuous indignation, until it seemed his very veins would burst. Then and there he re- solved that his secretary was too swift, even for a scion of British nobility, and he proceeded forthwith to await the secre- tary’s coming, that he might be cast again among the flotsam and jetson of the cold, cold worid. The pxrtinf-so the story goes—was not long delayed. The Lord Clifton betook himself late at evening to a neighboring Turkish bath. Inthe wee hours the gay Bud also wandered into the same estab- lishment. The meeting and the parting are described as pathetic beyond descrip- tion. The debonair secretary approached his master wreathed in smiles, but received a look that nearly cansed the handson his Waterbury timer to cease revolving. The look was followed by action, and soon the secretary found himself forcibly thrust out of the door into darkness and exile forever. The New Yorker feels deeply aggrieved | and a duel with pneumatic-dynamite guns in the near future is scarcely an improba- bility. ———— Landmarks. But there are other landmarks than old trees. True, there are old houses, and, we add, perhaps, old men. The village with- out its patriarch is incomplete; and what a difference between colonial houses and those that have recently sprung into ex- istence! We breathe in the odor of un- painted cedar and mossy shingles—not strive to rid our lungs of the smell of paint, We seldom stop to look at a house built in our own lifetime; but how generally we scrutinize the old house near by, though we may have seen it daily for many years! Itsquaint porch, the smali-paned windows, the low eaves and substantial chimney appeal to us, and we wonder if life is not more restful and soul-satisfying under such a roof. The old man in his high- backed rocker dozing by the fireplace, the old woman knium'fv in her throne-like easy chair, the willow-pattern china in the open cupboard—what a picture! But these venerable people cannot long re- main, and then what? The children scat- ter the furniture, the old house is torn down and we have the smell of paint and the chatter of strangers. Can we not at least preserve one such house in every village, furniture, and old-fashioned gar- den and all else. keeping it for our chil- dren’s sake, an illustration on the page of local history? What poor exchange for this is a single chair or an odd plate upon the mantel of a new house! Detached from their proper surroundings, few ob- jects retain their real beayty. It is like the caged canary asa substitute for the free minstrel of the wildwood.—Charles C. Ab- bott in Lippincott’s. ————————— Deer-Hunting by Locomotive. Once in a while the engineer of a train on Dr. Seward Webb's Adirondack Rail- road has a race with a deer. Sometimes it happens that the h-iihun-d deer won't leave the track, and is killed. One night in September, when Pat Cum- mings was pullinE the through train down to Utica, he walked back to Conductor Clarke while his fireman was taking water at Nehosene, and said: “Bill, I killed a deer back there by the river. It was a fine big buck. He run ahead of me fora lcmf Ppiece, and I could see him plain. When I bit him he went over the pilot higher'n he ever jumped before in his life, I vet. He landed just out there in the ditch, and I had a notion (ko_ séoyx‘; and get him, but I wasafraid you'd 1ck, ‘I wish youhad stopped.” said Clarke. ‘‘The next time you catch a deer that way youstop. It won't take long to get him, and we can easily make up the time. Deer {%“tt’l's too scarce and high to let it go like at. Cummings said he surely would stop the next time, and Clarke got the agent to tel- eeruph to the agent at Horseshoe to send their section men down to the river with their handcar to get the deer. It was after 11 o'clock, but the section men started out. and after a smart pull got down to the river. They looked a long time, but coula find no deer. Up and down the track they went, and at last were ?‘ust about to give up in disgust when one of the men found it. It lay out on the bank of the ditch beside the track. It was a fine, la: yellow dog. Now if you ask Pat Cummings if he has killed a deer lately you want to be ready to dodge, and dodge mighty quick, for Pat is a husky citizen.—New York Sun. He attended the races in | CRESCENDD WAS BEATEN. Foul Riding on Chorn’s Part De- prives Him of a Deserved Prize. RAMIRO TOOK THE ELMWOOD. Miss Maxim Won Romping—A Flying ' Start Gave Adam a Race at 10 to1in the Betting. A fair-sized crowd yiewed the racing at Bay District track yesterday and saw the crack Crescendo lose the Elmwood stakes through a fluke. The day was cold and frosty and everybody went around muffled up with hands in poekets. The bookmakers’ fingers, however, didn't tingle so badly that they couldn’t handle the coin, for they grabbed everything ,that came their way, and much came. The track was still heavy, preventing any fast time. Favorites were successful in four out of seven essays. The longest-priced winner was Adam, who captured the sixth race at odds of 10 to 1. His victory could be at- tributed to his flying start, the favorites being let off at the tail end of the bunch. Interest was chiefly céntered in the third event of the day, the Elmwood stakes for two-year-olds, at six furlongs, with a guaranteed value to the winner of $1500. There were twelve starters. Sallie Clicquot, carrying 108 pounds, was the post favorite at 2to 1, backed down from threes. Imp. Santa Bella was next in demand at 3% to 1. Crescendo who with his numerous penal- ties for winning was asked to carry 125 pounds was third choice in the betting. Plenty of 4 to1 was obtainable on him. Ra- miro was quite extensively backed at 7 to | 1, and so was Gratify, with Doggett up, at 12to 1, but the other starters cut little | figure in the betting. At the post there was considerable delay | before Ferguson let them away to a fair | | start. Santa Bella was off first, followed | by Sallie Clicquot, Ramiro and Princess Noretta. The speedy Princess shot to the front almost immediately, and at the half | | was leading by a length, closely followed by Sallie Clicquot, Santa Bella, Ramiro, | | Gratify and Crescendo. Into the stretch | | her lead had been decreased to a, head, with but slight change in the order of the others. When they straigtened away for | | the wire, Sloan, on Snnm%r!la. chose the | | inside next the rail, while Sallia Clicquot | |and Ramiro turned wide. At this| stage Princess Noretta fell out of it.!| | A sixteenth from home Sallie Clic-| quot and Ramiro on the outside | apparently held Santa Bella safe, and the issue appeared to be between them. Sud- denly Bergen cut loose from Crescendo and, { with gigantic strides, he began mowing | down their lead. A hundred yards from the | wire be was on top of them, and with plenty “of daylight intervening Bergen Chorn on Ramira deliberately pulled his mount | over, cutting Crescendo off, compelling | Bergen to pull the big chestnut up and go | around 8ally Clicquot, ruining all chance | of winning. Ina ard drive Ramiro beat Green Morris’ mare out a head, with Santa Bella finishing in third position. Some | minutes elapsed before the result was called out, the horses finally being placed | as they finished. The opening race for two-year-olds, over five and a half furlongs, was taken in a romp by the6 to 5 favorite Yankee Doo- | started to pass between the pair. dle, with the second choice, Alvaro, finish- lniin the place. six-furlong dash for all ages, with but four starters, resulted in the ignominious defeat of the 7 to 10 choice, Kowalsky. Miss Maxim, who _had second call in the betting, |kip§« off in the lead, and, almost loosing Kowalsky, w‘o:: She pulled up eight lengths in front of him. Louis Ezell's old horse Dungarven was backed down from threes to 8 to 5 to rake off the mile and a sixteenth selling affair, and he did it very cleverly. Highland made the running to the stretch, where she gave way &Y ed Glen. The latter led until a furlong from the wire, when the favorite passed him and won easily by two lengths. o The short course_steeplechase drew out but five starters. Colonel Weightman was made a pronounced 9 to 10 favorite, and after running head and head with Tom Clarke to the last jump, drew away and won easily by !huelengt 8. The Jast two eventson the card were both five and a half furlong dashes. In the first division there were ten mmni with Tim Murphy and George Miller closing %8“.1 favorites in the betting at 234 to 1. ben the flag fell, Adam, a 10 to 1 shot, well backed in the ring, was away in front, with the favorites bringing ug in the rear. The outsider was never headéd, winning handily by a couple of lengths from George Miller, who made a fine run. Sligo was a good third. Another good thing was cut loose in the second chapter with thirteen starters. Backed down from 6 to 3to 1 Beatrice, with Garner up, led nearly the whole dis- tance, winning handily from the well- backed Banjo. The 15to 1 shot Raphael was a good third. Traock and Paddook Items. Barney Schreiber thought well of High- land’s chance, and backed her quite ex- tensively. Joe Terry, the well-known Sacramento turfman, owner of the El Primero stable, went down the line on Red Glenn. Riley Grannan and George Wheelock both strung their coin on Redington, who ran unplaced. Riley finally got aboard Beatrice in the last race and cashed some swell bets. The horses were at the post twenty-eight minutes in the stake event. A big crowd watched Crescendo in his preliminary gallop. Barney Schreiber was among the number, and as he passed by Barney remarked that he owneg. twenty- eight youngsters, but that Mr. Burke could have them all for the big chestnut. The two plungers, Riley Grannan and Ed Purser, are now peering at each other through frosted glasses. One day, at Ingle- side, Grannan backed Purser’s colt Yankee Doodle, when bhe finished among the also- rans. Yesterday Purser backed him heavily, and he galloped in. He was entered to be sold for §200, and when put up to be auctioned Grannan bid him up to $1000, the trainer retaining him with the usual $5 bid. Purser was very wrathy, and it 1s fortunate for Grannan that he owns no_horses. Little Garner rode the winners of the last two races. Malo Diablo got over the jumps safely, but dwelt too long in the air, losing con- siderable ground at each hurdle. He should make a great jumper in time. Bellringer had a fit of the sulks, and re- fused at the third hurdle_altogether. J. Owen had the mount. It seems strange that this horse should run so well fora time, carrying all kinds of weight, and then as he became a favorite with the pub- lic relapse again into his old roguish tricks. Adam was well backed by his stable folks, who won a_very comfortable sum over his victory. With an evea break the g;xrse would surely have gone to George iller, who seems a most unfortunate horse in the majority of his races. ‘When Chorn, who rode Ramiro, weighed in on the scales under the judges’ stand he was found to be a pound and s quarter short of weight. The clerk of the scales accompanied him to the scales, where he weighed out in the jockey's room and his weight was found to be correct. e ——————————————————————————————————————— | “THE CALL” Tlllrd Day of the Winter Meetin; Fair, Bay District Track, San RACING CHART. of the Catifornia Jockey Clab. rancisco, Saturday, December 28, 1895. Weather Fine. Track 453, FIBST RACE-Fiv & half turiongs: selng; two-year-oids; conditions; purse $300. Index. | Horse, age, weight. [s.| % | 1% | % | s | Fin Jockeys. {m‘,"‘“"::l ! | i ——_— —- | 409 | Yankee Doodle,2.115| 12 | 18 | 13 |Gamn. 3 1810 289 | Alviro, 2. 107 10038 | 23 | 2i [Game 85 8 50 108 8% | 42 | 41 | 33 |Hinrchs 20 40 110/ 78" | 815 | 82 | 413 |3 Wake i 7 113 i | 8% | 36 | o K Iom 10 12 17| 81 | 8x |7 63 | M. Bergi 20 & 442 |Tda H, 2 113/ 83 | 7 51 | 74 |J. Chomn s e 817 | Billy McGioskey..116| 8 8 |8 8" |C.Sloan 10 12 y u();m start. Won easily. Winner, Cambridge stable’s b.c., by Prince Royal-Manzanita. Time, | 454, SECOND RACE-Six furiongs; all ages: penalties: allowances; purse $400. Index. | Homse,age, wetght. [8u 34 [ 3 | % | Sin | Fin | Jockers |opening Miss Maxim, i |14 |18 |16 |16 |C. Slaughter....| 32 2 Kowalsky. 2 28 | 24 | 26 | 26 |Garner 710 13:20 450’ Fiash Ligh 31 | 34 | 36 | 310 [R Isom. 0 25 440 |Royal Flus 1 3 i 3 |Grifin. 20 2 Good start. Won Winer, G. B. Morris & Co.s b. &, by imp. Maxim Ventura. Time, 111614 5 THIRD RACE—Six furlongs: the Elmwood stakes; two-year-olds; penalties; 450. THIBD BA g8 m wo-year-olds; penaities; allowanc 1 % Bettl Xndex.i Horse, age, weight. ‘ _s: % Y % Str. | Fin. Jockeys. |Gpetting, 416 |Ramiro, 2.........115| 3 4 4 4 1 878 |Sallle Clicquot, 3.108| 2 gat | sl 43| % (437) Imp. Sta Beils, 2.115| 1 2h | 817 84 | 8 (676) | Creseendo, 125) 8 71 | 64 | 82 | 46 437 |Gratity, 7 62 | 5n | 83 | 54 (442) Prin, No 5 15 | 11 | 135 | 62 102’ I 5% | Ti5 | 7 73 443 Joe K, 2...... 2 3 las 8 84 447 |Covernor Budd, i da- |9z |10 9 443 | Benham, 2 |10 8n {101 [ 9 {10 75 (St. Lee, 8 Jaonm - |1 11 9 oh | 8n {12 |12 20 40 Falr start. Won driving. minutes. Winner, 8anta Anita stable’s br. c., *Coupled with Princess Noretta. Time, 1:16. by Gano-Cuban Queen. At post 28 456. FOURTH RACE—One and a sixteenth miles; selling; penalties; allowances; purse $400. Index.| Horse, age, weight. | st st | %4 | 1% | 34 | ser | Fin. Sooxeys. olla)emn& 3 T3(b35 (44 (810 |36 | 88 | 1135 2 3 Bl‘h 31%(3h [1h 13& 23% gophnn 6 2:: 43 121 l?fi 134 2135:( 83 3 135 3 87 7|7 6 S5h™ |61 415 410 6 20 436 |Tar and Tartar, 5104/ 65 /4h (51 |64 [535 |5 X. 53 5 12 (436) Ransom, 3. 98| 41135 122 |21 [3h |6 66 2 6 444 |Wawons, 4.....1110 6 (64" |7 |7 7 7 5 18 Good start. Won easily. Winner, L. Ezell's br. h., by Hindoo-Calphurnia. Time, 457, FIFTH RACE—Auout one and s half mlles: steeplechase; selling; allowances; purse 8400, Index.| Horse,age, weight. l st.|17.]873 | 473|636 [Fin.| Jockeys o:“""[i 326) | Col. Weightman,3 5| 4_| 24| 28| 25| 18| 1 X G538 | Fom Clarke, 8- 1| 12| 13| 1n| 1n| 34| 335 a9 445 [Malo Diablo, 3 2| 22| 83| 82| 3 | 3 | 8 112 438 | Bellringer, 6. il 5 | a4 | e T2 425 |Adelante, 3. 3|*3h Stewart.. 20 50 purse $300. SIXTH RACE—Five and a halt furlongs; selling; three-year-olds start. Won egaily. Winner, A. G. Blakeley's b. g., by Warfellow-] 3 E £ “mlm"?fl y's b. g, by low-Lessie P. Time, 3:3514. and npward; allowances; Horse, sge, welkht. |8 %4 | 3% | % | & [ P | Jookers | Beving T3 e PEeTE e H an | 83" | 83, | 34 I i in | 5n | s | B8 Mo 8 % i 81 | 21 | 24" | 412 |Hennessy. w7 7 33 41 | dm | Flit 3 52 3 43 | 51 | 84" | glo 8 12 8 87 | 13| 8” | 7 0 0 808 [Huenem 5 s |91 (w0 |4& s 8 Realization, 10 10 10 T3% 919 ['] 8 441 [Conde, 6 6 A7 |8l 87 |10 15 30 Poor start. Woneastly. Winner, Westchester stable's ch. g., by Powhattan-Waitindoo. Time, 1:10 SEVENTH RACE—Five ances; purse $300. and & 459. half furiongs: selling; three-year-olds and upward; allow- Index.| Horse, age, weight. | 5| 14 str. | P Jockeys. op. B'ulnmcL T e 18 | 1 1182 2l 4 33 3';' H o3 394 8| 3 i) i3 o L 363 il e 7 5h 10 40 a2 5| 2n 31 | ¢ 1 H ...... 6l 7 8| 7 0 50 394 10 |10 9 83 15 0 345 9| 9 |8 93 6 10 266 111 1n |w 40 2 69 12|12 13 (1 e 10 300 7|8 0 (12 0 100 292 |Orphan Boy, 13| * 5 lstvasesd 8 0 Fair start. Won easily. Winner, C. H. Durkee’ *Pulled up. b. 1., by St. 8aviour-Miss Mitford. Time, 1:1014, e —————————————————————————————— The first water dams were constructed by the beavers, and the engineers have never been able to improve upon the models presented by the industrious workers. Their dams are wide at the bot- tom, narrow at the top, are well supported and seldom give ‘When honey has been exposed to a low temperature, or'has been kept for a lon, time, it will lose its transparency, and fi said to be “candied.” If it isdesired to re- store it to its original state, place the ves- sel containing it in warm erystals mefl.‘ water until the A CRITIC FROM THE EAST, The Rider and Driver Tells How Blue Ribbons Were Won or Lost. LORD CLIFTON'S JACK RABBITS. Editor Taylor on the Shortcomings of Turnouts at the Local Horse Show. Bamuel Walter Taylor's San Francisco Horse Show number of the New York Rider and Driver is out and will be in- structive and interesting reading to the blue ribbon winners even if it isin some respects not very flattering to their knowl- edge of the‘‘correct thing’’ in the way of harness and coach, cart, brougham and carriage appointments. Neariy the whole number is devoted to the horse show, and the different classes are taken up in order and criticized. Among the many illustra- tions are copies of photographs of Presi- dent Crocker and prominent exhibitors and exhibits. Oneof Nankivell's clever sketches, published in THE CavL, is given prominence. In taking up the classes exhibited Mr. Taylor gives all the points upon which horses won or failed to win blue ribbons, and coming as 1t does from an expert it will be valuable to future exhibitors. Gen: erally heis very complimentary to the ex- hibits, bug it is when Mr. Taylor comes to criticize the trappings,harness and driving that the untutored Westerner finds that he nas much to learn before the turnouts of the San Francisco horse shows can be calied “‘quite fit, don’t you know.”’ Mr. Taylor came out here with the judges from New York, and was in attend- ance at the show from the beginning to the end. He is looked upon in New York as an-authority on horse shows. In speaking of the single-carriage horse class to be shown before a brougham he says: “Mr. Hobart’s bachelor brougham, with Cardinal put to, won the blue ribbon. He was turned ‘out with a very fine har- ness, although rather inclined to be on the flashy order. gested flashiness in that it had swage buckles instead of balf wire buckles, not horseshoe shape. He bad a medallion monogram over the hips on the breeching, which was not in good taste according to our ideas. All things considered, how- ever, Mr, Hobart’s brougham was excel- lent, and good enough to give the best a rub at the Madison-square Garden show. “We were glad to note there were no white gloves in the ring, the coachmen wearing fawn-colored driving-gloves. hats on all of Mr. Hobart’s men were well shaped, with not too much bell, and hav- ing the approved livery leaf. * ¥ * One of the worst mistakes made by Mr. Parrotc was in leaving off breeching and using a kicking-strap.” The reason why no four-in-hand turn- out was awarded the blue ribbon wiil give, Mr. Hobart, Charley Baldwin anda Profes- sor Herrmann food for thought: “‘In the first place Mr. Hobart's harness was incorrect in baving half swage horse- shoe buckles, jnstead of square wire buckles; elbow bits, instead of the Bux- | His coach was up to park form, ex- | ton. cept that he had an extra brake on behind to be worked by tue servant. This was an unnecessary and absurd precaution, for no matter how steep the hills maf be in San Francisco the whip could call upon his servants to put on the skid provided for the purpose In the event of his brake not holding. A good man, 2ccustomed to ! coachini, can reedily put on the skid while the coach is In motion, thereby avoiding loss of time, which would have to be made up by the driver. His servants made the same mistake in the brougham class in that the second man was in coach- man’s livery. Third prize was given to Mr. Hobart's team of browns, driven by Mr. E. D. Bey- lard, whe made the same mistakes as the first prize winner except that he was addi- tionally at fault in being without bearing reins. Professor Herrmann was given fourth prize with the team shown in the previous class. He exhibited a very nice Holland & Holland coach, the property of J. Talbot Clifton. His harness was a nondescript, neither road nor park. His own monogram appeared on his harness, Mr. Clifton’s coat-of-arms on the coach, and one of his own men and a borrowed man, both wearing Mr. Pope’s monogram and livery. None of the drivers was in proper costume, and Mr. Charles A. Bald- win, driving the Burlingame club coach, having forgotten his top coat, committed the unpardonable faux pas of appearing on the box in fuil evening dress.” ‘John McAuliffe, whoin the driving con- test of professional coachmen created a scene because he was awarded only a yel- low ribbon, gets the following notice: “‘McAuliffe. coachman for J. M. Cun- ningham, was fourth. The first three en of seemed to thoroughly under- nd that they were servants of their em- ployers, but the fourth man when placed on one side of the ring to await his turn, put his whip in the socket, leaned with his elbow on the roof of the brongham, crossed his legs ana acted generally as though he were not working for a gentieman, but was driving a truck. His handling of the reins, one in each hand, pulling on off-side an then near-side as though hauling on a hawser, was an exhibition painful to be- hold. On leaving the ring he had the im- pudence to throw the ribbon he had re- ceived into the ring. ““We are pleased to say that he will not be permitted to enter any recognized show ring again, and we think Cunning- ham will suffer by having any such man in his service.” Docking is not, according to the New York idea, necessary in all cases, for Mr. Taylor says that there was only oue horse with a long tail among the iighthool u?ddlehorses, which is a requisite for that class. And this is what. the New Yorker says of the pride of Blingam: “Lord J. Talbot Clifton was in this class with four rabbits to a Holland & Holland coach. Their col- lars were big enouih to godown to their knees and it was only due to the efforts of & groom that they were kept from going through them, not for high-stepping, but like hounds on the scent with their noses to the ground.” < — The New-Born Child. The most striking characteristic of the new-born offspring of man is its unpre- paredness for life. Compared with the Young of other animals, the infant is feeble and incapable,. He can neither use his limbs nor see the distance of objects as a new-born chick or calf is able to do. His brain centers are, we are told, in a pitiable state of undevelopment, and are not even securely incased within their bony cover- ing. Indeed, he suggests for all the world M:. Hobart’s harness sug- ! The | a public building which has to be opened by a given date, and is found when the day arrives to be in a humiliating state of in- completeness. This fact of the special heiplessness of the human offspring at birth, of its long period of dependence on parental or other aids—a period which probably tends to grow longer as civilization advances—is rich in biological and sociological signi cance. For one thing it presupposes a spe- cially high development of the protective ana fostering instincts in the human parents, more particularly the mother— for, if the helpless wee thing were not met by these instinets what would become of our race? It is probable, too, us Mr. Spen- cerand others have argued, tha the insti- tution by nature of this condition of in- fantile weakness has reacted on the social affections of the race, helping to develop our pitifulness_for all frail and helpless things.—Fortnightly Review. BICYCLES AS BAGGAGE. Wheels Will Be Charged For From Jan- uary First, Except Between Cer- tain Points. Bicycle riders who do not take too long a trip between San Francisco and neigh- boring towns or between Los Angeles and neighboring points are to be exempted from the payment of freight charges on their wheels according to the circular is- sued yesterday by general baggage agent J. T. Carothers of the Southern Pacific Company. This circular reads as follows: To agents—Commencing Jannary 1, 1896, a uniform charge must be made for the carriage of bicycles, tricycles and baby carriages in our baggage-cars locally, except as noted below. This uniform charge must be the same, in each case, as you would ynake for 50 poundg excess baggage between the same points an over thesame route, and is to be additional to and separate from any charge for excess bag- gage proper, and in no case less than 25 cents for each cyeie or carriage. Please take notice that these articles must be checked, whether crated or not, and that they must not be considered as forming part of the regular allowance of baggage. Exceptions: Instructions now in force will govern for carriage of these articles between certain points, as follows: From San Francisco to San Jose, Livermore, Valiejo, Benicia and Martinez, and points in- termediate thereto, and vice versa. From Los Angeles to Saugus, Santa Monica, Long Beach, San Pedro, Tustin, Santa Ana, Whittier, Pasadena, Monrovia, Chino, San Bernardino, Redlands and Riverside, and to points intermediate thereto. and vice versa. Respectiully yours, J. T. CAROTHERS, General Baggage Agent. Approved: T. H. GoobMAX, General Passenger Agent. ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY, One of Little Pete’s Recent Im- ports Finds a Safe Refuge. The Woman Found a Chance to Get Out of a Den and Went to the Presbyterian Mission. One of the women said by Rev. F, J. | Masters of the Methodist Chinese Mission | to have been imported into this country ‘for immoral purposes under the guise of | actresses for the Atlanta Exposition by | Lang Nam and Fong Ching (Little Pete) ion on Sacramento street at last. e went there under rather unusual | circumstances. According to Dr. Masters these women were brought into this country by way of Ogdensburg, N.Y., where | they are not subjected to the same rigid investigation as is the custom at the port of San Francisco, and that after a short season of starring at Atlania they were bronght to this City and placed by their owners in dens in Sullivan, Bakers and Bartlett alleys. This particular woman found an opportunity to escape, and took advantage of it. s Evidently she communicated with some white person who was large!y instrumental in putting her on the road to safety, as she had a card in_her hand directing her to the Presbyterian mission, which does a very active work in rescuing unfortunate slaves of this character. She showed her card to the first policeman she met and he took her to the mission. Her story is meager in details so far. It amounts simply to a statement that she | was brought here and placed in a den against her will and took the first chance of escape. Whenfasked to give a full statement last night through an interpreter, she begged to be excused on the ground that it might put her own personal safety and that of the other women besides in jeopardy. She is a very bright young woman—or rather girl, for she appears to be still in her teens—and when the proper time comes she may have something of interest to communicate to Collector Wise. The Collector proposes to institute an investigation to ascertain_just what con- nection Little Pete and Long Nam did have with the advent recently in this City of thirty-four unfortunate Chinese women. e — Senator Tillman’s Seat. This _story is told on Senator Tillman: When he had his seat assigned to him on the floor he found his nearest neighbor to be Senator Irby of South Carolina. The two are at outs, and have not spoken in passing for a long time. It made Tillman feel very uncomfortable to sit so near to his enemy, and he asked to be changed on the ground of his visual afliction, for every one knows that Senator Tillman is blind of one eye. His plea was that he could not see as well, sitting where he did, as he could from some other seat. The next day he found himself assigned toa desk on the other side of Irby, there sim- ply having been a reversal of positions. “T asked to be changed,” said Tillman to the acting official of the Senate, ‘*be- cause I could not see from that desk, and you have only changed me to the other | side of Senator Irby.” 3 “Yes, sir,” said the floor official, ““I did not suppose you could see him on the side on which gou are blind, and so I changed you accordingly.” Tillman gave a snort of contempt, and picked out a desk which is not approxi- mately as desirable as the first one was.— ‘Washington Post. | mi. A Kurdish Tent, The tents of the Kurds, in which they seek the pasturage of the mountains in summer, vary much in size, though in a pearance and shape they conform through- out to one tplan. The coyering of the tents consists of long, narrow strips of black goat’s hair material sewn together length- ways. Along the center of the tent this roofing is supported on three to five poles, according to the size, and stretched out by ropes which, made fast to the edge of the roofing, are pegged securely to tge ground. The poles within the tent, being of some height, usually 8 to 10 feet, the edge of the tenting does not nearly reach the ground, but walls are formed of matting of reeds held together by black goat'shair thread, which is often so ar- ranged as to form patterns on the yellow mats.—Blackwood’s Magazine. has found her way to the Presbyterian | NEW TO-DAY. NOLAN BROS. SHOE €0. NOTICE! WE HAVE NO BRANCH STORE ON MARKET STREET. EVERY LADY Should Have a Pair of Our Life-Saving Shoes FOR THE WINTER. 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