Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-19

THADss TAIL UP-HATS AND COATS
DEMORALIZED-TRUE BLUE CRU.
ELEYMARFYRED-A HAZARDOUS
PRACTICE-AFTRR THE RACE,
ETC.
SAX Francisco. Nov. IL, 1878.
Ed. News: Well, the agony is
over, and California Is still ahead. For
u week past scarcely anything was
thought Of but the great $40, 900 race
between CALIFORNIA; pet. Thad Ste
vens, and the Eastern flyers, True
Blue, Joe Daniels and Hubbard. Early
Saturday morning the streets were
thronged with people hurrying through
their business to get of, and the only
salutation heard WAS, "going to the
races?"
The Bulls and Bears
Concluded to suspend their contest,
bury the Ratchet for a time, and only
held q short session from 10 to IL A. n.
The Little Board did not meet; busi-
ness was light, and rs o y As it was
out the street was deserted, no crowd,
no street sales, and In III hour Califor-
MIA street looked like Sunday.
The streets
Were crowded from dawn till half-past
l with every conceivable vehicle, from
the elegant barouche with Its spanking
four-in-hand to the swill cart with its
one poor. starved, lame horse. Here
CONES Sharon's si~lver.ailed sorrels TO
a light rockaway, and two handsome
young ladies lot course Miss Sharon Is
Que Of theml, next n dilapidated ex-
press wagon with two white horses
tandem, the leaders traces made OF
ropes, then a dashing %four-in-hand fill.
ed with young bloods with busters aud
| cigars and a don't-care-a-cent-for-ex-
penses look next q furniture express
OF bright red color with four white
horses dashingly handled. and with a
white banner. N II site OF which
was printed Ia large letters, buyer
80" aud crowded with the jolliest set
OF BOYS OIL the road. They are tue
Little Board" Of brokers, aud paid
$40 for their stylish (?) rig. 10 partic-
ulsrize would take all day, a. every
thing In the shape Of horse aud vehicle
were called into reQuisition aud passed
In rapid succession through the crowd.
ell streets, but all going II way, aud
all the occupants wearing the ssne
look OF careless jollity. Very lew
Ladies'
Comparatively speaking were out, the
reason l expect was, because the ex-
penses were SO great that few could
afford to take them, as a common bug
gy and one horse cost $25 or $3O, aud
a span and double seated carriage $5O
and $50. They had to take gentlemen
who could share the expenses, still
there was quite y goodly assemelage
OF them there.
Went crowded to excess, not even
standing room In a train Of fifteen
coauhes, but nearly all Of the mascu-
line gender.
At the Terminus
or the railroad we found vehicles OF
every description, from the city hack
to the vegetable wagon and butchers
carts with: boxes for seats, willing to
take Us for 81 so each to the track.
and we'll they earned 1t, through the
deep sand and ruts, up aud down hill
for two miles. The entire distance
was crowded 20 that they were obliged
to stop every few feet.
Track
At last, and just In time to see the gal
liant competitors brought forth. First
Mamie Hail.. then Joe Daniels, and
next the brave old fsvorite, Thad.
How sauoy and Independent he looks,
glancins at the crowd, with all the In
tellisence Of q connoiseur, as much rs
to say | understand 1t perfectly don't
feel uneasy about me, OF course iii
win ; and last. the elegant True Blue,
who looked too delicate for such hard
work. The minutes of the heats the
telegraph has given you long since, SO
spare you u repetition. No II felt
disappointed at Thad's losing the
trst heat, for he never wins that, but
when hc lost the second many weak.
ened on him, but yet he had many
friends who did not give him up.
When on the third heat True Blue met
I with the accident which put his fet'
lock out Of joint and ruined the poor
fellow for life, as we'll as the race,
there was then nc doubt left how the
race would 90, aud the excitement wa.
!, intense a. Thad crossed the score well
in advance of Joe Daniels.
4 The Last Heat,
As Thad took the lead and maintained
It, crossing the line about a dozen
lengths ahead of Joe each time, the
crowd grew more and more excited
until everybody was perfectly Wild.
When the plucEy little sorrel finished
his sixteenth mile with head up, cars
forward and tail straight u as though
: lt was his first instead of last heat, the
furore was m~addening. Men threw
' their hats under his feet, and even
pulled of their coats and threw them
In the air. Ladies waved their hand.
kerchiefs, and even their shawls, and
actually screamed with delight Thad
all the time looking as though he un.
derstood it and appreciated his fame.
The Eastern Men
And those who bet on True Blue, con-
sole themselves by asserting their per-
feet confidence In the success Of their
favorits II he had not met with the &C
cident. The general feeling Is Of re.
gret that the race could not have been
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