The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-08
THE MULE RACE.
A Grand OutpOuring of the People for
Charity

Yesterday afternoon. with it's clear sky and re-
freshing breezes, its hundreds of teams on the
road to the Fair Grounds, and the fair faces show
ing reeplendently from them, recalled the NOR,
glorious days of the old Metairie. As early a.
half past O'Clock Canal street was enliyened
with string Of carriages, bound out to the mule
race for the benefit of the Newsboys' Home and
in the wake came
A GAvAJoADE or EQuEsrRIENEEs
and private teams.
II has been years since there has been such a
general outpouring Of the people to attend a
race, and certainly the denouement showed that
| IL was deserved.
| Besides carriage and buggy, many ladies' with
| their escorts, with q commendabe spirit. chose
| the more safe aud comfortable means of trans
portaton via the street cars, and long before Il
Jockeys we're ready to start, the stand was filed
from end to end. The ladies' corner was one
gasden of beauty.
eAzEIIB-EY ED BRuTETTEs,
dazzling in their array OF becoming costumes !.
light-haired and dreamy blondes, with all the
wltcbery of their eek. tempted the average eye
from the symmetrical mule towards them, and
the a. barite even had to forego his love for The
hybrid in paying obeisance to the truly beautiful
Pans Buttered. ribbons waved and gauze veil
laughed in the delightful breeze, and the fai.
ones never looked better than they did yesterday
when full of the excitement of anticipation ut the
approaching events.
The attendance was most select.
rEoM ONE END OF THE STAND
to the other none but the faces Of our best fami
lies could be noticed, and in the throng were
many who rarely can be tempted to take an inter-
est in a race, but the charitable cause had
attracted them thither yesterday. As for the
gentlemen, they were out in full force also.
Straw hats Of all styles, from the economical fat
anna from Drez we're on hand, and as IL to tempt
the ire Of Jupiter Puvius, two pairs Of white pants
ventured out With human occupants. As rule
gray suits led the van. and when these were Or
namented with arosette, the effect was simply be-
wildering. In the absence Of a bell
A RAT-TATToo
on the drum summoned the amateur jockeys to
their seats in saddle, and there was for the mo-
ment a lull in the conversation among the ladies.
In a few moments the gallant beasts, champing
at their bits, trotted out OF the cooling ground
and the silk and satin mounts" essayed to bring
them into line. Mule nature is utterly unreli-
able, and In this instance, nature showed herself
true to her old laws for first one of the stubborn
animals would take line towards the fence, and
then another would be induced by some inward
rehes tion to start down the track At last, how
ever,
THE EXPERIENCED RIDERS
got them all into line. President, Dandy, Blue
Glass. Tende loin Trout, Loafer, Louisiana,
Newsboy, sacchs riue. Bolter, Molasses, Contra
band and Perfect Swell came nobly to the front,
each showing its thoroughbred qualities. When
the d um tapped for send of Newsboy, with an
aiacrity proverbal with his class, jumped to the
FORE hotly pursued by Blue GLASS; the rest closely
bunched in the rear. 10 this order they made
THE FIRST QUARTER,
and by this is meant ali but Dandy, who, smelling
the sweet clover in the field, took notion to taAte