Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-06-18
TO THE SPRINGS AND BACK.

around among the nineties. And it was
equally pleasant to have your fellow pedes
trian, swelling muscled O'Leary, give you
the shake out at the Springs, sneak into Doc
| Butts's hack, ride home, and leave you tC
sweat under the weary knowledge that all the
returning vehicles were filled, and that the
Springs carriage wasn't carrying any more
| dead heads. "No more Of that an thou lowest
| me, Hal"
But we were well paid for all the trouble OF
that trip. The Springs road is delightful
either for ride or walk. The dwellings
along the roadside look cozier now than we
ever saw them before The yards are gen.
orally filled with luxuriant growths of grass,
alfalfa apparently being the favorite, and
flowers, fragrant and beautiful of hue, orna-
ment most of the dooryards out that way.
Geo. w. Bryant, of the Mint, dweller in
that portion of Carson, has made very hand
some homestead of his place during the past
few months.
The Orphans Home looked severely dig
nifed and quiet, just as if its young orphaned
inmates were either at study or church.
we see them, which happens on Sunday,
look clean and we'll fed And then they must
have plenty of vegetable diet, else why that
matter of fact garden at the Home with its
long rows of beets, cabbages, onions, drills of
potatoes, and beds of radishes and lettucel
No floral nonsense out there. You can't raise
real children on rose-buds, bleeding hearts
and ''the daisy's dainty perfume" and Mr..
and Mrs. Webb evidently haven't got off on
that hallucination.
Beyond the Flume, and nearly opposite the
race track, We found "Watty'' clearing for
the foundation of house to be very soon
erected there. Wat he intends doing the
public will soon be advised of through the
columns of the MORNING APPEAL, price-but
we are getting in on the party who bosses the
other end of this schooner. "Watty" is going
to have at this halfway point sort of rest
for the wayfarer, where the freshest of milk
and eggs can be had almost for the asking,
and where countless varieties of edibles and
prepared by the artistic ''Watty,
will be served up in the neatest manner.
''Watty's' place is to be called the Hermit
age" probably from the fact that the pro-
prietor is no part of hermit.
Everything at the race track was quiet,
cause it was Sunday Even the sound of the
grinder Cat the wind -milD was low. The tap
# the hammer, the buzz of the saw, the soul |
inspiring squeak of Anderson's file-alll were |
Is silent as the Senate Chamber at II o'clock |
asst night.
The horses were nearly all in the stables, |
,ut the trainers, whom in every instance we
ound civil and disposed to give all the in
we asked, unblanketed the ami
nails, and even escorted us into the stalls
We admire horses, especially race horses-at
distance).
''Batterman," so often described in these
was looking fine enough for paint
ng of an English thoroughbred, and he
eemed to say ''I'll be on hand that two
nile day" His owner, Jack Connery, was
lear at hand, reclining on silk danask
overed ottoman and reading his bible, as any
cry devout Christian should have been doing
Lee Wentworth, an old trainer well known
0 all our turf men on this side, has charge
"Kent," half miller of good record, and
trim looking racer from Vir
inia. Kent is ''Norfolk," dam Vol
clan mare, and is a "good un to 60"
pedigree unknown, will most
kelly be entered for the mile and one-half
ash, second day. Maybe this is the tradi-
onal dark horse-who knows9
''April Fool" to go in the big match race
n the Fourth with "Batterman" and "Illu-
on" is a handsome bay mare, foaled in
Tissouri in 1868, and consequently ten years
ID. She is the property of Mr.. Hudspeth,
nd has been in the State about three years
an over at Reno last Fall. "April Fool"
the care of G. B. Hoffman, one of the best
{ trainers, is by "Waterloo," her dam Gan
y Daily" the thoroughbred strain running
ack on both sides to the purest blood i'm
orted stock. Channcey Hoffman also has
charge cred Oak" his own property, of
Lummux" stock, foaled in Carson Valley.
Red Oak" is large heavy -muscled, firm I
epping and easymoving horse-just the
vie for good half miler-and will go l
,ainst "kent," and probably other horses
1t vet named, in the half mile race. If the \
,rses are in fix, as the horsemen say, this 1
~ ill bo Daar1v a stand off in sDaod to TaoE Il