St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-06
Four Thousand People From the Twin
Cities Attend the Last of
the Races.
Dutch Girl Wins the First Trotting Event
Easily in Three Straight
Heats.
1t Takes Four Heats to Settle the 2:25
Pacing Contest in Dan DIS
Favor
Jonston PAGES Around Mike Wilkes
in the Match Race for Six
Thousand Dollars.
ssYhen AinstItHata,.

The series of races given by the Twin
Cities Driving club closed yesterday before
an audience of 4, 1000 people, 2, 500 of whom
were representatives of st. Paul. A fairer
day never broke over Minnesota, and it has
been long time since the murcury has
ranged as high as it did yesterday. Ninety
five in the shade it scored, and a perspiring
mass of humanity went out from the cities
| and sought comfort in the rural and semi
rural districts. Linen busters were
trotted out and portly men went winglng
their way through the streets with great
palm leaf fans that scraped holes in the at
mOSphere large enough to crawl through.
The shady side of the streets were crowded
with an ebbing and flowing tideof human
itY and the sunny side looked blank and
burning in the rays of the unmerciful sun
that haughtily waved On either side of it
what few clouds were lazily moving across
the blue stretch of heavens. The ladies to
whom fashion accords a license to dress
comfortably in the summer in the face of
masculine criticism, came out by the hun
dred in costumes Of muslin, and lace with
just enough filmy covering on their pretty
arms and necks to bar the necessity of
treating them to coating OF cold cream
when the program for the day had been
finished. They were all attractive. Ugly
faces were rendered pleasing by the con-
sistency of the dresses, and pretty faces
were lent an added attractiyeness by the
handsome suits of
AIRY MATERIAL.
1t was a day for falling in love, and many
mash was made before the cooling shades
of night closed in on the Northwestern
world. Men lean and fat stood around and
spoiled their collars and shirt fronts while the
ladies cOolly sat around together, and in their
comfort cracked jokes at their expense.
Lemonade, hand painted and otherwise,
flowed in rivers and enough of this harm
less beverage alone was drank at the fair
grounds to float the Puritan. Beer was
great desideratum and around the bars
crowded the thirsty, painting mob from the
arrival of the earliest train at the fair
grounds until the races were declared fin
ished. Of course the ladies We're denied
this luxury and they kept several boys run
ming into their section of the grand stand
with cargoes of lemonade and buttermilk
and they would sit there and clutch the
trimming glasses, touch their rims to-
gether, lift them aloft and say, heres hop
with the same polished nonchalance
that the sterner sex went through the
motions of beer bath in the dark stalls
below. 1t was the Fourth Of July and
everybody was imbued with the spirit of in
dependence. Not the same spirit that
prompted their fOrefatherS to fight for lib
ert one one hundred and ten years ago, but
tanner less pugulistic spirit.
''All aboard for the race. y yelled the
deep voiced caller in the union depot, and
he stretched his neck above the top of the
crowd that jostled around him. 'sAll
aboard for the races. The train is on the
left" and to the left the human tide turned
and upon the platform and into
the half dozen cars that were waiting to re-
ceive them. Just as the gates opened a
st. Paul citizen noticed the regular through
train for Chicago moving out. He was
going to the races, and thought that was
his train. He had his arms full of packages,
but he didn't propose to get left. The day
wasn't cold enough, and,
PRESSING BIS WAY
through the crowd, he started at a 2:1SI
gait for the receding end of the train. But
the train had lead of several lengths, and
the man could not close the gap. When he
had run down the track about 200 yards he
was collared by switchman, who
informed him that train didn't go
to the races. This made the man
hot, Che was just warm before), and
being too modest to face the 500 people who
had been interested spectators Of the eXcit-
ing race he walked up a back street
and followed the rear end of the mob
through the depot to the right train. The
last seen of him he was eSconced behind
pile of baggage in quiet nook, where he
could perspire without being disturbed.