Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-03-29
Dome Department.
AMERICAN LETTERS, NO. ~.
CALIFORNIA, CONTINUED.
PALAIs HOTEL, |
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. II, 1889. !


was a New Hampshire lady whose
daughter married gentleman that for
while was partner of DR.. Huntington
at Rochester, Vt. This lady was bright
as a button, and great talker. She was
disappointed in not having seen Roches-
ter. Sunday night the singing was led
by Mr.. Fairbanks of Boston, a regular
guest. Two more Boston men left with
me for Los Angeles one of these, Mr..
Smith, was native of Vershire, VT,
where he left when is years old, so years
ago, going to Boston. His father, he
said, represented Vershire II years in the
legislature, but that was before he could
remember. Mr.. Smith keeps as vigorous
as beech tree, and is good talker. We
went together to the race course at
Los Angeles, and saw the great PAGER
world. Just as the fastest horse should
be, he is Morgan. He is horse of
splendid power and great endurance;
bay, 15-3, 100 lbs. no marks, except
small star; II years old, strong built and
excellent limbs, splendid shoulder fairly
sloping; good chest but not especially
broad; slight hollow near the coupling
of the back; good neck and finely cut up; ;
fair name and tail. TO criticise briefly,
he is horse of great power and much
substance and of the finest kind of intel
ligence and courage. He was loose in his
stall. Twice he stepped back from his
window. Each time | said "come back"
1t was said with an unusual amount of
feeling, and each time instantly he came
straight back and put his head on my
shoulder. We also saw Jack, 2:19t, the
most successful trotter of the last season.
He is a gray and rather small horse,
shouldn't think oyer ID hands. He has
an extraordinary shoulder and excellent
breast, nice clean head, back runs out
nearly straight to the tail, though not a
long back to the coupling. He is higher
on the withers than behind and long on
the side; ear little large, feet good.
They trot him with three ounce shoes.
Jack was got by Pilot Medium, son of
Happy Medium from Morgan dam; Hap
Ply Medium by Hamoletonian; dam of
Jack by Magma Charta, son of Morgan
Eagle Jr., by Morgan Eagle, son of Wood
bury Morgan. 1t will be seen that Jack
is largely of Morgan blood. | think his
I'd dam is also Morgan.
I<n;rbt full hrothor to Tooly uoc In
the next stall. He is an iron gray, pref
ty near black, taller and larger than Jack
a trim-built horse of about l5-3, with
good neck and good breast and good
limb, though not of the widest quality
He has a record of , :29i.
We also saw Ed. Amman; record about
2:l7. He is very small horse, not oveI
l4-2, with crooked hind legs of grea
power; good breast for a small horse
nice smooth horse of about 800 lbs; go
by Dauntless, son of Hambletonian dan
by Night Hawk
Geneva S., 2:l9t, is strong bull
chestnut sorrel mare about l5-3. ], 0OC
lbs, six years old, bred in Kentucky; go
by Abdallah Mambrino; dam by Cadmus
Los Angeles showed for a fine large
city, not the adobe place that saw l:
} years ago. 1t would be impossible tt
recognize it. | separated here from Mr.
Smith and his friend, leaving at ~
o'clock for San Francisco. This tim,
there were two New York gentlemen il
the Pullman and Pennsylvania, wh'
enlisted me as a fourth for whist Their
was also German and his wife and TIVE
children from Chicago and a young wo
man from Detroit, who made herself quit
favorite, as she was both bright ant
good looking. She was going to an aunt
at San Jose.
1t is nearly 500 miles from Los Ange
les to San Francisco. There are, first
, cultivated valleys, then huge array o
! bare mountains-that is, bare of trees
; There is sage brush on them, and green
ish bush that looks some like red cedar
partly dried up. The Pennsylvania
who was an officer in the navy and
mountains without trees. The nigh
, overlook us whilst we were wandering
: among these mountains. In crossing
them the road rises to something owe
, 1000 feet above the sea and then cork
( screws very abruptly into the San Jo
t aqun valley.
The night was full of stars. It's fin
= quarter for stars, for storms are scare
Q and the rolling cloud is seldom seer
( With the morning we had far entered tn
Joaquin valley. The Sierra Nevadas la
a stretched along the eastern sky. Abov
|. them Dawn, with the waking eye, she
9 forth her glances. next remember tn
; sight of water; no mirage. There wer
sails upon it and hills beyond it. 1t wa
the extension of the golden bay. W
e followed along its shores to Oakland
!, then crossed the ferry to San Francisco