Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-01
THE FscoNDIDo FAIR.
The Twenty .SlXth Agricultural
District 10 the Front With SOme-
thing to be Freud OF.


The Twenty sixth Agricultural
District 10 the Front with Some.
thing to be Freud OF.
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
EscoNDrDo, September 80, 1889.
There is fable about the tortoise and
the hare, and an aphorism which says that
the battle is not always with the strong.
The town of San Diego has gotten these
excellent commentators by heart on
this suspicious morning. When the
State Legislature at its last session en-.
acted a law creating the Twenty sixth
Agricultural District, embracing San
Diego county, and made an
appropriation Of $4,000 for the purpose
Of conducting an annual fair two years
81, 900 for each year-the bright people
Of the little town of Escondido petitioned
Governor Waterman to organize the dis
trict and appoint the following gentle
men as directors: @. A. McDougall,
Moosa; W: h. Dinwiddie. Bear
Valley; John Judson, San Pasqual
A. ]. Stice, San Jacinto; Chester Gum,
Julian; Jacob Greendike and w. w.
Stewart, San Diego; @. @. Watson,
Poway. The Governor gave the matter
his prompt attention and complied with
the request, and the directors took the
oath of Office on February 10, 1889, and
elected &c. A. McDougall, President;
Bank of Escondido, Treasurer, and E.
L. Doom, Secretary. The energetic gen.
tlemen of Escondido sat low and worked
hard. The Escondido Town Company
donated forty acres of land to the asso-
citation and leased forty more at ten
years option, and it was decided to hold
the first fair at Escondido. The natural
consequence of all which was that the
city of San Diego was sidetracked with q
sort of Rip Van Wrinkle shadow over it.
WHAT WAS DONE AFTER.
The officers Of the new association
went to work with vigor, and everybody
else rolled up their sleeves and went in
to help. A mile track is in excellent
condition. An exhibition hall has been
constructed, and is, perhaps, one of the
finest in the State. 1t is in the shape Of
a Greek cross, 116xS6, making four
wings 36x40, The center SO feet square,
and the whole giving over 5000 square
feet of floor space.
The premiums offered are liberal, and
more than 100 special ones have been
offered, and the producers and horsemen
of the county have enthusiastically come
to the front. The Exhibition Hall is
already packed with displays, and no
room is left for many disappointed ex-
have been entered and many Of them
are crack ones. The speed programme
for the first day (tomorrow) is:
/ vail
peat; purse, 500.
No. Pacing, one mile; best three in
five; purse, 500.
No. Stunning, half-mile dash; q
year-olds; purse, $50, first money.
ABOUT THE TOWN.
Today Escondido. has more people
than it ever welcomed before at one time.
The hotels are crowded; private houses
are turned into hostelries, and there is a
sort of Fourth of July exuberanoe pre-
vailing. There is no doubt Of the entire
success of the Fair. Even the ladies are
on the gui vive, and their part in the ex-
hibition, in the decorating OF the
hall, is of the finest The
streets are graced ever and anon by
young girls upon spirited animals. who
are to contest in the ladies' race on
Thursday. An enthusiastic tot of per-
haps ten summers, sitting astride Of a
lackadaisical pony, has just passed me
lashing her patient beast in vain at
tempt to emulate the speed of her DASH
ing sisters. This is the spirit which an.
imates every man, wife, child and
mother-in-l,w in Escondido today, and
as evil stimulants may not be obtained
except by friendly Introduction, the in
tensity Of feeling is not likely to Donny-
brook or to mar the four coming days,
the result of which will be apt to make
the people of San Diego sigh and the
people Of Escondido giggle. Some one
wrote once about sit might have been."
MARINER.