St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-23

tould desire. The sun shOne with fer
VoT that drew out all the gay and
airv costumes of summer, and
at the track at Hamline was tempered
by a brisk wind which swept over the
assembled thousands, sweet with the in
cense of the coming harvest and redo
lent of the life and vigOr enjoyed to its
utmost only in the Northwest. 1t was
day of days for racing. Out from the
Twin Cities poured the thousands.
Without rivalry, jealousy or pickering.
the competing cities gave up their vast
crowds until
Fully Fifteen Thousand
people were packed into the grand
stand, the quarter stretch and the bet
ting ring. Special trains on all the
railroads leading to the fair grounds
and double extra cars on the electric
lines were loaded to the guards and, as
rapidly as they could be moved, rolled
out and deposited their fIeight at the
entrance gates. Out along the boule-
Vards-on Como and Smelling and Uni
VerSity aYenues-frOm both cities. their
progress marked by light clouds of dust,
rolled hundreds of equlpageS Of
every description known to wheels, from
the gayly equipped tally-hO coach
md the elegantly appointed victoria and
brOugham, down to the YeIitable one
hOss SHAY. which had not seen service
since Derby day last year. Everything
headed for Hamline. In both ST. Paul
and Minneapolis public business was
practically suspended and a general
holiday made in the furtherance of the
legitimate sport, against which not even
the most captiOus protests.
At the track everything was prepared
for their reception. The crowds were
SO deftly handled at the gates that there
was little of the prOmiscuOuS crushing
SO common to crowded race courses.
Beyond the unavoidable thrOnging of
the gates when the races were over, the
absence of a squeeze was conspicuous.
As rapidly as the trains deposited their
freightS at the gates the people were
swallowed up in the enclosure and
sifted about upon the grounds. Just
before the second race was called
several competent Judges sized up
the attendance and pronounced II
the largest of the seIieS-larger than
that vast crowd which assembled year
ago and made the welkin ring. when
Prince Fonsu sped down the stretch a
Derby winner. The boxes were well
filled, nearly the entire first floor of the
grand stand was jammed, and the over
flow above was unusually large. From
first to last the quaTter-stretch was one
Surgfng ITass of Humanity.
and at no time was the betting ring 50
free of crowd as to make progress
through it easy. Twenty bOOkeTs were
Installed in the circle, with a field
bOokie on the outside and the mutualS
and auctions at the end. Betting was
brisk from the start, and from the fact
that in none but the first race was there
q decided favoTite. it is fair to presume
the bOOkmakers were none the poorer
for the days work.
No accompaniment of a race meeting
was absent. The loud mouthed tout
the ubiquitous score card fiend, the ON
nipresent corn and candy men
the refreshment booths, both soliC
and liquid-everything, in fact
but the disreputable sure thing men anC
the wheel of fortune. The absence o.
the latter was part of the perfection o
the arrangements, of which too mucl
cannot be said in praise. Secretary Shaw
had his large force well in hand and notl
Ing was overlooked. From the bands
which discourSed the music in the granC
stand to the racing details, everything
was admirable. An exception might b'
made in the case or the heat race, whert
the delay was little longer than tht
impatient crowd thought necessary, bu
this perhaps was only because the ex-
cited multitude was unduly anxious fo
the event of the day.
As to the racing Programme, the bes
judges pronounced it excellent. Th'
reducing of the first race to contes