Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-30
THE SANTA ANA DISPLAY
now THE EXHIBITS POUR IN FROM
ALL ABOUT THE COUNTRY.
Exciting Scenes at the Race Track-Hon-
est old Rory O'More Makes Great
Effort osSave His Backers In
the Pacing Race.
correspondence to the HERALD

Correspondence to the HERALD
SANTA ANA, Sept. 29.-The Santa Ana
fair may be properly said to sustain the
same relation to that's at Los Angeles that
the grammar school does to the college.
Here and at Hueneme are the prepara-
tory moves made for the great turf bat
ties which finally eliminate at Los An
geles in records on which horses are
content to retire for the season. The
attendance of race-goers yesterday was
large, but would have been much larger
but for the presence of Robinson g circus,
which kept an immense number OF the
country people in town. The regularly
advertised races did not all fill as was
expected, and consequently every day
has seen two or more specials on the
card. However, as these specials have
invariably resulted in good contests,
see no cause for regret at the change.
The surprise party of the week to me
has been Princes First, owned by Mr..
Dew, of Santa Barbara. In reviewing
the handicaps of last week wrote that
he had three pounds too many on him.
Now l begin to think they didn't give
him enough. Of course, he is very
quiet horse at the post, and had two or
three excitable ones to deal with on
Tuesday; and owing to the ignorance OF
the starter, he kept quiet while Began
and Hank Johnson were fretted into
iather of foam. But while counting all
that in his favor, there was no doubt in
my mind that instead of running his
mile in l :45a4, he could have done it in
1 :43 at least.
THE PAVILION SHOW
is not large but highly creditable. OF
course you will readily agree with me
that fair coming off in the last week of
September, cannot have much OF a dis
play of either peaches, plHms or nectar
ines, all of which are properly July and
August fruits. Still there is fairly
good display of all these. Some gentle.
man of Pomona shows olive trees OF half
dozen varieties and the display OF
lemons from that vicinity is unques-
tionably good. The show of cured fruit,
more particularly figs and prunes, is ex-
cellent; and while there are larger
prunes grown in Siskiyou, Shasta and
tough skins of the northern prunes al
ways will initiate against them in the
eastern markets as compared with ours.
The honey product of this fair is a good
one and as for the home made beeswax,lt
goes current at all the stores here, just
like silver did before the Republicans
began to demonetize it. In the way OF
grapes, the varieties are chiefly confined
to Muscats, Sultanas, Malagas and
flaming Tokays. The display of pears
is very large one, larger in fact than
that of the apples, though the latter are
commendable for quality.
ONE woMAN's WORK.
The model housekeeper of California,
10 far as have been able to discern, is
Mrs, j. G. Joplin, of this county. Her
husband OWLS three and half acres of
land in cafion about Is miles from here
and cultivates, judging from the pro-
ducts thereof, every available inch OF
ground. On the racks at the west end
OF the hall, stands just 2004 jars OF jams,
iellies, marmalades and fruit preserved
in Juice, all the product of that one
woman's skillful fingers. The old adage
came back to me as looked at them:
"A man may work from sun to sun,
But woman's work is never DONE"
This industrious couple are from one
of the mountain counties of old Vir-
Qinia, but they have made their last
move in this world. The little canon
home is quite good enough for them,
they say. Much to my regret this ex-
hibit will not 60 into the Los Angeles
fair. 1t will be repacked for Chicago as
soon as the Santa Ana fair closes, and
will be one of the features of the Cali
fornia department, unless miss my
guess very badly.
THE TRooLY RooRAL GIRL
Her share OF this exhibition
ia manifested in ragcarpets, log
cabin quilts and loaves of home
made bread. If the young man
who feels as though he really ought to
get married, could only be sure that it
was Huldah Maria that baked this
bread, instead of her mother, how he
would drop down on his prayer bones
and pop the question. There is great
deal of tasteful decorative work in the
hall, and local orchestra discourses
pleasant music every evening from 8
O'Clock till 10. AS for pumpkins and
squashes, the show is bewildering, and,
if iJhe Californian equaled the man from
Connecticut as pie-devourer. he would
deem Santa Ana the Mecca of gastron-
omy. OF wines, the display is small and
scanty, but there are several good quail
ties of port and muscatel shown.
THE GREAT MATCH RACE.
Mckinney arrived here yesterday to
take part in the great race against the
local stallion, Silkwood, on Friday. He
is in excellent health, and, while he
looks to be a tri1e high in flesh, his
trainer, Mr.. Durfee, assures me that he
cannot trot we'll in form. Silkwood has
been showing very fast half miles recent
ly, and look for three heats below :15,
and expect it will take four heats to de-
eide the race, if not five. The pneumat-
ic-tired sulkies in which they will race
arrived here yesterday, and attracted
quite as much attention as the horses
themselves. To show you how free from
friction are these vehicles, will men,
ton that gave one of the wheels light
tap with my open hand, and it revolved
for minutes and IA seconds before it
stopped. No wonder, therefore, that
there was not heat won at Saci amento
except in one of these same bicycle sui.
kies. If old Rory O'More had been
hitched to one OF these yesterday he
might have won the race, for Nutford,
the ultimate victor, was as tired horse
as can remember to have seen. The
crowd that comes over on Friday will see
q genuine horse race, and no mistake.
M.
FAN to Do Our Duty
Everybody has at times failed to do their
duty.s toward themselves Hundreds of lady