The morning call., 1894-12-02

down the ringing grooves of time like
many another good thing, leaving behind
1t pleasant memories and pleasurable an
ticipatiODs-a strong odor OF raw brandy
around the stalls, of brOlled mutton in the
cafe.
1t is hardly necessary to repeat that it
was social success, but it must be highly
gratifying to the management to be able
to stare that it was a financial one as well.
Everybody who is any body at all knows
that San Francisco's Four Hundred, who
number somewhere in the neighborhood
of a thousand. was en- rapport with the
whole Of the fair
1t was Just perfectly lovely to witness
the sweet way in which society coddled
the whole affair. Every afternoon the
younger daughters of fond papas and fas-
ciDating mamas, just burgeoning into
budhood, occupied the boxes, making way
in the evenings for the more radiant bellies
of season or two in their dazzling gowns.
Aud the dear boys-some of them 60 If
they were day-whO wore balloon
breaches and teD-butlon Bernhard leg
gins. who Duffed mingled breaths of car
bonic acid gas, trapped absinthe and
Turkish cigarettes into the stalls of the
equine autocrats, deodorized themselves
betimes and did the grand under the in
candescents in the SWEETEST cuts imag-
Unable.
Society couldn't do more than that if
It's SWEETEST, longest pedigreed fillies were
on parade.
And taking the mercenary view OF it,
which some OF the sordid will undou btsdly
do, the management is responsible for the
announcement that there is a balance to
the good. This is quite dattering to the
people of San Francisco, as well as to the
gentlemen who made the first show pos
sible. 1t is the first time on record that
the first horse show in any city has ever
made anything but losses. New York did
it, so did Philadelphia. Chicago, which
ended last night, has deficit. A record
Of that kind Is really something to crow
over.
Aside from the social and financial
triumphs the show presented some feat
ures-many, in fact-which could not pos
sibly be duplicated in any other State in
the Union. During the four days Just
past the management paraded daily that
great son of Prince Charley, the
thoroughbred stallion Salvador, the
holder of the record for the
fastest mile ever run; the black
wonder, Directum, 2:05I, holder of the
stallion trOttiDg record. the speediest ever
made in a race; Pulsifer's Tenny, the only
possible rival to. many still think the
superior to. Salvador; Firenzi. the feet,
the prize brood mare Of America; imp.
Sir MOdred. sire of the most successful
horses 90 the American turf; Isling-
ton. full brother to IsiDglass, the
English Derby winner; Rsy Ell Santa
Anita, the winner of the last American
Derby; his stable companion, R,y del
Carraras; the great Morello, the Emperor
of Norfolk, imp. Suwarrow and the beau
tiful st. Carlo, son of St. Blaise-Corina.
No show on earth could possibly get TO-
gether such grand company.
And that was not all. The finest park
police display ever attempted was also
made; the most thrilling spectacle in the
way of cavalry rough riding ever attem pied
and lastly. but not leastly. the wonder.
full 12-mule team from Fresno with its
wagonful OF prunes.
Probably the most palpabls hit OF the
show was made with the mule team. The
way Driver Kerr al-frescoly sent his
scrubby-looking hybrids around the tam
bark with tug-line simply astonished
the audience. Society breathed heav-
lily aud turned purple in the
face In spots. while the hoi
polloi was simply paralyzed. The only
ones, aside from the owner and the driver
of the team, who did not entirely lose
their heads over the performance were
Reginald W. Rives and Mr.. Carman OF
New York. They are horse show sharps.
and imagined they knew something
about driving tours and skies and sich.
They smiled softly to themselves when
they saw San Fraacisco's heavy swells
mount the boxes to tool their four.in-
hands around the ring. aud they took
Things remarkably easy when the
tandems were brought on. It was
different when the mules showed up with
Kerr on the jerk-lne. he had hardly
made two passes at tbs rabbit-eared
animals till Carman and Rives were on the
alert. They had made discovery and
thew proposed to pursue it to the bitter
end.
From The first moment the mules put in
an appearance until they were "pse.
hawed" out of the arena the New
Workers watched every move. When
the applause had died out and tbev
could make themselves heard in the
judges stand. they took a solemn piedpe
that they would each drive four-in-hands
at the next New York show with a tow
line.
They will also go back and tell the New
Workers that the San Franciscans have a
larger arena than the descendants of tba
Knickerb0ckers, and they will assura
them that as many and as fashionablv
equipped four-in-hands were turned ont in
this city as in that; and that everything
else was In just as fine form.
And speaking Of style and form Just re-
minds one that the horse show was all
San Francisco needed to be dead in line
with the Vanderbilts and the Bradley.
Martins and the others you read about
in Town Topics. 1t crossed the Rubicon
to the Rome of swelldom when it took to
the horse show. 1t is nm de steele TO
finish, as they say In the prize ring, and
has made bowling swells out of heretofore
iDcorrigibles.
Look at white Hal" Mccarthy, for in
stance, the bosom friend, the inseparahle