The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23

in your life, Baz Why, in the first place,
bought the animal for a song and put him in
training. Inside of q week he showed sufficient
speed to put little money on him. Well we
got everything ready, and the track was
swarming with people who wanted to see the
fun. The opposition declared that he couldn't
finish the mile TO save his neck, but when the
runners got off in the first quarter he was
stringing it out in good shape. At the last
quarter and in the stretch he woke up and pro-
ceeded to run away. Baz, he ran around the
track four times, bucked the jockey of, :,
smashed fence and broke the mile record by
two seconds. You never saw anything like it.
The natives nearly went crazy to see that little
rat get over the ground. Three consecutive
days he did the same thing, and nearly broke
the sports. The last day l ran him three miles
before the race so he would get started. That
was the only thing I could do to keep him
from running over the other horses and the
crowds on the quarter stretch
Sol Runyon, whose orchards in the Sacra-
mento Valley produce fruit of quality that
has made California famous as a fruit-growing
region, talked Of growers, shippers and buyers
at the Grand Hotel last evening. So far as he
can judge, the crop this season will be fair, but
somewhat lighter than the average. Apricots
and pears will be light in the vicinity of his
orchards, but peaches promise to be plentiful
and of good quality. Early Bartlett pears will
be scarce and plums light. 81 am inclined to
favor ventilated cars for shipping fruit to
Chicago and New York, provided we can get
our fruit through to the lakes in four days ana
TO the Atlantic In seven," said Mr.. Runyon.
'That is the way Washington Porter began
shipping fruit from Sacramento to Chicago,
and while the trains were sent through with
out delay the shipments were successful. Last
year some of the fruit was thirty days on the
road. If had simply sat down and let my
fruit fall off the trees. would not have been as
great loser as l was in shipping"
Speaking of probable buyers Mr.. Runyon re-
marked that a number of Eastern fruit men
had been around the orchards near Sacramento,
but prices had not been discussed. "Wash
Porter has been up there and Mr.. Ruhlman OF
P. Ruhlman & Co. of New York is looking over
the ground. Representatives of the California
Green and Dried Fruit Company have been
about taking observations. Ruhlman has been
in the business for twenty-five years in New
York and certainly stands high as to credit in
mercantile circles. do not know that he has
given much personal attention to California
products, but his customers seldom leave him"
1. G. Coggins, manager of the Park band, was
telling yesterday about their collection of
music, which, with that purchased by the rail-
road through J. D. Redding and given to the
Park Commission, is by far the largest on this
coast. "There are," said Mr.. Coggins, "over
1900 packages of music, and in some of the
packages several numbers. For instance, in
one are twenty-four national airs, and in one
OF the stabat Mater eight pieces. We have the
best OF music from all over the world. 1t has
been accommodating for eleven years now and is
by far the best collection on the coast. Most
OF the music is loaned only, of course. Mr.
Roncovieri's collections of the music of Charles
schultz, who was for long time leader of the
old California 'Theater orchestra, and that of
the late Charles Meyer, some 600 or 700 num-
bers in all, are to come here soon. Music costs
good deal. Mr.. Redding paid over $1,000 for
the music he purchased. When this is all ar
ranged we shall have collection that should
not be ashamed TO have ANYBODY inspect,n