The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-07

Workmen Toiled Through the
Sabbath Day for the Horse
Show.
Boxes Will Be Lower Than Before
and the Fair Occupants Can
Talk TO Promenaders.

There was no rest yesterday for the men
who are making all the necessary prepare
tons for the horse show. which will open
Wednesday in the Mechanics Pavilion.
The management has gone into the work
this year with a determination to make
the show a grand success, not alone in the
style and variety of stock exhibited. but
also in its numerous appointments, and
having done so, no detail is let pass with
out receiving its due share of attention.
This concern for the coming exhibition
was apparent yesterday i'll the Pavilion,
where crowd OF mechanics and laborers
were busy from morning until night, set
ting the place in readiness for the grand
event.
The large in terror has undergone sur
prising change since the prize-fg took
place, and instead OF rows upon rows of
chairs surrounding a roped arena, the
scene yesterday in the Pavilion was sug-
gestive of an amphitheater in course of
construction. with spacious oval or
"ring" in the middle, and here and there
group of workmen. The clatter of ham mer
and saw mingled with the cries of team
sters to their horses and words of instruc-
ton from the men experimenting the diff
ferent departments of construction.
This year the ring fence is back almost
on line with the gallery balustrades, and
it is built with double ratings evidently
to stand the severest shock that NAV be
given. Outside is the usual promenade,
extending clear around the oval. Here
the male element OF society," in evening
dress or horsey costumes and smiles will
parade before the gentler sex in the
boxes, and here, too, the fashionable
world of San Francisco will hold an open
reception for the horse show season.
There. will be an agreeable surprise for
the swell set, or for all those who will
occupy boxes and do the promenade, for
on this occasion the boxes are much lower
than at the former shows. So the ladies
shall not be compelled to look down upon
their friends and hold converse tions under
difficulties with the gentlemen on the
floor. Under the new arrangement man
standing in the circular walk will be on
an equal height with ladies and their es-
corts in the boxes-a really nice thing for
all concerned,
There seems to be another consideration
for lowering the height of the boxes,
which was explained yesterday by the
superintendent
You Know said he, ''large hats are
fashionable this year. and for that reason
.AS AeNIOo WILL oil Uo Out III Lie largest
hats. That is why the boxes are low
down. 1t was necessary to make the con-
cession, especially as the people in the
reserved seats behind the boxes would
want to see tie ring. But there will be no
difficulty on that score, because the tiers
OF seats in back are raised higher than
usual and everybody can have a good,
unrestricted view of the ring"
The boxes extend along two sides OF the
ring and are continued around the western
end, between the gates or entrance and
exit to the enclosure. The east end is &C.
cupied by a gallery and the grand stand,
which is also divided into private boxes