The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
Macdonough to Try 0restes
at the Futurity Race
in August.
Reincarnation of a San Leandro
0rchardiSt as a Gotham
Song Writer.
Property on the Bowery Deprecated
Twenty-Five Per Cent by a
Popular Ditty.

NEW YORK, N. Y, June Is. 1896.-A
the rate which California wines are becom-
ing popular in New York it will not be
long before the Golden West supplies the
entire East with the bulk of the wine con-
sumed, French and all
driited into the wine cellar of Charles
Stern recently and found the gentleman
to be an old-time Californian, who still
has residence in Los Angeles, where he
spends the greater part of the year.
Il am more of Californian than a New
\ orker' said he, "notwithstandin the
TACT that l have been located here for
thirty years; that is, l have always kept a
business connection with this part of the
United States. | was also the man who
handled the first California wines that
were put On the market in San Francisco
IN 1854 l was at that time at the head of
the business of KOhler & Frohliug. In
1860 l came to New York and opened q
house here, dealing in wholesale wines
produced entirely in California Take the
market twenty years ago, for instance, and
where | sold five cases then 1 sell five car
loads to-day. Here in my cellars now
keep a constant reserve of sc, 900 gallons
on hand TO meet the demand during the
social season. People all over the East
are taking to wine as a ia BILE drink and
show a decided preference for the Califor-
MIA product. 1t is no longer conjecture to
say that the bulk of the wine consumed in
the United States to-day comes from Cali
fornla Nobody disputes that fact any
more. 1t is even admitted by the opposi-
ton and the viticulturaI reports show it.
There is another great thing to be con-
sidered in the matter of California wine.
1t is the inroads it is making against
French wines south of the isthmus. / am
shipping considerable quantities of it to
the West indies, the British possessions
and along the Spanish Main, in and around
Honduras and the west coast OF South
America. 1 have no doubt that a very
considerable business Is carried ON in that
section from the California houses also
One very remarkable thing is how easily
one can deceive connoisseurs with Califor-
MIA wines bearing a French label. There
are a score of fashionable clubs in this city
where nothing but California wine is con-
sumed. Ordinarily it is ZinfanGel worth
75 cents quart, but it is served out to the
Clubmen from bottle bearing a foreign
label and every quart costs them 81. The
middlemen buy the wine naked, that is to
say in bulk, and a little gilded label does
the rest"
Mr.. Stern says it will take considerable
time to wipe out the popular impression
among men who have money that France
produces no better wine than California,
and in great many cases it is inferior.
w. OBJ. Macdonough is keeping it quiet
so far as the mob is concerned, but he
nevertheless told a gentleman talking
with him at the Brooklyn handicap race
last week that he proposed to try his two
year-old Orestes, Ormondes colt, for the
Futurity in August. The Great Trial
stake comes off soon, and the promising
animal is to be tried out to see if he can
get in without being pushed. If condi-
tions and the animal seem to be right he
will be retired from the track to await the
great event. At race at Gravesend the
other day Orestes got off little slow, but
after the start he caught his legs and the
spirit of the game and came in flying. 1t
was altogether satisfactory to the owner
and horsemen regard the youngster as a
particularly promising possession.
Burns & Waterhouse are still buying at
all the yearling sales, and have sent word
from st. Louis to New York for stable
room at Gravesend 1t looks as though
things will be TOO swift at ST. Louis when
the convention meets for anything Mr.
Burns owns.
[ suppose it will be somewhat of a sur
prise to ]. B. Haggins friends to learn
that he is acting very much like man
who intended to get back into racing again.
He was seen on the track the other day for
the first time in two years, and John
Mackey, the veteran horseman, as well as
Mr. Haggin's agent, was all smiles to see
the millionaire getting possession OF the
fever again. 1t Will be remem bered by
Californians that Mr.. Haggin retired Sal
vator and FirenZi some time ago, and went
to breeding on his Rancho del Paso, near
Sacramento. He is quietly getting things
ready, however, to wade out on the turf
again and run for blood. He even had his
colors up not long ago on one of his run
ners, and from remark or two dropped
on that occasion it is about certain that he
will be well into the swim again before
long.
Tod Sloan, whose dfminutive anatomy
IS familiar 10 every OaIllOrnld TaceIrack
habitue, is riding some winning mounts
here, and likes to hobnob with the people
from the coast.
Alice Nelson, once of Tivoli fame, after
having made hit in Robin Hood, is now
resting after her season at Long Branch.
Miss Nelson was quite surprise to the
Eastern contingent. 1t was whispered,
following her engagement by Mcdonald
in san Francisco last winter, that "the
Bostonians had picked up reasonably
clever girl out West" Those who did the
whisperings are now talking in a much
louder tone to the effect that Mcdonald
knew a good thing when he saw it, She
will return to San Francisco in couple
of weeks to breath, some pure air and get
over her Eastern trip. 1t is well to add,
however, that she has been re-engaged Tor
the next season.
Senator Stephen NJ. White passed
through New York last week, stopping at
the Waldorf for few hours, en- route to
Boston, where he has relatives.