Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-27

acres. and the Vina
estate of $1,000 acres,
IN ADDITION to another estate of ~ 900 acres.
Ine Fina acres produce the brandy, the
Palo Alto estate the horses.
On the latter estate the university is sit
uated, Its low yellow Spanish buildings
nanked on the one side by the trottiae
stables and track, and on the other by the
thoroushbreds
Inc situation from every point of view is
unique The architecture. which repeats
the motives of the cid Spanish missions. is
so unlike the lofty pretensons of most col
leees of learning that the visitor to the
trotting farm not unnaturally asks il
those are the stables" The barns of the
trottng farm are indeed in more accord
with the university idea than the low yell
low group sheltered under rcd tiles and
connected by an inner arcade, a pillareI
and arehed aisle. whose extent and beauty
delights the eye and kinGles the imagina-
ton. This arcade incloses a vast quad
ransle. asphalted, and pierced with six
ovals filled with tropical plants. Young
men ana maids skim across its surface on
wheels; bicycles are everywhere One
| might, indeed, fancy it an academy" for
wheelmen.
But the trotting farm has the advantage
IN situation Both are approached through
the palm bordeTed paths of the campus
glimpsins the little gray marble temple,
where Gov. Stanford and his boy sleep
amid flowers and a fountains melancholy
flash, and by the big yellow museum, where
half of the Cesnola collection is now in
stalled.
Training the Young Horses.
The way to the farm lies by the girls
dormtory and gymnasium, down a tree
Shelfarad ba
| less line. The trotting farm is in park
of live oaks, superb trees, of which the
birds have made vast aviary. Going up
10 the group of tall barns in quadrangle
OF stables and offices, yeariings and colts
| looked over their paddocks. making friend
ly oEertureS with their moist noses, but
the silence of noon was unbroken except
| by the choruSes. the conventions, the con-
crosses and domestic doingS in the tree
tops overhead
BILLY Gioein, Billy Gileein! Oh. Billy
Gileeinv' Billy is one of the old employees
| He was here in the palmy days of the gov
ernor
We were leaning over the open kinder
garteh track. with a marquee sheltering
dome seats III the center.
Here's where the. governor used 10 sit
with his visitors. watching the young ones.
The governor was a great man. He didn't
think anything of spending $50.0G0 an
experiment and then write a book aboat
it," the last clause evidently representing
to Billy a mark of the governors ability
which mere dollars could not do.
Mrs Stanford looks after things now,
but, you sec, this isn't work for a lady"
Things certainly we'll looked after
The order, cleanliness and attractiveness of
the place is a pleasure to the eye. In the
center Of the group of live oaks is mound
which incloses the famous dead. Chief of
these is Electioneer.
Made the Ranch.
"Electioneer made this RANCH" says Billy
Didn't you ever see the list of his 'thir-
ties?" We strolied on to the long row of
low white brick stables. where the famous
stations are housed, to look at Azmoor,
who resembles most of all his famous
father. Each horse has a large room to
himself, with an ante-chamber where his
toilet articles. boots and wardrobe hang.
Successfully we visit AZmoor, Advertiser.
Dexter. Prince, the half brother OF Dexter
Wcodnut, Manoci. and Adbell.
"A yearling that holds the worlds record
of 223, Irsi Advertiser, dam Beautiful
Bells" continued Billy, whose conversation
contains tracts which can only be COM
pared to the chapters of "begots'' in the
Old Testament, and takes up again the
famous story of Electioneer, the father of
Arion, 2.07A; Of Sunol, 2.0SA; of Palo Alto
2.OSA, whose roll of honor contains eleven
in the 2:15 list, of thirty-three in the 30
list OF forty-seven in the 2.25 list and of
seventy-three in the go list; and grand
father of AZote, son of Whips, with a
record of 2.04a. With the exception of Yer
bootschick, the white Russian stallion,
wearing the emperor's crown on his side to
denote his imperial breed, all the stations
are Electioneers descendants, and their DO
ings fill book
But all the honcrs of the Palo Alto farm
are not Electioneer's. Beautiful Bells IS
tyenty-rine years old. She has brought
into the world eighteen boys and girls and
Incidentally contributed to the advance
ment in knowledge Of the boys and girls
OF Leland Stanford, jr., University s2O0, 900
One of her sons, Bell Boy, was sold for
$4,000, and shortly after was burned tc
dealt: in the Clark stables at Lexington,
Ky. Beautiful Bells has baby by her
side. 1t was kicking it's heels in one of the
small paddocks for the colts-a slender
Clark brown young thing, curious and
friendly, as all these creatures are. speak
ing for their kind treatment in this man
ner.
There are numbers of these little pad
decks in which the colts are put in couples
girls after their kind and boys after their
kind. Here. while kicking Up their heels
servatios as to action ard other possibili-
ties which contribute to the data necessary
fer their future education
In the Colt Kindergarten.
The colt kindergarten In use was a COW
cred track, SO that training may go on IN
all weathers This track Is an oval of about
an eighth of a mile, heaped up at the turn,
and kept soft for the tender young feet.
Gtv. Stanford's experiment In breeding that
h added most to the development of the
trotting horse was the Introduction of an
eighth or more thorough blood to give spir-
it and action to his trotters. AS soon as a
colt is weaned it's education begins. 1t is
brought into the kindergarten-this term
is not faceticus, but technicai-and exer-
csed for but a few minutes at first, and
never over twenty minutes.
While these matters were being explained
we seated ourselves under the rafters
through which the warm sun sent its
beams and the trainer and his assistant
led in yearling and let it go. After friske
ing around while it broke into a trot
Move business begins. Each man with q
whip, which IL only cracked, endeayors to
Ike ep the pace sustained and even for sew
eral rounds. The colt is then stopped and
sent around the other way lest 1t become
dizzy.
There was the greatest difference in the
your creatures who success veiy took their
turns. Some caught en- straightway. 9th
ers thought the whip meant more speed,
and would break into q run. When checked
they would stop and look over the rail-, ask
irg plainly, what do you want me to do?
Tn trying to please you"
Meanwhile the trainers were commenting
on their action and intelligence with en-
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