The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-11

THINKS RACES BULLY
BY CATHERINE CARR.

ON tho most Impossible blacK ana
white check cap you ever saw. Where
he dug 1t UP
No. honestly and truly. didn't
mean that at all. But fancy calling
Il man with such a cap w. Douglas.
You couldn't simply couldn't that $
all.
l asked for Mark Lloyd. not OF Mr..
Gordon. Of course. Some one else in
that labyrinth Of fences that >.Tey
cali Offices. The youth replied he had
just gone out. Twenty minutes later
went back again and asked for Mi.
Lloyd.
He has Just gone OUT was the
solemn reply OF the same youth. He
was such nice looking young man
and seemed SO incapable of telling
anything but the truth / asked him
his name. oh, dear, no; not In that
broad and awkward style. ! merely
suggested that i wolld be glad TO
know the name OF the person who
had twice informed me that Mr.. Lloyd
| had Just gone out
"Doue." replied the good looking
young man.
looked at INN severely In the eye.
Il beg your pardon. what did you
say?" I said.
Done" he.repeated.
so am IT, said haughtily. When
got outside I remembered that per
haps he might have meant Dunn. He
did. I found that out later.
! My, but the State Fair was gloomy
| looking proposition yesterday. The
sky was q dull gray q positive drap.
Once or twice the weather wept a
little. I strolled over from the grand
stand toward what they call the Mid
way. Why I was quite prepared 10
| 10 shocked. Folks really go through
tho Midway to suffer shocks and are
greatly disappointed If they are not
! | know l was There wasn't a single
! shock in the entire place. Not even
a tiny little stub-your-toe shock.
1 OF course there We're lot of fool
ish shows There was one that ao-
vertised a mermaid.
| See tho muyLn-nlaid. beloved
bold-facsd fellow. but shucks, VINO
could ever balieve In mermaids after
seeing such a rude thing as ehe
+, person with a 'mum-maid accent IA
ifront Of a battered booth.
Really, was disappointed In the
| Midway. Once l had great hopes 4
heard the doublebeat of what m4snt
| have been q tom-tom AMI causht a
bit OF a shriu piping tune. remlnis-
cent Of the Streets OF Cairo. out "neh
came to the booth 1t stopped. IWo
near blondes were treading measure
on an improvised platform, but they
never could have been mistaken ior
! Oriental beauties. The blondine was
fading from their hair and their make
Iup had been put on in sections
| Somebody suggested that they mlgh1
have been Circassian beauties am
| willing to grant the tlrcassian pa
~ hA
| There were quite a number OF peo-
pie in the Midway, but they all seem
ed bored They really didn't nave
energy enough to go up and try 10
win "A woody dog.
strolied around and passed a
| wagon where a man was selling irieu
ice cream pHfs. They looked Just
like watfles, but TIE sign said 1nes
! were fried ice cream puffs. and per
haps the sign was right A few were
daring enough to buy and eat them.
Cd what folks viii eat at an out
OF. door feetival. They viii enjoy
thing. that they wouldn't give to the
dog at home and expect the dog te
live.
Well. l got around finally to tbs
hangar OF the biplane, and who DC
you suppose | saw there?
Why, II. Grim Peck, acting as tick
MUS. He was assisted by an elderl,
person with a great vocabulary and AT
elaborate politsness. The way he in
vited everybody to step inside and SEE
the cute little air machine and its cut'
little--well. pilot, l reckon---was jus
too gorgeous for anything.
: I asked II. Grim what he was do
ing there.
They have set ma to work" h,
t,,S% no {
Job at the Fair. but they really Sc
mo to work
} I almost sympathized with him.
The cute little pilot Of the biplan'
: WAS not at home. and so l didn't sc
: chance To talk with him. 1t wa
a day full Of disappointInents. l ever
lost nay chance to see tho dtrigible g,
: UP, looking at two girls with the big
: gest green wells. the greenest greer
. kind OF green wells. Maybe the girl
4 were like the wells, although the.
t didn't look It.
:. There really wasn't anything to d,
but to go and sit in the grandstant
and watch the races. The races wer
really bully and the starter. Mr.. Up
toni found his name on my pro
grams just too good-looking to b
! left around without a guardian an
gel.
, of Preston Belvin and that dear Mr.
Cohen but they disappeared under
8 meath the grandstand. All the mel
folks had a way Of disappearing un
o derneath the grandstand.
Fritz Sitterding was there in
golden brown suit, and Dutch Leh
man, and they, too. disappeared un
9 derneath the grandstand. SO did MI
j. Airport. / asked one Of the newspa
per boys what was going on under
meath the grandstand. and he sal,
e that they were attending a meeting
g of the committee on charity. Anothe
0 said that 1t was meeting Of the An
Client Order of Goats, so didn't be
4 lieve either.
y Worst OF 1t was I got so interests
in everyone Of those men popping Il
Z and out from underneath the grand
t stand that ! never saw the athlet
r do the triple turn, that everybod
q was talking about and missed hal
. OF the entertainment.
The music was Just grand, the BAN
Q wonderfully good. They were sucl
. nice looking men, too. all dressed u
. like Italian field marshals. They play
: ed we'll. noticed. when noticed tina
. they were playing.
But the races were just too bull
: for anything. OF course none of tn
l. horses that I wanted to see win eve
j won. and t>.e poor fellow In the cherr
o Jacket that WANTED SO much to Sc
Y como In ahead--he was such a mic
Y looking boy--simple came in last.
They had n motorcycle race, o