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THE SANTA CBUZ DAILY SURF. Vol. VIII. SANTA CRUZ, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1887. No.

13. Tht Fertile Psjarw Vallay. ilifornia Division of the L. A. W.

UNS AND RACES the Great American i -r National Holiday. $25,000 worth of the Chittenden estate has been sold this week. The cream is still lett, 1,100 acres of choice bottom remains, and will be sold in parcels to suit at reasonable prices. This land is situated in Watsonville, 20 miles south of Santa Cruz, on the line of the S. P.

R. R. Any person living st Santa Crux can come on the train and see the ranch and return the same day. 1 It is simply question as to whether man has brains enough to comprehend the situation, money enough to make a payment, and mind enongh of his own not to weaken and let a great chance go by, because some dyspeptic real estata curbstone broker has something called land for sale, 3.500 feet above sea level, with San Francisco for background, the Pacific Ocean for frontage and the planets for scenery, and is afraid it will remain on his hands if investments are made elsewhere. There are men so stingy and narrow-minded and envious and shortsighted, that they would not if they could help it allow the Pajaro river to run because it does not occasionally oveiflow and irrigate their alfalfa fields.

We know two such men. One has on his neck a wart which he uses for a collar button and the other, not caring to invest his coin for medicine when sick, chews up all pill advertisements he can find to regulate his liver and another stops his clock every night to save the wear. Avoid all such Silurians and purchase a portion of the Chittenden ranch and make yourself a comfortable home. Apply to W. V.

Gaffey, Watsonville. MPS AND COSTUMES. man, and a very strong rider. He is entered for the mile novice and the ten-mile championship. The races to-day ill practically decide the championship for 87.

F. I). Elwell, of the Bay City Wheelmen, is the 6 champion, and also holds the medal for the three-mile National championship for 1886. For' reasons best known to himself, he is not on the track this year to defend his championship honors. George H.

Adams, of the San Francisco B'cycle Club, is evpected to give Larzeh-re a very tight rub for first place in the mile novice. Of the remaining entries, all are picked men, who have won distinction on the racing path. In the three and five mile handicaps Tumor, of the Bay City Wheelmen, will ride a Star bicycle, the only wheel of this type entered. It will be his first effort at racing on this style of wheel, his efforts heretofore having been made on a crank wheel. Among the entries for the ten mile championship is II.

C. Finkler, of the San Francisco Bicycle Club, a pioneer racing man, who returns to the track after an absence of several years. Another notable entry for the one, three and five mile handicaps is A. S. Ireland, of the Alameda Scorchers.

He won two firsts in the S. F. Bicycle Clubs races of May 30th last. The parade of the wheelmen will be held at 9 oclock this morning. Starting from the Pavilion the line of march will be along Front street to Pacific avenue, to Beach hill, countermarching along the avenue to the Pavilion when the parade will be dismissed.

The order of the procession will be as follows: Chief Consul and staff, consisting of division officers and Consuls, ladies tricycle and tandem division league clubs in the order of their seniority, as follows: Los Angeles Wheelmen, Bay City Wheelmen, Oak Leaf Wheelmen of Stockton, San Francisco Bicycle Club, Alameda Scorchers, non-league clubs, Garden City Wheelmen, Watsonville Bicycle Club, unattached wheelmen. The races commence at the Bay View Driving Park at 2 p. m. vol Suits and Natty Uniforms of the Wheelmen. A Big Business.

The E-raminer states that 26 sailing vessels carrying 30,000 tons steel rails are on their way to San Francisco for the Southern Pacific, the larger part of which are to be used in pushing to completion the Nothern division of the Southern Pacific system. The Southern Pacific Company baa contracted with a number of Eastern firms for new cars aud coaches, which will require an outlay of $756,000. Pullman, of Chicago, is to build for them twenty-nine sleeping-cars for $319,000, or $11,000 per car. Dayton, Ohio, will build twenty-eight first-class coaches, at a cost of per car. In addition to this equipment for the passenger service, six baggage and express cars will be built in the companys shop at Sacramento.

Another firm in Dayton, together with one in Richmond, is to construct for the company 300 twenty-five-ton fiat cars and 300 box cars of the same capacity. The former will cost $235,000. and the latter This is one of the largest orders for rolling stock ever given out by the company. When the new sleeping-cars are completed the company will have in use eighty west of El Paso, and with the new freight cars will have 17,000 freight cars on their whole system. C.

S. Neal, Senator Fairs nephew, lias been elected treasurer of the new company, and to him the local officers make their remittances, instead of to A. E. Davis, as heretofore. The Narrow-Gauge Bonds.

There is good reasons for saying that the price paid was $5,500,000 in bonds of the Southern Pacific Company. The bonds were turned over to Mr. Fair yesterday and were at onre converted into cash. The bonds have been taken at par value by the Farmers and Loan Trust Company of the New York. They run fifty years and bear 4 per cent interest.

Seventeen deeds of old dates were placed on record in Alameda county being the instrument by which A. E. Davis transferred various parcels of real estate acquired by him from time to time to time to the Pacific Land Investment Company, which is another name for Senator Fair. Call. Trinity College, Hartford, has conferred the honorary degree of A.

M. on Charles A. Sumner of San Francisco. Wheelmen as Army Scouts. The great success of the recent experiments in England and elsewhere has made the general adoption of the cycle in the place of light cavalry one of the certainties of the near future.

When it comes to two soldiers on a Tandein, the rear rider doing the steering and the man in front holding a rifle ready for any emergency, we have the the old chariot warrior and the charioteer with all the -nineteenth century improvements. Not only will the difficulties of foraging for their horses in a hostile country be avoided by a company of wheelmen, but a cycler, with a disabled machine, with his well-trained muscles could stand much longer marches on foot than could be expected of a dismounted cavalryman. The next thing in order for army use will probably be steam tricycles, geared so as to run by foot power in case of the fuel or the machinery giving out. Not the hast advantage Df the new order of tilings will tie the general improvements of highways that must of necessity follow the adoption of cycles by nny government. The Fastest The Clarksville one-hundred-mile road race the greatest bicycling race ever run First, Robert A.

Neilson. 6 hours, 40 minutes, 27 seconds second, Wm. A. Rhodes, 6 hours, 46 minutes, 51 seconds third, II. G.

Crocker, 6 hours, 51 minutes, 27 seconds. Mamma, I wish papa would give me a bicvcle," said Mr, Amateurs youngest to his mother. He cant dear, he isnt rich enough. After a pause: Mamma, may I have some mince pie? No, my dear, its too rich. Another pause.

Mamina, how I do wisti papa was like the pie. A Salem st irekeeper has hit on happy plan to keep loafers away from his corner. He waits until the crowd is a good-size one, then sifts cayenne pepper liberally into a feather duster, goes out and gives his windows a thorough brushing. An immediate stampede follows. Tlie President has pardoned Thomas Ballard, the notorious counterfeiter, who was sentenced January 21, 1875, to thirty years' imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary.

The Wheelmen will form ranks on Front street, the right resting on the Ilaza and Pacific Avenue. They will take the position assigned them in the line of the procession and march to the grove. At the invitation of the committee, Dr. L. T.

Hill, a prominent mem-oer of the L. A. ill take part in the exercises of the day and give a recitation entitled, The Spirit of 76. Dr. J.

Humphrey has also consented to assist the choir in their vocal selections. After the exercises the bicycle clubs will again form in line and ride to the race track. The following programme for the days sport will commence at 2 oclock p. m. sharp: 1st.

1 mile novice. 2d. 10 mile Sttte championship. 3d. Half-mile dash.

4th. 1 mile handicap. 5th. 3 mile handicap. 6th.

5 mile handicap. 7th. 100-yard slow race. 8th. Exhibition of fast and fancy riding.

A line of buses will run to the track fare, 25 cents. 50 cents will be charged for admission to the track. Every preparation has been made for the comfort and pleasure of visitors, and the days sport will be something rare in Santa Cruz. SOME OP THE ENTRIES FOR TO-OA vs RACES. The entries for to-days races of the California Division of the League of American Wheelmen include the best riders in the State.

R. C. Woodworth, of the Los Angeles Wheelmen, won the two-mile State championship for 87, in February last, at Los Angeles. He is entered to-day for the one-mile and ten-mile championships, and takes scratch in all the handicaps. W.

G. Davis, of the San Francisco Bicycle Club, won the five-mile championship of 1885, and is the only man who has ever beaten F. D. Elwell, the champion for 80. Davis enters for the mile championship, and starts in the five-mile handicap from scratch both his favorite distances.

C. E. Adcock, of the Bay City Wheelmen, won the live-mile championship for 87 on May 2d last, and also took a mile from scratch over what was considered a strong field. He is entered for the one-mile and ten-mile championships. L.

R. Larzelere, of the San Francisco Bicycle Club, is a novice in track racing. His only record is second in a twenty-five-mile road race. He is a powerful sented a very pleasing appearance, and towards nightfall the officers and members of the club were busy entertaining their many friends and visitors. The officers of the club are: II.

House-worth 1st C. A. Macdonald 2d Lieut C. Wheaton; Bugler, J. W.

Gibson. The Alameda Scorchers went into camp in the rear of the Pacific Ocean House. The officers are: P. Haslelt; 1st R. Brown; 2d C.

Kyster; Bugler, W. Irelan. The Bay City Wheelmen have secured sleeping accommodations at the dormitory in the Fair Pavilion. The club is officered by Capt. W.

Meeker, 1st Lieut. F. James, 2d Lieut. C. Moore, Buglers C.

C. Moore and Lyman Cole, Standard Bearer, F. E. Browning. The Watsonville Club selected for their camping ground the lot adjoining the broad-gauge depot.

The Wheelmen will form a novel feature of the parade to-day. They will form in line mounted and in the uniforms of their respective clubs. Chief Consul It. M. Welch will take the position at the head of the line, followed by Vice Consul E.

N. Radke; then will follow the officers of the California division of the L. A. representatives R. G.

Woodworth, of Los Angeles, J. W. Gibson, of San Francisco, J. 1). Arkison, of Oakland, C.

C. Moore, of Stockston, S. F. Booth, of San Francisco, and Norval A. Robinson, Secretary and Treasurer.

The Bay Citys will form next in the line of march, followed by the San Francisco Bicycle Club; next to them the Alameda Scorcher then the Oakland Ramblers; next the Watsonville Bicycle Club; then the Bicycle Club of San Leandro and the San Mateo Club, the unattached Wheelmen bringing up the rear. Bay Citys Grey jackets and caps. Garden Citys Blue jackets and caps. S. F.

B. C. Blue jackets, white shiits and black helmets. Alameda Scorchers Dark brown jackets with grey helmets. Oak Leaf Light brown suits.

Watsonville Citizens dress, with white hats. A noticeable feature will be the variety and style of wheels in use, among which will be seen the Star, with the small wheel in front, the regular bicycle of all makes and sizes, the tandem tricycle, conveying a gentleman and lady, single and double track bicycle and the novel bicyclettes with wheels of equal size. VENTS AND EXPLOITS. rade and Performances, Transactions, Incidents, and Anticipated Occurrences of the Annaul Meet. Attention 6.

A. R. He adqtrs J. F. Reynolds Post No.

98, G. A. 5 Santa Cruz. July 2d, 1887) Comrades: You are requested to meet in uniform at Post Headquarters in Masonic Temple July 4th at 9 oclock a. sharp to participate lu the parade at 10 oclock a.

m. of said day. Hamilton Fay, Commander. 0. J.

Lincoln, Adjutant. BersKeisi It Cs. On Saturday evening the visiting hcelmcn, who had previously arrived this eity, met the evening narrow-uge train on its arrival, and received members of the league that came by at train. The Wheelmen mounted eir silent Bteeds and took up their line march, 'passing along Pacific Avenue the Plaza, then countermarched to Pavilion and disbanded, after which number of them took a run out to the ack for practice. During the day the Pavilion was reiving the artistic finishing work of the corators, and the hall put in readiness the Wheelmens ball.

Soon after their arrival the Wheelmen to work with a will to make them-dves as comfortable during their visit possible. The San Francisco Bicycle Club itched their tents on the lot adjoining Sea Beach Hotel. The camp pre D. W. Donnelly and S.

II. Knapp, of San Mateo, rode from Santa Clara to this city in seven hours, over the mountain loads, on Saturday. The tandein of Mr. and Mrs. E.

S. Jones, of San Jose, attracts much Are offering in their Grocery Department a very fine line of foreign and domestic wines and liquors specially adapted for medicinal and family nse. Prices low as usual. Subscribe for the Surf. Damiana is acknowledged by those who Lave need it to be a great invignrator and nervine.

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