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READY AT LAKESIDE. The local racing season will be inaugurated at Lakeside this afternoon. Needed repairs to stands, stables, fences and walks have been actively prosecuted since it was decided to race, and visitors will find the Indiana track and its appointments in good order. A number of horses came in Tuesday, among them the string of James O. Gray, that included Alice Farley, Old 8augus and two well-bred two-year-olds, Olive Order and Auld Lang Syne. Alice Farley will be a valuable addition to the racing material at the Lakeside track. This filly swept everything before her on the Canadian circuit last summer and was a stake winner at Saratoga and on the metropolitan tracks ; in fact, she was one of the best three-year-old fillies in the country. It will be the first time for some years that Gray has raced in Chicago and he must have something good in his stable or he would not have deserted the Northern Circuit to race against a higher class of horses. Tony Licalzi s horses, Lady Ellerslie, Al Fresco, Donna Rita, and Hop Scotch, which have been racing at Bennings and Aqueduct, arrived Tuesday morning. They are in good condition and will be ready to go to the post as soon as they are rested from their journey. W. R. Griffin also reached the track with his filly, Miss Ross, and two two-year-olds. Secretary Nathanson has posted a bulletin calling attention to certain special track rules which will be enforced at Lakeside and Harlem this year. One of them refers to the colors carried by jockeys and is as follows : "Owners will be held strictly responsible for failures to carry colors exactly as registered. For every violation of the rule a fine will be imposed and collected. No excuse will be tolerated."
