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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The attention of horse owners is called to the advertisement of the meeting to be given at Birmingham, Ala., by the Alabama State Board of Agriculture. It begins next Tuesday and will run up to the commencement of racing at New Orleans. Birmingham is a lively and progressive city that is at present enjoying a remarkably high tide of prosperity, a condition that is bound to conduce to the success of the near-by meeting. Bacing here -under present weather conditions is attended with discomforts that will be absent there because of its more genial climate. It will be observed that men of practical experience and high reputation in connection with racing have been eclected to conduct the various departments of the meetinga circumstance that should commend it to the favor of owners of horses that are to be taken south. Concerning this meeting yesterdays Cincinnati Enquirer said: "Judging from present outlook the meeting at Birmingham, Ala., will open up with a boom next Tuesday. A numbsr of stables contemplate going there and plenty of horses will be on hand. The following owners shipped last night: HankComba, Scott Harlan, Whittaker and Parrish and G. Van Studdiford. Later on daring the week W. H. Laird and Brother, B. Bronaugh, J. W. Hartsell, P. Browning, W. M. Wallace, C. Thompson, J. Neil, Henry Simons. J. Bagley and some few others will ship their strings. Gratz Hanley telegraphed that there is stallroom for 250 horses. Much interest is being taken in the coming meeting by the citizens of Birmingham." Abe and J. C. Cahn, the well-known Bt. Louis turfmen, have just purchased the Thompson farm of ninaty acres, eleven miles from the city, on the St Charles Bock road, for 6,CO0 and will expend that mnch more converting the place into a flrst-clas3 stock farm. John Garcia, who formerly trained for Stifel and Schorr when they raced the famous Gambrinns Stable, has been installed as superintendent of the Cahn farm. Several new barns are to be built on the place, and the fences and all other buildings on the farm are to be thoroughly overhauled and placed in first-clasB condition. The Cahn brothers will turn out a number of their horses for the winter at the farm. All of their yearlings, numbering nearly thirty, however, will be wintered at the Memphis track. Six of Abe Cahns youngsters are already at Louisville, in charge of Charles T. Patterson, who developed Ornament, BuiBon, May Hempstead and other noted thoroughbreds. Mr. Patterson will ship them to Memphis, along with his own horses, in the near future. Aba Cahn owns a number of well-known producing mareB that have heretofore been quartered at Joseph D. Lucas Goodwood Stud, in St. Louis county. Among the bunch is the dam of Thrive, who showed to be a good colt this season. St. Louis Republic.
