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ST. LOUIS NEW TRACK. A letter from St. Louis to a New York newspaper contains the following concerning the new track, alleged to be one of the certainties of the near future : "There seems to be no doubt that the parties behind the new racing association that is being organized here are in dead earnest. The new-racecourse is being laid out on the Maxwell Farms property, of as easy access for city racegoers as is the Fair Grounds, and work is progressing rapidly with a view to having the grounds ready this fall. "August A. Busch is mentioned as the president of the new racing enterprise, while Joedph Maxwell, of the firm of Crouch fc Maxwell : Col. William L. Cassidy and other stock yards men will also be at the helm of management. "A first class property as to buildings and all appointments will be established, and spring. summer and fall meetings held in alternation with those at the Fair Grounds — probably two weeks turn about at each track— as in California. "When this is accomplished St. Louis will take even a higher rank in the turf world than now. Large purses and stakes will be given and better horses will be attracted here than of late years. "Four or five years ago the class of horses racing at St. Louis was much better than now. Particularly in 189."j. when public patronage was so heavy that the Fair Grounds cleared *77.000 profit on the racing season, over and above all stake, purse anil operating expenses. ■"This showing, about the best ever recorded in the history of the Fair Association, is an earnest of what can be done in St. Louis when the public is properly catered to, both in the quality of attractions offered and in the management. "The Mound City is nothing if not a community of sport lovers, and the high wave of attendance shown at the first Pittsburg-St. Louis ball game last month can be maintained in racing matters as well. The new Maxwell Farms race track will have unlimited capital behind it and will become a member of the Turf Congress and be strictly a first class organization in every respect.
