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HAWTHORNES FAREWELL MFJETINO. g The final fortnight of t he Chicago Jockey Clubs f racing season will open Mondny with the running lb of the Endurance Handicap for two-year-olds and a live other races. This Bes-uon of two weeks will n wind np the most eventful seasou of the second 5 oldest rcing association in this section. The buildings which were destroyed by flre on Decoration i day have been replnced by modern structures c which, when completed.will give the Chicago Jockey t Club one of th most convenient racing plants in Cook county. Since the horses left Hawthorne two weeks ago a saddling paddock of the Bame dim en- j sions and on the same lines as the old one and a c jockeys room and secretarys office hare been built, t the grand stand has been finished and painted and t th approaches thereto protected from the rain and sun. -v bile the carpenters and masons hate been busy t with the buildings, the landscape gardeners have been at work in the infield The old steeplechase f a course, with its contracted loops and back-breaking turns, has been torn out and a new one substituted, j The new course for most part will skirt a lagoon which, besides beautifying the placo, will add to j the water supply in case of fire. In the matter of fire protection, by the way, the maaagement is go- inp to extremes. Besides its own pumping plant. , wells and rservoirs it has connected with the 1 Perwvn mains and contemplates hooking up with ihe city force. . : Secretary lark will call on his own ingenuity and the clubs generosity to give the Hawthorne season a "bl-ze of glory" finish. Besides the regu- larly scheduled stakes, special events to fit thn best material at hand will be given from day to day. : Mr. Clarks over-night handicaps always furnish . good betting propositions and engaging contest, ; and the book of the meeting calls for several of . Sx stakes will be run off during the two weeks. The Prairie Stakes, which will wind up the Hawthorne season, is.he only two-mile fixture in Chi eagos racing cnrriculum. Nearly all the best lone-distance animals that have raced hereabouts this 1 year are eligible to start and a good field isassured. Francis Trevelyan, who was new to western racing when he assumed the position of presiding judge at Hawthorne, has been a constant looker-on at Harlem, familiarizing himself with every angle of local form. It may be worthy of mention that t Mr. Trevelyan was the first Chicago presiding judge to apply his personal observations at other tracks 5 to rulings at his own. He realized early in his western experience that only in this way could the ontinuity of form be preserved.
