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INGLESIDE ORDINANCE SIGNED. Mayor Schmitz signed the Ingleside racing, bill Monday afternoon, and after the adjournment of the Board of Supervisors he issued the following statement of his position : "I have carefully considered the so-called Ingleside ordinance, and, after weighing every suggestion, both for and against the proposition, have conclnded to sign the bill. "I am not in favor of making San Francisco a wide-open town : neither, on the other hand, do I believe in putting her in a straight jacket. "I am satisfied that the toleration of horse racing in San Francisco for forty days in the year will not seriously jeopardize or endanger the morals of the community, while, at the lame time, it is a concession to the sport-loving, amusement people of the city, a largo number of whom enjoy racing and occasionally attend the sport without joining or in any way participating in the betting, which is seemingly the world over an indispensable incident of all race courses. "With racing now permitted all the year round at Oakland and just across our boundary line in San Mateo, now patronized by and easily accessible to the people of San Francisco, I can see no distinct advantage in keeping the San Francisco track closed, either morally or materially." Ingleside track is located on the outskirts of the city and easily accessible by electric cars. It is the best equipped and most?attractive track in the state and its reopening will do much to boom the sport.
