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IMPROVEMENTS AT HAWTHORNE. Extensive improvements have been made at the Hawthorne track this spring, all of which are not yet completed. Patrons of the track will perhaps be disappointed in not finding the famous Cicero course as fast as In the past. An inch and a half of sand has been placed on the track and this will perhaps tend to make it from a second to a second and a half slow. A mile in 1:42 will be exceptionally fast. Ninety carloads. of sand have been placed on the inside track, making it even in wet weather a safe course to work over. The promenade in front of the grandstand has been entirely relaid and raised some two feet, thus making a good view of the races from every point of it possible. An asphalt flooring has been laid about the refreshment booth. The entrance has been considerably Improved and is now the finest of any racetrack in the city, while new dressing rooms have been arranged for the benefit of the ladies, and the restaurant fixed up in a manner to make it a model place of its kind.
