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GETTING READY FOR OPENING AT OAKLAWN. Hot Springs Is Filling Up With Visitors and Horses Weather Is Fino. Hot Springs, Ark., February 12. There is some great sport ahead for those that arc now iu the town and those to come from other points. The town is already full of visitors , and every train Is adding to the quota. With good weather, moro of the sort that we are having, the meeting which is to open at Oaklawn Saturday will eclipse anything ever seen in these parts. Out at the track everything is ready for the opening. The stables are fast filling up. There will be no shortage of horses for the opening and as the session goes along there will be material additions to the lists of owners. Thus far there has been but one fall of suow aud that disappeared after a few hours. Today everyone Is about without an overcoat and the horsemen wiio have shipped here from New Orleans all agree that they find the weather conditions even better than they did in the Crescent City. The program which has been prepared by Secretary Stebbins seems to please the horsemen and they will do everything in their power to make the meeting a success. Among the stables now here or en route are: II. Meis, Jule Garson, W. W. Elliott, T. J. Craighead, T. C. Milan, J. O. Keene, M. L. Hayman, W. W. Maliory, W. G. Browne, J. OToole, A. J. Freeman, F O. Moshicr, George Cochran, II. P. Root, W. G. Williams, G. Gray, E. Parish, Henry Batcheler, C. K. Wright, G. W. Bowers, C. D. Howard, R. J. Lucas, Mrs. S. R. Lawrence, J. II. Boyd, II. C. Meyer, W. L. Cramer, C. W. Glvens, F. GIvens, W. II. Norton, II. G. Southard. Chinn and Forsythe, Louis Cella, Kd Moore, Dan Morris, Frank J. Kelly, Stubbs Bros., Paul Miles, Phil King, Kd Stutte aud a score of others of more or less prominence. As for riders, there is every reason to believe that there will be enough of established skill on hand to till all requirements. Itadtke will, of course, be -the star, but he will not have things ail his own way, as several of years experience will lie in the saddle to dispute his right to first honors. Frank C. Bryan, who will preside in the judges stand, arrived yesterday from New Orleans. John Condon, part owner with Dan Stuart in the Oak-lawn track, lias also arrived.
