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PEACE AT NEW ORLEANS. RIVAL TRACK OWNERS ABOLISH OUTLAW RULE AND DIVIDE DATES. Crescent City Gets 61 Days and City Park 60 Days Season to Open November 24 and Close April 13 The Schedule. New York, July 24. At a conference held at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, between representatives of the Crescent City Jockey Club and the City Park Jockey Club today, an agreement was reached for an equal division of racing dates during the coming winter season at New Orleans. T. A. Henaud, of the Crescent City Jockey Club, and D. H. ISames, of the City Park Jockey Club, acting for their representative organizations signed the compact which provides for alternate periods of two weeks of racing at each track. The opening fortnight, or to be exact, thirteen days is assigned to the older organization, the Crescent City Jockey Club, which will inaugurate the season on Saturday, November 24, 1906. The last two weeks ending Saturday, April IS, 1A07, will be at the City Park track. Here is the schedule: CRESCENT CITY JOCKEY CLUB. November 24 to December S 13 days Deeemlter 24 to January 3 12"days January 21 to February 2 : 12 days February 18 to March 2 12 days March 18 to March 30 12 days CITY PARK JOCKEY CLUB. December 10 to December 22 12 days January 7 to January 19 12 days February 4 to February 10 12 days March 4 to March IG 12 days April 1 to April 13 12 days This makes a total of 121 days sixty-one for the Crescent City Jockey Club and sixty for the City Park Jockey Club. The Crescent City Jockey Club uets Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Years Day and Washingtons Birthday. The foregoing arrangement is tt be reversed in the season of 1907-l,H8. Each track will have its own corps of officials. The outlaw rule has been abolished and all horses in good standing will be at liberty to race at either course. Those present at the meeting were, Congressman. J. L. Ithlnock, of Covington, Ky.; L. A. Cella, of St. Louis; P. A. Renaud, of New Orleans; John Condon, of Chicago and D. II. Barnes, of New Orleans. J. B. Respcss, of Cincinnati, who is a stockholder in the City Park track, was not here today, but he spent a day with Louis A. Cella at Manhattan Beach last week and there gave his sanction to the agreement reached today. Mr. Cella Is suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism and has not been to the racetrack for several ajs
