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IMPROVEMENTS AT AQUEDUCT TRACK. New York, September 4. P. J. Dwyer has made up his mind that his Aqueduct track will in course of time replace the old Gravesend racecourse, which, according to rumor, has been doomed for real estate purposes already. Dwyer tried to get hold of a tract of land in Nassau county near Garden City for a new racetrack, but a bill was passed by the legislature at Albany last spring which made this plan impossible. Dwyer, who controls the stock of the Queens County Jockey Club, therefore has decided to enlarge the accommodations for the public at the Aqueduct track, which, so far as racing Itself is concerned, is one of the best appointed coursed under Jockey Club rule. Hitherto there has been only a long wooden grandstand with a wooden clubhouse for the patronage of the public, but when Aqueduct opens in November the public will find completed there a new field stand entirely of steel, which Is in course of construction now at an outlay of 0,000. Behind this stand will be a huge semicircular betting pavilion, covered, to which will be a separate entrance from the railroad tracks. The field stand, though it will be nearly a quarter of a mile from the finish pole, will be a great accommodation to that portion of the racegoing public that cannot afford to pay admission to the grandstand enclosure. Dwyer always has catered to this particular- element at Gravesend, so why not at Aqueduct? When the new field stand Is completed it will make the old grandstand and clubhouse look decidedly cheap. But it is generally understood that these old buildings will be torn down within the next year or so, to be replaced with modern steel structures that "will put Aqueduct on an equal plane with the other large metropolitan tracks. And under these circumstances It will not be at all strange.to see the Brooklyn Handicap and other of the old Gravesend classics decided over the Aqueduct course, which was once little more than a merry-go-round.
