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BRILLIANT PROSPECTS AT BUFFALO. Citizens of the Bison City Are Hustling to Make the Meeting a Big Winner. Buffalo. N. Y.. Jnne 14. — On the eve of the opening of the meeting at Kenilworth Park, this bustling city is alive with genuine interest and enthusiasm. All along Main street the leading merchants have decorated their windows with the green and white colors of the club, and over the Iroquois Hotel floats a twenty-foot flag of the same colors to remind people that Buffalos greatest outdoor event of the iar is at hand. The people of Buffalo have awakened to the fact that every pTedge made by the management has been kept. Robert C. Palmer, a young attorney and a member of the Saturn Club, who was elected secretary of the clubhouse, reports that the flood of new members is surprising even himself. He has arranged for an orchestra the opening day, has had one of the leading florists decorate the clubhouse, and will do everything possible to make the place attractive. When it became noised about that the management had refused ,500 from a "news" company for a poolroom wire even those who had little interest in racing began to sit up and take notice that the promise to make the betting end of the racing wholly sul servient to the sport was being carried out to the letter. Everything that the management has done has tended to draw the support of the better clans of patrons and today there is not a particle of sentiment against racing in this end of the state. i:cursions will Ik- run from Toronto. Rochester and Batavia and, big delegations are expected from thee* places. As an index of the interest taken a local paper that started a guessing contest on the Derby has over 400.000 answers to date. Henry .1. Miris. H. M. Gerrano and Harry 1 Kirkover. a loculMj man. will act as stewards; A. B. Dade will inihhw starting and Joseph A. Murphy will act as judge aSj huudivupuer. *
