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MAY DELAY OPENING AT EMPIRE CITY. Manager Winn Expects Answer from Stewards of the Jockey Club Today. New York, July 2!. General Manager Winn of Empire City track said tonight that a list of otli-cials, together with an outline of the program for the meeting and other details in connection with it had been presented to the stewards of the Jockey Club for their approval. He would not make public any part of the document, hut it is presumed that the Jockey Club stewards will act on the matter tomorrow. No member of the board of stewards could be leached tonight, but Mr. Hutlcrs representatives expect an answer from their communications before tomorrow night. In the meantime, work is going along at the track, though it is by no means assured that the meeting will begin next Monday. Mr. Winn said tonight that he does not propose to open the track to the public until everything is in lirst class order, and if that means a delay of a few days, all well and good. The trolley company is now at work on a spur into the grounds and the opening will depend in a great measure on the progress of the work. Louis A. Cella visited the track yesterday. This together with the presence of John Condon in New York, lias again given rise to the rumor that they are interested In a financial way. Mr. Cella, however, stoutly maintains that he has no connection with the plant in any way, nor will he have under any consideration. Mr. Hutler has never had an interest in the thoroughbreds, though he has maintained a large trotting stable and breeding stud for some years. There is a strong belief here that he is not nearly so anxious to break into race track management as would appear on the surface, lint that by forcing the State Pacing Commission to give him a license and the Jockey Club to approve dates for him, he could put the plant, which lias become dead wimd on his hands, on the lriarket. with the hope of disposing of it at a reasonable figure. Those who take this view of the case say that it is his hone to unload the track on the western men, but these persons say Louis A. Cella is rather too much of a business man to go into such a ileal unless he had positive assurance of a continuance .of the license and this he cannot have until the case Is finally decided by the Court of Appeals.
