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PRESIDENT BARNES ANNOUNCES PROGRAM New Orleans Tracks Will Open for Sixty Days Racing Without Betting New Orleans La August 21 That City Park and tlie Fair Grounds will both have their meetings this winter was the announcement made yesterday by David II Barnes president of the City Park Jockey Club It was intended to open about December 1 said Mr Barnes The Locke antigambling act recently made a state law does not prohibit individ ¬ ual betting or the recording of bets Patrons will have an opportunity to back their opinions Ve intend to operate on a reduced scale There will positively be no attempt at licensing handbooks and bookmaking will not be permitted According permittedAccording to the present plans tentatively made local turfmen will buy1 or lease the Interests of out ¬ side capitalists who already regard the racing game dead in Louisiana We will then ee if a resurrec ¬ tion cannot be accomplished without treading on anyones toes for no one can deny that winter rac ¬ ing in Xew Orleans is an attraction for thousands of visitors who would not otherwise come here There are two racing plants here each valued at over 500000 and the property is not suitable for any other purpose save that of a race course courseThe The present intention is to bring the best class of horses here The big stake events will have to be abandoned and no race will have a value of over lr 0 Where it formerly cost from 3000 to 5000 a day to run either plant the expenditure under the proposed conservative policy will be crimped to onethird of that figure It Is thought that the expenses of a sixtyday meeting can be easily earned through gate receipts and sales of concessions concessionsA A Xew Orleans man who knows the situation well says of the town and racing racingThe The Suburban Park meeting at Algiers La will open next Saturday Oral betting will be in vogue There is talk of holding a meeting at Lake Charles on the halfmile track there to make a test case of the Locke law I dont know who the pro ¬ moters are who have the scheme in hand and 1 place little credence In the storr Business in Xew Orleans is in none too good shape and the mer ¬ chants are wailing because of the passage of the Locke law They are looking iroward to a dreary winter unless the race tracks open openThe The work of building the Xew Audubon Hotel which was to have been the swellest thing outside of Xew York in the hotel line has been abandoned in anticipation of a falling off of visitors to Xew Orleans Instead of tlie big hotel that was to have been erected a threestory office building will be put up This can of course be remodeled later and serve as nart of a hotel lu case the builders see their way clear to go on with their original de ¬ sign Hale and hearty Edward Corrigan was in Chicago yesterday and departed in the afternoon for his farm near Lexington to spend Sunday with his wife While here he met some western men in a negotia ¬ tion broodmaresMr of sales of some of his broodmares Mr Barnes knows what he is talking about when he says there will In racing at New Orleans next winter said he I guess his statement of the matter is about right There will be good racing there thereAs As for that Michigan track some fellow had a dream and didnt remember exactly how it went
