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PROJECTED IMPROVEMENTS AT SEATTLE. Meadows Track and Buildings To Be Modernized 2Jext Years Great Exposition Meeting. Turfmen who have recently returned to San Francisco from Seattle confirm the report that the management of the King County Fair Association is planning the immediate expenditure of a large sum of money for extensive improvements to the racing plant at The Meadows, where so many California stables nice each summer. It is said that the improvements contemplated will call for the- expenditure of about 00,000. Superintendent Cotton, according to report, was recently recalled from his vacation to confer with the directors of the association in reference to the details of the proposed improvements, the most important of which embrace the re-location of the grandstand, a substantial widening of the track and the Installation of chutes to avoid the necessity for horses going around more than one turn in races at distances ranging from seven furlongs to a mile and thereabouts. Racing has become a very popular snort witli the people of Seattle. In consequence of the curtailment of the sport in various sections of the country. Seattle will probably have a meeting next summer that will eclipse all that haw gone before. Cali-forninns will patronize the Seattle meeting more extensively than ever next summer, and virtually ail of the good horses that will be -raced in California this winter will be sliipped to the northern track at the close of the California season. Seattle Is to have a great exposition next summer, and the exposition may lie expected to derive as much benefit from the visitors that the race meeting will attract as the race track will from the increased! "patronage that may naturally lie looked for from the exposition throngs. Considering its size. Seattle is looked upon as one of the best racing towns in the country, and. judiciously managed, the sport probably will continue to thrive there to a degree hitherto unapproaehed.
