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TOM CAREY READY TO CO-OPERATE. Ed Corrigans Successor at Hawthorne Willing to Help Rehabilitate Racing in Chicago. Tom Carey, who recently acquired Edward Corrigans holdings in Hawthorne race track, declares that he may be counted on to fall in with the proposed plan for the rehabilitation of racing in Chicago. Mr. Carey expressed himself in this fashion yesterday : "I would like to see some racing here, thirty days at a track and not a day more. I would put It up squarely to the authorities and If they are willing we will have some sport here this summer. I think the public wants It. but there must lie a new deal. Old conditions wont go. If M. H. Tlchenor or any-hady else In good standing In the community can form a syndicate and get local business men interested they can have my track in a minute." Mr. Carey also gave out the information that F.d-ward Corrigan and his wife are expected to return to Chicago from I.t xingtou. Ky.. within a few days to take up their abode for the summer at their former cottage within the Hawthorne track enclosure. •The reason I bring Mr. Corrigan into this is to let anybody who Is interested know that the transfer of the track property from him to me was ou the level." said Mr. Carey. "When the property was transferred Mr. Corrigan asked in« if I would have any objection to him and tils family occupying his old cottage at the track this summer, and I told him that he could live there as long as he wanted. Today 1 happened to remember that the question had been raised whether or not Mr. Corrigan had actually let go of the track. Now, I want to tell you right here that be has. but If at any time, while I own It. he can raise the money that I paid him for it. he can have It hack. In the meantime he doesnt own a shingle or a fence post in the property. "Mr. Corrigan wrote me today that he had promised his wife, who is still in a hospital at Lexington, that he would take her to Chicago this summer and I would be a brute not to let him carry out his plans regardless of the talk It might cause." The Cook County Fair Association was Incorporated at Springfield this week. Its incorporators include W. II. Siolte. Thomas W. Flyuu. W. E. Williams and E. R. Davis, prominent residents of Washington Heights, a Chicago suburb. Mr. Stolte is a banker and capitalist. Mr. Flynn Is an ex-lieutenant of police, who has secured a lot of property in the south eud of the county. Mr. Williams is the editor and proprietor of a newspaper, and Mr. Davis is a banker ami merchant. The association owns a tract of land consisting of 105 acres between Chicago Heights and Harvey. It is the intention of its promoters to conduct a county fair, with horticultural, agricultural and stock exhibits ami trotting and running races as an incident. "We mean." Mr. Flynn said, "to live np to oor articles of incorporation. We are not thinking about racing Just now. but In case anything like that is possible around here, we want to be in on the ground Hoor. We have the place and the finest transportation facilities of any big enclosure in this country. We mean to go ahead and Improve our property along the lines specified with the idea of running a genuine county fair. "If we cant get our own property ready in time we shall try to secure Harlem. Hawthorne or Worth, and give a two-weeks exhibition in the early fall. We dont care whether we make money out of it or not. but if there is a demand for an amusement enterprise such as ours in this vicinity, we mean to find it out." Mr. Flynn is not identified with any of the race track interests of Cook County. He once was interested in the ownership of race horses with Ed Trotter as managing partner. Mr. Flynn called on John Condon yesterday to ascertain if Harlem race track might be leased by the new corporation for the holding of its proposed fair the coming fall. Mr. Condon expressed a willing KM to allow the use of his track if the dates desired are not otherwise occupied. Before the recent developments which have led to the hope that racing may soon lie resumed in Chicago. Mr. Condon entered into tentative arrangements with an airship inventor by which the latter will have the use of the grounds for several weeks during the summer for experimental purposes. The plans of the Cook County Fair Association are as yet only iii the embryotic stage. What may come out of them remains to be seen.
