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GOSSIP FROM FORT ERIE TRACK. Buffalo, N. Y August 30. The fall meeting which began at Fort Erie on "Thursday last is characterized by the same success that marked the summer session. It is safe to say that when the nine days of racing ends here it will be the most profitable that the Niagara Jockey Club iias enjoyed during a similar period. During this week there will be many shipments to Montreal, where racing begins on Saturday next. It has always been a mystery why the date framers of the Canadian Racing Associations should have permitted Blue Bonnets and Fort Erie to clash, even for one day. and allowed a lapse of three days to Intervene between the close of Windsor and the opening at Fort Erie. A feature of the racing on the Canadian circuit is the excellent work of starter Dade. Since his discontinuance of the absolute llatfooted style he has been doing perfect work and has eliminated the delays that characterized his former efforts. It seldom happens now that lie keeps the fields at the IKist over two minutes, and in most instances thev are sent away Immediately on reaching the barrier. Mr. Dade will leave here for Montreal on Friday next to dispatch the field at Blue Bonnets on opening day. Ed Tribe will remain here to send the horses away on Saturday. The Buffalo police do not know John Travers. Edward Kelly and John Connors, arrested Saturday on a charge of wire-tapping. The tracing of the tappers and their arrest .was the result of weeks of persistent work by Collins, tlie frontier operator. On August 10 last the telegraph company began to suspect that somebody was tampering with its leased wire from tlie track. This wire supplies the entries, race results and other information from the track to poolrooms in Cincinnati, Toledo, Detroit. Cleveland, Albany and to a point just outside of New York.
