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OFFICIALS SELECTED FOR JUAREZ MEETING. " New York, September 14. At Siieepshead Bay yesterday Matt J. Winn, who has just returned from .Mexico, talked over the coming autumn meetings at Louisville and Yonkers witli Charles Grainger and James Butler. The programs for these meetings are yet to be arranged. It will be gratifying to horse folk to learn that the Empire City Association will not be outdone in liberality and enterprise by the Jamaica and Aqueduct managements with excellent programs for their fall seasons. But Mr. Winn is in no hurry to prepare the Empire City stakfj list. The Yonkers meeting will use the Inst six days of the legal racing year. Formerly the Aqueduct season wound things up hereabouts, but the Queens County Jockey Clubs fall meeting this year will end on the 8th of November, preceding the Yonkers meeting. Colonel Winn will announce his stake program for the winter meeting at Juarez tomorrow. The Mexican Jockey Club will, he says, give away ,000 per day as a starter, and open twelve stakes ranging in value from ,000 to ,000.- If the meeting prospers from the start as Mr. Winn and his associates believe it will purses and stakes will be boosted all around. Easterners who go to Juarez will find themselves among home folks. Jack Follansbee, Matt Winn and Algernon Daingerlield will be in the stewards stand. Mars Cassidy will be starter and J. L. Hall will be patrol judge. Lyman Davis will be secretary and haudicapper, and William Shelley will be clerk of the scales. The main course over which racing will be conducted at the Juarez track, now being built by Colonel Matt Winn and his associates, will be a mile and an eighth in circumference, with a half-mile and a mile chute. The soil for both the track and the chutes will be manufactured from a mixture of adobe, which is to be found everywhere on the ground, and either ingredients which will be brought in. In addition to the .grandstand,- which is to be a combination of the; gexiel points in all of the Anieiican aird foreign stands, there will be the paddock, the; office, the betting stand, the casino and a field for the native element. Later it is ex-pccteel te erect a large cemcrete hotel and buildings for heilding a fair and exposition in connection with the; running races. Colonel Winn says. The grandstand, which will be; of re-enforceel cemcrete; anel of mission design, will have a capacity of 5,000 persons, and will have a dome-shaped roof, much after the style" of the; Paris race course stand. The olliee building will be 75 by 100 feet, and will contain offices for the manager, the starters, secretaries and otlie;r oliicials. The paddock will be; niaele eif adobe-, witli ceitrugated iron roeif anel concrete foundation, and will accommodate GOO horses. The casino will include;" a hotel, cafe, anel lounging rooms, in addition to wide mission porches. The field stand is to be- for the use of the natives, who will be admitted one or two days each- week free, which will be made gala events with these peeiple.- It is the pn-se-nt intention ef the management to have the grand opening of the Juarez track on Thanksgiving elay, when a purse of ,000 gold will be hung up fer the Chihuahua Handicap, which will be attended by the officials of the Chihuahua state government. Everything is being built of the most substantial material, and the promoters have all possible; confidence in the permanent success of the project. . In addition to II. L. Stevens, who has the contract for the construction weirk on the plant, the men in charge of the work are; E. P. Moorehead. superintendent; M. M. Mendiola. of Juarez, engineer, and Lyman H. Davis, of Louisville, secretary. Only a small feirce of men is being employed on the preliminary work, but It is expected to have a feirce of 500 em the job when it is in full swing. The; site of the ne;w track is about a mile anel a half southeast of Juarez plaza, to the right .of the; main roael running down the Mexicau side; of the RIei Grande. The street car company is now building a line to the race track site.
