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APPEAL I OR RACING LEGISLATION. New York. May 13.— Asking Ike supneri of hotel proprietors, merchants, shopkeepers and other business men of this city for measures calculated to bring relief to those most interested in racing, Andrew Miller, steward of the Jockej Club, and secretary of the Saratoga Association, has issued a circular letter, of which many thousand copies have been distributed, in which he makes these points: •The anti-facing law has been hurtful to the business welfare of the City of New York, to its hotels, merchants, shops, an dealers ami theaters and even real estate values have suffered. The great racing gtahles nave been trasported to Europe. "It i- the duty of the city to bestir Itself and re claim its most Important summer asset, the lam of which would excite a mutiny iu any other community. ••The i ills Introduced by Senator Glttlns, ami so lucidly explained by B. T. Wttaan, have the support of the racing sasociatlona, and they respectfully urge you, as one having the welfare of the city at heart, to write Stephen J. Stillwoll. chairman of the Senate Codev Committee, or Senator John God frey Saxe, Senator Josiah T. Newcomh, Senator Harry W. Pollack. Senator J. Mayhew Wainwright, Senator Howard It. Baine. Senator Loring W. Black, Jr.. Senator Anthony J. Critlin. or ally of the other members of the Senate or Assembly, asking their support for the Glttlns bills.""
