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PROGRESS ON THE HAVANA TRACK. Laurel, Md., October C. For the purpose of setting at rest reports to the contrary that have been circulated from time to time, H. D. Drown announced today that the work is going forward on his new racing plant at Havana, Cuba, and that the course will Ik; completed in season for a meeting the coming winter. Mr. Drown gave it out that the work has progressed to such an extent that the plant can be finished within six weeks time. The track itself is almost completed, and the erection of the necessary buildings is all that remains to be done. Before the Laurel meeting is over Mr. Drown will make known all the details of the plans for the Havana meeting. The new plant at Havana will lie strictly up-to-date. It will have a mile oval. The lumber for the erection of the stables has already been shipped from Jacksonville and they will be built first, so that the horsemen can go right into them on arriving in Cuba. The grandstand will be patterned after the new one at Laurel, although on a larger scale. The betting ring will be of about the same size. The offices will bo built immediately following the erection of the stables, which will accommodate at least nine hundred horses. The stakes will be of good value, making the racing as attractive as at Jacksonville last winter and the year previous. There will be :i 0,000 Derby, for three-year-olds, which will be the feature stake of the meeting, although a Special will lie run on the same plan as the Florida Special at Jacksonville last winter. This will be almost as valuable as the Derby. There will bo a straightaway track built for automobile racing, and good purses will be given for these events, in order to induce the best of the drivers on this continent to compete. .Many of the artisans who bellied to build Mie new track here will leave for Havana before the close of the present meeting, to rush the Cuban plant to completion. Special arrangements will be made for the transportation of the horses.
