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RUSHING CHARLESTON WORK TASK OF CONSTRUCTING NEW TRACK GOING FORWARD AT RAPID RATE. South Carolina City Already Beginning to Experience tho Benefits of Racine as an Attraction for Tourists Good Prospects on New Plant, Charleston, S. O., Decemlior 3. Tourists and racing enthusiasts are coming to Charleston thick and fast at the present time, many of the former, attracted by the racing, coming here for the purpose of wintering in lie city. Hotel owners ami those who have quarters to leaso or rent acknowledge that it will Ik; only a question of time before thoy will be unable to accommodate any more strangers. The Chamber of Commerce is now arranging for a central bureau service for the use and information of tourists and those who will come here for the races. This bureau will assist strangers in finding suitable loarding places. A committee of memlers of the Chanitwr of Commerce and its several auxiliary organizations will be busv in the near future compiling the necessary data for the bureau and will then be ready for business. Gatherings of citizens can be seen daily on the site of the race course now in course of construction by the Charleston Pair and Racing Association. The rapidity with which the plant- is licing erected, and the signs of hustle and bustle displayed on evcry hanil on the site of the course are generally conshl crcd remarkable. Assistant Secretary L. A. Cassidy of the racing association states that the big plant will Ik! completely ready for business when the lirst race is started on the afternoon of January 10, 1012. Work is now lnMng rushed simultaneously on the race track proper, the stables, the grandstand and on the construction or kitchens, etc. Quarters for several hundred horses have already loen provided and a big force of carpenters will continue on this part of tlie job until room has lieen provided for from S00 to 000 thoroughbreds. Weather conditions since work on the course was commenced have been extremely favorable for building operations. The track proper is the scene of tho greatest activity on the grounds at tho present time. From tliii ty to forty scraiers .are leing employed in Teinov-wlig dirt. The engineers in charge state that the soil is peculiarly well adapted to the needs of a rtico track and that it will afford a firm footing for the thoroughbreds. Several gulleys, one of them from 150 to 200 feet in length, will be filled with dirt during the next three weeks. Not less than 27,000 cubic yards of soil will be dumped into the largest of these gulleys. Culverts of cement construction arc now being built in order to give perfect drainage. The race course is lieing constructed around a natural depression of considerable size. It is planned to till tliis with water and form an artificial lake in the course of time. This depression also insures sicody and ctlicient drainage for the race track. Concrete foundations for the big grandstand are licing laid. This structure will bo 200 feet in length and nliout eighty in depth and will have a seating capacity of 0,000.
