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FOUR HUNDRED STALLS COMPLETED. Six Hundred More to Be Built at New Charleston Track Horses Already on Way There. Charleston, S. C, December 2. Horses are already on the way to Charleston for the seventy-five days meeting that will open here Januarv 10. E. C. Taylor of the Arms Palace Horse Car Co., is busily engaged making preparation for a twenty-car train which will leave Kentucky within the next few days for Charleston. Tho horses in this shipment will come from stables at Louisville, Latonia and Lexington. J. M. Brown, Tommy Williams and Green R. Morris have already shipped from Kentucky. G. W. Scott has arrived from Norfolk with his horses, among which arc the useful racers J. H. Houghton and Martin W. Littleton. John W. Pangle is on the ground arranging for the stabling for his own horses and those that A. G. Weston will handle for R. T. Wilson, T. Civile and Capt. W. F. Presgrave. There are now four hundred stalls completed, with six hundred more under way. All stables will be lighted by electricity and city water will be piped to all parts of the grounds. The stables will have thirty stalls each, with lofts overhead, feed rooms at the ends and sleeping quarters for the belli above. Sixty teams are busily engaged in grading the track, the foundations for the grandstand arc laid and the lower framework is being rapidly raised. The stake entries are coming in rapidlv. and it is assured there will be a good representation of two-year-olds. Among the prominent persons who are here to rent homes for the winter are Fred Luzader, Charles R. Ellison and R. F. Carman. Mr. Carman lias rented a beautiful residence on the South Battery, a fashionable and historic part of Charleston. Mr. Carmans horses are at Aiken. S. C, along with those of II. C. Hallenbeck, F. R. Hitchcock and H. K. Knapp. They are being trained on the Whitney track, which the late J. W. Rogers built when he was handling the horses of W. C. Whitney.
