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RE-INCORPORATING AT MEMPHIS. Memphis. Teiiii.. January -7 Application for a charter to re-incoepoiate the Tri -State Fair was tiled lasi week n the office ,,f r y, | ;,.. eonnty register. The application has been forwarded to Kaahvtile sad it is expected thai the secretary of siate will issp,. ;, charter during the week A meeting of the directors has been called for tliurs day evening for the purpose of electing officers. The affairs of the association will Ik- administered in behalf of the citizens of Memphis, through a hoard of managers, and Will ! e a nou roiit sharing organization. The purposes, as stated, are for the maintenance of public fairs, expositions, race meetings, entertainments, exhibitions of live stock and machinery, the encouragement of agriculture and horticulture. education, etc. Asked as to the racing feature. W. H. Flowers, one of the incorporators, replied that no attempt was being made to prepare a way for a return to horse racing as it was known ill the olden il,u- "I know of no law on the books which prohibits horse racing per se," he said. "A statute against bookmaklng put race tracks in Tennessee out of existence. ••The application recites the purposes of the as-., ciation and what it may do if a charter is granted. We could not have a trotting race, an aviation race, a foot race, nor anything that might come under the head of racing, without the provision hut that does not mean hookniaking."
