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I j r r f t , ; t ; , . 1 1 MEETING TO BE FINANCED IN ADVANCE. Fund of 00,000 for New Orleans Racing Social Side to Be Developed. St. Louis, Mo., October 27. Joseph A. Murphy returned from New Orleans yesterday and announced that all plans were matured for the race meeting that will oikjii in the Crescent City January 1, and run to and including February 17, forty-one days of racing. Judge Murphy went to New Orleans on the Invitation of the business "men of that city and has signed a five-years contract to manage the racing there. At the present time 17" of the leading business men of New Orleans, including representatives of all of the hotels and many of the banks, have sub-scrllied to the stock of the association. Ai fund Df 0,000 has been guaranteed which will Iks placed in the bank to Insure the payment of purses. This lUiid is Hearing completion. An advance sale of tickets will then bo started and it is expected that 0,000 will be raised from this source. This will result in the meeting being financed before the gates are opened. Many features new to New Orleans racing will he inaugurated. The old lietting ring will lie eon-verted into a monster palm garden, with accommodations for ::,000 people and daily concerts will lie given by a picked orchestra. Plans have also been Jrawn for a club house and Thomas Campbell, personal representative of Klaw and Erlanger in New Orleans, is chairman of the committee to complete this work. Many of the best citizens of New Orleans have offered to help in completing the club, and the racing will have a social side to it that has not been known In the south since the war, when the aid Metarie race track was the scene of many brilliant functions. As to the betting. The laws of Louisiana have never prohibited betting on horse races. Neither do they prohibit the acting as custodian of money bet. In fact the state makes aleatory or betting contracts .legal and a person may force through the courts the payment of a bet made-on a horse race. The public will no doubt adjust itself rapidly to the lew conditions. The day of the tout, the hanger-on. and the hurly-burly of the old betting ring in New Orleans has passed forever, however. Judge Murphy has left on a hurried trip to Chicago, Cincinnati, Baltimore and. JJcw York in. the interests" Of the meeting. He announced before" he- left that he had drawn a bill which he will pre- entt!nlfeTMlssouri legislature in Jnnuary. He has from his experience in. the last legislature--eliminated all objectionable features from the bill and is confident that it will pass. Baltimore, Md., October 27. Joseph A. Murphy, who has been named as manager of the Business ; Mens Racing Association of New Orleans, has sent out the following word to the horsemen here: "The . merchants of New Orleans have organized a racing ; association and will conduct a meeting from January 1 to February 17. "I have been tendered and accepted the management . and position of presiding judge for a period I of five years. Mr. Dade will do the starting and Joseph McLennan will act as secretary. "The sum of 0,000 will be placed in the hank to guarantee the horsemen. The association has ; taken a five year lease on the old fair grounds. I have personally looked over the grounds and they are in good shape. The stables at City Park also are . in fair order and the track in shape to gallop over. I ask your aid in giving the Crescent City a real i meeting. Those of you who cannot ship there might t nut a few of your horses in trainers, hands so that t i-our colors might be seen there."
