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GOSSIP FROM BLUE GRASS REGION. Lexington. Ky.. November 14. Allan McCulloh and L. T. Haggiu. of New York, two of the executors of the will of James B. Haggiu. arrived iu Lexington Thursday night. When asked what brought theme here at this time, Mr. McCulloh said: "I am here with Mr. L. T. Haggin. the son of James B. Haggin. We will be In Lexington two or three da vs. We are executors, as you probably know, of" the will of Mr. Haggin. We expect to look over all of the properties of Mr. Haggin, including Elmendorf. We desire to familiarize ourselves with Mr. Haggins holdings here. You might say that he have no-definite., plans for the future disposition of Elmendorf or oilier properties of Mr. Haggin." Charles H. lierryiuan. manager of Elmendorf Farm, has had prepared for the us? of Messrs. McCulloh and Haggin an inventory of the Haggin holdings in this locality. 1 "While there is danger of the foot and mouth disease being conveyed by such mediums as raw hides, fodder and manure, I consider that if the railroad and shipping companies were compelled to thoroughly disinfect their cars and vessels after unloading, the danger could be reduced to a minimum," said II. A. Woodroffe, V. S., of this city, Thursday. "As to the extreme precaution o quarantining horses, I am inclined to think that if these animals; after being taken off the cars, were drenched with some strong disinfectant, the danger of spreading the disease from them should be sufficiently obviated. Horses do not contract the disease as a matter of fact it is a mulady of the bovine and not equine animals. Birds of tho. air nd automobiles, which carry the contagion from tho manure mingled with the dirst on the roads, ore more apt to be mediums of spreading the disease than are horses." George D. Widener. Jr., will move his stock from the Waldeck Farm of T. M. Murphy near Louisville to the Sliver Brook Farm in New Jersey in a few days. Silver Brook Farm is under lease to W. F. Presgrave. Mr. Wideners stud consists of the brown stallion Garry Herrmann, bv Esher Silk Gown, by Longfellow, ten mares and live weanlings. John Miller will be iu charge of the shipment. II. K. Knapp has retired his good mare Sprite to Hal Price Headleys Beaumont Farm, where she will be mated witli some prominent stallion the coming season. Sprite is a bay mare, live years old, by Waterboy Fairie Queen, by Faustus. She won eighteen races during her four seasons on the turf, five as a two-year-old, four as a three, five as a four and four as a live-year-old. When the work of grading and grassing the infield is completed the coming week and two barns now in course of erection are finished, the Kentucky association will have made improvements approximating 0,000 on its plant this year. Supt. James P. Ross this week spread upon the winter training course ten carloads of sand, putting it in perfect condition for the coming year and wet period. W. J. Young this morning furnished entertainment for a large company of visitors to the course, among whom was Gen. Henry T. Allen, U. S. A., when he "set down" five yearlings from his barn. The bay filly by Migraine Cleophus, owned by John B. Mad-don, worked a quarter in :23. nosing out Investment, a yearling bay filly by Frontenac Jennie Wade, owned by P. M. Civill. The chestnut colts by Disguise out of Lardella and Nethersole worked a quarter together in :23. They are owned bv James and Isaac Parrish. Charles Cellas bav colt by Mentor Miss Strome. worked in :23. Leo Ray has been turned out at II. P. Headleys farm.
