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PROGRESS AT NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans. La., November 23, The last leg in i the preliminaries for the opening of the New Orleans i midwinter race meeting was entered today when i T. C. Campbell placed coupon tickets for the forty davs session on sale. Only accredited representatives of the Business Mens Racing Association will have the sale of the tickets in charge. These men arc individuals whose efforts are entirely patriotic, and whose work is done in the Interest of civic pride. The coupon tickets are handsomely engraved on bond paper and come from the press of a well-known New Orleans lithographer. Like everything else connected With the racing enterprise the woik of printing the coupons was done entirely at home. A warning to citizens was sent out from the otlice of the association last night posting business men against the imposition or a coterie of unauthorized advertising agents who, it is said, are trying to collect money for the printing of a race track program. The stake book lias been turned over to the printers by Judge Joseph Murphy. It contains the dales, etc.. and will be in distribution next week. Writing from St. Louis, Judge .Murphy says that New Orleans is on the tongue of more people in St Louis just now than it has been in many years. Business men in the Mound City have organized UieiiiM-lves together for a strong efTort to reestablish the sport in Missouri, and the campaign is to lie conducted along the same lines as the work now goiug on here.
