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WILL HAVE PLENTY HORSES PROBLEM AT NEW ORLEANS NOW IS TO PROVIDE STABLING ACCOMMODATIONS. .Racing Secretary Joseph McLennan Reports Booking-of Four Hundred Horses at Charleston for Fair Grounds Meeting Manager Murphy on Hand. New Orleans, La., December 4. The Charleston Fair and Racing Association has disowned J. V. Knight, the press agent who tried to discredit the New Orleans meeting. In a telegram to the Business Mens Racing Association here, Fred Auerbach, manager of the Charleston meeting, disclaims all responsibility for Knight. The telegram came to New Orleans from Joseph McLennan, associate judge at Charleston and is as follows: "Condition books arrived. Have received applications for stalls for 400 horses since Monday. Horsemen very enthusiastic over coming meeting. These applications wili reqnlre GOO stalls. You can assure business Mens Racing Association that the Charleston Fair and Racing Association has no connection with Knight. He Is not in their employ, and Mr. Auerbach has repeatedly offered me the use of the grounds for advertising the New Orleans meeting and he wishes the Business Mens Racing Association a world of success. Please contradict any-rumors to the contrary." In addition to this telegram. Dominlck OMalley receved a wire from J. R. Thornby, stating that two carloads of horses had been shipped from Washington, D. C, headed by the gorxl stake horse, Robert Bradley, owned by W. R. Mizell. Fred Foster who at oue time owned the Brooklyn Handicap winner, Dr. Rice, has two horses In this shipment and arrived himself today to arrange for stalls. Ed Moore hasl written that he will be here the first of next week from Nashville. Joseph A. Murphy, who is to be presiding judge and manager of the racing end of the Business Mens Racing Association winter meeting, has arrived from his-home in St. Louis. Judge Murphy complete statement Iri regard to what he told horsemen and others while on his visit north in regard to betting here is as follows: "I impressed upon horsemen and all with whom T conversed in reference to the winter meetiiig here, that I was the hired man of the busfjiesri . men of New Orleans. I would just as soon thiiife"Qf trying to sell the St. Charles dlotel as any privilegfc whatever, without first consulting them. The. charge that I had rented any privilege for betting is as silly as it is false, and anyone who knows me will not entertain it. "Before I took the management, I spent two months studying conditions to determine whether a meeting could be successfully conducted without deriving any revenue from betting concessions on the grounds. I finally concluded It could be done, and with this policy once established, there will be no deviation from it." With over one hundred horses already on the grounds and a demand from Charleston for six hundred stalls, the problem of providing proper stabling accommodations for the visiting stables is a pressing one. "We must be prepared," said Manager Murphy "to take care of everybody that comes, and the problem is going to give us some sleepless nights. If Knight would come here and start another crusade, we probably would have to hire all the circus tents in the country to take care of the horses and people."
