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NEARLY TWO HUNDRED HORSES ON HAND. New Orleans. La.. December S. There are now 100 horses at the Fair Grounds truck and arrivals scheduled for later in the week will bring the total up to 200. Supplementing his recent telegram to Judge Joseph A. Murphy, Joseph McLennan, who is acting as associate judge at the Charleston meeting, and will also be an official here during the racing, has written explaining more fullv the lattltude of the horsemen who are racing at Charleston iu regard to the recent attempt of outside parties to injure the prospects of the meeting here. His letter, in part, was as follows: "No doubt you have my wire informiug you of the many applications I have received from the horsemen for stall room for their horses iu New Orleans. I can assure you that the stories of the proposed crusade against the carujng, meeting haver, lieen a great boost for the "meetlmr ahdfthe-horse-men were not backward in expressing their opinions regarding parties who would undertake lo harm a meeting to be held in New Orleans. And, as 1 said In my telegram, the affair has won us many additional owners. "Horses are arriving here dally, and for this reason I have not completed the stall list. Of course. I will do so in a few days but I thought it best to wire you as to thu probable number of stalls that will be required, so you could make tha necessary arrangements for stabling, and I hope that satisfactory arrangements will be made to this end. "The horses will start leaving here earlier th-in you might think. The horsemen who are at present in New Orleans have sent very encouraging reports iu letters to horsemen here. "When I distributed the program books for the first weeks racing in New Orleans, everybody appeared well pleased with the outlook." Bids for all concessions and privileges at the Fair Grounds track during the meeting of forty days or more, starting Jan. 1. are being advertised in the local newspapers. All bids must be submitted in writing by responsible parties by Dec. 10 in order to receive attention. Horsemen already here have been impressed with the earnestness and zeal with which the Business Mens Racing Association is carrying on the work of preparation, and all of them are feeling good over the outlook for a successful meeting. Word has been received from Kentucky that jockey McEwen will come down as contract jockey of the Bespess stable. AT J:- Goldsbotough, trainer for Andrew -Miller, will come here for the meeting.
