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. I I NEW ORLEANS RACING WELL BACKED. New Orleans. La.. October 20. — To correct a false impression, through the medium of telegraphic reports sent out of New Orleans. Thomas C. Campbell, steward, and Joseph W. Murphy, presiding judge, announce that the New OrL-ans Business Mens Racing Association, backed by the friendly spirit of the business interests of this city, will conduct the Fair Grounds meeting similarly in every way to the manner in which the races were run here last winter. At the outset four hundred business men. who are the sole subscribers to the stock of the association, laid careful plans for strict observance of every safeguard, which the laws of Louisiana throw around the running of the thorough-; bred. The names and reputation of the merchants backing the enterprise were staked as guarantee-; that the races would be run within the Locke law and it is pointed out that no better vindication of the public confidence in the intesrity of these gen-■ tlemen could lie had than the clean slate which the association showed after its forty days of racing last winter. J. W. Fuller. Jamos Arthur and Wayne .Toplin have tiled application for stable room. Walt?r Block is here to take charge of the stall room, .ludne Murphy leaves the middle of the week for the north to make a swing of the racing circuit. The outlook ju-t now is for a meeting that will outstrip the best of the meetings of the olden days.
