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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The time of race 29S27 at Laurel Friday was 1:42, instead of 1:42, as previously published. Frederick Johnsons two recently imported mares. French Essex and Fairy Ray, have arrived at Hal Price lieadleys Beaumont Farm. Reports from the Piping Rock Club on the condition of Ernest Heider, the steeplechase jockey who was so seriously hurt at the Locust Valley course Thursday, are encouraging. He has regained consciousness and the physicians are decidedly hopeful for his recovery. That action in some direction will be taken to curl the epidemic of new tracks which lias in recent years afflicted Montreal there seems little doubt. Good authority has it that measures will be taken by the Provincial Parliament next winter to place a heavy tax on the tracks, which is likely to result in some of the "shoestring" organizations closing their gates. Montreal Herald. Tin filly Supernal, which left the maiden class in the first race at Laurel Friday, is a daughter of Superman and Turf Star. Her dam will be remembered as the fast filly that "Bub" May raced in Canada, a few years ago, and whose unexpected defeat one day at Hamilton remained unexplained until the end of the season, when one of the "night-riders" captured by the Pinkertons at New York confessed that Turf Star had been one of the victims of his operations. Toronto Globe. W. A. Gorman, builder of the Morris Park racetrack, as well as the big Belmont Park course and various others of importance, is in Bellevue Hospital, New York, with both ankles broken. Mr. Gorman had been engaged to liiuld a course at Warrentou, Va., and it was while on a visit to New York from there that he was run down by a taxicab at Eighteenth Street and Fourth Avenue. He will be confined to the hospital for a month, according to the opinion of the surgeons who have his case in charge. P. J. Millett, well-known Kentucky breeder and railway contractor, died Thursday night in a hospital in Knoxville, Tenn. He had been in poor health for some time. About a year ago he submitted to an operation and for some time it looked as though he would recover, but the old malady returned, and a couple of weeks ago he left his Bourbon County home in Kentucky for Knoxville, never to return. He was born in September, 1S59, in County Galway, Ireland. His parents were poor and lie received but a meager education. At the age of sixteen lie came to America with an older sister. As a young man he early exhibited those qualities which marked his later career. He was industrious and sober, agressive and ambitious, strong in his likes and dislikes, but more apt to give evidence of his approval than his disapproval. He was always of a modest disposition and avoided ostentation. Before entering business as a contractor he was employed on the railroads as a section hand.
