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NEW TURN IN NEW ORLEANS FUSS. New Orleans, La., October 17. The introduction of an ordinance before the council, prohibiting horse racing in New Orleans, except during the time between January 1 and Mardi Gras Day, and II. I. "Curley" Browns announcement that he would conduct racing here this winter, if any one else did, were the features in the local racing situation today. Mayor Behrman had the ordinance drawn up and, after it was read at the council session, it was laid on the table, where it will rest a week before the final adoption next week. The introduction of the ordinance was the first official act of the coadministration to show its hand in the racing controversy. The mayor has been amply advised as to the legal status of such an ordinance and, before deciding to introduce it, had several conferences with the members of the council and his legal advisers. Mayor Behrman again reiterated his statement of yesterday that lie would favor the local people. He said that he was trying to be neutral between the Brown interests and the Business Mens Racing Association, but that if it came to the point where lie would have to decide in favor of one or the other, naturally, he would favor home men. The ordinance means that the race meeting here during 1917 will last only forty-four days as Mardi Gras is February 20. In 191S Mardi Gras will be on February 12, which will make the meeting even shorter. II. D. Brown announced later in the afternoon that he might accept the offer of 95,000 of the Business Mens Racing Association to buy the City Park race track. This would end the squable. Mr. Brown says that lie will leave the matter of the sale in the hands of his representatives, whom he refused to name.
