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CROWDING AT NEW ORLEANS RAPID ARRIVALS OF STABLES HAVE TAXED THE AVAILABLE STALLS. Somo Shipments Belayed Until New Barns Are Completed Livingstons Horses on Hand Billings Band Duo Saturday. New Orleans, La., November 29. The numerous arrivals during the last few days have caused ii.i"c t.c"lf"S10" 111 tIle natter of placing the horses I he tair Grounds track has been literally swamped with the newcomers and stall space is rapidly reaching the limit. The work of building the new barns is going on in only a dilatory way. yet there will apparently be ample accommodations for all before the meeting starts. What is most needed at present to offset the impatient demands of horsemen is for some hustling overseer to get behind the work and keep the laborers going at a livelier pace. The extensive string owned by Jefferson Livingston has been among the newcomers since Sunday and G. AV. J. Bissells band got in this morning. - The valuable collection of English ami French racers that will represent C. K. G. Hillings and I redenck Johnson will land here Saturday and a new stable is in course of erection for their use. The fourteen horses that will be brought here hv trainer Jerry Carroll for W. It. Coe are due from Belmont Park next week. A new bam will have to be built for their accommodation. The applications for stall space has now gone over the 800 mark. About seventv-five horses will have to delay arrival, for at least ten davs until adequate accommodations for them can be completed.. Joseph A. Murphy, Joseph McLennan and other officials, now at Howie, who will have supervision of the sport again here this season, are expected here early next week. The Maryland contingent or horsemen, horses and turf followers are due to arrive in a big body next Saturday anil the turf colony will find steady additions thereafter until the opening. I. H. Rennison is progressing favorably, but is still confined to his bed at the Hotel Dieu.
