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HEADING FOR NEW ORLEANS NEW YORK TURFMEN PREPARING TO GO SOUTH FOR WINTER MEETING. Several Stables of Prominent Horses arc Scheduled to Reach Crescent City Track Today Livo Stock Show Has Deficit. New Orleans, La., December G. Racing folk are beginning to book reservations here. Captain Duhane expects to leave New York for New Orleans on the twenty-seventh. Word from that city is that J. Wolfgang and party have reservations made for the twenty-sixth. John Moran has not yet decided whether he will leave the metropolis before or after the holidays. William Chapman and Joseph Murphy expect to be in the south in time for the opening day. There Avas a let-up in arrivals of horses today, but tomorrow will again witness a number of newcomers from the extensive band owned by C. K G Billings and Frederick Johnson, numbering nineteen, in charge of .trainer Charles T; Patterson The thirty horses, comprising those owned by C W. Moore, B. J. Branuon and C. T. Worthington which trainer W. Perkins is bringing from Lexington, are also enroute and due tomorrow. John Lowe telegraphed from San Mateo, Cal , that he has shipped the seventeen he has in charge owned by C. W. Clark, and they are also expected tomorrow. According to those well informed the National Live Stock Show, held under the auspices of the Business Mens Racing Association booked a deficit of about 0,000, but it is held that the money was well expended and that within three years the stock show will become a paying projiositioii. Manager I. B. Rennyson, despite his broken leg, departed this afternoon for Chicago, to look after some business affairs.
