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MORE ABOUT PROPOSED NEW TRACK. Racing Would Be Held During November and December — No Conflict with Fair Grounds. Plans for the establishment of another race track here were launched Monday, when stock subscrip tions to a corporation to be known as the ••Jefferson fair Association. Incorporated," were opened in New Orleans. Arrangements were completed Monday for the purchase of the tract of land which will be tin-site of the new fair and track. It will be located at Shrewsbury. La., a suburb just across the Jefferson parish line. Leo A. Matters, real estate man of Jefferson parish and son of sheriff Marrero. was the agent in the purchase of the tract at Shrewsbury, and Mr. Marrero will be one of the chief figures in the organization of the Jefferson Fair Association. Incorporated. Associated with him will be Anthony Bosprleh of MeDonoghville and other prominent citizens of Jefferson parish. At present, the purpose of the Jefferson Fair Association, Incorporated, embraces the upbuilding of the Jefferson Live Stock and Agricultural Fair. The new corporation, when organized, will begin wsrt on a big fair for this fall. This fair, Mr. Marrero and his associates say. will fit in with the National Live Stock and Farm Show, which is the annual event fathered by the Business Mens Racing Association at New Orleans. Capital stock of the company wil be 25,000. Shares are offered at 828 each, twenty per cent to be paid when the charter for the proposed corporation is signed. Flans for the organization of the corporation are expected to proceed rapidly, and in a few days the promoters will establish headquarters and elect a board of directors. Meetings Would Not Conflict. Upward! of 5,000 worth of stock already has been contracted for. according to the report. When all details for the fair end of the new-project are completed, the promoters will discuss the operation of a racing meeting. Such a racing meeting, according to the plans, would open Noveni ber M, and run until January 1. when the Business Mens Racing Associations season starts. The Business Mens Kacing Association cannot race prior to January 1 under its agreement with H. D. Cartes Brews, which agreement was part of the racing war compromise in which the Business Mens Kacing Association took City Park track off Browns hands. On account of Mardi Gras coming so early in 191S. the racing season of the Business Mens Pacing Association at the Fair Grounds will be considerably shorter than it was this year. The promoters say that as the season which just closed was about as brief a one a« horsemen care to ship so far south for. the establishment of another track to link dates with the Business Mens Kacing Association will prove an inducement to the big horsemen to come In re for w int r racing. Organization of such a corporation as the Jefferson Fair Association. Incorporated, and the operation of the racing meeting proposed, would give New Orleans a winter turf season in 1917-1S extending from Thanksgiving Day to Mardi Gras. This would mean about sevenry-two days of racing. Application for a charter for the Jefferson Fair Association. Incorporated, is expected to be made within a day or two. New Orleans Times-Picayune.
