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. , , TAM0US TRACKS LOST TO THE TURF. Dwycr Brothers Old Race Cour.-,a Is Now Ecing Turned Into a Truck Garden. Elizabeth. N. J.. May :10. Doomed as part of the plan to meet tie- food production problem by niunici pal fanning, two famous race tracks have passed out of existence under plowshare and harrow, aad the turf once pounded by famous thoroughbreds in historic maker speed contests, will now lie allotted in plots and cultivated to yield a bountiful harvest of piuOs* I . The tracks are those which were spec ated at Linden, now surrounded by Standard Oil Company tanks, and the half mile stretch of the Dwyer Profilers, upou a portion of which stands the Rliaabeth almshouse. The Linden track, where Father Pill Daly was i conspicuous figure, together with many other famous patrons of the sport who have passed away, was plowed at the direction of the Standard Oil Company officials and a garden plot turned over to each employe who desired to raise vegetables, while the once famous Dwyer course will be cultvated tinder the direction of the food commission recently appointed by Mayor Mravlag to aid in the intensive farming project. Histories of unusual interest attached to the tracks have been revived through the plowing of the turf with recollections of how racing was killed on every track throughout New Jersey through the action of a disgruntled book in a ki r ruled off by the Dwyer P.rothers. Both Tracks Successful in 1830. Both tracks were being operated with unprecedented success in 1891, when such horses as Long-atnet Basapaet, Baaashary, Mttava ami hundreds of otlur star performers were piloted by jockeys "Snapper" Garrison. Fred Taral, John and Joe Lamley and Cash Sloan. Tod Sloan also riding at Linden as an apprentice. Among the famous figures at every Linden meeting were Colonel Kuiiert, who owned a string of winners: Sol Lichtenstein, who conducted the "big store" of the betting ring; "Pittsburgh Phil." Duke Thompson of Gloucester, N. J., fame; Phil Daley, who endeavored to convert Long Dranch to a Monte Carlo, and scores of those whose names will live forever in the annals of sport. Liu icn Appleby was track superintendent at Linden, and the home he occupied, close by the track. was turned into a school for the children of the township. There are still scores of residents, who believe that the ghost of Father Bill Daly still haunts the site of the track, and negroes, former stable boys, cannot be induced to go near the vicinity at night.
