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NOT A SUCCESS FINANCIALLY Dcngan Hills Meeting Run at a Loss Although Attendance Was Good. By Ed Cole. Saratoga, X. Y., August 9. After paying all exiiensos, the Dongan Hills meeting on Staten Island was not a success financially, though the sport was appreciated, judging from the attendance. It cost the management nearly ,000 a day to experiment, but those in command were not discouraged with the result, anticipating a larger deficit. James W. Cof froth, president of the Lower California Jockey Club, has been congratulated on all sides by horsemen and followers at Saratoga, for his liberal offering in stakes and purses for the long winter meeting which will begin 0:1 Thanksgiving Day. President Coffroth was so besieged with a re-quset for stall reservations, that Ik; wired yesterday for the construction of four hundred more. This brings the number of stalls up to 1,437. Walter B. Jennings, trainer for A. K. Macomber. greeted Coffroth most warmly and told him that lie felt proud as a Californian, that the Western plant should make such a grand showing in the matter of stakes and purses. Jennings promised to go west and, although he was not sure that Macomber would be represented at a winter meeting, lie thought that the wealthy Californian would join in the Western revival. E. R. Bradley, "Mose" Goldblatt, Dave Leary and many other horsemen have practically decided to take their horses west. Coffroth too, received the assurance of many big bookmakers, who have been wintering at New Orleans in the past, that they would be on the block when the opening bell rang. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stokes are spending the season here. "I am just wasting a bank roll," said the once proud owner of the horse Banker, "and it looks as if it will melt out of recognition if I dont pick out a few winners." Before the fifth race, Billy Porter intimated to his friends that Brooklyn had been canned and sealed up up for the race. "Hes 3 to 1 in the clubhouse," one of the sports suggested. "Hell not be 3 to 1 after I have made the rounds," was the reply of Porter and off he went on the run to put the bee on the odds layers. "I wish somebody had tripped me as I jumped over the geranium bed" said Porter after the race.
