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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF The annual meeting of the Jockey Club will be held on January 10, 191S. There are about S50 horses stabled at both New-Orleans tracks, with more arriving nearly every day. Itoy Offutt has written friends in New Orleans that he expects to arrive there about January 1, to remain the rest of the winter. While the roof of the grandstand at Jefferson Park was being repaired, the ladies attending the races were allowed the use of the club house. A report from New Orleans says It. E. AVatkins, well-known turfman, arrived there Friday night suffering from pneumonia. His condition is said to be serious. Transportation facilities to the Jefferson Park track are improving daily. The street cars now run directly back of the grandstand. The Illinois Central has reduced the fare from 50 cents to 30 cents. Every train is bringing turfmen and racing devotees iu goodly numbers to New Orleans and the prospects are that the old Fair Grounds will be the seem? of the greatest winter meeting ever held in the Crescent City. It appears that the horsemen at New Orleans are reserving their good horses for the Business Mens Racing Association meeting, which begins on New Years day at the old Fair Grounds track, where no purse will 1e less than 600,
