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ENTERPRISING NEW ORLEANS Erection of Temporary Stand Already in Rapid Progress Big Force to Work Day and Night Weights for the New Years YearsHandicap Handicap Horses NKW OltLKAXS La December 29 A new grandstand and clubhouse will be completed in time and the annual winter racing meeting of the Busi ness Mens Kacing Association will open accordin to schedule at the Fair Grounds Wednesday afternoon New Years day dayHacked Hacked by the Xew Louisiana Toci niiv assurance that all financial aid necessa given the business Mens Kacing Assovjimui gave full authority to John T Pender its president and I H Kennyson Vicepresident and supervisor to go ahead with the construction of a new grandstand Louis X Lang contractor who is known in buildin circles as the man who built Anuistim over night in the contract his firm had for the Anniston can ¬ tonment was placed in charge of building the grand ¬ stand with Kmile Weil as architect architectBefore Before the ashes of the great grandstand which was burned to the ground early Saturday morning had grown cold lumber and other materials for the new grandstand was on its way to the Fair Grounds Karly Sunday morning a force of 123 123car car I enters was placed on the work and like the riib bniR of Alladins lamp the new grandstand will arise just a short distance below the wreck of the old one oneA A few hours after the fire the Kusiness Mens Kacing Association held a meeting to consider plans for the coming nioeting Simultaneously the Xe Louisiana Jinkey Club directors met At 3 oclock S5etnrlaj nf tersiotih a jnln iniv1Iii o i IA organizations was held A communication from the Jockey Club stated it stood ready and will give unto the Unsiness Mens ICacing Association the financial aid necessary to immediately provide a temporary grandstand The men at the meetinj were from the Business Mens Uacing Association John T Pender president I U Kennysou Vice president and sniwrvisor Uobert S Eddy assistant secretary August 15 Letellier John P Sullivan and John 1 Ileill attorneys for the association From the Xew Louisiana Jockey Club were A It Wheeler president Jus Italdwin Chapman H Hyams A I Wheeler Jr and W U Miltenberger MiltenbergerThe The burning of the grandstand furnished ne of the most spectacular fires in the history of Xew Orleans Fanned by a higliwind the flames leai eil 150 feet in the air and threatened the closely built up downtown section of the city Kxplosions the detonations of which were heard at great distances and which have mystified the police as to a pos ¬ sible incendiarv origin of the fire were intermixed with the terrific cracking and whining of huge steel girdles as they buckled under the intense heat Witli a mighty crash the superstructure of steel and reenforced concrete collapsed smashing through tin floor of the grandstand and down to the famous pilm garden beneath beneathBIG BIG FORCE NOW AT WORK WORKWhile While the large force of workmen were at work all day Sunday erecting the temi orary grandstand thousands of people looked on anil marvelled at tin rapidity at which the work was going on Huge girders were put up as if by magic and this was the hardest part of the work The nailing on of the boards for the remainder of the stand being com ¬ paratively easy Xo trouble was exi erienced in obtaining lumber and all day long big trucks were kept busy hauling if In an effort to speed up the temporary stand electric lights wen strung and the workmen labored through the night nightThen Then were plenty of men available for the work and all seemed eager to do their part to assist in getting the ircing plant in order for the opening on Wednesday The new grandstand which is to serve this winter will not be erected on the situ of the old one but instead it will be closer1 to the main entrance This will result in moving the finishing line onesixteenth of a mile down the homestretch and necessitate the removal of the Judges stand The stretch at the Fair Grounds is amply long and the change will IK beneficial in that it will give the horses a longer straightaway to the first turn in races at one mile or farther fartherTraining Training operations were not retarded in the least while the building was going on today as the track proner is being kept clear The course was in excellent condition and quite a few fast moves were noted notedWeight Weight for the Xew Years Handicap the fea ttre race of the opening day at the Fajr Grounds were announced by racing secretary Joe McLennan This nice will be at OIK mile and has 1 00 added The weights follow Horse Wt Horse Wt WtSlippery Slippery Kim llO Itasilius 10 10Manister Manister Toi IIS Douglass S 105 105Franklin Franklin 117 Dick Williams 10r 10rBondage Bondage lit Ticket 105 105Hank Hank ODay 1VJ Kunes 101 101Ultima Ultima Tlinle 110 Bolster 10 10Bribed Bribed Voter 110 Gipsy Queen 100 100Lucky Lucky B 109 Thorn Bloom 9l 9lCourtship Courtship 108 Irregular 9s 9sBlackie Blackie Daw 107 Grayson Waukeag 107 Cobalt Las 95 95Diversion Diversion 1015 Aimilette 90 90Barring Barring rain Jefferson Park may at last reach a fast condition for the conclusion of its nieetinr which winds up on Tuesday Tin course was better today than at any time since the beginning of the meeting 1 Talbott still heads the list of purse win ¬ ning owners at Jefferson with 5570 to his credit W C Weants horses took a new lease on life during the past week and moved him into second place lie having taken down 1110 in purse iiiony Others with 17041 or more to their credit ars Kncbelkaiup Ilowerton S1030 1 B Goodman 1 lot William Walker 1S70 V II Fizer J5170I W V Casey lrli W D Uernhardt SI and W L Drake 17iO Jockey Frank Itobinson has iiiifhed he riding honors for the meeting as he has riddeii twenty seven winners just one more than twice as many as his closest rival Albert Johnson JohnsonJ J ckey Lawrence Lyke will rule the remaining two days of the Jcf ferson Park meeting in an effort to regain the leadership of the American nice riders which he lost to IJobhispii by remaining idle for theiiast nioith lU the presenr tiiiie Kobinsbn has i lead of two wins over Lyke hut the hitter is confident that he Mill overcome this even in such a short time as two days Lyke rides five horses tomorrow
