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TWENTYFOUR MORE DAYS — « Havanas Most Successful Meeting Is on Its Last Lap. ♦— — — All Previous Attendance Records Broken on Independence Day — F. J. Bruen Popular. HAVANA. Culm. March 1- With lint twenty-fi.ur more days ti run the pnml meeting at Oriental Park cjiii ! • said to be on its hist lap. The sort-on h:is proved highly mii-i -essf ill. mid , . a-ily the uiosi brilliant in tin Meter? of the track, Instead df waning aa the end approaches. the interest appears te be increasing, if the at- : ml. nice figure- can hC accepted :|s any cli tcrioil. The nraaaa is just now .it its pinnacle and Caha never before entertained aa many visitors :is at iucm-iii. The visit of the strangers is 1|t e*an- Ii ictc without aa nfUiaana at the race track. where tliey admire tile l e:ilities of the place :md witness aaaae goad raciag. The ciaaa el tourists arriving now tempt I at a the wealthier kind, and lliese are making their presence ft It every where. Among the recent arrivals were Judge J. 1. Monck ind H. .1. McAllister, formerly identified with the Hamilton Canada 1. race track; .lames Batter, , owner of Empire city race track: ladge Morgan .1. OBrien and family from New York, and Mr. L. ]•:. l.a tiuardia. ncesident of the New York bearrf ef aldermeii. The growing popularity of raciag in Caha was [ strongly imiihaiilarii last Tuesday, %v n i ■ 1 1 araa Gnbua Independence Day. a national holiday. On that day the course contained the greatest throng in its history. The amount of money handled in the mu toeta on that day also established a new mark. The fourteen hookmakprs in line also did a thriving business aad undoubtedly handled more money than 1 hit before. The appointment of Praak .T. Braea as general manager in saceeoelna la 11. l . Braara has prated to be immensely popular with aaneueea and race* gotia alike. Btata has many friend- in Caha. where he ha- been a— oeiated with Mr. Brown -nice the time the latter conceived the idea of building a race track aa the i-land. Braea has had a lot of experience, much of which he named when associated with John llachmei-tei al 1 I.atonia and Douglas Park. Mr. Charle- A. St neliain. owner of the Oiants. and a large -m kindlier in Orienlal Park, lias ju-t relumed from the Catted Stale-, and he will probata! remain here until the close of the - a-di. March 58. ladge Will Shelley, who i- actiag as presiding Jndge here, and who is also secretary on all of the Kentucky track*, has already stalled to eutliae the . iliffereat event- thai he will frame for the apriag : i- n- program. lie pronii-e- Kentucky raccgoera -ome of the be-i raciag they hare ever witness eii. lie and Ed Jasper haTe been actively eagaged in 1 soliciting entries for ihe Kentucky stake*, which closed today, ami they have been eminently aacccaa lid for these -lake-, hariag received more naaninn-lion- from hor-emen racial in Cuba than in any previou- pear.
