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BOWIE PREPARING TO PUT ON AIRS Greatly Extended Grandstand One of Mary New Features to Be Provided Shortly PALT1MOUK Md April 13 Improvements in ¬ volving an expenditure of about 110000 will bo undertaken at Prince Ceorge Park Powie immedi ¬ ately after the finish of the current meeting The work will be superintended by general manager James F OHara Superintendent Uichard Pending will be Mr OHaras principal helper The grand ¬ stand which has been found to be wholly inade ¬ quate for the comfortable accommodation of the in ¬ creased and increasing Bowie attendance is to bo lengthened at both ends by a matter of llfi feet and made forty feet deeper The bleachers are to be extended beyond the tower end of the length ¬ ened grandstand down to a pwint abreast of the last eighth pole The present executive building is to be moved away on rollers anil converted into a trick kitchen and dining room On tin site from which the executive building will be removed a commodious clubhouse will bo built A new execu ¬ tive building will be constructed on the opposite side of the saddling shed which is to be mailr longer and deeper These improvements will havo been completed IK fore the beginning of the Novem ¬ ber meeting at Prince Coorge Park and in futiiro there will be comfortable shelter for considerably more than twice as many persons as have been taken care of through past meetings Kfforts are being made to improve the condition and texture of Bowie going right along but this must be doiu gradually The soil on which a race track lies cannot be tampered with with impunity impunityA A better train schedule will be arranged for tho accommodation of Washington and Baltimore patrons of Bowie racing by the iiiterurban electric line and an effort will be made to induce the Pennsylvania Uailroad to build the projected spur from tli Popes Creek division of the line at a point about one mile south of the town of Bowie into the track The building of this spur and the institution of steam railway service between Washington and Baltimore and Bowie will improve the tracks trans ¬ portation 150 per cent
