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WONDERFUL DERBY CROWD Stream of Humanity to See Famous Race Expected to Reach 60000 LOUISVILLE Ky May 0 Crowds crowds and more crowds the stream of comers continuing in uninterrupted flow was the order beginning with daylight and never ending until tomorrow about time for the inaugural dash that marks the open ¬ ing of the Kentucky Jockey Clubs spring meeting featured by the fortyseventh running of the Ken ¬ tucky Derby which this year having 50000 added becomes the richest prize for threeyear olds in lha country countryThe The arrivals represented every section of this vast country and also included persons from across the Atlantic and Pacific Their coining here is to witness the farfamed Derby rich in tradition and honor for the victor and incidentally to ob ¬ serve the fashion and incidents that attend Derby day dayIn In tomoirows vast throng a crowd justifiably estimated at 00000 there will be millionaire la liorcr banker merchant politician ambassador minister general sportsman and every other person that goes to make up every form of profession in life For the time they will discard cares of profes ¬ sional worry and devote attention to the business on hand to do homage to King Horse and secure the utmost enjoyment out of their brief outing AAhile some will have in view the prospect of prof ¬ iting from an effort to pick the winner of the Derby most of those who will fill the spacious Churchill Downs will be present as true sports ¬ men as the Kentucky Derby has now readied the rank of chief racing fixture in this country countryNever Never before in the memory of the oldest dev ¬ otees of the turf those credited with having seen all the fortysix Derbys since its first deci ¬ sion can they recall a bigger crowd than that manifestly present on the eve of the Derby run ¬ ning and the continuous additions make it prac ¬ tically certain that a local record attendance will be on hand tomorrow tomorrowAVhat AVhat is causing most concern is how will the vast throng manage to get accommodations at least for one nights rest The hotels are filled to congestion and even the corridors are becoming densely crowded crowdedThe The millionaire in his private car has small con ¬ cern for worry as he can take care of his friends and himself in the car There will be at least ono hundred of these rolling private hotels parked in their yards yardsOthers Others have had sufficient foresight to charter Pullman cars that brought them on special trains and these will serve them for sleeping quarters until their return home The palatial boats plying up and down the Ohio Rover will also be used as temporary hotels but thousands will put in the night roaming the streets or seek shelter in private residences residencesThe The break of dawn will find goodly numbers trending their way to Churchill Downs some to witness the preliminary exercise of the racers ethers with a view to securing advantageous places and holding them for the day dayThe The plant is spick and span parklike in appear ¬ ance and artistic in its gardening effect Forty thousand plants have been scattered and twenty thousand geraniums have been set out directly in front clubhouseBright of the grandstand and clubhouse Bright skies and a fast track are promised for tomorrow and will add to thj enjoyment of the big crowd crowdAll All of the eastern jockeys with mounts in the Derby arrived today L Enspr who will pilot Star StarVoter Voter came frorn f ew Yorj wjjije F Kcogii F Coltiletti C Kummer and C Robinson came from Maryland MarylandJ J AV May was an arrival from New York this morning Ho has only one horse now Juno a wo yearold filly which wintered at Douglas Park and was recently sent to Jamaica He wilL return East tomorrow tomorrowJefferson Jefferson Livingston Avas1 among the arrivals from Chicago and lie will remain for several days beore going on to New York lie still retains an interest in racing and has not severed himself altogether from the turf though his breeding in ¬ terests are tlie HJOFP estensive
