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BEAUTIFUL ORIENTAL PARK Havanas Winter Racing Paradise One of the Show Places of the Cuban Capital. HAVANA, Cuba, October 20. Track superintendent Brosius is busy at Oriental Park arranging for the big influx of horsemen expected here from the States within the next week or two. He has had a force of men at work all summer resoiling the track, building a training track, grading the roads about the stables and covering them with cinders and renovating the plant generally. Oriental Park is all that its name implies. It is one of the show places of Havana. The broad avenues and drives, the beautiful and stately palms, the tropical foliage and many attractive flower beds make it one of the finest and most beautiful racing grounds in the world. General manager Frank J. Brueu is most enthusiastic over the prospects of the coming season. Many prominent horsemen from both the East and Kentucky have promised to either attend the meeting in person or send down some of their thoroughbreds. Last winter the eastern delegation included representatives from the Harry Payne Whitney Stable, W. R. Coe, n. K. Knapp and Charles Stone-ham. This year there will be many others from the metropolitan section. The fact that the passports have been abolished will mean much for the meeting. It will permit winter tourists at Palm Beach and othefr Florida resorts to run across to Cuba without being subjected to all of the red tape necessary to obtain a passport. The arrangements at Key West have also been improved and instead of remaining there all day one can leave on the boat from Key West at 10 a. m. and arrive at Havana at 4:50 p. m. This means a saving of fourteen hours. . There will, as usual, : be two boats in operation during the -whiter, the Governor Cobb and the Cuba. The club house at Oriental Park, which was completed last "winter, is now surrounded by beautiful flower beds, which were laid out by an expert lands-capo gardener who was brought down from the States for this particular purpose. The new training track takes in the road at the extreme rear of the stables and the one running parallel with the outside fence of the track proper. It is so constructed that it will be available in all sorts or weather. Those who are folid of aquatic sports and exercise will be pleased to learn that individual bath houses will be available at the Plaza arid that tlie large bath house will also lie kept open. The individual bath houses are similar to those in use at Deauville, the famous French bathing resort.
