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PROGRESS AT HAWTHORNE Accommodations Will Soon Be Ready for 700 Horses Prepare Program. Judge Joseph A. Murphy has made all arrangements for the transportation of horses from Canada and elsewhere to Chicago and unless something unforeseen takes place the Illinois Jockey Club will have Hawthorne, looking like the days of old. Already the sprayers are applying the white antiseptic cold water paint on the interior of the barns and when this is finished the paint process on the outside will complete the job and that branch of the club grounds will be ready j for at least 700 horses. All the grass in the infield was cut last week and burnt up Sunday and all the surplus lumber was carted away by the people of the village, so the conditions at least look a hundred per cent better. The job was certainly a heart-breaker to commence with, but within the next ten days things will commence to shape up and the plant look more like a racing ground. The program of the meeting will come from the press this week and will be distributed at the various tracks by racing secretary Fred W. Gerhardy. Judge Joseph A. Murphy has full charge of the program and there need be no fear of a high-class card from day to day. Besides the regular card of five races the judge ?s arranging a special feature race daily. The features are being named after Peabody, Morris and Lehman, and the various hotels, namely, Congress, Lexington, Annex and Edgewater Beach. Great was the result of the first announcement of the membership drive and the list is certain to be filled long before the specified time.
