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ACCEPTS JOCKEY CLUB GIFT Governor Morrow of Kentucky Praises Racing in Accepting Building at Fair. LOUISVILLE, Ky., September IS. Governor Edwin P. Morrow has formally accepted the old Kentucky House at the State Fair which was built with a donation of 325,000 made by the Kentucky Jockey Club and presented to the state. The building is a log affair and symbolizes the home of the early settlers in the blue grass state. It is furnished throughout like the homes of a century ago, and is one of the most interesting exhibits of the fair. Arthur B. Krock, editor of the Louisville Times, made the presentation speech. He took time to pay tribute to the patriotism Of the Kentucky Jockey Club in building the old Kentucky House and gave credit where credit was due. "This building is the gift of the Kentucky Jockey Club," he said, in part, "an institution which fosters that which was dear to the hearts of Kentuckys early settlers, the thoroughbred horse. In the name of Kentuckys noble past and in the hope of a worthy future I am requested by the management of the State Fair and the Kentucky Jockey Club to offer the Kentucky House with its lares and penates to the states chief officer, himself a descendant of the pioneers, the governor of Kentucky." Governor Morrow, who is a staunch friend of racing, expressed the gratitude of the state for the old Kentucky House in an eloquest address.
