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ARRANGE TRANSPORTATION Illinois Central to Run 3 Special Trains Daily to Hawthorne -More Horses on Way. The officials of the Illinois Jockey Club , held a conference with J. V. Lanigan, general passenger agent of the Illinois Central Railroad, and arrangements were made for three special trains a day to the Hawthorne track ;with extra trains for Saturday, September 30, the opening day. A twenty-minute service to the track is promised. The first race will be ; run at 2:30 p. m., and everybody will be back in the city by 5:30. A big force of men will start Monday putting the terminals at the track in condition. The old landing shed ! will be overhauled and painted. Joseph A. Murphy yesterday wired to E. R. Bradley at Lexington, asking him to take up with Charles Berryman, president of the Thoroughbred Horsemens Association, the matter of appointing a committee of horsemen to arrange a shipment of horses from Lexington. Judge Murphy suggested that all the prominent stables select a few horses ready to race and ship them, so that Chieago-ans might see the colors of the prominent Western stables in action. A wire was received from W. B. Burke, who will act as paddock judge, that a carload of horses, the property of William Cain and E. L. Fitzgerald, had been shipped from Toronto. Willis Sharpe Kilmer yesterday wired Joseph A. Murphy that if the Illinois Jockey Club could make arrangements for a car from Toronto he would ship Exterminator at once. The matter was taken up at once with the local railroad people and a steel express car was promised today. The great horse will probably be shipped over the Grand Trunk to Chicago and the local Illinois Central officials will take the car up and run it to the unloading platform at the grounds.
