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BUILD COMMUNITY HOUSE Place of Recreation for Jockeys, Exercise Boys and Helpers Is Being- Erected. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 25. Extensive improvements at the Fair .Grounds for the comfort of horsemen, jockeys and thoroughbreds are Hearing completion. When the bugle sounds for the inaugural race January 1, lovers of the turf will gaze upon a practically now race course, which will compare favorably with many of the famous tracks in the United States. Crews of carpenters, painters, masons and landscape gardeners have bsen busy on the grounds for the past" two months transforming this historic racing center into attractiveness. These vast improvements have boen directed by 12. R. Bradley, prominent Kentucky breeder and horseman, who recently purchased a large block of stock in the Business Mens Racing Association, and John Dymond, Jr., president of the association. For the first time in the history of the New Orleans turf a community house is being erected, where exercise boys, jockeys and helpers may congregate after working hours and enjoy themselves. The building, which will be ready for occupancy within a short time, is located near the Idle Hour barn, opposite the grandstand, and has been built after the pattern of the popular community house at Latonia race track. An instructor will be in charge of the new educational resting place for these youngsters, who, heretofore, had nowhere to go on the grounds after their days work. Various forms of cnt?rtainment will be offered at the community house. Dances will be given at int?rvals, theatrical people will occupy the stage. A motion picture will be installed and negotiations are pending for the purchase of a radio. There will be current magazines and good books in the library room. The structure will be modernly equipped in every detail. Bids have been submitted for enclosing the grandstand and installing a steam heating plant for the comfort of patrons during inclement weather. Two new barns are being constructed, one for Mrs. Payne Whitney of New York, owner of the Greentree Stable, and the other for Sam N. Holman of Ohio. William Daniel of Chicago, owner of Master Charlie, also intends to have a new thirty-stall barn built at the Fair Grounds. Master Charlie will be trained here for the 5,000 New Orleans Handicap at one mile and one-, sixteenth, which will be run Saturday, February 7.
