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BURKE AT HAVRE DE GRACE General Manager Assumes Charge of Preparations for Coming Meeting in Maryland. HAVRE DE GRACE. Md.. April 2— Edward Burke, general manager of the Havre de Grace race course, has arrived from New York and assumed charge of the preparations, started a fortnight ago by track superintendent James Ross for the spring racing of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association, which will take up the . last fortnight of April. Mr. Burke was accompanied by his brothers I Iarry and Stephen Burke, who are associ-! ated with him in the management of the Havre de Grace racing enterprise. The Hnrkes found a track in perfect condition, ready in fact for racing. The day before their arrival a three-year-old by Prince ! Palatine, just up from the South, ran three- eighths around the far turn and down the I stretch in 35. A year ago it was impossible , for any horse here to go three-eighths in 37. Mr. Burke found that track superintendent Los had assigned stalls to Harry Payne Whitney. Mrs. Payne Whitney, Richard T. Wilson. Walter J. Salmon, Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark. Mrs. Raymond T Baker. Mrs. Kath-erine Elkins Hitt, Albert C. Bostwick. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt II., J. Edwin Griffith. Mont fort and B. B. Jones. Edward Beale McLean. Walter M. Jeffords. Mrs. Walter 1 M. Jeffords. Thomas Clyde, Joshua S. Cos-j den. Spalding Lowe Jenkins, John Farrell. | Samuel D. Riddle, Thomas Phelan, Allie Loudon. Ral Parr, Samuel Ross. Commander J. K. L. Ross, James W. Bein, Admiral Cary T. Crayson. Edward F. Whitney. Thomas W. j i OBrien. Col. Maxwell Howard. William i , A. Read, Major Frank W. White, Lord Air- j lie, George W. Loft, Mrs. George W. Loft. Charles A. Mills. R. G. Renninger, Frank | i Taylor. Frank E. Brown, Patrick Joyce, Wil- j i liam Callagher and A. Barklie. James Rowe has written that he will bring two dozen horses from Brookdale Farm I and that these will be ready to go right out and win. The New Jersey winter was i mild. Rowe has had the EL P. Whitney thoroughbreds busy on the private training course at Brookdale Farm since February. The Riddle and Jeffords horses will be coming next week from Glen Riddle Farm in Worcester County, Md., Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks string from Phoenixville, Pa. The Xalapa Farm Stable of Edward F. Simms wintered at Havre de Grace under the eye of Roy Waldron. Recent arrivals frnm the South are the stables of J. Me-Millen, of Cleveland ; P. E. Fitzgerald, of Boston : E. J. Morrow, George Wessler and Kimball Patterson. . •
