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— ■ — — — :S ! I • , , ; . [ AURORA OUTLOOK BRIGHTER i ■ ■ ♦ Conflicting Interests Brought To- ! gether; Adjustment Probable. • Over 1,200 Applications Already Received for Stalls at Hawthorne — Improvements ow Under Way. ♦ Peace reigns supreme at Aurora. At least the present outlook is exceedingly bright for harmony in the Fox River valley and instead of threatened court action to prevent the holding of a. spring meeting, the chances : are that all factions will get together and the beautiful mile course will ba the scene of some excellent racing in June. Judge Joseph A. Murphy, who is the presiding steward at Beulah Park, Columbus, Ohio, arrived in Chicago Sunday for two appointments — one with John P. Sullivan of the Louisiana Jockey Club of New Orleans, the i other with representatives of the conflicting interests in the Aurora controversy. The Aurora situation never was bad from a racing standpoint and from present indications i the threatening storm is fast clearing up. Mr. Clifford Trimble went to Columbus "Wednesday night to see Judge Murphy and, with the co-operation of the officials of the : Chicago Business Mens Racing Association in Chicago, the attorneys for the two factions have been brought together and an adjustment of the pending affairs will be made to the satisfaction of all concerned. The representatives of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association at all the various tracks where racing is being held at the present time, report that the greatest of interest is being shown in this years Hawthorne meeting by the horsemen who antici- I pate shipping here and there is not a question that as soon as the book of the first fifteen days racing is announced and ready for distribution, there will be a decided influx from all the horsemen who have already sent in their stable reservations and are awaiting approval. While in Chicago Judge Murphy will pass upon the various applications and those acceptable will receive communications stating that they will be allowed to ship after June 1. At the present time there are over 1,200 applications and it is estimated on the opening day about that number of horses will be Continued on sixteenth pace. AURORA OUTLOOK BRIGHTER Continued from first pace. quartered at Hawthorne. At the present time there are over 900 stalls by actual count and with the added facilities, this will run the number up to that required. H. S. Message and Son, of the Maplehurst Nursery, Antioch, Illinois, have installed 25 beds of shrubbery in the infield of bridal wreath, lilac, dogwood and honeysuckle, besides 100 twenty-foot beds of perennial plants that will be in full bloom during the summer months. The paddock and the clubhouse lawns will have been put in park shape and flower beds galore will adorn the premises. Byron W. Everltt, auditor, is arranging with General Manager B. Collett of the Chicago and AVest Towns Railway Company, of Oak Park, about the installation of welded steel rails along Fifty-second Avenue, and the paving of the street between the car tracks, and negotiations with several well-known contractors have been made about the complete paving from sidewalk to sidewalk, also the thoroughfare, and to cement Ogden Avenue to the end of the track. This deal will practically be closed the coming week and operations will be started immediately, and the township of Cicero is straightening out Ogden Avenue at Forty-eighth Avenue, taking out the jog under tin viaduct and making it a straight thoroughfare.
