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CHICAGOANS TO DERBY • Estimated Crowd of 20,000 on the Way to Louisville. • Social, Professional and Business Life of City Represented in Big Movement to the Downs. ♦ Shades of Washington Park and the immortal American Derby ! Alas both are gone. ;So now Chicago goes to Bouisville to pay homage to the thoroughbred .and sou the now I worlds famous Kentucky iVrby. That is to say that a crowd estimated at 20.000 of Chicagos citizens, representatives of its social, professional and business life, will be at historical Churchill Downs this afternoon, I when the bugle calls to the post those superb creatures of the thoroughbred world to strive for the rich prize and fame that goes to the winner of Americas most noted ! race. Several of the fifteen or so special trains .pulled out Thursday night and a few privat" [cars arid hundreds of nu tors left earlier in j the week, for a stop-over at French Lick. The Lfhmann brothers, Ernest. Otto, and I Kdward. and their wives, left in a private icar Wednesday night. Included in the number of Chicagoans I who have gone by automobile to be on hand for the famous race is this goodh slice of the social register : Mr. and Mrs. John 11. Drake, Sr.. Mr. and Mrs. John R Drake. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. lestcr Armour, Mr. and Mrs. James Minotto. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. John Black, and Mr. and Mm Bugeno Ford. ONVK TIOX OF PRIVATE CARS. It looked like a convention of private cars last night ever at the depots where trams left for Louisville. French Lick, or West Baden. The Monon had an especially busy evening getting off the Derby fans. There, wen- the Chicago Athletic Club, the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association Specials, Ian All American Club contingent and the Dor— y Crowe car leaving at s :30 p. m. At the same time the Kdgewater Beach Hotel train departed with two hundred passengers, including Judge and Mrs. John R. Caverly, former Judge and Mrs. Charles A. McDonald, and Chief Justice of the Criminal Court Jacob H. Hopkins. Half and hour later William Sinek, marshaling a band of Elks, started for the Downs. And another half hour later the Democraic C unty Committee special train got away. i Heres a few of those that were on the train: 1 Mr and Mrs. George Brennan. Mr. and Mrs. ! Martin J. OBrien, Michael L. Igoe. James I C. Denvir, Aid. Dennis A. Horan. Corporation Counsel Francis X. Busch. Judge Philip J. Finnegan. Judge John H. Lyle. Judge Timothy D. Hurley. Judge John J. Sullivan. J. Iewis Coath. City Clerk AI Gorman and Elmer J. Whitty. Thomas Curran, chairman of th« Appro* priations Committee and floor leader of the Illinois legislature, left on the Pennsylvania for Louisville to be a Derby gu -st of Thomas E. Bourke, general manager of the Illinois Jockey Club, and Robert M. Swe-itzer, president. The Illinois Athletic Club had two specials on the Pennsylvania. County Treasurer P. J. Carr and his secretary. Eddie McCabe. and Henry Sonnenschein. secretary to Anton J. Cermak, left on the Eddie McCabe special. Attorney William Scott Steward was on the "Sandy" Wolff train. "Joe" Coffey, fight promoter, had a private car. Al Bloom and "Billy" Skidmore headed a party that left over the Big Four. m
