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RENEW WORK AT H0MEW00D Illinois Jockey Club Plans to Rush Completion of Plant Delayed by Wintry Weather. Work on completion of the new Washington Park Race Course at Home wood, long de-laved by wintry weather, will begin in earnest Monday, said track superintendent Billy Myers, yesterday, as the Edward Hines Lumber Company began delivery of more than a million feet of timber to be used in construction of the clubhouse, paddock and stables. Only three of the seventeen stables have been completed. Myers is directing this work and* he promises delivery of the fourteen additional structures in seven weeks. Capacity of each barn is to be forty-eight 12x12 stalls, providing space for upward of 800 horses. In addition to this, some of the larger establishments will occupy private quarters, yet to be erected. Among these is the string of Alderman John J. Coughlin. who recently returned to racing on a big scale. According to judge C. W. Hay, presiding steward for the meeting which begins July :; for a period of SI days. 1.000 stalls will be insufficient to house the horses intended for a Homewood campaign. Steel for the grandstand, now l»eing fabricated by the American Bridge- Company, will not be delivered for thirty days, but the Chicago Heights Construction Company begins pouring of concrete- shortly in the excavations for the grandstand foundations and retaining wall.
