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I REFURBISHING FAIRMOUNT Collinsville Track Being Made Ready for Opening of Spring Meeting May 26. COLLIXSYILLE, 111., May 3.— Fairmount Park is being refurbished for the opening of the spring meeting. May 26. A score or more of artisans are busily engaged in the dressing up of the well-appointed plant. Painters are touching up the general colors of white and green of the buildings and workmen, under the direction of an experienced floriculturist, are planting the many flower beds and trimming the flowering shrubs. The course, always beautiful, promises to be more so this year than ever before. Under the direction of general manager C. Bruce Head, a number of very substantial improvements have been made in the plant. The grandstand and stairways have been widened to permit of greater convenience in passing to and from the grandstand seats. An additional stairway of generous width has been constructed in the club house and several additional boxes have been added to those originally installed. The timers stand and the probable odds boards have been moved back from the original positions to provide better view of the information bulletined thereon from the club house and paddock. Starter William Snyder, with the assistance of assistant starters Hennessy and Du-sack. started schooling horses at the barrier Monday morning. This work will be continued under Snyders personal supervision, that he may become thoroughly acquainted with the disposition and character of every possible starter in advance of the opening race of the spring meeting. His records of schooling performances, it was stated, will bo considered in connection with the acceptance of entries during the meeting. Yesterdays arrivals at Fairmount Park included a shipment from New Orleans. In the shipment were the horses Phil Foto and Ki Yi, belonging to M. Estopinal : the two-year-old fillies, Tolly Timber and Sporting Blues, owned by Mrs J. L. Brannon, both of which are nominated in the ,000 Illinois Stakes : Step Along and Phil McCann and three others belonging to J..H. OMalley, and four horses belonging to Joseph Kellar. A
