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FA1RM0UNT PARK ACTIVITY » Kecent Arrivals Almost Fill to Capacity Stable Accommodations. ♦ — Consignments From Various Points Continue to Ilcaeli Collinsville TracU, Which Opens Next Saturday. • ■ EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., May 24. —With the stables almost filled to capacity, Fairmount Park has taken on additional activities in preparation for the spring meeting, which opens Saturday and continues to include July 7. Recent arrivals include the stables of H. Cavanaugh, with eleven horses ; C. Irby, with twelve ; Col. Phil T. Chinn, with two ; Ed OConnell, with five ; Whitney Moore, with twelve, and John Whitlow, with fifteen, all of which were shipped from Lexington, Ky. A- Gainard, with six ; Emraett Estopinal, with two, and Elmer Hinlon, with six, ar-riyed this week from New Orleans. The advance guard of the Maryland contingent arrived last week. This included the E. K. Bryson stable, with twenty-one horses ; .the Judge stable, with three ; T. K. Fitzgerald, with five, and Sam Louis, with six. From Beulah Park. Columbus, Ohio, came the stables of Eddie Haughton. with two ; Vic Gallo, with six ; J. Miller, with two, and Mrs. G. W. Ogle, with six. C. C. Wrights stable of six horses arrived from the owners farm at McLeansboro, 111., and E. E. Watson arrived from Tijuana, with twelve head. Watson was very successful with his horses during the Tijuana meeting, winning twenty-two races and over 0,000 in purses. Joseph A. Murphy, who will serve as presiding steward, has spent the entire week here and has fully acquainted himself with owners and horses that will have part in the coming meeting. President Lyman T. Hay and General Manager C. Bruce Head have returned from Louisville, where they witnessed the running of the Kentucky Derby. Accompanying them were Brownell Berryman and Robert Shelly, who will assume their duties in the racing secretarys office. Pat C. Galliger and John Kissane, of the racing secretarys staff, have been at Fairmount Park for some time. The Waite patented stall starting gate is being erected in the quarter-mile chute and will be employed this week in the schooling of horses for the purpose of thoroughly testing its efficiency before being used in the starting of races. The new gate is being assembled under the personal direction of Mr. Waite, its inventor. ~* — •
