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ACTIVITY AT ARLINGTON ♦ Arrival of C. J. Fitz Gerald Adds to List of Officials on Hand. • Horses Being Transferred from Washington Park to Next Scene of Chicago Racing — Train Schedule. 1 With only a few more days Intervening before the opening of Arlington Park, the usual scenes of activity in connection with the inauguration of another race meeting are much in evidence at the mammoth courje located on the Northwest Highway, near Arlington Heights, III. The arrival in Chicago Thursday of Christopher J. Fitz Gerald, widely known turfman and racing official, who will be one of the stewards at the Arlington meeting, added to the number of officials already on hand. Mr. Fitz Gerald is one of the most widely known sportsmen identified with racing in this country, and likewise well and favorably known in European turf circles. He is a former newspaper man and for a long • time was turf editor of the old New York Sun. He was ihe starter on the New York tracks for many years, and has been the representative of The Jockey Club in this country and abroad. It was he who arranged the match race with Papyrus, and was instrumental in bringing Epinard to this country for a series of match races with the American champions. The work of transferring the horses from Washington Park to Arlington started in real earnest yesterday, when quite a few thoroughbreds were vanned over to the new scene of racing activity. The horses stood the trip of about forty-eight miles in good condition and were unloaded without any unusual incident. Included in the number were six members of the Clyde Van Dusen stable ; eight belonging to the Pueblo Stable ; six the property of the Dearborn Stable ; three that are in charge of Bob Gilmore, and a like number in the stable of F. A. Tansor. Later it was reported that other horses from Washington Park had reached Arlington. These included the stable of Mose Low-enstein, embracing twenty-two horses ; George Brooks, with the Edward Cebrian stable of eleven horses, mostly two-year-olds and stake eligibles ; the La Brae Stable, in charge of trainer D. F. Cannon ; eight horses belonging to the Wild Rose Farm of Val Crane, and Jim Ownbey, with six. • The Chicago and Northwestern Railway has announced its train schedule for the Arlington Park meeting. Special trains will run to the track commencing Monday, making fast runs from the Madison Street terminal. The first train will leave the station not later than 12 :15 p. m., daylight time, and will make one stop at Jefferson. As many other trains as needed will run between that time and 1 :15 p. m., when the last special will leave. All trains but the first will make a non-stop run to Arlington Park. In addition to the special trains, the suburban trains operating between S :10 a. m., and 6:45 p. m., will stop at the race track. Returning, the trains will leave for Chicago immediately after the last race. Returning trains will stop only at Jefferson, with the exception of the last train, which will make stops at Jefferson, Fayfair, Irving Park and Clybourn.
