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RUSH WORK AT RIVERSIDE Expect to Have Grandstand Rebuilt in Time for Opening of Kansas City Meeting May 21 KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 17.— Barring unforeseen difficulties, the spring meeting of the Riverside Park Jockey Club will begin Saturday as scheduled. The new grandstand is rapidly taking form, and the contractors have promised that it will be ready in ample time for the opening day, May 21. Workmen have been engaged in three shifts of eight hours each in order that this will be accomplished. The new stand will have a seating capacity of 3,700, an increase of 1,300 over the old struc- ture, which was recently destroyed by fire. In addition to the increased seating capacity, many other improvements will be added. The betting ring will be enlarged and additional windows will be installed on the mezzanine floor. The ladies restroom and lounge is also being enlarge to twice its former size. The roof is going to extend twenty feet farther out and will completely cover the sixty boxes that are to extend across the front of the stand. The club house terrace, which also has been enlarged, has been resodded, and shrubs and trees have been planted. Jack Jarvis, inventor of the Waggoner-Jarvis starting gate, which will be used at J the meeting, arrived last week from : Texas, and immediately set up the gate in preparation for schooling. Jarvis will act as chief assistant to starter Arthur Mc-Knight. A special train, which left Tanforan Sunday, May 15, with about two hundred horses, 1 is expected to arrive here Wednesday.
