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. ■ NEW ROCKINGHAM PARK STAND Tearing Down the Old Grandstand Started This Week. Designer of Suffolk Downs and Narragansett Park Draws Plans for New Stand at Salem. SALEM, N. H., April 27— The work of tearing down the old grandstand at Rockingham Park, a landmark in New Hampshire for years, "was started this week, and a glittering, new track will greet the racing fans when Rockingham opens on July 24 for its summer meeting. All the old woodwork is being ripped away, to be replaced with new material, and the deck of the grandstand will be raised to afford better visibility for the patrons. Two broad staircases will lead from the grandstand lawn into the stands, and broad ramps will run from the upper reaches of the grandstand to the new mezzanine floor, which will be constructed. From the mezzanine, stairways will also lead to the back of the grandstand and the nearby paddock, so that Rockingham will be the most compact and convenient track in the east. The old wire fence, which crowded the cashiers windows in back of the grandstand, will be moved back some 300 feet, so that there will be access not only to. the pay-off stations, but to the mezzanine as well. It is estimated that the work will cost some §200,000 when it is completed, a week before the opening, and "provide employment to more than 200 men. ROCKINGHAM PARK PLANS. Plans for the new Rockingham Park have been drawn by Mark Linenthal, noted Boston architect, -who designed both Suffolk Downs and Narragansett Park, and they include every new refinement such as fireproof floors and a glassed-in grandstand and turnstiles at the grandstand gates, in which patrons will drop their half-dollars. The reaction to the announcement that admission prices will be 50 cents for the grandstand and one dollar for the club house, has been received with unanimous approval by the public, and it is believed that the popular little New Hampshire track will have the greatest season in its history. Applications for stall space for more than 1,200 horses have already been received by racing secretary John P. Turner, despite the fact that the summer meeting is some twelve weeks away, , and many of the greatest stables in the east will gather here for .the dedication of- the new Rockingham. Because - of the tremendous demand for stall space, Turner is expected to make a flying visit here next week in order to allot the stalls and arrange the stake events. - ;
