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Belmont Park Undergoes Necessary Improvements Enclose Two Barns on Low Ground In Stable Area — Painters Busy NEW YORK, N. Y., April 13.— War-time restrictions have necessarily limited improvements and embellishments at Belmont Park this year, but you may rest assured that track superintendent Cornelius V. Boyle, a man who can stretch a dollar, or a pine board farther than the next man will have the beautiful Long Island course as resplendent as ever this year. Most pretentious of the work in progress is a new paint job on the grandstand overhang, but more interesting to horsemen is the work already achieved, or under way in the stable area. Two of the huge barns in the hollow have already been completely enclosed and in their dress of bright green paint make the neighboring establishments look a mite shabby. Another barn up on the hill has been similarly treated and Boyle plans to enclose the east, or rainward, side of a couple more. And several new boiler rooms have been erected, assuring hot water in the barns. There is also a project to improve the drainage from the hill, which will be appreciated by those with barns in the "hollow." Horses are arriving daily and the bigger establishments are ordering straw and feed, which is being delivered as available. Incidentally, some of the feed men are restricting their trade to old clients, and one of the leading merchants was reluctantly compelled to turn down the business of no less imposing a stable than that of William Helis. The vast grounds of the plant are already spic and span. For that matter. Boyle had them as new as a successful seven-horse parlay within 24 hours after the last race was run last fall.
