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Suit Against Seashore Track CAMDEN, N. J., May 1. — A suit for 1,454 against the Atlantic City Racing Association, president John B. Kelly and McCloskey and Co., of Philadelphia, was instituted by W. H. Hoffman, Inc., Newark contractors, here yesterday in U. S. District Court. No date was set for the hearing. The plaintiff is seeking money allegedly due on an agreement to expedite steel construction on the stands and a 100-foot steel tower atop the clubhouse in order to have the track ready for its scheduled opening on July 22 last year. The petition states that the racing association agreed to pay the cost of speeding the work and that the contracting firm was forced to hire additional labor and increase its work-weeks from 40 to 54 hours and more.
