The evening world., 1888-07-26
THE TRACK OF THE FUTURE.
A SPORTING MANS DREAM AFTER VISITS
~ TIE RACE TRACKS OF TO-DAY.
Thing. for which the Followers OF the Turf
May Lock in the Years Of the Race
Coarse NInirnninn-Ne CrowdIra In Beat
and Train. No Delay over the start, No
Kicking at the Finish.

Come on, BILL
"All right. old man."
"Well, l say you've no time to lose. We
have only twenty-three minutes to get there.
IL we want to see the first race"
A seven minutes trip brought the brothers
from the fashionable neighborhood of Ono
Hundred and Sixty-eighth street and Second
avenue to the foot Of West Twenty-third
street. They alighted and entered a big
building wi h q huge crowd.
The boat they got upon lay broodside to
the wharf. md the crowd embarked and dis
embarked with no confusion nor damage to
temper, clothing or morals.
A short journey by the noiseless, electric
ally propelled vessel, and the wharf where
the race trains are drawn up is reached.
As the boat comes to the dock at nearly
full speed two long padded timber arms shoot
alongside. Then that side of the propeller
drops neatly to the landing, and the pnssen.
gers walk over 1t Ieisurely to the trains.
which dash off for the course the moment the
seating capacity is exhausted.
No long alley as at Monmouth to swelter
through. no big hill to climb rs at Jerome.
no standing in long lines to get tickets as at
Sheet shead.
A nalf dozen wlue entrances, win no
coupon NONSENSE. admits the great ga herring
quickly and easily. and there is only ten
minutes lie ore the first race.
Instead Of q closed pavilion Of betting
stands. a huge semicirc'e meets the eye in q
big square. Every bookmaker has q newly
patented arrangement by which the horses
and the odds can be seen ten feet away.
The mutuel pool boxes are models of neat
ness and despatch.
The auction pool stand has the pools
hniaiad mn on n hip hoard us faaf m fhau ara
sold.
People wonder how their fathers ever had
the patience to listen to Herdic and Rum
nell selling pools in the olden time.
Visitors don't even have TO leave their seats
to see the odds. Every bookmaker in in
terested in q scheme by which q photograph
Of every " slate " is thrown on q big board
before every grand-stsnd spectators eyes;
dozens of bcokmakers' assistants are going
about in the crowd. eager to take bets at the
odds their employers have displayed on the
big board.
the post. There are thirty-six three-vear-
olds in the start, and this il the first of ten
races. every field of which is larger yet.
How can 80 many run and how can the
horses be told apart2
Easily. The track is very wide and well
raised ut the turns. Every owner has o COL
ored cut of his stables Jacket, sash and cap,
and he always has to run his horses in the
colors he has declared. A hundred horses
can run as we'll as two, If the track is wide
enough.
The race is q mile and O half.
The start is in a chute, but az open as the
day. not the clumsy o d chute Of jerome, or
the worse one at Sheepshead, or that barbarity
The chute at this course is Just about the
place the one ut Monmouth would be il
placed half way between the three. quarter
mile course and the seven eighths of mile
chute there.
How lare everything looks of q sudden ~
broke in the old man. Where are the judges
and the timers stands"
They have been hoisted forty feet in the
fere with anybody's pleasure when the horses
are in the homestretch."
What on earth is the use Of all those
clock diais 2"
It is an Australian. invention, and each one
Of these dials will indicate the quarter as it is
| run
They are of. Like lightning the mettls-
some three-year-olds came on the long
straight. They have made the turn. They
| are running to the head of the homestretch.
THAT red and white 10 leading we'll, " cried
the ancient sport wildly. He is coming
back to them now"
| The battle in the straight is terrific.
Revolution wins, :" say the judges.
"Why, it can't be-" said the old-time
| plunger. II saw that Boston horses nose in
front myself. Why don't the people kick ?
l got beaten out of a race myself In '88 that
way, when the judges said Tristan beat Tea
| Tray"
That's right. Kick old boy" SAID o flip
pant youth, and the hoary head with the
brothers entered O protest.
In an instant q big picture hung in the air
before the eyes of the assembled thousands.
It was an instantaneous photograph of the
finish, and the judges had proven their case.