The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-10-13
Four Tracks Will Provide
Thoroughbred Sport
Throughout the
Winter.
WEDNESDAY THE OPENING DAY.
The Dryers New Track at North
Standardization, Gutten-
berg, and South
Elizabeth.

After an interval of exactly six months
the bang-tail thoroughbreds and their
followers will again invade the State Of
New Jersey, an army strong, on Wednes-
day next.
On that day on the new track at North
Elizabeth the New Jersey Jockey Club
will begin an inaugural meeting, and the
second season of the Passaic County
Agricultural Society will be begun at
Clifton, between Passaic and Paterson,
on the same day.
From the fact of the two associations
racing on the same day it would natur-
ally seem that the sport in New Jersey
during past winters had proved extremely
profitable. And so it has. The history
of the success of racing in New Jersey
has already formed an important chapter
in turf annuls.
HOW THE START WAS MADE.
1t was in the winter of 1885, when bet
ting troubles had marred the sport in
New York State, and, in fact, caused
a sudden stoppage of racing at Brighton
Beach, the Mecca of working horsemen,
That Mr.. ). e. Carr, well-known public
man in Hoboken, conceived the idea of
holding meeting on the North HUDSON
Driving Park at Hoboken. The would-be
purists of the turf shook their heads and
declared such action would be unsports-
manlike and inimical to turf interests,
but Mr. Carr enlisted the services of the
assistant secretary at Brighton Beach,
and together they founded the winter
racing which has now developed to such
an extent that there are no less than four
regular race tracks ready to begin, two of
which have been newly constructed this
summer.
When some of the purists saw how sue
cessfully the young racing State was
governing its affairs they FASTENED to
secure an interest in the modern Ell
Dorado, and so it was that many men
who sneered at winter racing on half-mile
tracks in 1885 were last season found
among its most ardent supporters.
1t did not take Mr.. Engeman long,
either, to realize the advantages to accrue
from the possession of New Jersey
track; hence the purchase of the property
he now holds and has equipped lat
Clifton.
THE ELIZABETH TRACKS.
Meanwhile the Dwyer Brothers, from
owning and racing some of the most fam
Gus horses that ever looked through
American brides, began to turn their at
tention to racecourses, and secured one
in Kings county, New York Last winter
they directed their eyes Jerseyward and
the result is, with the cooperation of Mr..
F. I. Kelley, of Elizabeth, the projected
opening OF their new track on Wednes-
day next at North Elizabeth.
There were also others attracted, The
Linden Park Association has built new
track at South Elizabeth, which will be-
gin its inaugural meeting Wednesday,
October 2S. Captain William M. Conner,
the veteran turfman, the man who
started at Saratoga the first hundred
hald in, ic inf
ested. So is Mr.. J. E. Kelly, the veteran
member OF the firm of Kelly s. Bliss,
which held such enormous stakes during
the disputed Presidential election which
resulted in the counting in of Rutherford
B. Hayes. In fact, he is the third largest
stockholder. And a number of well
known men are also Interested
HOW IT WILL BE DONE.
The plan of these four racing associa-
tions is as follows:-At North Elizabeth
the meeting begins on Wednesday, con-
tinuing daily until Tuesday, October %.
The scene will then shift to South Eliza
beth for six days, ending Tuesday, Octo-
Der 20; back to North Elizabeth, until
Tuesday, November 5, then again to Lin
den, South Elizabeth, until Tuesday,
November H. There will also be two
more days at each place, and ON Satur-
day, November 16, the North Hudson
Driving Park will open its newly con-
structed mile track at Gutenberg, racing
every Thursday and Saturday through
out the winter, If weather permits, until
April Is, the Clifton management alter
mating on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays.
This is the arrangement arrived at be-
tween three of the associations, Clifton
not being represented at the conference.
President Engeman says he proposes to
begin on Wednesday next and race alter
nate days throughout the season, as last
year, and it is said that should he do so
the Dwyer Brothers will also race all
winter on the same days,
AT GUTENBERG.
Visitors to Gutenberg last winter
would on repeating their visit now dis
mile track built for trotters has disap-
peared and in its place mile track ex-
lists, which is claimed by it's admirers to
be second to none save the mammoth
property opened last summer at West
chester 1t has been stupendous task,
this new Gutenberg track, cutting
through hills of stone and such like
labor.
But its projectors have built wisely.
The entire estate is laid out in building
lots and has a perfect drainage system, so
that should racing ever cease to be profit
able township could be started. The
stables are laid out in streets, the track is
u Wlue elllpScj Iuo SdIle Wlutu al all
points Then, too, there is new and
elegant stand and every appointment for
owners, trainers and stable boys to live as
comfortably as city folks. In fact, it will
be far different than when Mr.. Nc
Inerney, the trainer raised his cele-
brated wall in the hotel the first season.
'Stchew, stchew; call for chicken and
they bring me stchew."
There is an elevator at the Weehawken
Ferry to bring passengers to the top of
the Palisades and an electric road to the
track. Visitors from Jersey City, how
ever, will not this season be better off
than last in the matter of transportation.
HUDSON COUNTY MEN.
Prominently connected with the past
and earnest in the hope of the future
prosperity of the track are several Hud-
son county officials, including Mr. Carr,
who knows how the sport in the past has
helped TO develop that county.
The Clifton track has not been touched
during the winter, but a new and en-
larged paddock for cooling out the horses
has been prepared and a club house built,
many Passaic residents desiring to Join,
the imitation fee being fixed at S25.
Judge Wheeler has several improve.
ments in contemplation TO please the
public, and j. Mclaughlin, the Dryers
famous old jockey, will act the, to him,
new role of starting the horses.
THE LINDEN PROPERTY.
The new Linden property Is built ON
the most classic lines, IL having five
furlong straight course, and chutes with
one bend for six and seven furlongs. The
TRACK ffGalf Ia "A fnflQ oval The GRAND