The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-02
NEW HOME FOR TRoTTERS.
WORK ON W. ~. CLARK'S &e5O.Oo
JRdCk UNDER u4E


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The Place VIII he Ready for tho Horses In
August and u Grand Circuit Meeting
VIII Follow Soon AfterwRrd-There Ma,
Be -Four $4,000 Purses-Hopples Barred.
Ground has been broken FOR the new %trotting
track which eX-Corporation Counsel W. II.
Clark Is building between lonkers and Mount
Vernon. and oncortwo steam shovols. together
with something like 200 men, are now pushing
the work toward completion. The contractors
who have charge oil the grading are under
bonds TO finish their work on or before May Is.
AZ 1t Is estimated that nearly $4,000 cubic
yards OF earth viii have to be NOTED In shap-
ing the track and the intield. night work is go
ing to I've necessary. and the contractors are
now putting in electric lights. with n view to
employing two shifts of graders. The course
Is to be OF tho regulation :" form. with the
stretches and the turns each a quarter Of a
milo long. II Ia laid ont in such a way that tho
homestretch will lie nearly parallel with Yonk-
ers avenue, the lower turn at Central avenue
and the upper turn at Trenchard street. This
will give to the grand stand n southern or
southwestern frontage.
The track will be as nearly level as the en-
gineers and graders can make It. without n rise
or a drop from start to finish. The infeld. too.
will be cut and filled so as to bring IL m to the
level Of the course at every point. This will
involve some pretty heavy excavatinR, with
fills OF fifteen feet or more at one or two places.
TIL homestretch and the lower turn are to he
100 feet wide, so that a large field Of horses can
score abreast in one tier and get away around
the turn without crowding. From the quarter
pole to the three-auarter pole the Width Of the
course will be about seventy-five feet. The
soil to he used In surfacing the track will be a
mixture OF black loan and muck taken from
the ground on which the track Is being built. |
This black soil has been scraped from the sur
face of the field and piled up to await the com
pletion OF the grading. 1t will then be spread
over the rough grade to the depth Of one foot
or more.
Owner Clark says that while the track is be-
ing built he will let the contract for a steel
grand stand, and will have the framework all
ready TO put together by tho time the course is
finished. A plan for the stand has not yet been
upon. but ii will probably he similar in
style to the stand at Brig hton Beach. and will
he large enough to seat from 5000 to 1000
persons. Near the grand stand there may be a
small clubhouse Of colonial design.
When do you expect to hold y~ourfrst meet
.nG on the new track, said a reporter Of The
to Owner Clark yesterday.
4 think the track win be Finished and ready
! meeting as, soon after that time a. IT is pos
,ible TO &c, advantageous dates. We may come
u Iuht IelpIt but 1dTlIOTU meeting IN the
.irani Circuit, or Just after 1t. The New York
meeting will probably last five or six days. We
shall make up our programme this month or
leyt ami open a numbero of early closing purses.
expect to hang up about four $1,000 purses
lmong the rest. Two OF them will probably be
opened on the subscription plan. with sub
'criptions transferable up TO within n week or
We before the race. Honnles Will be barred in
races. on the new track. and ! think TINT all
aces will be at Il mile and repeat. After this
ear | expect to give two meetings, one in June
nd the other in the fall"
What about the rumor that you are build
ng the track for the runners -
There is no truth in the story, This track
'wn it; NAV give a running meeting there
he same track will not do for both kinds Of
port. ! hear that runners and ~trotters race
Milwaukee, Nashville; Oakland. and !
other places, and | don't know why they
houldn'tdo SO in New York, If | should de-
ide to hold q running meeting at anv time |
;ould probably lay out a training track inside
he main track. so as not to interfere with the
FORK OF any harness horses that might he on
he grounds"
Readers OF THE SUN are familiar with the To-
alton Of the new course. The cost Of the new
lome for the %trotters in New York is estimated
[ something like $3.50 600 :