The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-05
FALL RAGING DATE
 WILL MEET FAVOR
PROMINENT HoRSEMAN THINKS HOT SPRINGS SHOULD WIN
 TER THE THoRouGH6REDs.
Following Fall Meeting the Horse men Would Look With Favor Upon Winters Stay.
By H. w. Lanigan,
Press Representative of the Arling-
 ton and Eastman Hotels.

far as the Arlington is concerned, and while we may be prejudiced in the matter, being a hired employe of the country's premier resort hotel, we are anticipating an unusually "big" month of April for Hot Springs.
 Nevertheless, it is a big party that the efforts of Mir, A. B. Gaines, Col. Lyman T. Hay, MT. Joseph w. Cor rington, Mir, Gus Strauss, MT. John Higgins, ct al., in arranging a spring race meeting for the Spa did not bear fruit. Thanks to the Young Mems Chamber of Commerce, our new civic institution, which is bound to accomplish a lot of good things for this fair city if it only sticks and continues showing its current az gressive tactics, the seasons" eli max, so far as the attendance of wis itors was concerned was reached St. Patrick's Day. <
 That day the Arlington and East man were completely packed. So were the rest. of the city's hotels. Likewise, all the boarding houses. True, the Arlington had been com pletely filled ever since early Feb ruary Still. the St. Patricks Day festivities raised the "count" to the highest possible total and yielded nice extra money for the grill, the bar, the news stand, the pool hall. etc. They also resulted in filling the enormous Eastman to the oyer- flowing stage.
 Nor was the crowd here for one day only Naturally, the Arlington remained filled; in fact, it is still filled, and it would have been damned throughout March whether or not the big CallahanLatta show was pulled. But the big affair cer- tainly helped the Eastman. Through out the month of March the Mon- arch of the Glen ran way ahead of last year. So, it is our surmise that the festivities helped that hostelry, though possibly we may be absolute ly wrong in the matter and not know a thing about what we are writing about.
 Still, we know just as you know that the seasons" climax was reached St. Patrick's Day. The crowd stayed in the Spa the rest of the month; in fact, the crowd is still here. That's enumerating the real live, classy, clever, conviyial people, those who come to the Arlington and who are in Hot Springs to be on the go and to spend money.
 With the curtain going up April 1, or even as late as April 8, on month of racing at Oaklawn, a race track that is as pretty and as classy as they come, it would mean that Hot Springs would experience the most prosperous month in its his tory. Messrs. Gaines, Higgins Strauss ct al.. strived diligently to nut the running meeting over the plate and they almost succeeded. Baked for this spring they are now working to secure a running meet ing for next fall and another session for next spring.
 The racing game owns no better known character than Charley Ell son of Chicago, who with his hand some wife is paying his usual spring visit to the Arlington. It is not so many years ago that Ellison was sort of secretary for John w. Schorr' the Memphis brewer, who has always heen prominent in the turf game-a sort of valet for the late Tommy Burns, as brilliant rider as one snort ever had and whose sad, acci- dental death caused by falling under the wheels of an express tram Tn Brooklyn "L' last fall, shocked the sporting world on two continents Ellison, for years better. famous the land over as "Plunger Charley, has taken up where Riley Grammar and Pittsburg Phil left off. lie stated to the writer at the Arlington last night.
 Yes. I hope the day comes that Hot Springs regains its old position on the racing map. But the gentle men working to have the sport re- yived should first arrange a Tall meeting before considering a spring meeting. The arrangement should be a fall meeting in November and a spring meeting in March, taking the time after and before the Kentucky game opens.
 Starting off with a spring meet ing would result in hardship in at tracting the right horses to the Spa. The owners are either at Charleston or Juarez, where the sport is estab- lished, and to come here instead would cost a lot of money-s7OO car. But opening in the fall would be different. After the Kentucky tracks close there is nowhere for the horsemen to go for several months.
 "Thus with a meeting on in Hot Springs they would be glad Of the chance to come here and fill in the open time. Then, the Spa affords the best wintering ground in the country. Those not wanting to ship to Charleston or Juarez could winter here and work out their horses dur