The Sentinel=record., 1915-02-19
VISITORS DESIRE TO
BE ENTERTAINED
TWO PROMINENT MEN VOICE
THEIR VIEWS ON THIS FEA-
TURE YESTERDAY.
Both Speak Highly Of Great Benefit
That Would Come to Hot SPRINGS
BY Having Racing Here.

opinion relative TO entertainment for
visitors. one of the gentlemen in
question is probably the largest prop.
erty owner OF valuable real estate ia
Ges Moines The otnar is Interested
in oil and wool, principal products of
Casper. Wyo. Both are men Of high
standing.
The visitor from Des Momes is
Woolte Iacharia. while Tom Burke Is
the Wyoming guest. The former has
been here since the day the new
Como hotel opened; the latter il
making his tenth visit to Hot SPRINGS
and is registered at the Majestic. Mr.
Zacnaria has become Interested in
this city, and, like many other vist.
tors, believes there should be more
amusement for those who patronize
this resort. Speaking along these
lines, he said
4 am greatly interested in the
pending bill at Little Rock. which
viii give Hot Springs racing under
the pari-mutuel system, said Mr.
zacharia this morning. 4 visited
Oakawn track and plant a few days
ago, and can say without hesita-
ton that none OF the grand circuit
plants can compare with it. not even
Detroit.
"Otner visitors are like myself.
They have no occupation while in
the city. Most of them, like myself.
are busy men at home and with no
amusement or pastime the time nat
urally drags heavily on their hands.
II visit the theaters They are all
good. | take walks and drives, but
that is about all there is except a
trip to the golf links If there were
races at Oaklawn l expect / would
be there every day, for it is good
sport
The citizens of Hot Springs
ought to be a unit for the promotion
OF any class Of amusement that would
appeal to the visitor and serve to en-
terrain him while here"
MIR. Burke and his wife have re-
Gently returned from New Orleans.
where they were during the recent
big race meet in that city. He had
this to say concerning races and the
great help to commercial and other
interests this sport is:
"A majority of the visitors now i'm
New Orleans, that is, those VINO went
there to attend the race meet that
closed Tuesday, will come to Hot
Springs, provided the bill to legalize
racing in Arkansas becomes a law.
Most all of the horsemen are prepar-
ing to send their horses here. Why
everyone believes in New Orleans
that it won't be long before there Will
be racing in Hot Spring.
Take the railroads as an example
At all the depots there are large
placards announcing when the Hot
Springs. Ark, special Will leave. and
ticket agents there told me tney an
ticipate a big business from New Or
leans to Hot Springs. Racing there
will bring you thousands of visitors.
1t will also bring several thousand
other people who would not 20 to any
other city, for the reason that they
can come here and enjoy the baths
at the same time, and when it comes
to baths, Hot Springs has the great
est water in the world nothing like
it, ] believe, in tAa entire world"
II stopped at the St Charles hotel "
he said, and interested myself in
ascertaining just what the race meet
was doing for New Orleans. / talked
with hotel men in the St Charles and
the other hotels there Then / made
it my business to question restaurant
men, proprietors OF stores and tn
railroads, and every one OF them told
me that New Orleans had had tne
biggest winter season in years They
race meet Business in all branches
has been greater there this season
than ever before. More tourists have
come to New Orleans this winter
than in years, and everyone appears
TO have plenty OF money. That race
meet was a lfe-saver to New Orleans
and the business men there appreci-
ate what it has done for taem.
was mighty glad to learn that ma
jority OF the visitors ana also the
horsemen anticipate coming TO Hot
Springs. for if there is one city that
a race meet will help it is Hot
Springs What else. my friend, have
you to offer the visitor aside from
hote water? / hope that this enter
tainment will prevail am going to
remain over for the races here if the
bill becomes a law"