The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-19
ARRANGEMENTS FOR
 M. D.&G. RECEPTION
COMMITTEE WILL DETERMINE TODAY WHAT ENTERTAIN
 MENT WILL BE FURNISHED.
Probability That Another Day of Rae. ing May Be Offered If Sufficient Number of Race Horses Can Be Brought Here.

hHdllIlEE the interest that was taken in the racing matinee at Oak lawn St. Patricks Day. officials of the State Fair Association will decide at meeting to be held tomorrow after noon whether or not they will repeat that entertainment when the Mem. phis. Dallas and Gulf road runs it's 27th of this month. From statements it is probable the matinee. upon a langer scale, will be part of the pro gram 10 be arranged for the amuse- ment of the resorts visitors on that occasion, if race horses can be SC. cured.
 The Memphis, Dallas and Gulf off ials have let it be known that, iudg- ing from present indications, there win be at least 5000 persons come from the various towns along the line of the western outlet to Hot Springs The first train will arrive on Satur- day, March 27. and will be followed by another the following day. The excursion will be for four days, the tickets being good on any regular re turning train.
 The Business Mems League will issue an invitation to the commercial organizations of TeXariana, Hope Ashdown and other towns along the right of way, asking that they come to Hot Springs on that occasion, and everything will be done to make the soiourn most enjoyable.
 When the excursion arrives H will mark the completion of a railroad project that Hot Springs and other towns along the western outlet have been interested in for three years. IL was the spring of 1912 that the prop ositon to build the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf line was first contemplated, and the road was offered Hot Springs. The citizens here subscribed a bonus of $60,000 to the railroad. Two years later, or on Saint Patrick's day, 1914, the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf road ran it's first train into Hot Springs, fbringing residents from as far wes. as GlenWood.
 Since that time the road has been completed to Texarkana and the line, though now opened up to traffic, will not receive a formal dedication in it's completed state until Saturday March 27. Hot Springs is anxious to get in closer communication with the territory to the west, for it will open up a market for the harvest that is raised there and enable products to be brought into this city at a rate much cheaper than now exists. There is also another advantage in this line to Hot Springs, in that it will enable direct connections with the larger truck lines in the west to say noth- ing of facihtation of travel from cities in the south, and it is the in- tention of the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf officials to provide the best pos sible passenger service.
 News that there will be another racing matinee in Hot Springs has served to maintain the interest in this sport, which at the present time is mOnopoliZing the lmelight of public attention Visiting horsemen who are here with their stock are willing to again entetr the races, and the event run by horses in the New Or leans meet was one of the most ex- citing dashes on the local oval in some time in Hot Springs. The track at Oaklawn, it is understood, is to bel thrown open during the day for the horses to be worked out on, and wAen the races start it is anticipated there will be several mile heats scheduled