The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-04-05
TURF INVESTMENTS
BY John A. Manahan


With the new conditions turf in
vestments have rapidly assumed
high standard among commercial val
ues with business men
Many of our most prominent pep
pie during last year specuated i'm turf
investments in the same manner as
they would in the stock marke, or in
American Industries with COED llnan-
cial returns.
With war conditions eGecting val
ues and causing loss in incomes, large
numbers of business men managed to
retrieve and make up their income
loss through turf speculation.
Out OF Evil Came Good.
The people OF New York owe a
great debt of gratitude to the master
mind of Governor Charles Evans
Hughes for his saeacity and ability
lin redeemine the turf and the woni
derful thoroughbred from the hands
OF common gamblers and placing bott
! ON q high pedestal that in short spacs
OF time the turf and thoroughbred is a
monument OF purity and honesty 2
thing of beauty.
No longer does the gambling book
makers roll down the concoursc in his
twenty five thousand dollar car no
longer can be found with his black
board and chalk-for like the wilfu1
railroad president and official bring
ing ruin and great loss to its stock
holders aud owners, as history relates
he found his Waterloo-he got his
| punishment Thanks to the faithful
and good governor Of New York
Sunshine and Prosperity,
The turf today happy to say is like
an avenue of sunshine and prosperity
and much credit is due to the erea;
men that now are at its head-they
are among the comtry's best citizens
their lives, their personality, THEN
records, their names are an absolute
guarantee OF honesty.
The turf like successful corpora
tions has its minor officials not hid
in a dark corner bat right out in the
open upon the beautiful lawn and
beneath the blue sky Of Heaven-the
merchant, the lawyer the physician.
the railway president The business
man seeking speculation in the mar
ket of the turf There he will find
others like himself exchanging opin-
ions for it is the different ideas the
same as in any commercial business
that creates supply ana demand for q
certain article. the same for certain
horse. Minor officials representing
| the interests of the patronizing public
Mr. John Walters, Mr.. Thomas shaw
Mr.. Frederick Beck Mr. Edward J
Ryan-these arc men of the highes'
character, and noted for their un
| blemished regulations, their devotion
| To unfolding the high ideals of the
turf is sqnreme-their relations f.
the patrons are the same as the boarf
of governors of any well regulated
exchange or the officials of a bant
| with its depositors, only Lelievo la'
gentlemen whose names are givei
above deserve a higher mark for thei'
! generosity and method of business
dealing these men are daily in at
tendance serving patrons with tn
approval of the great men now at tn
head Of the American Turf them
selves under legal jurisdiction in New
York state so that the turf today ma
practically become a great institution
being as it is, safeguarded BY mos
honest and wealthy citizens and ais
by most rigid state laws aud stat
protection
The Outlook for 1918 Most Promising
have every eood reason to predie
continuous prosperity during the com
ing season. and existing conditions
the healthy state OF the turf with Il
excellent management VIII find a lafA
or number of our wealthy eitlzea
among lis patrons.
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