Show I IJ Property Is Rendered Useless r i a Through Legis Legislation lation on Betting ng NEW ME YORK YOi PlANTS ARE AREV E V VALUED AlUm AT 12 I Heavy Taxes and Many Idle Men Are Results of Agitation in the Empire State t f H M f fAll All 11 This Money Waited ud l Ia I. Idle Idle n. n Stare Hare Track 1 VAlue of New Xe York race raco co tracks i f that are now lying prey to weeds 4 and antl deca decay Belmont Park Gra Gravesend t f Sheepshead Ba Bay f Aqueduct f t- t Jamaica 4 f Saratoga rn o F a 1 let Erie I rl f 4 1 Empire 1 i Total t 1 t BECAUSE Bl the betting anti-betting law has rendered racing but a t tm m memory In New York state slate millions of dollars dollars' dollars dollars' dollars dollars' dol dol- lars' lars worth of oC choice real estate Is la to toa today today to- to day a worse Of SO than useless worse useless worse than useless because It carries with it heavy taxation says tho the New r-ew York Evening f World It is further worse than useless because the fact that It ItIs ItIs Itis Is standing idle me means ns a 11 quarter mil lion dollar cut In the annual revenues re of ot the thc state An official high In the Jockey club toda today gave almost as his conservative estimate of ot race tact track property In the Empire state The ap approximate approximate approximate ap- ap proximate values alue of the eight tracks that are r fast becoming weed overgrown over- over grown crown rotting ruins he gave ga as All follows fol fol- lows lowe Belmont Park Grave Grave- send Sheep R Boy Bay U.- U. Aqueduct Jamaica g OOOO Sa Saratoga Ft tt Erie Eric Empire Total 11 OOOO The taxes on these thue properties probably amount to When hen racing flourished the state also abo got another representing five per percent percent cent of or the fire earnings of the time tracks so now the public treasury's Income from King Horse Is just cut In half BI Big as this common loss to the tho racing rac rac- racing ing InS Interests and the public tr treasury la however the lovers of racing more mora keenly feel reel the lo loss s of hor horses hordes e trainers trainers train train- ers Jockeys jocke's and owners that once made this country one of ot the greatest greate t tracing racing nations on earth They feel this loss not nOl mere merely because real racIng racing racing rac rac- ing has through their departure practically disappeared while betting belting flourishes triumphant but more be because because because be- be cause the they see lice co In It the rapid decline of ot the American thoroughbred Only Only a few days L O General wood declared that the tho problem m of or furnishing furnishing- cavalry CI airy alry remounts Is becoming a very serious seri serf ous one because of or the disappearance of racing and toda today August Belmont pre president resident of ot tho the Jockey club and probably probably ably ably the time best known racing man lr Jr the echoed and confirmed th the thu statement saying Upon n a high Plane General Woods Foods statement to Congress Congress Con Con- gress of the harm done In the time arm army In the matter of or remount horses for tor tho the United States cavalry b by tb the crusade against racing In various states slates of th the Union coming from such a hl high h authority authority au au- au- au needs no Confirmation Thc Time turf of this state was on a lL apar apar par with the turf of or European countrIes countries coun coun- tries In to tho the character and antI the 1 size l lIts of 0 Its stake races It Is only through such that great reat horses can be developed dc and owned Destroy these thes and our horses and more than this our highly efficient efficient effi effi- clent trainers and Jockeys jockeN will go o te to the only remaining fields where really Important t racing exists 1 viz abroad remain at home even e If Jr our owners Another clement element of or loss to tho the country country country coun coun- effect the time end emt try through the chilling of ot racing In New ew York has had In other other oth oth- er states state Is the time loss of employment of or thousands formerly employed In tn breeding breedIng breed- breed Ing training and operating the tracks The money mone loss represented b by tin time departure dc- dc of ot stock ia la also O tram us During the last lut year ear 2000 mares were Sf sent nt abroad Figuring a 11 low average value lue of at OO this would mean 2000 gone JODe from the country A million and amI a half dollars' dollars worth of or foals have also gone for Roods while probably ab- ab ly lv half baJt a million dollars dollars dollars' worth of ot f UI- UI lions lons were ere exported This would be bl beall all nil right racing men point out If It it regular export Business but t It ItIs t a Is were no not t a natural trade trade and In their th points to the ultimate end I of at opinion Their scale breeding on an any large contention Is borne lorne out too toe by the tho tact fart that the number of ot ro registered f foals has ha fallen over O alx fifty p per r cent i 1 during the tho present year I Ino no A AND D KELLI TO MEET Peoria HI Ill Dec 30 Leo 30 Leo Kelly I th the St SL J Louts uhl lI boxer will meet meat Harry Harr Donohue of Peoria before a local meal I will club on New ew Years Year's eve This bout willbo appearance of or Donohue Inthe In I the thc last I be bo tho the west for some Kome time time- lie Ill will leave leave Jea about January 16 15 for tor New Xe York where In a n. number of at bouts bouta he will appear I I during lima thi following three months month J i j j i |