Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1917 — LARGE REVENUE FROM RACES [ARTICLE]

LARGE REVENUE FROM RACES

In Ten Years Charity.. Received $23,000,000 From Operations of PariMutuel System. Figures of the . Jockey Club bf France show, the earnings of the parimutuel system of betting for ten years prior to the European war were sl,197,117,688. Of this sum $#,000,000 was devbted to breeding interests, $23,000,000 to charity and $6,000,000 to the payment of water taxes. .