The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-08
EQUINE ARISTOoRACY.
Prospects of the National Horse Show
at New York.
(Copnriqht 1917

GU wow AOA
Copyright 1917
NEW YORK, Nov. THE chrysanthe-
mum show will hardly have come to an end
when the Madison Square Garden will be
given up to another fashionable cult-this
time to one IN which the element Of utility
has a fair share. The horse show win begin
there on Monday, Nov. Is, and will last the
entire week, 1t will be the seventh exhibi~
sion given by the National Horse Show As
ISOLATION Omitted, and the managers expect
and are preparing for the biggest kind of
success, both from a social and equine
standpoint.
New York's Four Hundred are very
horsey these times The fad has been grow
ing for years. 1t is not only English, ye
know, but also good in itself. 1t not only
catches the Anglamaniac dudes, but also
the more solid and sensible elements OF the
social world. There is money in the cult
walton Of fine horses, and pleasure, too.
Besides, there is no fad that admits Of 80
much ashionable display. Every woman
who can afford to keep them
is proud of her high stepping
carriage horses. II Mrs. Hautton feels that
her beauties raise their knees an inch higher
than those of Mrs. Beau Monde, she Is a
truly OADDE WOIuuH. IL O2ukuLeT TIuES
better and looks trimmer and shapelier in
her habit than her rivals girl, then she ia in
the seventh heaven. The fad has a thou
sand ramifications from four-in-hand coach
ing down to pony phaetons by the seaside,
and everybody who is anybody, is either
devoted TO it or protends to Ce.
So the horse show has been steadily in
creasing in favor yeer after year. The de-
votes of fashion have not only patronized
- L.. ~ = hrtf hnU lie
gone there in swarIns to see the horses and
each other. 1t is said that over 100000 per-
Sous visited the garden last year, and this
year even greater crush is expected. OF
course, thousands who don't care button
for society swell the tbrong. They go be-
cause they love horses, just on the same
principle that tie dealers and breeders who
live at tue very antipodes OF the -Four Hun
dred are among the most prominent exhib-
itors. Pretty nearly all classes help to swell
the success of the show, aud perhaps that is
one of the best features Of IL.
But the excluioe element who rule the
sssociat take many precautions to se~
questrate themselves from tee ordinary
common mortsls who JUS pay their dollars
TO see the hor eS. Tie member of the asso-
citation are among the bsst-known names in
New York's SOCIAL life Cornelius Fellows,
t IT instance. Is president, JOAN q. Heczsher
is o. president. II. II. holster, Lawrence
Kip, +. K. Sturgis. Frederic Brons y. A.
Nswbold Morris, George Peabody Wet.
more, James q. X. Lawrence. A. j.
Cassett, w. K Vanderbilt, Prescott Law
renee. F. A. Schermerhorn, j. ID. Cheever
and David Bonner are among the most
prominent members. These names tell
their own story. They indicate not only
the high social status Of the association but
the vast wealth it represents. Some Of the
names, too, are familiar as household words
in the history of the development Of Ameri-
can horsefiesh.
Well this controlling element secures its
own privacy during the show by absorbing
all the commodious arena boxes for their
own use. These are specially constructed
about the great sawdust Enclosure which oc~