The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-12
Most Gorgeous Show Witnessed
During the Associations
Existence.
WINNERS OF HIGHEST H0NoRs
From ALI Over the Country Prize
Equine Beauties Have Met in
Competition.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Nov. 1.-Society
and the horse opened their annual Joint
function at Madison square Garden to-
day. During the daylight hours the horse
had the best OF it, and all eyes were on the
tanbark ring. In the evening" however,
when all the boxes were filled with hand
some women, brilliantly clad and radi-
antly jeweled, and well-groomed men in
evening dress, the tanbark was the dullest
part of the spectacle. In the eleven years
of the National Horse Show Association
no such gorgeous opening has been re-
corded. For weeks in advance the boxes
and most desirable seats have been be-
spoken, and such seats as fell into specu-
lators' hands brought fancy prices.
The general public has $500 balcony and
gallery seats unreserved, and they were all
filled early. The promenade was mass
of humanity all the evening. The prom
enaders seemed more interested in the ar
ray of f1ne-looking women and gorgeous
gowns in the boxes than in the horses in
the ring. The ladies wore more brilliant
colors and more snowy gowns than ever
before, and the great amphitheater never
before presented more dazzling appear
ance than between the hours of and IL,
when the crush was greatest. The entries
in the various classes were larger than last
year, and the quality of horses exhibited is
better. PriZe-winners from all over the
country, from Canada and from abroad,
have met in sharp competition for the blue
ribbon. The judges had difficult task in
several classes to-day, and in several cases
n ot all the entries could be shown in the
ring at time with safety.
The nominal opening was at $50 A. NJ,
but it was not until P. NJ. that the judg-
ing began and society put in an appear
ance. In the first class the one for horses
in harness-there were forty y-two entries
Mrs. WeidenthaPs bay mare Spoons got
the blue ribbon, H. S. Fl. HewIand's bay
mare Shellac secured second and John s.
Bratton's Bismont third prize. There was
considerable interest in the coaching stall
lions, in which class Oratur, from Nc
LaughIin Brothers, Columbus, Ohio, took
first prize.
Colonel Lawrence Kip won first and sec
ond prizes in class Is, for roadsters, with
Mambrino Belle and Emoleta. In the
pairs for light carriage horses John 7.
Talmage Jr. scored and in the class for
gated saddle horses General John B. Cas-
tleman of Kentucky carried off the hon.
ors, riding his mare Dorothy himself
Fred Gebhard's st. Savior won in the
class for thoroughbred stations and John
Arthur's four-in-hand team defeated COM
petitors.
Among the most notable ones in the
crowd this evening were: Governor Nor
ton Mrs. Morton and the Misses Morton,
General Horace Porter. W. Steward Webb
and family, John B. Drexel and party,
George Peabody Wetmore, Mrs. W. K.
Vanderbilt, Ogden Goelet John G.
Hecksher, George ]. Gould, Mrs. Gould,
Marion Story, Jordan L. Mott Jr., Mr.. and
Mrs John Jacob Astor, Oliver Ames, w.
l.. Elkins and party, P. A. Widener,
Henry Hilton, William A. Duer. MIR. and
Mrs. Frederick Bronson. William F. Bur-
den, c. Oliver Iselin, Mrs. Iselin, Mr.. and
Mrs. Duncan Elliot and John NJ. Bowers.