The morning times., 1895-11-12
SOCIETY And The HORSE
Brilliant Opening of the Show at
Madison Square Garden.
Ha ndsOme Women in the Boxes At
tracted More the Attention of
the Crowd Than the Horses,
At the
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New York. Nov. 11.-society and the
morse snow opened their annual function
| at Madison Square Garden today. During
the daylight hours the horse had the best
or IL and all eyes We're on the tan ba rk ring.
in the evening, however, when tn G electric
hghts were on and the boxes were filled
WIN handsome women brilliantly clad
and radiantly Jeweled and well-g -groomed
iiieh IN evening dress, the tan bark was the
duilest part OF the spectacle.
In the eleven years of the National Horse
Show Association DO such gorgeous opening
mas been recorded. For weeks in advance
the boxes and most desirable seats have
been bcspoken and such seats as fell into
SPECTATORS hands brought fancy prices
The general public had 1900 balcony and
gallery seats unrcseryed and they were
all filled early.
GREATEST SHOW IN THE BOXES
The promenade was mass Of humG nifty
all the evening. The pronenaders seemed
more Interested in the array OF fine look
ing women and gorgeous gowns in the
boxes than in the horses III the ring The
ladies' wore more brilliant colors and more
snowy gowns than ever before, and the
great ainphitheater never presented a more
dazzling appearance than betw cen the hours
OF nine and eleven, when the crush was
greatest
The entries In the various classes are
larger than last year, and the quality of
the horses exhibited is better. Prize win
nersfrom all over the country, from Canada
andfroIn abroad, havemet in sharp cumpeti-
ton for the blue ribbons. The judges had
a difficult task in several classes today
and in several cases not all the entries
could he shown in tue ring at a time with
safety.
The nominal opening was a $50 a m,
but it was not till p. III. that the Judging
was begun and society put in an appear
ance.
In the first class-the one for horses in
in harness-there were forty-two entries
Mrs. Weidenthals bay mare Spoons got
the blue ribbon, with S. H. Ho wland's bay
mare Shela second and John s Bratton's
BismOnt third.
TALMAGE. JR.. GOT A PRIZE.
There was considerable interest in the
coaching stations in which class Ora
teur from Mclaughlin Brothers, Columbus,
Ohio, took first prize. Col. La wrence Kip
won first and second prizes in class ls-
for roadsters-with Mambrino Bell and
Emolita.
In the pairs for light carriage horses
John T. Talmage, tr, scored, and the class
for gated saddle horses Gen. John B.
Castieman of Kentucky carried off the
honors, riding his mare Dorothy himself
Fred Gebha rdt : st. Saviour won in tn class
for thoroughbred stations, and John Ar
thurs four-in-hand team defeated four COM
petitors.
Among the most noticeable ones in the
great crowd this evening were Gov Morton
Mrs Morton and the Misses Morton, Gen.
Horace Porter, W. Seward Webb and fam
lily, John R. Drexel and party. George Pea
body WetInore, Mrs. W. K Vanderbilt,
Ogden Goelet, John G. Heckscher. George
Jay Gould, Mrs. Gould. Marion Story. Jordan
L. Mott, ir.. Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob A stor,
Oliver AInes, W. L. Elkins and party, P. A.
Widener, Henry Hilton. william A. Duer,
Mr. aud Mrs. Frederick Bronson, William F.
C. Oliver Iselin. Mrs. Iselin. Mr..
aud Mrs Duncan Elliott and John N. Bowers.