Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-08
NEW YORK Is LIVELY.

The Horse show Portrait Exhibition and
big Weddings Keep Society on tho Move.
Special Correspondence to the Register.
New York. November 9.---The Horse
Show, The Portrait Exhibition, and
two international marriages within q
week OF each other. furnish New York
ers with NEST engrOssing topics of dis
cussiOn. Even the intense Significance
of the political situation paled before
the Marlborough Vanderbilt nuptials.
No other international marriage has
I excited anything like the Interest at
taChCd 20 this As q cOtempOrary Jour
nal. remarks: IF England loves o
Lord, America slobbers over Duke,
and every detail OF the wedding from
the dOwery TO the lingerie, the golden
corset strings and clasps, have been
/ swallowed by Che public with an ayidity
/ that cries for more.
III there i3 q man. woman or chud IN
+ this great republic who has not been
I informed exactly as to what Miss VAN
/ derbilt wore ON her wedding day, 1t is
not The fault OF our newspapers.
, Needless to say, Miss Consuelo Van
derailts portrait is one OF the first
sOught at the Portrait Exhibition, and
i attracts more attention than all the
1 rest put together. IL is rather sh1t-
oWy representation Of q young woman
/ in the picturesque historical costume
OF the French grand dame OF two cen
/ turtles Qgo. aud is signed by that famous
+ painter of portraits. CarClus Duran. AS
Tor the rest Of the show it has pictures
q nf L.
/ Indifferent. Some OF Ill $50 have ale
ready been c2ricatured I'm the Sunday
papers. and doubtless the balance Will
be. There is one original washington
by Stewart. one OF the many originals
painted 10y Stuart long after Washing
ton smOulderod in his grave, and there
are some very fine specimens OF the OLD
. masters on hand, to lend dignity 10 an
exhibition which after all degenerate.
into O society show.
More interesting from many points
of view is the loan collection OF early
American ell paintings, TO be ON view
at the Ne,rCuoht0n Museum OF Art II
contains 100 canyasos contributed from
every part of the Union Among them
are twenty-five portraits by Stuart. apO
@ dozen from COPY, probably the t"'
most noted of our early American pain
rers Following on the heels of the por-
trail exhibition is the Horse Show
which is the worst OF the season, and
brings q notable gathering OF people
from an over the country. There Is
no room I'm town for those who have de-
l9ved getting rooms. for all the big hos
teieries have been bespoke weeks in adj
vance.
The Horse show Will be quite up &c
the usual standard I'm the matter of en-
tries and as always, viii be brilliant
social affair. And now for one little
word about politics. The situation re-
solves itself. as for many years past i'm
TO Tammany and anu-Tammanl
ticket: though the anu-Tammanyites
are % very mixed element, indeed Ono
olditv of the campaign is the pres
sure OF woman i'm it, Perhaps the time
has come for the adoption OF angle
mania features even in our political
campaigns. though so far the egglnl
has been omitted MIS-. Bremen has
proved very able ally TO her nus
band in the independent county orgonl-
cation and i'm Republican ranks, Mis-.
Helen Varick Boswell is sought ON al
sides. The new woman has come
10 stay and she has also come TO vote