Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-22
BRIGHT SIDE OF new YORK.
The Horse Show Discussed as a Metro
politon Function.
Many Interesting Things Besides
Horses to Be Seen-Supper After
the Show q Matter Of Moment to
Many and of Interest to Strangers.
The Champagne Habit Growing
The New Astoria Hotel and Del
monico's.

New York, November 20.-Trust New
York for saving itself from dizziness.
If the election is over the NacH Thorn
murder trial has broken down after its
sensational scene, here we have been
running all week to the Horse Show.
OF course, few are interested in the
: horses. A good many of us talk horse
while we are there, but to the thousands
who fill the seats and boxes nightly,
and to the tens of thousands who move
in a dense mass around the ring where
the animals and the judges are, the SEN
sation lies in the fact that it is the
great mass meeting of society and fash
jon. The yesterday parade on Fifth
avenue is insignificant beside it. That
great procession of the rich walking
home from church is over in half an
hour The HoEse Show beats the opera
for closeness Of view of society notable
tiles. There you see Mrs. George Gould
or the Vanderbilts through an opera
glass At the Horse Show you rub
shoulders with them. They sit in their
boxes to be looked at. You pass by
near enough to hear-blessed privilege
scraps of their conversation. When
they come on the floor and move round
the place couple of times, you begin
to feel neighborly with the Rockefel-
lers, almost chummy with the Webbs,
and on all but visiting terms with the
Gerrys and Whitneys. Then as the big
white numbers go up the blackboards,
showing the winners in class after class,
you have the privilege of joining In the
applause. You see all the beauties OF
the year and, if you are woman, you
may take great pleasure in noting that
the beauties of last year have decidedly
gone off," 1t is vanity in its most joy
Gus rig set on it's broadcast pedestal.
And it makes splendid show. The
band blares; the galloping horses make
the tanbark fly; the big picture hats
and the dainty tongues of the women
nod to the music, likewise the big
white or yellow chrysanthemums that
the ladies' wear. A ripple of applause
runs round the great amphitheatre.
Somebody has won, no matter whom,
but still round and round go the jammed
paraders, laughing, chatting, saluting,
stepping on the trains of the ladies',
begging their pardon, nodding to each
other, saluting the box occupants and
frivoling, frivOling to everybody S
hearts content. No wonder that dudes
travel thousand miles to be seen at it..
No wonder that from the fat Mrs.
Nudge, who has for ten years hungered
to be somebody" to the imperious
Mrs Vavaseur, who looks on every
body else as nobody" they would all
lose their eyes sooner than miss the
Horse Show. | think it has been more
brilliant this year than ever.
THE SUPPER MANIA.
The big hotels are all full to over
flowing Horse Show week, ana tnelr
huge restaurants are packed with DIN
ers in the evening, and far into the
morning hours with the gayest supper
narties. Thus the full dress jOllity rad
iates over the town. Everybody ap-
pears to be supping in public. The
very air of the most august hostelrler
gives way to easy merriment. Ii you
looked in last week at the Waldorf or
the newly opened Astoria dining rooms
you might have wondered whether the
serried army of walters you saw could
ever be all occupied at the same time.
You had to- be sharp to get table last
night, and the walters were working as
hard as Mr.. Lemuel Quigg's jaws work
ed before the last election. 1t gas the
same story at the Holland House, at the
Imperial The Gilsey shared the rush.
Sherry's was crowded to the doors. The
new Delmonico's was literally mobbed.
The new Manhattan was besleged, and,
a mile above, the Savoy, the Neither
lands and the Plaza were crowded. AS
these represent only the great caravan
scrais, it will be understood that the
lesser share in the good fortune. l
fancy the added extravaganza OF this
wear is a prosperity painter in It's
Way. "People spend easily this year,
said Stuart to me the other night.
"rhere are many, you knew, who dis
count all bull movements, and 1t makes
little difference in cash trade whether
the man who pays can afford it or only
thinks he can"
THE CHAMPAGNE HABIT.
am sorry to say champagne drink
ing at supper is on the increase. All
the rare good wines are neglected more
and more for this fixing god of suspic
ious antecedents. No one thinks of
burgundy with birds now. The de-
lightful golden Barsac is as seldom
called for as Chateau Yguens. An oc-
casionel economist asks in an undertone
for pint of ST. Estephe, but the glori-
Gus Margaux and the cobwebbed port
are all but unheard of. Two reasons
are given for the champagne habit, one
that a little of it brings quick merri-
ment, and the other that it makes a
greater show. Alas for the underlying
dullness and make believe of Vanity
Fair!
ASTORIA'S OUTWARD UGLINESS.
There is no sign that either in hotels.
Office buildings or apartment houses.
the sky-scrapers are overdone in New
York yet. New buildings of from four
teen to twenty stories are going up all
the time, and they are seldom month
open until they are fully tenanted.
Elevator accidents don't brighten either
tenants or visitors any more than
deathbeds keep people out of bed Ex-
teriorly the architects are getting bet
ter effects: it is too much to expect
beauty or proportion out of buildings
that are as tall as steeples and little
thicker; but the later examples being
generally broader, are less offensive to
the artistic eye. | cannot praise the
new Astoria's terra Gotta colored IA
cades. 1t makes an imposing effect
from its mass, but it is unbalanced and
hybrid architectually There is an at