Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-14
FLOCK TO THE SHOW.
BEAUTY, WEALTH, FASHION RE
TURN TO NEW YORK.
BUT ALAS! FOR The HORSE.
A.. Usual He VIII BE the Least OF
the Attractions mt Madison-squnre
Garden To-Morrow-sweu Set Wor-
ships Itself.
ccorrespondence of the Dispatch.)

Correspondence OF the DlSpatOhi
NEW YORK, November B-From the
clubs and drawing-rooms, where bloom
and blossom and fade the most exclu-
sive people in Greater New York, viii
come trooping this week handsomely
dressed crowd, naughty In manner,
horsey in talk, well-fed, well-bred, and
gloriously Indifferent to the question that
occupies most mems minds-how TO get
the wherewithal TO live tomorrow ana
many successive days. Society calls the
occasion 1.-THE Opening Of the Horse
Show" and society is popularity supposed
10 gather in rustling gorgeousness, IN
order to do homage to the useful amman
that adds TO the Importance OF wealth.
and the ease Of the wealthy. Like many
more popular suggestions, however the
idea that society meets TO pay homage
TO the horse is so far wide OF the marx
as TO be almost an absurdity. society
attends the Horse Show to pay homage
TO itself. What is the glossy-skinned
eouine. who, splendidly formed, Frances
and shows his PAGES in the Horse Snow
ring. compared with the still more care
fully groomed men and women VINO "lIi
greet each other in the boxes and In the
promenade at Madison Square Garden
Tomorrow. while treating the rest OF the
show with the utmost indifference?
Apart from the men whose business II
is to Judge the horses, and the men ana
women whose horses are there to be
Judged, there will be few who VIII not
agree on this-that the pedestal on which
"a raised the American horse is not to be
compared In height and splendor with the
Oh,
eirl who. be she in society or out, is
always charming beyond criticism.
This is to be an exceptional Horse
show week. so far as interesting entries
are concerned, and the attendance is ex-
uected to break all records. Many OF
the social set who have not yet returned
TO town from their country homes nave
run up for the occasion, as to miss the
grand fall reunion around the tan-DarK
arena would be an unpardonaple oHence'
Mr.. and Mrs ogden Mills have toIsakeh
the solid comfort OF the old Livingston
country seat. at Hyde-Park-on-the-H ud-
son. in order to be present at the snow;
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Duane Pell have
come from California to keep open house
AZ the famous Pickhardt Mansion, which
cost the original owner sl,45OOOO, though
he never occupied It; the Vanderbllts'
having passed the period OF mourning,
and being now at liberty TO plunge once
more into the social swim, will do so du-
ring Horse Show week; Mr.. and Mrs.
Douglas Sloane have come on from their
summer home at Lenox, Mass, and Mr..
and Mrs. II. Mckay Twombly have re-
turned from their Morristowny country
seat. Those prodigal leaders OF fashion
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley-Martin, will be
missed at the Horse Show this year, as
they are at Balmacaan, where Is 10 De
attained the finest shooting In SCOTLAND
from which the Martins seem slow 10
mart. But Mrs. Aston will be here, as
she will be at nearly all the important
social functions this season. MIR. and
Mrs. William c. Whitney will run over
to the show from their country resi-
dence on Long Island, and Mr.. and Mrs.
sidney T. Smith have reopened their
house on Washington Square, purposely
for Horse Show week, as have also Mr..
and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs their town
house. No. / east Fifty-seventh street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney
have come to their pretty establishment
al Fifth avenue and Fifty-seyenth street
purposely to join In the Horse Sho"
revels. and Mr.. and Mrs. Arson Pneips
Stokes reached town with the nxed III.
tention OF making the coming week az
the show prelude to some OF the must
lavish entertainments New York has ever
known. 1t will be a brilliant company
on the finest of stages, with the horse
as a disinterested spectator.
But that some one looks after the
horses interest, after all. is shown pS
the unusually large number OF entries
100 more than last year. There are many
new exhibitors on the list, among them
Mr.. and Mrs. John Robinson. OF HUI
Eng, who have numerous entries III
the saddle and barness-horse classes