The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-08
NOVEL NEWPORT PARADE.
SOCIETY FOLK TURN OUT WITH
DECORATED IUToM0BLLES.

FOLA TURN OOI Win
DEC0RATK AUTOMOBILES.
Nineteen of the Vehicles Assemble for the
Show-EVolutions in y Lot Before the
Start-Ths Decorations and tho Con-
testants-Ths Days Prize winners.
NEWPORT. II. l.. Sept 7.-Eewport's automo-
bile parade has come and gone 1t was spec-
tacular affair 1t was q Belmont affair.
arranged by Mrs. Oliver Fl. p. Belmont who
was assisted by Mrs. Herman Oelrlchs and Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish. and was a big success. All
the autos " 10 Newport did not turn out, but
when the parade started there were nine
teen on hand Decorators and forists
were at work all day getting the trans ready.
each trying to Guido tho other. Tho meet was
at 80 at ''Belcourt" the villa OF Mr. Oliver Il
=. Belmont, at the end OF the avenue. and 1t
seemed as II all the town had congregated hero
to see the start First the various carriages
were put through manpuvrss. during which
the carriage OF Mrs. Herman Oolrichs came to
grief. the rear axle breaking. Then the car
rlage OF II. Roger Winthrop broke down but
Joined the parade before 1t had proceeded far.
In the lot where these manGuvres took
place were placed woman with baby car
riage and dummy horses attached to wagons
The autos" were run in and out to see how
close they could come.
The parade started at o'clock and passed
along Bellevue avenue, across the two beaches
to Gray Crag Park the Belmont farm In Mid
dletown. The line was made up:
]. Mrs. Oliver II. p. Belm ont. with Mr. ]. W.
Gerard, Jr.. as guests. This was the most
elaborate trap in line 1t was decorated with
hydranges and royal purple ribbons and sur
mounted with canopy studded with miniature
electric lights. In front OF the machine was
pair OF shafts TO which was harnessed large
butterfly made Of Rauze.
Mrs. L. Rollins Morse with Mr. W. II. Neil
son as guest. Oak leaves and pink hollyhocks
for decorations.
Mrs. Burke Roche. with Mr.. M. M. Shoe
maker as guest: decorated with sheaths OF
wheat and red peoples and blue corniowers.
Winthrop Rutherford. with Miss Fih Potter
| as guest: covered with screens lof hydrangeas
reaching to ground.
Mrs. William Carter. with stuyvesant L.
| Roy as guest: trap trimmed with green
| climbers and clematis. with two tall green
plumes.
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs. with Max Muller as
guest; trap decorated with yellow flowers and
| arched canopy tied with yellow ribbons: on
top OF canopy, several white doves.
| Miss Scott with Phenix InGraham as quest:
| trap trimmed with maple leaves and white dy-
| drangeas.
Mr. and Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, Jr.:
| trap decorated with pink roses and clematis.
with canopy OF flowers. and dozen canary
| birds placed among the flowers.
Harry r. Taylor. with Miss Marie Winthrop
as guest; trap decorated with blue and white
| hydrangeas with canopy.
Harry Lehr. with Mrs. John Jacob Aston as
| guest white and pink hydrangeas and pink
| ribbons and large rose-t rec in bloom on rear
seat.
| Mr. Clarence Dolan. with'Mrs. ". r. Travers,
| as guest: decorated with turkey red and white
| flowers. with umbrella edged with electric
lights.
Oliver II. T. Belmont. with Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish as guest: body decorations yellow
arched with hydrangeas.ye flowers and cat
o'-nine-tais. An eagle surmounted the arch
| while four large gulls drew the machine driven
| by an eagle with yellow ribbons.
Mrs George B. DeForest. with Mr. +. Bald
| win as guest; Auto" trimmed with dark red
flowers and greens in festoons.
Col. John Jacob Aston. with Mrs. Adolf
Ladenburg as guest: white hydrangeas tied
| with white ribbons. Mrs. Ladenburg carrying a
| floral parasol.
Mrs John r. Drexel. with Reginald Ronalds
as guest pink and white hydrangeas and white
| ribbons.
Marquis de San Vito. with Miss Capp as
guest: white hydrangea pumes with floral
| canopy. from the corners OF which hung Jap
| anese lanterns.
Mr. and Mrs. George Won i. Meyer; vehicle
decorated with blue hydrangeas and ribbons.
II. Roger Winthrop with Mrs. Clarence Mac
Kay. as guest; body OF trap covered with red
flowers; Japanese umbrella with lanterns
hanging from points.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph widener: red fowers
| and paraso.
Prizes were awarded as follows: For evolu-
lions. Mrs. Carter and &. Leroy: for decora-
tions. frat, Mrs. Hermann oelrichs second.
| Mrs. BurSe-Roche.
At Gray Crag a dinner was served on q table
laid out as a floral garden with a pond as a
centrepisce. This was followed by dancing.
and a run homo early this morning. with the
electric display showing 1t was probably
the most unique entertainment ever given in