New-York tribune., 1901-11-19
HORSE SHOW.


Show Association is too well known in every
CITY and town of the land to need any further
description. 1t is enough to say that the horse
Show is on and that it bids fair TO excel us
most prosperous predecessors in point OF qudity
of the animals shown. as it already does IN
point of numbers and in the character and size
of the attendance. 1t goes without saying tnat
the details Of the show and all the particulars
Of MANAGEMENT are smoothly discharged. and
that the machinery of the show is swift and
efficient The managers of the big exhibition
long ago mastered the business of exposition.
50 that little improvement could be wished ror-
The Horse Show week of 1901 seems likely
to establish a record TO the number OF out
Of town people 1t has attracted 70 the metrop-
oils More of them than ever before. especially
from the West and the South, have come to
town avowedly for the purpose Of taking IN
the show Many of them have found it i'm
possible to get accommodations at the principal
hotels The Waldorf Is full to its utmost limits.
as also are the Manhattan. the Imperial and
most Of the hotels in the Central Park district
As a result many visitors have been obliged to-
accept accommodations that they have scorned
in previous years.
A SOCIETY DATE OF IMPORTANCE
To the society calendar of city and State
Horse Show Week is date of significance It
means the end of the country life OF society
until the holidays Back from Newport. Lenox,
Southampton and all the scores of towns where
fashionable folk have been spending the beauti-
full fall days have come most OF the smart New
Workers Scores of town houses have been
opened within a few days for the first time since
they were closed last May June The Horse
Show marks the beginning of the social season
in town This week sees many functions dis
tinctiy consequent upon the show. There are
horse show Iuncheons and horse show break
fasts and suppers without end Next week the
ordinary winter routine of society will be taken
I'D but this week belongs to the horse
Those there be who still maintain that the
horse is only an excuse for the social features:
that the horse is merely rallying point But.
at any rate everything is done in his name
For one week he is again superior to the auto
mobile. Even the king of chaufeurs, Henri
Fournier abandoned his denonlike racer yes
terday and turned his attention the horse.
Next week he will return TO the machine but
the horse has had his brief hour Of triumph
Yesterdays attendance was fully up to the
first days average. and probably a bit ahead
~ II although the tickets will have to be
counted before the exact figures are known
Nearly every box was occupied in the evening
and tvve-thirds OF them were taken for at least
a part of the afternoon
The show was opened quietly and informally.
as usual when the doors were thrown open soon
after OPO-4SNA
exercising the horses that occupied the stalls
in the basement. Not many of the animals
araiIed themselves Of this privilege, though ths
number exercised will doubtless be increased on
following mornings. Indeed, when the snow
opened not all the stalls in the Garden were oc-
cupied but by noon there was not d vacant
place left. There are accommodations at the
Garden for two hundred and fifty horses. and
every one of them had arrived before afternoon
TfrrJ-- 6R0 md
81 are ouartered one hundred and fifty more.
and the rest are scattered about in private
stables throughout the city, with the exception
of a few that come from Brooklyn. being driven
over the bridge or brought across on the Twen-
,y-third-st. ferry each morning.
THE GARDEN IN PRIME CONDITION
The big Garden was never in better condi-
tfon for the annual reception to society and
the horse Superintendent Frank Clarke, fresh
from his work with the track of the Coney
Island Jockey Club had overseen the prepara- .
ton of the ring and it's tanbark surface was in
rerfecr condition being level and smooth. and
having lust the right amount Of elasticity
Draped from the huge rafters far alott and
along the fronts of all the boxes. were the {
colors of the National Horse Show Assoclatlon' !.
while the grooms and attendants that ran
bither and thither. were clad in the familiar
uniforms 1t wanted only a rev youths With 3
yellow chrysanthemums in their buttonholes 10
resemble some Princeton function But ali the
voutbs with the yellow chrysanthemums were
avrav down in New-Jersey trying IN various
uavs r, assuage their grief over their footnah
drubbing of Saturday.
The iuds;ng of the morning classes was coH
ducted as is usually the case. on the opeiiins
aov in the presence of mere hand1ui OF sPec-
tato-s Later on the early corners whom 'n0
horsav dub "the renbirds. Will increase III
urr,bsrs until they form goodly assemUISSes
O.. Tho real horse lover likes 20 go 10 the sho"
-har there is nothing to prevent MIN from
t,. the horse To him. the horse is the tnln8
and not society
os all the notable assembly of horsefesh. the
est +o face the judges were the Hghtweignt
hunters and every one of the entries appeared
when the bugIe blew and the gates were rolled
.n.rt for the first time. Miss Holloway was
tba only woman in the saddle. and she rode her
oxrn entry Judge Kemp. but was among the
FIRST of the competitors dismissed by the experts
John E. Cowdn, the polo player a. 4 Dun
can and James X. Maddux George Peppers
hrovn gelding Lord Mimic finally got the blue
ribbon with Henry W. Colt jr's Bennington
second best Adam Beck, who is a veteran ex-
rih Wi