The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-12
Mrs. Alien at SARATOGA.


The Philadelphia E0entng Telegraph. on
Wednesday, contained an interesting ac-
count of the arrival at Saratoga of Mrs.
Lille Barnes ALLEN, owner of the Rance
cas- stock farm at Jobstown. The article
is reproduced below:
The sensation at the race track and in
the hotels is tall, graceful, beautiful
woman of 35, who burst upon this rapid
social cosmopolis late last week, and who
has been the chief and envied object of
conversation among the grand DANES ever
since. To-day she is identified.
The woman had secured in advance a
cottage fronting on the lawn of the chief
hotel. She arrived unannounced, bring
ing with her retinue Of servants. Meals
were served in her suite of apartments
Evidently possessing cultivated musical
tastes, she attended the evening concerts
at which distinguished operate COM
poser leads the band. On one occasion
she dined in the pagoda on the lawn,
where she could enjoy the music while
she ate bird and slipped the wine.
Spectacular as she was herself univer-
sal interest was first excited by her turn
out. 1t was the finest rig seen on the
Broadway cOncOurse in many years.
Leaving the private stables where she
went to enter the carriage, the graceful
woman drove to the top of the hill near
the old Mount MacGregor Railroad, and
there headed her team down Broadway
The turnout consisted of three perfectly
matched bays, driven abreast like the
horses in a Roman chariot The woman
sat alone in the high mail phaeton of baby
blue color, with gillie in the spider be
hind her. An exquisite costume of steel
gray, slashed with black, graced her slen-
der form, and she wore ravishing picture
hat all black, that swayed in the wind as
she sped down the foliage-arched thor
oughfare.
The natives marvelled at the popularity
of the outfit. They had observed horses
driven tandem; fourth hands were even
more familiar to their eyes, but never out
side of ''the greatest show on earth" had
they seen woman driving a team of
three horses abreast. The extreme beauty
and lightness of the carriage, and the
spirited character of the animals, only
emphasized the perfect horsewomanship
of the driver.
1t was the crowded hour on Broadway.
The trend of pleasure traffic was towards
the polo field. George Gould's sturdy
automobile was snorting down the hill
and the arrivals of train Just in from
New York were occasioning great racket
on the sidewalk near the United States
Hotel. Through all this noise and con
fusion the woman guided her splendid
horses with the hand of trained whip.
The animals, going at a stiff trot, passed
the United States and continued down the
slope.
On the porch of the Grand Union sat a
few of the sturdy champions of the Amer
lean turf. In the party were ''Old Man"
James Galway, Colonel James E. Pepper
Perry Belmont, j. E. Madden, "Uncle
Bill" DAILY, and several of the younger
element, including Featherstone and
Drake.
Attracted by the sight of the approach
ing team, the hotel guests gathered at the
front of the piazza, the more closely to
observe the horses and their mistress.
Suddenly two members of the group of
thoroughbred owners thoroughbreds
themselves to their feet and lift
ed their hats most reverently. They sa.
luted the Lorillard colors Then they sat
down in silence, recalling how often they
had seen the cherry and black first under
the wire at all the tracks of this country
and on Epson Downs. The man in the
spider wore cherry -hued livery, with
black collars and cuffs. He lacked only
the black cap and gold tassel to complete
the colors of the Rancocas stable
The superb horsewoman was recognized
as Mrs. Lille Barnes Allen, formerly Mrs
Barnes, of Brooklyn, whose history has
in recent years been linked with that of
the late Pierre Lorillard. She is the light
hearted woman who was known in every
seaport of the Mediterranean visited by
the LOrillard yacht Especially was she
favorite at Tunis and the gay port of
Viletta, at Malta. She has climbed the
Pyramids, assembled the Nile in diabeah,
entered the great gates at Karnak, wor
shipped Isis at Philae, knelt at the Holy
Manager at Bethlehem, swan in the Dead
Sea, heard the muzzims call to prayer at
Damascus umpired boat race between
yachts crews in the harbor OF Smyrna,
chatted with the Sultan of Turkey, and
lunched with Edward VII, when he was
Prince of Wales
She does not occupy box at the track,
but nestles back in the crowd among other
well dressed women, and is therefore most
difficult to find.