The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-18
HORSE is KING
IN NEW YORK
E-. -
Great Annual Show Opens in.
Madison Square Garden.
scENE.o oF.vy EALT HAND BEAUTY
Greatest Gathering Ever Witnessed on
a Similar Occasions-a Number
of.virginians isss4ere Last
Night.
SCENEOFvv EALT HAN D BEAUTY
(SpeciaI Dispatch to The TImes.)

NEW YORK, November 17.-S:S0 P. NJ
annual Horse Show at he Madison Square
Gardens was in full swing. Like an eN-
press train with the throttle Of it's engine
wide open, the great, the wonderful as
semblage sprung to its work. Quickly as
the red lightning leaps across the storm
cloud did the amazing throng of bejew-
eled, silk-decked, flashing, dashing, high
living. proud-thinking men and women
leap to the business in hand. Who asks
the silly question is life worth living? We
don't know, but we know that not one
of the thousands at to-nlghts Horse
Show thought of such trivial linterrogatory.
The tide Of life ran high There was
power there and joy and victory. 1t is
seriously to be doubted if Paris itself,
the home and head center of the artistic,
could have furnished SO wonderful a spec
tacle as the one which was witnessed this
evening in the great auditorium at Madi-
son Avenue and Twenty-seventh5 Street.
Time was when cultivated people from
acr oss the water We're in the habit of crit
icising our country upon the score OF rus
ticity, or, perhaps I should say, upon It's
democratic simplicity. They missed the
1nellowness. the grace, the splendid poise
that mark the old world functions. But
il the critics had been at the Madison
Square Garden they would have been
most effectually slenced.
They would have found melloWness,
grace and poise-the most splendid con-
ceivable; they would have found them
selves in t.Se midst of a mighty company
Of men and women who. for culture or
intellect. richness of attire and grace and
z1l;,,nitv Of bearing. were the equals of any
3coterie of kings and queens that ever got
themselves together in the days of chiv-
airy.
And the arena, the horses. How proud
they were! Their names and their tails
were adorned with ribbons that had been
adjusted by fair hands upon which flashed
the diamonds that queens might envy.
and the noble creatures seemed to know
it. and they showed it by the glory OF
their motion. Horse, man. women-a
mighty multitude Of them-all brimful of
the 10y of living, all on their mettle. all
nutting their best foot forward in the one
grand. supreme hour of the years festi-
val of festivals
For one two, three, four hours, the
splendid scene went on the arena full Ct
the finest horsetesh to be found upon the
planet; boxes crowded with the wealth,
beauty and fashion of the new world S
metropolis: and the whole great a1nphl-
theatre filled with thousands of gaping,
wondering humanity.
The Old Dominion steamer Princess
Anne, which arrived yesterday from
Norfolk, brought a delegation OF socially
prominent Virginians to attend the Horse
Show.
Among those in the party, which num-
bered a bout eighty were: Mrs. A. J. Mon
tague, Miss May Handy, Miss Langhorne.
the Misses Baillie. Mr.. and Mrs. e. II
Cloves, Mr.. and Mrs. f. r. Morton. Miss
Elizabeth Morton Mrs. G. p Farrell
Mrs. T. S. Hubert, Mr.. and Mrs. N. B.
i Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. p. 3. Seymour. Mrs.
10. M. Walker. Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Wilson.
and Miss Wilson The party was in charge
| of Mr.. G. NJ Wyatt, Of Richmond