The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-09
.....NEW YORK SOCIETY.
BY pIEDRIcH kNIckEReockER.
Anticipation of the Annual Horse Show. SC Country Houses and Country Life sC

they will wear. There will be some nota- ble absentees this year. One will miss Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, Mrs. William K Vanderbilt, Jr., and Mrs. Charlie Chllds. All these ladies are in mourning. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is also in mourning, but she never cared very much for the show.
 The boxes for the 'horse show" were auctioned off on Thursday and the sum realized was gratifying to the managers or the association and to me fully indica- tive of the ''go' the season will have By the way, I may state, that all the best rooms in the hotels have been engaged, so 1t Is fair to say that Philadelphia Bait imore, Boston, and Pittsburg will be well represented. and as private dining rooms nave been engaged, I suppose there will be many horse show dinners. The hunting season has become so ''horsey'' that 1t has taken the greatest interest ID the shows at Nashville, Richmond At lanta, Chicago and St. Louis. These were attended by many members of the hunt ing set. The relations between the ele- ments which manage and attend these shows all over the country are now so close that the various events are follow ed with the keenest interest, and there is growing number of mn and women of wealth and leisure devoted to the breed- ing and cultivation of the horse who fol- low these shows and exhibit at them. Such well-known riders and drivers as Messrs. Prescott Lawrence Reginald w Rives, P. F. Collier, Frank Gray Gris- wold and Ralph Ellis are in constant de- mand as judges at these shows, and spend a good part of the year in travelling from one city to another to officiate in this capacity.
 A notable event was the ball at Morris town on Tuesday, given by Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy in the Old Lyceum, transformed for the occasion so that it's old habitues did not know it. The McCurdy enter tainment will be talked of throughout Northern New Jersey for years to come. In layishness, appointment and decora- tion it quite rivaled, If it did not surpass. some of the Newport functions of last summer The life and fashion of Norris town were assembled at this affair." The ball following the Newport fashion of late years, was preceded by a vaudeville entertainment. As wealth increases in this country social entertainments grow more and more elaborate and during the last live years there has been an evolu- ton from the ball or dance, with its SUD- per, to the vaudeville followd by supper, then to a dance or ball. closing with an- other supper or early breakfast MT. Mc- Curdy Is the president of the Mutual Lire Company His country home is one of the handsomest places in the United States and It's appointments reflect the tastes or wealthy and cultured gentle man. His stables are filled with excellent horses. His son-in-law. Mir Louis The bauld. who. was for many years a noted cotillon leader and cross-country rider. in spite of his business cares, has re- tained his love for outdoor recreation and social life. Mrs Thebauld is a charming and attractive hostess and dearly loves to make the great house at Morristown bright and gay with her young friends
 Election day being holiday and com ing on Tuesday. the country house par ties were very large from Friday to Wed. nesday. The mecca of the hunting ele-