Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-25
THE HORSE SHOW.
Gotham Sights as Seen Through
Down East SpectacIes.
John Quill and Carrie Nation Among
The Four Hundred.
Former Also Sees Magic Working and
Goes to Theatre.

| While over in New York, last week
! had shy at the horse show. Like
that celebrated beer that did so much
10 bring a western town into promi-
nence the horse show has made New
YORK famous. The horse show itself is
nnquestionably the society event of the
season and calls together the smart set
| ana the horse lovers of both continents.
| Inc week is practically given over to
inns one event and all social functions
are shelved or cancelled while the horse
IS King. The yellow ard black in
| combination, the horse show cOlOrs, are
seen on every hand, from the shop
windows on Broadway and Union
| Square to the avenues and residential
| sections above 18th Street While
Madison Square Garden, the barn-like
| structure covering block or so, where
i the show is being held is festooned
with rosettes and long streamers from
| gable to cOrnice in the club cOlOrs, as a
reminder that the 18th, annual horse
show is being held within it's portals
Inside the building itself and the
grounds are decked out in gorgeous
arrays. The blending of the sombre
and pumpkin colors gives a peculiarly
odd effect. The long streamers extend
from the rafters to the corners and
crossed to the boxes. The boxes them
selves were very prettily drapped with
flags, buntings, ferns and flowers and
occupied by the smart set, the society
leaders, also representatives of those
in the social swim of Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, Boston and
even across the herring pond. To see
l
who gather around the tan bark ring.
This year the entries far exceed any
previous year. Something like 1900
horses have been entered in the vari-
Gus classes. And something like $4,000
was received by the management be-
fore the doors We're opened which
guaranteed success financially.
tut then, this is not a mOney-making
scheme, not a lucre-gatherer in any
sense of the word. 1t is plaything, Il
toy. q safety valve, as it were, that en-
abcs the millionaire New Yorker to di-
vert his mind from watered stocks and
financial problems and to settle down
into the winter routine without ex-
pericncing any sudden Jars. 1t goes
without saying that everybody attends
this show sometime during its run.
The Nanderbilts the AstOrs the Whit
neys, the ClarkS, the BENEFITS, the
Martins. the Jones and the Brooks. and
down the list of four-hundred were all
represented. Miss Alice Roosevelt,
daughter of the President occupied one
of the boxes as a guest Of Miss Reid.
daughter of Whitelaw Reid. Young
Vanderbilt Familiarity known as
reggie" with his fiancee Miss Nelson
were the center of attraction in one of
the boxes farther along the line. And
there were others too numerous to
mention. Last but not the least came
Mrs Carrie Nation fresh from the
Howard in Boston. She blew in dur
| ing the week and looked like one of the
two little girls in blue" But then.
| Carrie is nothing unless original and as
| a curio she is a bowling success. The
New York horse show has now become
| a national affair and its 1902 success
| has far exceeded expectations, and re-
| fleets great credit upon the manage
ment.
New York can well be called an open
| city for every street from the battery
| to Harlem is gapping open in places ana
| one can gaze at the bowels OF the earth
| to an unknown depth at will. In fact.
| the whole burgh is honeycombed an"
| stands. today, shOred up on props.
| which gives one the feeling or the man
| who built his home upon the sand.
was over on 9Th Avenue the other nisht'
| strollng along with friend OF mine
| when we came to a low wooden puiio-
| ing on our right with little sign hang-
| ing in the window, which read Magic
| Workers of America My friend DeinS
| a member of the club invited me to en-
| ter. We passed through the front shop.
| which is devoted to Magician supplies.
| I found myself in a good sized room III
! the rear, the lounging-room OF the cruz.
| The organization is composed OIL SOME
| of the brightest men ana women u"
| their chosen lines in this country. Men
| and women, who are not oniy hea"-
| liners i'm this country but VINO nave
created q sensation and set the Woriu
| talking in the European capitals. Inc
| club is q social organization ana the ciup
| room is the meeting place, as ITS name
| implics, for the magic Worhers vi
| America. The club has a immature
| theatre with a stage and all the acces-
| series lust back of the cluD rooI'
| where entertainments are given py the
| members three or four times q hloi',i
| And one evening out of every month IS
| set aside for ladies' night when the 1alr
| eek are entertained. During our can
| several members of the club gave an
| exhibition of mind-reading more es-
| peciallv for my benefit. The work was
| something wonderful. l watched them
| very closely and on my return trled 10
| initiate Them Beyond tapping my
| forehead with my finger l made very
| little Roadway.
one peculiar thing noticed was the
| announcement prominently displayed
| of seats on sale for the eternal city. NO
! doubt many will avail themselves OF
this opportunity and avoid the rush.
rho dramatic season is at dts heisht.
| and all the pIay-houses are putting on
their pest attractions. At the gknicker-
/ hooker sherlock Holmes with Gillette
in the title role fresh from his London
success is packing the house nightly.
/ VIRGINIA Hearned in Iris" is at the
i cr;terion. Miss Hearned is always
GOOD and her company is excellent. AT