The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-28
The Glasses Were Better Than
On Opening Night and the
Public Better Pleased.
The Attendance Last Night Was
Fifty Per Cent Larger Than
On Tuesday Night
More Women Wear Evening
Dress, and the Boxes Were
All Filled.
BY FRANK II. BELL.

In brilliance and point of attendance
the horse SNOW fast night was far in adj
vance of the opening night. The crowd
was larger by more than five hundred
people. and many more women were in
evening gowns and the men in dress
suits.
The scene .rivaled and surpassed that of
the first night, as every one was more
familiar with the customs of a horse
show, and came ready and willing to be
pleased. The audience was far more en-
thusiastic and much more easily pleased
They were satisfied with life long before
they had reached the last class of the
evening, which was the one to attract
the most attention-the jumpers.
A marked difference was to be noticed
in the people and things at the show last
night On the first night they came in
skeptical mood, and longing to pick the
flaws which they felt would exist. They
were disappointed and gradually their
desire to criticise underwent change
and words of praise commenced to fiow
Last night they came expecting to be
pleased, and also educated, and they
were not disappointed.
Experimental Stage Passed.
The horse show has passed its expert
mental stage and become a success be-
yond shadow Of doubt. The people
realized this at once, and the patronage
last night was one of the proofs that they
had awakened to the fact that Birming-
ham has given the best initial horse show
ever seen in the south, and one that is
equal in many ways to the fifth and sixth
in other cities.
Fewer men appeared last night with
out their dress suits, and still fewer
women were without evening dress. This
goes farther to make the show success
than any other one thing not excepting
even the horses, and If the ratio increases
tonight and tomorrow night, as it did last
night, the closing night will be a sight
which will not be witnessed again for
a long time. 1t will see all of Birming-
hams social world out in all its glory
pretty women, elegant gowns and hand
some men.
At the Matinee.
At the matinee yesterday afternoon the
scene was not as brilliant, for it lacked
the glare of the electric lights, which
gives color to everything. There were,
however, large number of ladies out,
and they witnessed two of the best classes
yet exhibited
This afternoon there will be harness
and running races, and again tonight the
regular horse show programme will be
resumed. In last nights exhibition there
was some delay in bringing the horses
into the arena promptly; and in the decis-
ions of the judges. They had several
very difficult classes to Jucge, and were
long about 1t. This caused some impa-
tience among the crowd, and prolonged
the programme nearly half an hour. caus-
ing a number OF people to leave before it
was over.
Three new classes were exhibited last
night. all of which proved to be more
popular than any preceding them. The
high school horses came in for mere than
their share of applause. The pretty work
of Mr. Ashbrooks American Beauty was
perhaps the best that has been seen here.
The high school horses are picked for
their intelligence, and are trained to do
many things which are never attempted
with the other horses.
Tandems Were Popular.
The tandems were also very popular
There were three teams in the arena and
It was hard to decide which was the
prettiest and best equipped. With one
horse hitched in front of another 1t
makes them much more difficult to drive
and makes an attractive feature.
The -in-hand park horses were very
pretty. on the coach Of Mr.. Ashbrook,
who was handling the ribbons. was a
beyy of as pretty women as are to be
found in the south. He will never be
able to get another party so well
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