The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
SOCIETY IN TOWN AND AT
NEARBY COUNTRY HOUSES
Plans for the Birmingham Horse Show Now Being Discussed
and the Boxes May be Auctioned This Week.
eY ANNIE KgNpRIck WALKED.

M HILE the horse show manage
wv ment is not yet prepared to
make a definite announcement
regarding the date for the sale of the
boxes, 1t is more than probable that they
will be auctloned the latter part of this
week. The disposal of the boxes has
usually been in the palm room at the
Hillman but the place for holding the
auction this year has not yet been de-
cided, although 1t will of course be con-
veniently located. The highest boxes last
year brought one hundred dollars, and
nearly one thousand dollars was netted
from the sale of the boxes alone. The
tiers back of the boxes seat several hum
dred people and command equally as good
view of the arena
No change is contemplated in the ar
rangement of the boxes, which will seat
twelve persons, but other improvements
about the tanbark will be very acceptable
The track will be widened in order to
bring the arena nearer to the boxes, and
| the lights will be arranged more satsfac-
torily to both the exhibitors and the spec
tators The arena was too far away last
year, but with the widening of the track
and removing the partition that eneircled
the tanbark, a much better view will be
had of the show.
Last year a group of women were APP
pointed patronesses of the horse show, and
they were asked to select their committees
for each evening of horse show week
Mrs. Robert Jemison was chairman of the
patronesses, and among the women APP
/ n cd NV ba committee TO
assist her were Mrs. T. G. Bush, Mrs
Walker Percy. Mrs. Ross c. Smith, Mrs
John L. Kaul, Mrs. Edward Magruder
i Tutwiler. Mrs Culpepper Exum. Each
patroness, with a bevy of beautiful young
women, occupied the box of honor on her
evening at the horse show, week OF
/ hrillancy that gave such social interest
to the event as to distinguish it from any
other event of the entire season. So cos
mopolitan indeed have the Birmingham
horse shows become that even the news
papers devote almost as much space to II
as that given by the New York horse
| show writers.
| The patroness plan was one of such brill
| liant social success last year that 1t viii
again be adopted for the show in October.
A chairman of the patronesses will be
/ selected from the fashionable married set,
and there will also be five or six women
dSktu u dSAlSl DeI lHtS VIII lihfS etie
/ privilege of selecting a group of young
women to sit with them in their box of
honor, the compliment is one to be much
appreciated by the society belle. Who will
be asked to take the leadership as chair
man of the horse show patronesses is not
known, and it will be difficult for the
horse show management to select from
group of women who are known to take
great interest in the horse show.
1l.4a n. l. m dan
season for holding the horse show The
horse show season in the south opens In
Columbia, Tenn, on September pa. The
Nashville show follows shortly after the
Columbia show, and Birmingham, In the
very center of the southern circuit, Is
preparing for the most successful horse
show of the entire season. Other southern
cities where horse shows are to be held
are Huntsville, Selma, Montgomery, jack
son, Miss, and Shreveport, La, thus max
ing the largest southern circuit yet held.
with horse shows in Atlanta. Louisville
and Richmond, 1t would seem that the en-
fire south intends to make the horse
show an annual event.
Back of the horse show enterprise are
the most representative people, and the
support and cooperation comes from
class of people that at once inspires con-
fldence in the undertaking. The Birming-
ham horse show management is determln-
ed to make the forthcoming show the
most successful not only from the social
side. but viewed from that side that looks
for a high-class exhibition, those who put
the horse show upon a different basis
from that of fashion.
Now that the horse shows have come
to be annual events in Birmingham, they
may be looked forward to with more
pleasureable interest, and the spasmodlc
interest noticeable at proceeding SHOWS
will now he concentrated into a complai-
co NJ aniOUment