New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-11-17
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

inaugurated tomorrow with the opening OF the
annual Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in
the morning and with the initial performance at
the Metropolitan Opera House IN the evening.
The great equine OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of its
series and in many respects a national affair
will be supplemented Friday and Saturday by
the annual toy spaniel dog show. in the concert
hall of Madison Square Garden: and what with
operas both at the Metropolitan and at the Man
haitian, on three and even four nights. number
| of weddings and the Harvard-Yale football con-
test which will take n number of people up to
Cambridge on Saturday next. the week beginning
to-day promises to be particularly busy one from
a social point of view.
The directors and managers of the Horse Show
will give their usual preliminary luncheon at the
Garden to-day, and their guests will include many
representatives OF the smart clubs the Judges
the principal exhibitors and the owners OF the
most important stables in the country. It IS tho
one big entertainment at which the leading horse
men from all parts Of the Union enjoy the oppor-
tunity Of meeting and becoming acquainted with
one another. and is therefore Interesting func-
ton. not only from social but also from an
equine point Of view. On the following morning
at . o'clock the show will throw open its doors
at the customary signal OF the bugle, which al
ways announces the beginning of the exhibition
Visitors have arrived in town from all parts OF the
Union. and even from Canada, from Mexico and
from Cuba, IN order to participate in this yearly
gathering in Madison Square Garden. Every ho-
tel Is crowded to its utmost limits. tables in the
fashionable restaurants at a premium at the
| luncheon. dinner and supper hours. and IN the
next few days New York will be the PRINCIPAL
point of attraction OF the country the social Mecca
OF America.
Whereas in former years the attendance Of the
smart set at the show at its best in the even
ing after-dnner sessions. when the boxes filed
with beautifully dressed women. presented brill
liant spectacle IT may be taken for granted that
this autumn society will time its visits to the show
for afternoon rather than night For, with per-
formances not only at the Metropolitan but also
at tho Manhattan, the women will naturally pre-
fer their loges at the opera. which furnish so
artistic a background and setting TO appearing
after dinner at the Horse Show. where the cleo
trio light is most trying to feminine beauty and
where the crowd. the noise the dust and the alb
of comfort in the boxes tend to interfere
with perfect enjoyment. From social point of
view the show will therefore offer a greater
amount Of interest in the afternoon than in the
evening.
Quite number of new names appear upon tho
list of subscribers for the boxes in the parterre
row at the Metropolitan and this in itself makes
the opening of the opera season there more than
ordinarily worthy of note. Some of the new Names
such, for instance. as those of Mrs. William Earle
Dodge and Of Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer belong to young
matrons who prior to their marriage were IA
miar figures in the parterre circle. Others. such
those of Henry c. Frck. who has purchased
the Barley box; of Mrs. Alfred Graham Miles and
Charles T. Barney's odd Mondays in Box have not
been seen before in that part of the house. Sew
eral we'll known habitues will be missing. notably
Mrs. Astor, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson. ST.,
who are both in feeble health; Mrs. Robert Goelet
and Mrs. Ogden GOelet, and the married daughters
we'll as the nephews and nieces and other rela-
tives OF the late Charles T. Barney. Their places
however, will be taken by others. and the parterre
row may be relied upon to present tomorrow
ing the brilliant and dazzling spectacle that
II always furnishes on the opening night OF the
season. when the women appear in their most
beautiful dresses and IN their most superb jewels
for the first great rendezvous OF society after tho
summer. From the opera will be the IA
vorite trysting place of the fashionable world on
three nights of the week. where be dis
cursed plans made and entertainments organized.
Indeed, II may almost be described the winter
clearing house of New York society.
Among the debutantes of the winter viii be Miss
Dorothy Bigelow. daughter of Mrs. Poultney
Bigelow, who will spend the winter with her sis
ter Mrs. ]. F. Alloys Clark at the latters house,
IN Ssth street, and be chaperoned by her. Her
aunt, Miss Bigeow daughter of the venerable John
Blgeow former Minister TO France; her cousin,
Mrs j. Borden Hartman. and other relatives are
10 give entertainments for her. and she will have
exceedingly gay winter. Among other debu-