The Washington herald., 1907-11-22


Madison Square Garden. Nov. 2--Rain
and murky skys were forgotten under
the blaze Of lights and colored banners
Of the horse show to-day
There was a veritable crush so far as
the attendance was concerned 'The rain
drives 'em in said the ring groom as
he noted the afternoon rush, and there
was a more strident tone 10 the bugIe
calls The directors, with smiling faces,
whispered the same comment at night,
so all went very we'll
/ Men, as in the old times, formed a ma
jority Of the visitors. Again the long
! range hand-shakes over the box front
between the smiling women and their
men friends on the board walk was in
view, winners and losers Of the ring con-
tests sharing without prejudice in the
feminine greetings.
II seems an of year with coat flowers
with the men. A few sported vioIets
but not the younger men Of the clubs
An exception is Alfred Vanderbilt, who
wears a red and white pink boutonniere
/ whatever coat he may be wearing, and
/ in the class for road coaches each Of the
whips had flowers in his lapel. But this.
with white toppers. was the only con-
! cession they made TO old-time coaching
ways. White box coats and pearl but
tons were cut out, but the guards were
in the customary gay liveries.
Vanderbilt Gets the Blue.
There was sentiment in the award Of
the blue for road teams TO a. G. Wander
bilt, for it was his fourth year OF VIC
tory with grays. The objectors to the
award did not consider the sentiment and
the combination OF J. Campbell Thomp-
sons fine driving and fast teams made
the vanderbilt entry second choice with
the crowd
There were two frsts on records for
women. For the initial time at a national
horse show a woman rode astride In 4
class for ladies saddle horses, although
young girls do So The Joan OF Arc OF the
bifurcated was Mrs. J. A. Edmunds. OF
Manhattan She wore black habit and
. tan rough rider hat. and. as her dark
chestnut had a white bride and reins the
OUTFIT was as prominent in the large class
as a chrysanthemum would be In q bridal
wreath. The other new record was a
woman driver. in the class for trotting
roadsters, Miss Anna :. Beverly. Of Co
lumbus, Ohio.
The trOtJing horse classes had slim
entries and the best horses were owned
by HoratiO y. Bain. Of Poughkeepsie. who
took blue ribbons in eight different
classes.
Ellerslie Of Elsinore won the first blue
ribbon for ElsinOre Farm Of the week in
the class for Shetland stations that be-
gan the judging to-day EllersIie was
the peer OF small studs. Six trotter
classes held the judges until the noon halt.
the entries being too small in number TO
be representative but OF good quality.
Camera Is kentucky Bred.
The Kentucky-bred colt Camera won In
the three-year-old class for c. c. Hen
Erickson, Of Manhattan. the winners in
the four other classes for youngsters
being bred at the Balm Farm at Pougb-
keepsie. The three-year-Old FLY 10 win
was Frances Balm, by Master Elect. while
two by Sir Robbins were other winners
Charley Robbins and Alcina Robbins
two-year-olds. and the yearling hIly
Akela Nickliffe, By WIcklife. was also in
line
With road teams as an attraction this
afternoon, and the fact that Alfred G.
Vanderbilt was 20 drive his unbeaten
team Of grays. winners at the London
show, the attendance at the Garden was
very large. few of the arena boxes were
empty, and many of the tier boxes had
occupants, and the arena seats were well
filled
Society was pleased when the Wander
bilt team won
II was another day for somber colors
being in keeping with the rainy weather.
But the highly Illuminated building. dec
GRATED with its orange and black. made
a rich background 10 the scene presented
in the boxes.
Some of the Costumes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barclay Warburton Of
Philadelphia. and Mrs. c. Oliver Harri-
man were guests in the Reginald c.
Vanderbilt box Mrs Vanderbilt wore
a blue costume and hat trimmed with
pink orchids. She had fox furs Mrs.
Oliver Hartman wore an old blue COS
tune. trimmed with cOffee-colored lace.
and big black hat trimmed with black
ostrich plumes.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. d. Morgan entertain
ed large party Of friends in their box.
No A.. Mrs. Morgan wore a costume OF
gray cloth.
Mrs Russell Hopkins, Who is display
ing more costumes than any woman who
Is patronizing the show. wore a costume
of striped cloth, her hat was white.
trimmed with a green bird with bid
white wings.
Mrs Alfred C. Vanderbilt entertained
Miss Evelyn Parsons, Miss Pauline
French, and Mr.. and Mrs. F. Martin Da-
vies. Mrs. Vanderbilt wore a blue striped
costume, blue hat, and sable furs.
With Mrs +, r, Ladew We're Mr.. and
Mrs. f. Berry Wall, Mrs. Charles Wall. /
and Miss Elise Ladew, who wore |
brown velvet costume and black picture |
hat.
Senator George Peabody Wetmore's box |
was big attraction during the after
noon, and il was filled with children, his /
grandchildren, and they were enthusias- |
tic about everything they saw in the
ring.