New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
BOAT RACES AMONG THE THOUSAND ISLANDS
Horses and FIo5rcrs 10 BE the At
fractions This Week.

Long Branch. y j. July % tspecisD.-I.ong
BrancL's midsummer attraction the horse show,
IS now the topic talked about by the summer
folk The exhibition opens Wednesday. and con-
tinues four days. closing on Saturday with "a double
exhibition. the closing feature being a show by
electric light. when The championship classes viii
be judged.
The show will be better than last years which
was record breaker. Already many OF the *
hibitors have their horses stabbed at the show
grounds. While the hotels have flied up The cot
tagers. those who own their own homes and make
feature Of entertainment in horse show week are
already welcoming their friends
There are over live hundred entries. These were
not compiled until to-day. The prize list aggregates
5000. At the annual sale OF boxes held d week
ago, over $500 was realized
Nearly all the uIirluC exhibitors OF the tast
thirteen years have entries. Among them are Mrs
John G,rkeu. Mrs J. H. NJ. tiroSveuor and Alfred
G. Vanderbilt The latter has won the road race
between Scabright ana Long Branch for the last
two seasons Mr.. and Mrs Vanderbilt Il Is ex-
pected. Will spend some time OF horse show week
with Mr.. and Mrs William q. Loew at the Baker
cottage at Monmouth Beach.
Some sixty classes VIII be shown nj the five OK
hnitous. a special feature will De the Patten cup
valued at $500 This VIII be made feature Of Sat
urday's card. Governor Stokes has promised the
morse show management 20 run up from Sea Grt
week from to-day
flower show viii also be an attraction next
week This exhibition opens on Wednesday after
noon and continues for two afternoons and evenings
II Is uHGer uhe auspices or the Eberon Horti-
cultural Society. The show grounds VIII be at the
new casino IN ocean avenue. There VIII be over
one hundred prizes including half dozen for litte
folk The couagers who cultivate gardens and
have conservatories and they are numbered along
the Jersey coast by the score are deeply concerned
and are taking active part 10 make the second
annual show 4 success.
An opera. musical comedy festival and Shake
speaTian ball will be given at the Hollywood Hotel
two weeks from tonight. The company. chorus
and orchestra will constitute a mammoth affair
At the conclusion Of the performance a Shake
sperean ball viii be given. The various characters
Will be coutrasted- The receipts from the enter
talnment win be added to the fund now being coll
lected to erect q monument ~ - -.
Joseph Jefferson In Central Park, New York
The Garfield Monument Association was fully
organized this week by the appointment of thirty
directors The association viii canvass the city for
Iuhds 10 erect memorial IN Ocean Park Long
Branch, 70 the memory Of the martyred President
who died here on September 10. 1881 Governor e c.
Stokes heads the list Of honorary ce-Drpsi1antS
Murphy. Isidor Straus H. f. Fisk. L. f c. Young
Jefferson Seligman, George II. Prentiss Charles A.
Atkins, Augustus Chandler. Jacob A King Thomas
McGarter, T. r Howell. S r GuggenheIm. Or.
Andrew II. Smith. the Rev DR.. c. J. Young VIII
lam Hogencsnp' Colonel r. G.. Clowry the Rev.
DR.. David James Burre1l and John T. Foster
The CITY Council the Board Of Trade and the
Beach and Park Commission this week adopted
resolutions commenting the work Of the asso-
citation and promising to do all In their power
to bring about the early contamination of its
objects
p. T. Collier. OF New York. who has a summon
home at Eatontown. is camping in the Adiron-
dacks Before going there he left orders for the
celebration Of farmers day. at the old Mon
mouth Park Racetrack on August Z. Farmers of
MiddIeseX Monmouth and Mercer counties will be
treated to a clambake in the morning ar the
Collier home. followed by series of seven races
in the afternoon.
The famous Rumson Road region IS now under
borough form OF government. An election was
held this week and Frank Mcmahon was elected
Mayor, with board Of six councilman. The
famous drive will be rebuilt and other tmprova-
ments made. The borough is the richest along
the coast, with property valuations estimated a.
S. 100000