New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

xmount of the attention Of the fashionable "OllN
IN the week which has just closed IN eoii.-e .
ton with the annual show and westminster No'
Fair at White Plains, constitute one OF the pfh1i
pal features of the social programme during inc
coming fortnight. The annual horse sho" an
county fair at MineoIa opens on Thursday iasInls
until Saturday. That of the MorTistoWh 1ieiA
Club will take place on the latter's ground Just
yveeIx later while on the following day the North
Shore Horse Show Association will have Its amman
exhibition on the Piping Rock Field al Locust
Valley Long Island The horse shows at DOM
MineoIa and at Piping Rock are exceedingly popu-
lar with all those have their country homes on
Long Island especially with those known as 'he
Meadow Brook set and who are almost without
exception members of the Meadow Brook CIuO-
The shows afford rendezvous Tor friends anu az
quaintances after being scattered during the sum
mer at seaside resorts, in the mountains ana Ia
Europe and likewise furnish an occasion OF rnucn
hosnitaltv many festive house parties being or
ganized in connection with these exhibitions, Wnlcn
constitute the first general gathering IN the rali OF
the Long Island element OF New York society.
Among those who the owners and tenants OF
places in the district, particularly inter-
asted In the MIneoIa and Piping Rock horse shows
are Mr. and Mrs Thomas Hitchcock. Jr, Mr.. ana
Mrs Clarence H Mackay. August Belmont Win
August Belmont. jr., young Mrs Belmont ana her
husbands brothers; Mr.. and Mrs Theodore A
Havemeyer Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne whitney,
now on their way home from Europe, with Mr. and
Mrs James A. Burden; also Mr.. and Mrs Norman
De R Whtehouse Mr.. and Mrs Alexander Butter
Duncan Mrs. Sidney Dillon Ripley, Mr. ana MIS-
Herbert Hartman, who have taken the Alsernon
K Boyesen place at Westbury for the autumn and
winter; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zabriskie Gray Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer. Mr.. and Mrs r Lfv-
ingston Beeckman. Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph N Elils'
who have leased Paul Dana's country place near
Glen Cove: Mr.. and Mrs Edwin D. Morgan MI
and Mrs. Herman B. Duryea, Mr. and Mrs Jonn
s Phipps Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps'
after a motoring tour in Europe now on their
way home; Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott Cameron. who
have arranged to spend the winter abroad; Generai
and Mrs. Lloyd S. Bryce, Mr.. and Mrs. Payne
whitney Mr.. and Mrs. w K Vanderbilt. Jr. the
Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs Robert
BACON and Mrs O. H P. Belmont, who is in
mourning.
OF the two Long Island horse shows. IT Is prob
ably that at Piping Rock which stands highest IN
the favor of the Meadow Brook set, owing 10 the
fact that the entries are restricted to us own sta
bles In fact the exhibitors are limited to those
having places on Long Island.
What the White Plains Horse Show IS to the
Westchester set. and what the Mineola and Piping
Rock exhibitions are to that Of the Meadow Brook
and Long Island colony, the annual horse sno"
organized by the Morristown Field Club on its
grounds at Morristown will be for those having
country houses in the vicinity. and 1t Will be 1oI-
lowed Just week after its close by a horse sho"
and race meeting organized by the Whippany River
Club near by The whippany River Club occu-
MES the country seat and the extensive grounds
that were formerly the summer home OF Eugene
Higgins. The members who have charge Of the
show and OF the are ]. Searle Barclay, IT..
Henry S. Page. Benjamin Nicoll, Dr. Leslie Ward
and Grant B. Schley. George R SchieTelin Rich
ard A Mccurdy B. Ogden Chiso1m, Woodbury. G.
Tanedon and Henry w Shoemaker are those who
are more particularly interested in the management
and success Of the Morrtstown Field Club show.
and among the stables represented at both Of the
shows will be that of H. NICK Twornbly, who. with
Mrs Twombly and Miss Ruth TEornbly, is return
ing from Europe to entertain a series OF mouse
parties at F1orhan. his country place near Madi-
son, in connection with the two exhibitions.
Eugene Higgins who IS over here on his an
nuaI autumn visit to his native land. has, as usual
made the trip across the Atlantic board his
large steam yacht. the varuna, and has brought
with him party Of friends. He will remain until
the middle of next month. and then return to EJ-
rope, where he lives most Of the year. Cornelius
Vanderbilt is likewise sailing for Europe board
his steam yacht North Star. the flagship OF the
New York Yacht Club. He departs on Sunday next
and will be Joined the other side by Mrs Van
derbilt and his children. who now at Nauhein.
and with whom he Will spend the winter cruising
in the Mediterranean. They will make their head
quarters at Cannes. where Mrs Ogden GoeIet has
rented villa and where she will spend the winter
with her father, Richard T. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs Edward II. Delafeld are receiving
concentrations on the birth OF q daughter two
days ago at Noroton. Conn Mrs. Delafeld was
Miss wfnifred Folsom. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
George Winthrop Folsom.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting and Miss Olivia
Cutting have returned to town from their Euro
pean trip and will spend the fall az their country
place at Oakdale. Long Island.
Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who has been abroad
with her mother, Mrs. Francis Ormond French,
since the middle of July returned to New York
yesterday on the Mauretania
Mr.. and Mrs. WILDER a BIoodgood have returned
to their country place at Seabright. N. J., where
they will remain for the few weeks. Early
in November they viii open their house in East
S4th street for the winter.
Mrs. H. HoIbrook Curtis and her daughter Miss
Marjorie Curtis. who passed the summer at York
Harbor. Me-. have gone to the Adirondacks for
short stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Payne Thompson will close
their villa at Newport to-day and open their coun-
try place Long Island for the fall.
Mrs. Oliver H P. Belmont, on her return from
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