The Washington times., 1908-09-06

I ing OF single horses before ladies' basket
phaetcns by a number Of women OF the
Westchester county set OF our four
hundred. There are also to be conpe-
titions in four-in-hand and tandem driv-
| ing, for which Alfred G. Vanderbilt has
! offered a couple Of very handsome silver
cups. In fact, the Westchester County
Horse Show ane annual fair bid fair TO
prove more than usually successful this.
year.
Then TO Minesla.
Then on september "A follow the
horse shows se Mineola, L. J., and at
/ Morristown. -. ]. The Mineola horse
show is to the large colony of New
/ Workers. who have country places on
/ Long Island, and more especially to the
/ Meadow Brook set, just what the White
| Plains horse show and county fair is
/ the Iseiins, the Aillses, the Waterburys,
| TO the Oliver Harrinnsns. the Reyuals.
/ the PotteTs. and all the other members
Of the so-called Westchester county set.
Alfred Vanderbilt is to be one of the
| judges at Mineola. and his brother Reg
/ gle. an extensive exhibitor, while among
| these who are actively interested in the
| affair and who Will keep open house in
] connection Herewith are the Clarence
Mackays, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Hitch
cock, ir., Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Butler
i Duncan. the Sammy Wagstaffs, who
sail for home this week with Mrs.
Alfred @. Vanderbilt and her boy: also
the Herman r. Duryea's, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Rogers Winthrop, the Payne
Whitneys, the Robert Rollers, the
/ Fhippses, and Sam Peters, as well as
/ Harry, with the latter's wife; Mr. and
/ Mrs. Edwin D. Morgan, the Albert "a
briskie Grays. the Norman de r. White
/ houses, who have lately got home from
! Europe. Mrs. Wh.Lehouse prettier than
| ever; Mr.. and Mrs. r Livingston Beck
T, man. and the Harry Payne Whitneys.
I who are having very poor sport at
Holwick Hall, their place in Yorkshire,
| as, owing 70 some malady among the
grouse, the birds have never been so
rare and in such bad condition. In
I fact, the shooting season in England
/ and Ia Scotland this year is perfect
i hizzle
Out at Morristown. \. J., the open air
horse show viii afford the II. Nick.
TwOmbIys. who have been abroad all
the summer, the opportunity OF greeting
once more their friends and neighbOrs,
and they are to have a big hUuse party
Lady Monson are expected bat thus far
there seems no sign of Eugene Higgins,
who in all former years has always
managed 10 turn up on board MS big
steam yacht VaTuna before the end Of
the Newport season 10 spend the erd
of August and the month of September
on this side Of the Atlantic, puttIng in
much OF his time n the MorrisJown dis
trict, where his beautiful country place
is now the h0me of the smart Whippany
River Country Club.
LenoX, which is more Of an autumn
than OF summer resort, will be veT8
gay this month. particularly this week,
for on Friday next the Berkshire Hunt
win nave its annual ball IN Assembly
Hail. preceded by a dinner ana followed
| by supper, both at the Curtis Hotel.
Earlier in the day there will nave been
a meet OF the hounds at Lakeside, the
| country place of the Charles AstGr
BTisteds. who are 10 entertain the mem
bers OF the hunt at a hunt breakfast
and on the following day, that is to say,
Saturday, the Berkshire Hunt viii have
its annual races for gentlemen riders
only at the Lee Pleasure Park. The
, | stewards OF the races are Frank X.
Sturgis, David T. Dana. the master of
the fox hounds; Giraud Foster, Clinton
G. Gilmour, Samuel rockingham and
Joseph ". Burden.
, None fOr LenOx.
There viii, however. be no horse
r show this year at Lenox, for High
, Lawn, which was formerly placed at the
: disposal Of the Horse Show Association
By William Douglas Sloane for the pur-
- a.
= Of conversion into a S250,000 country seat
for his daughter. Mrs. W 3 osgeod
. Field. A big mansion Is being erected
on the site of the former show ring
wlile -Jads. drives. artificial lakes
mounds. and all sorts of other features
Of landscape gardening are being laid
out in every direction.
While Lenox Will be crowded through
out the month Of September, with every
: villa open and filed with guests. and
with all hotel accommodations at n pre-
Imium. yet it has been found impossible
to arouse interest in anything save tEt
hunting. No one seems TO care foz ten.
mis- or for golf. and William Douglas
> Sloane. who had proposed to have sat
lurday afternoon entertainments at tht
Golf Club, ana who had taken steps Il
!, organize gymkhana there this month
= has been obliged 10 abandon his prof
, .eCts owing to the Indifference Of thu
members OF the fan colony. These vii
include a goodly number of the DipIo-
, matte Corps. including the ambassador:
q OF Austria and OF Italy. with ,heir re
spective wives: the minister Of Den
mark. the charge d'anaiTes Of France
Germany and Russia, with 2 score o.
q so or the minor fry, Including Prime,
Windisgraetz. Count Torok. Baron Hay
! tmerle. and some OF the secretaries o
1.-THE German embassy.
T