New-York tribune., 1909-11-09
SOCIETY AT SHOW
Madison Square Garden More
Brilliant than iR Years.

From social poiat of view, the opening
day of the horse show has been the most
suspicious IN years. The exhibition ap-
pears to have taken a new lease Of lire.
thanks to the efforts of the Teorganized
management. The interest of the fashion,
abIe world in the affair. which had shown
marked signs of decline, has been revived
to an altogether extraordinary degree.
Elsewhere will be found description OF
the transformation of the Garden into vast
bower of flowers and OF greenery. and OF
the cha arming scenic effects achieved by the
new directors of the show. Madison Square
Garden. indeed, has been changed beyond
all recognition. and recalled vividly to mind
yesterday the aspect of the Olympia IN
London. during the great International
horse show, which has become an annual
feature of the Mayfair season.
There was a change. too. i'm the attend
ance. for which all the picturesque decora-
tions furnished an artistic setting BY
aboIishng the practice of auctionins OF
the boxes and by dsposing of them
through sale to nominees of the directors.
and 10 persons for whom the latter rem
dered themselves responsible. a certain un-
desirable element that had managed to
elbow It's way into prominence among the
bOxholders in recent years has been elimi-
mated, and for the first time in a decade
the showing made by society in the circle
OF boxes at the Garden was really repre-
sentative of New York.
OF course. dark dresses, mostly tailor
made, predOminated at the afternoon ses-
sion of the Horse Show. though Mrs. Regi-
naId c. Vanderbilt appeared i'm fTOck Of
amethyst cloth bordered with gray fox.
Ter black velvet turban being adorned
with gardenias. With her were Mrs. Lyt-
tleton Fox, ell in gray. with gray furs,
ard her sister. Miss Madeleine o Brien, in
black cloth and chiffon. her gray hat
trimmed with gray feathers
Mrs Oliver Hartman. who has just re-
turned TO town from visiting Lieutenant
and Mrs CastIeman at Newport. and who
was gowned in black cloth trimmed with
green satin. her costume being topped off
by large black hat, brought Mrs. James
Henry Smith who has recently arrived
from England and who Is at the Plaza
The latter was dressed in black and chlf-
fOn.
Mrs. Charles E. Alexander spent por-
tion OF the afternoon with Mrs. James
Burke Roche. whose fTOck was Of black
cloth. with a bodice of white and black
chiffon. her black velvet hat being trimmed
with silver ribbon. Mrs. Alexander gown
was of dark blue. trimmed with braid OF
the same color. her hat being OF the turDan
order I'm dark blue velvet.
Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, whose box
was filed throughout the afternoon with a
succession Of visitors, was srrayed in a
frock of dark blue cloth. her nat being
small Russian turban of eTmine and sable.
Miss Sibyl Douglass black broadeloth
costume was finished off by sable scarf
hat trimmed with black
feathers. Her sister-in-law. Mrs. j. Gordon
Douglas. was gowned in black velvet
trimmed with sable
Mrs John r. Drexel was present during
the greater part of the afternoon in a
black cloth frock. the somhTe hue of which
was relieved by a collar of blue emhrOid-
cred silk and by the sapphire blue feathers
which trimmed her big black hat. Miss
Kate Cary, who was in her usual box, es-
Corted by her brother, Hamilton W. Cary.
was also in a black cloth dress. her large
gray velvet hat, of the tuTban order. being
trimmed with gray feathers.
Mrs Paul q. Thebaud was in black cloth
and sables. her black velvet hat trimmed
with sable tails. Miss Angelica GerTys
dress was of blue cloth. with a hat of the
| same color in velvet, trimmed with blue
/ ostrich feathers. With her was Mrs. W.
/ lace and a black velvet turban. trimmed
! with white aigTettes.
Mrs Eugene :. Reynsl. in plum colored
cloth and black velvet hat. trimmed with
\ black and white feathers. was with Mrs
! James Il E,ustis. also in black, with a
/ large Spanish turban of black velvet. Mrs.
/ Clark Potter Read. in tailor made gown
/ Of old rose CLOTH trimmed with braid of
/ the same hue. and big cavalier hat of
rose beaver felt, was accompanied by her
/ sister Miss May Weatherbee. in a frock
/ OF cocoa colcred cloth. trimmed with chocO-
/ late braid, her hat presenting a similar
! combination.
Among others present were Reginald.
/ Harold. Alfred and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
/ as well as W. X. Vanderbilt ST. and jr. {;
Mrs Frederick ". Vanderbilt. Mr.. and
Mrs Herbert Hartman. Mrs. Arthur Scott
/ Burden. Mrs Trenor l.. Park. Oliver Har-
/ riman, Mrs. Oliver w Bird, Charles B. Al
exander, Miss Martha McCOok. Mr.. and
| Mrs Reginald Ronalds. Dsnnie Hare, Mrs.
/ Charles 3. Diekey. Miss Bessie Yoakum.
Mrs Joseph Stickney. Mrs. j. Borden Har-
riman. Mrs. Goodhue Livingston. Mr. and
Mrs. f. ID. Richards. MIR. and Mrs. Arthur
| Curtiss James. Mrs. Frederick w Whit
ridge. with Miss Eleanor and Miss Joan
Whitridge and Antoine de Charette and his
fiancee. Miss Susanne Henning.
In the evening at the horse show were
Mrs. Reginald e. Vanderbilt. in black lib
erty satin. embroidered with silver. and a
big black velvet hat; Mrs. J. Norman de IS.
Whitehouse. in black jetted lace and "A black
velvet hat. trimmed with white aigrettes
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Nj. Hartman. MIR.
and Mrs. Austen Gray. the latter in yellow
satin, veiled with spangled chiffon. and a
large black hat trimmed with black feath-
ers; Mrs. John +. Alexandra. with Miss
Helen Alexandra; Mrs. James Il. Eustis,
Mr. and Mrs. z. III. Weatherbee, Miss May
Weatherbee. Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Potter
Read. Mrs. Herbert Shpman, Mr.. and Mrs
David wagstaf. General Horace Porter
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Gordon Douglas Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Goadby Loew. Mr.. and Mrs Her
bert L. Satterlee. Peter Goelet Gerry. Miss
Kate Cary and Hamilton W. Cary.