The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-27
SOCIETY TO BE THERE
Big Demand for Seats for This
Sporting Event.
All the Noted Foreign and
American Cars Entered.

New York. Oct. 27.-That the VAN
derbilt cup race which will be held on
Long Island on Saturday, Oct. so, will
this year resume its former position as
the social and sporting event of the
year. is Indicated not only by the high
character of the entries, which will in
clude every foreign and American car
and driver in the country, but by the
tremendous demand from c1ubmen and
society folk for seats and boxes.
Briefly, nearly one-quarter of the 300
boxes in the grandstand have already
been sold and the remaining seats and
boxes are being rapidly disposed OF,
though none of the tickets were actual
ly placed on sale until Thursday of last
week.
Society Is All Agog.
Among those who have secured boxes
arc W. K Vanderbilt, B. F. Yoakum,
George H. Perkins. Commodore F. G.
Bourne. Colgate Hoyt, August Belmont,
john Jacob Aston. w. K. Vanderbilt,
jr.. Colonel J. G.. Estey, Vernon n.
Brown, Allan Pinkerton, August Heck
sher Richard Peters. Charles Steele, l.
Mollenhauer, Mortimer Schiff, A. G..
Hardenpyle, Harold s. Vanderbilt. Har-
ry Payne Whitney, Payne Whitney,
Herbert Hartman, Clarence Mackay,
H. B. Hollins, Dave Henen Morris, A
r. Pardington, Henry Sanderson, R. c:
Watson, z. G. Williams, Edward
Lyons. r. c. Gasser, J. A. Harper. h.
E1bridge H. Gerry, William Pierson
Hamilton. Clifford V. Brokaw, E. N.
Lockwood, F. S. Shutters. H. III. Wood.
r. c. Watson, Cornelius Tangerman, F.
E. Donahue. J. A. McCrea, Preston Sat
terwhite, H. Bramball Gilbert, F. L.
iF Eh-
ling, jr., T. A. Sperry, Smith Cox,
Joseph A. Foster, Mrs. c. ]. Coulter, G.:
M Weeks, V. Gilsey and H. H. Bendard
Tremendous Demand for Seats.
As a matter of fact so numerous have
been the applications for seats and
parking spaces that an extra force Of
men have been employed at the Van
derbilt cup headquarters in the Long
acre building, corner of Forty-thlrd
street and Broadway, simply to handle
this ticket problem which has become
a rather serious matter, as there are
only about 5000 seats in the stand, and
from present indications twice that
number will hardly satisfy the demand.
The arrangements for reserved parking
space, which caused some trouble last
year, have been so altered as to insure
a satisfactory view of the competing
cars as they approach and pass.
Four Hundred Policemen Ready.
AS now arranged. the police ar
rangements are a great improvement
over previous years. Sheriff Joseph
H. Foster of Nassau county has or
ganized a big force of men. and at
regular intervals the sheriff and
Manager Pardington have established
regular police and flag stations, at
which men with flags and acting as
police officers will be on duty. These
stations are to be marked by a yell
low Dlacard and numbered con-
secutively. Acting in conjunction
with the sheriff the Pinkerton Ma
tional Detective agency will have
about 400 picked uniformed men on
duty. This force is to be drawn from
all parts of the country, and COM
prises men who have been on strike
and riot duty in various cities.
FIagmen Stationed Every 100 Feet.
Flagmen, deputies and Pinkertor
men will be placed alternately at an
average of 100 feet apart around the
entire course. All of these men will
be sworn in as peace officers and will
wear caps and sheriff badges and be
provided with police night sticks
which they will be instructed to use
If necessary.
AS there is plenty of room for every
one to see the race, the management
earnestly requests spectators to seel
vantage points away from turns ant
to keep off the road, as drivers simply
will not let their cars out il the GROVE
overruns the course.
AS practice on the course will b'
permitted this week. the various rae
ing teams are already beginning t.
establish camps around the course.