New-York tribune., 1909-07-25
Visitors Expecting Plenty
of Entertainment from
This Annual Open
Air Feature.

Ionr Branch. Y J. July 24-All is ready now for
the biggest social affair OF the year on the Norn
Jersey coast the sixteenth annual Long Branch
Open Az Horse Show. which will begin Tuesday
A -u-nhsr of the horses are already in the stables
- the grounds and the usual big influx of visitors
horse show week has been witnessed for seFeraI
Says. Indications are that all previous exhibitions
will be surpassed. For the first time four-day
exhibition IS be given. There are some six hun
dred entries and more than hundred exhibitors
Cash prizes in addition TO valuable cups. are Of
fered 10 the amount OF nearly s7ooo The Pr'nclpaI
American stables will nearly all be represented
among them those Of Alfred G. Vanderbilt }
Campbell Thompson, J. II. Hartman George Wat
son Mrs H. s I.adew. Paul A. Sorg. W J. Butt
<eld and H S. Borden. The auction OF boxes netteo
more than $500 the highest price paid by single
individual being 1855.
This show. which has grown 20 such proportions
largely as the result OF efforts Of its estabsher
and guiding spirit. P. J. Casey, at the original eH
hsbition in 1898 Just after the fall Of racing al
Monmouth Park. included only about dozen
horses exhibited before handful Of spectators
Now the association owns its own grounds com
,rls.nR some thirty acres; a half-mie track, big
r-snds+and stables lighting plant. etc. al Holly
wood Park in the most fashionable residential sec
tion of the city and attracts people from al over
the continent and from Europe
Hope has not Yet been abandoned or having
President Taft for visitor the last of the week
President Mckinley made a special trip 10 attend
the show. Social gaye5y Will be al lis hels'' j"
horse show week House parties will be numerous
among those scheduled being those OF f<esindiu
Vanderbilt Mr. and Mrs. Paul A Sorg and Nj.
and Mrs ". Goadby Loew. At the hotels there VIII
be a continual round Of special dances and enter
tainments.
Even before the horse show is out OF the way
ulans are being perfected Tor the Society CIRCUS
which viii be held al the horse show grounds on
August 4 Ten committees have been appointed
consisting Of some seyenty-fve Of the most pFoIn-
nent oottagers Of Long Branch. Deal. AIenhuTst
Monmouth Beach Seabright and Runlson ana inc
work divided among them Many leaders OF soCleNS
have consented take part. and a greater success
i looked forward 10 than that of last year. when
50 600 was taken in for local charity The auction OF
bxes few dsvs ago netted s3.5G0, s25 being paid
for q single box
A new thoroughfare 10 the shore IS 10 be opened
before next summer the result Of the decision
~ +he county authorities build an improved
road from Cedar avenue to the EatontoWn Boule-
yard Plans have been accepted for this ADDITION
10 the hundred and twenty miles Of drives N
Long Branch and work Will start in the early IAN
Another church. too is proposed~for the resort
an Orthodox synagogue. where daily services VIII
be held. David Berg is chairman and Isaac Cohen
secretary Of the committee which is back OF the
movement. There are already seventeen chnrches
here two Of them synagogues. The Catholics ieao'
however with four and about one-tllird Of the
oit,,s 7.orrla+ion and the Methodists come next,
with three The Episcopalians, Baptists and Pres-
byterians each have two
Great schools OF fish running along this sec
ton of the coast and record catches are being re-
ported both from the pounds and by hook and line
fishermen. Horse rnackerel weighing from three
hundred hundred pounds have destroyed
many nets and some have been caught after des-
perate struggles with the fishermen. Bluehsh have
never been known TO be so numerous. Hook and
line fishermen have been catching big striped bass
in considerable numbers, too Many visitors find
diversion IN watching the fishermen land their
boatloads OF fish ii the northern section OF the
beach. near the new pavilion and fishing pier.
Launch parties the river are enjoying great
popularity. Tie little craft cruise past the High
lands and into ;he bay as far as Sandy Hook or
else take the north branch Of the Shrewsbury 10
Red Bank. The participants take luncheons along
and have merry outing These vessels have never
been so plentiful the before.
The singing of Signor Alfredo Sappio. the tenor.
in the production of 'Cavaeria Rustcana al the
Festival Chorus concert at the Ocean Park Ca
sino last week much enjoyed that he was
engaged special soloist the concert Wednes-