The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-11-19
AS IRWIN COBB SEES THE
HORSE SHOW.


Irwin Cobb, the humorist, has
written his views of the New York
Horse Show for the World. Here
they are:
1.-THE real climax last night at the
Horse Show was the way Alfred G.
Vanderbilt's dress suit fit him be-
tween the shoulders. Just as soon
as he came in and settled himself the
affair was declared properly open.
Picture Broadway without a wine
agent or Philadelphia without a
IBiddlel Picture Pittsburgh without
soft coal, or Chicago without Mrs.
Grace-Coffin-Sn and re
Ipeat-the- Coffin getting married from
time to timel Picture any town OF
10000 without a Carnegie library.
but do not try to picture a horse
show without a Vanderbilt being
present. II is too great a strain on
the human imagination.
"A little suppressed buzz ran
through the Garden when Ar c.
Everybody in the set calls him All
G.. Just like that--came in. Many
of the other box-holders turned their
lorgnettes in the direction of the
Vanderbilt box, and even the poor
whites in the general admission seats
socially impossible persons who
haven't more than four or five mil
lions apiece, or at most six-stood up
and rubbered freely. For sitting
right there in the Vanderbilt box. in
plain sight of everybody, was Mrs.
Smith Holllns McKim; and you know
what people are saying about that
match. Mrs. McKlm was truly
charming in a gown made of dress
materials, trimmed with quite a
quantity of stun and things.
The Proper Conversation.
cit is quite the proper thing for
one to stroll about and say to ones
companion that Mrs. McKim was
booking her best, or to remark cas-
ually, Dear me, can that be Eleanor
Sears coming in? No. I see nowl
It's one of the Waterbury boys in a
paddock coat. How stupid of me TO
make such a mistake. Then one
would go on to say that one had no.
tioed the Payne Whitneys Just COM
ing in, and then, Vivian is really a
very pretty girl. hut hardly as
pretty as her sister Marjorie was, do
you Think
For all that grand opera was
having its annual fall opening at the
Metropolitan. So much wealth has
not been seen squeezed into one
small. compact neighborhood since
the panic of 1907.
"A fun military band played chas-
tened and subdued music, full OF the
little clinking sounds of cymbals.
like somebody stacking up silver dol
lars. And on every hand there were
fair men and brave women, and
stout ladies that swelled out above
the tops OF their gowns like Char.
lotte Russes; and large, red-com-
plexioned ladies with white feather
headdress. reminding one somewhat
of rare steaks smothered in onions.
and slender. young debutantes with
faces not more than a thousand years
old; and gilded youths, with the
fashionable lack of expression on
their countenances that Is so popu-
lar this season in the smart set, and
wearing two-quart hats on one-pint
heads.
An Atmosphere of Long Green.
you felt that you were In the
atmosphere of all the long green in
the world as soon as you got inside
Here was Mrs. william T. Corey
over on one side. wearing a diamond
horseshoe pin about the size and gen.
the fairy grotto that one used to see
in the transformation scene Of ''Zozo.
the Magic Queen" (Mr. Corey was
not present, but really II was OF no
consequence, as he is in trade any
how, being connected with the steel
and iron business in some waEl)
"R6ght over there was the ]. p.
Morgan box. full of some of the
younger j. Pierps, whose full names
your reporter was unable to CLEAN,
owing TO the excitement. And just
beyond was-guess who? oh, you'll
never guess in a thousand years.
Well, IL, yu must know, IL was
none other than the George Goulds,
closely followed by the Thomas
HitchcockS; beyond them sitting to-