The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-18
|F|NAL HORSE SHOW
IN FAMOUS GARDEN
Will Open in New York To-
night-Foreign Cavalry
Officers Entered.
(NationaI News Association

! NEW YORK, Nov. 1S-For the
brief space OF seven days the horse
will displace the motor and resume
its reign in the interest OF New York.
ers. Strings of thorough breds are
storming the city on every ferry. and
the streets are full OF blanketed kings
and queens of the equine world who
are on their way to Madison Square
Garden where they will compete in
the Twenty-seventh Annual Interna.
! tional Horse Show which opens there
tonight. Before the annual competi.
ton closes on November 25th, 900
in cash, cups and prizes will have been
distributed amonk 152 classes, a new
record, both for attendances and
equine interest, established
| Particular attention is attached to
the forthcoming exhibition, owing to
the fact that it will be the last to be
held in Madison Square Garden. Next
| spring this historic structure will be
| RACED to make room for a modern sky
scraper.
Foreign CavaIrymen.
The thousands of entries, with their
attendant throng of handlers, grooms,
and riders, have drawn the social elite
| from the four quarters OF the Ameri-
can continent and Europe. Central
park is bright with the uniforms of
French Dragons, Dutch Uhlans, Brit
ish Hussars, U. S. Cavalry officers,
Canadian Colonials and Belgian Chass-
eurs, who will represent their respec.
| tive nations at the Garden, while the
| famous mounts of the Moores, the
Vanderbilts and the Harrimans help
to accentuate the decadence of the
motor for the time being.
The decorations of the Garden are
more gorgeous than ever. The tan
bark arena is banked with boxes de-
corated with red and white; while the
entrance to the stables is hidden in
mass of evergreens. The judges
stand and the entrances are festoon-
ed with the national colors, and those
in charge have made every arrange
ment for the reception of a record
crowd.
The London Horse show at Olympia
will be outclassed both from an
! cQuIuc anu SOCIdl SldlupOlul. lie
box subscriptions covered the mum,
Der of seats available twice over. The
Goulds, Vanderbilts, Schiffs, Colgates
! Lamontes, Harrimans, Morgans
Rockefellers, Moores and hundreds OF
others in the multi-millionaire class
will watch their thoroughbreds per,
form. 1t is estimated that the family
wealth represented by the boxes will
far over-reach thousand millions.
The competing classes will range
! from the Liliputian Shetland Pony to
/ the Brobdignarian Clydesdale The
greatest interest, however, centers in
the international cavalry competi
tons, which will be Judged by Lord
Decies, who married Miss Vivian
Gould last spring, in conjunction with
! Colonel William Hendric of Hamilton
Canada, and Major Henry T. Allen
U. S. A. Washington, D. c.
Uncle Sans Entries.
A large slice of the $4,000 in prizes
will go to this feature of the pro
gram and the officers from the diff
ferent countries will ride mounts
| whose fame insures a close competi
/ ton. In the American division, sever
al foreign horses, which won ribbons
and prizes at Olympia, will be shown
here for the first time under the Stars
and stripes. These mounts were pur
chased by American millionaires and