The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
SOCIETY IN NEW YORK
By MARGARET WATTS DE PEYsTER.

l string of ponies, and is captain of the well ll-known Eaton team, named after | his famed country seat, Eaton Hall. Ue offers to assume entire responsibility 1 financially. has taken over the ponies 1 belonging to the cup recovery fund, re- lieving the minds of many who did not wish these good and tried animals dis l tributed to the four winds of the polo l heaven. He will add these to those al ready in his possession, and to others he may obtain.
 His Grace will be a god-send to so- ciety as well as to the polo enthusiasts. Mother Hubbard bonnets are coming into use again at Newport. and in a picturesque way. Made of bright col ors, they are being worn by those who sun themselves on the sand after com | ing out of the surf. Bailey's beach is l bewildering with bonnets of red green. l yellow, pink, lavender and violet, and every hue that can be thought of They are larger than Mother Hubbard ever l thought of wearing, and this serves to make more brilliant the kaleidoscope movement on the sand.
 Young Herman Oelrichs reminds one l greatly of his father. He is hand : some lad. but quiet and reserved. Mrs. Oelrichs has had him most carefully 1 l 10 be mischievous and full of boyish spirits. His mother has never approved | of Newport as a vacation home for half l grown boys and she has had her son l with tutors for some years and some ]! times she has sent him away on travels, while the season was in full swing. Richard Gambrill is another wealthy young man who is just beginning to go | in society. His father was from Balti- more and he died while the boy was a small child. His mother was a Miss | Van Nest the sister of Mrs. Charles 1 Carol Jackson and Mrs. Giraud Foster. Her fortune Is derived from street rail way stocks; the family having had large holdings in the old Sixth Avenue horse car line. Mrs. Gambrill has kept her son away from Newport as much as possible, but he is studious and ambiti- ous and has not as yet cared for society.
 Much inetrest is taken in the annual race meeting of the Berkshire Hunt
 which will take place this year. Sep Fember g, at Lee Pleasure park. near Lenox, Massachusetts. The stewards of the meeting are Frederic Bull Jos eph W. Burden, Frank K. Sturgis, Jos eph E. Davis Harry W. Smith. Fletcher Harper and Frank J. Bryan, who wall be clerk of the course.
 The race committee is composed Of Samuel Frothingham, George de Kay Glider, David T. Dana and Harry l.. Lee
 Among the trophies will be the LenoS Horse Show Purse, for three-yea -olds and upward the Ferocious Purse. | steeplechase for three-year-old and the Lenox club Steeplechase, for qua,i fled hunters; the Lee Purse. for hack $ and hunters the Presidents Cup | steeplechase for bona fide hunters, and ] the Berkshire Purse, for galloways.
 Gould Island, lying just off the Naval | Training Station at Newport. is an ob- | ject of intense interest just now. It is a tiny island. some ten acres of wood and meadow land, but its size Is by no means commensurate with it's importance and interest. Mir and Mrs. Percy Haughton who were married last May, are spending the summer here. MT. Haughton, as one of the coaches for the Harvard football team, has established training quarters here, and the small boy in his knockabout and his big broth CTS in their thirty Hooters are intensely interested in the athletics and their train ing. The sail boats are run in as close to the rocky shore as their shippers dare, there Is quaint stone lighthouse to warn them off and so far there have been no accidents and no secret signals discovered Gould Island belongs to Mrs Haughton, it was left to her by an aunt who several years ago startled Newport by buying this bit of mo mans land. It lies mile from the nearest shore. and there are no neighbors within three niles. It is an ideal place for honey
 noon, and incidentally for training quar- CTS The quarters are not permanent. the supposition is that Mr Haughton is trying out raw material But this makes