Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-02-15
Tangoists and Lovers of the Golf Links Find Plenty
 Amusement There.
TO HAVE RAGE MEET
Many Arrivals At the Hotels and Among Them Are Many
 FashiOnables.
BY H. w. LANIGAN


 scene of gayety in the Arkansas Hot Springs. There is the typical midFebruary throng of the visiting fashionables in this quaint little re- sort town, with the homogeneous of the different leading hotels reporting that the reservations for the next six weeks, especially for the month of history.
 The obnoxious lid has popped off and as a result all of the different clubs, which formerly provided games Of chance for the tourists, are run ming cabarets and night life on Gen. tral avenue, Hot Springs lone import ant thoroughfare, is now equally as boisterous as the life on big Broad way in gay New York.
 To afford further amusement for the visitors a delegation of the Spas leading business men is preparing to
 
 at Oaklawn. The South End course is a modern one, only having been erected some 10 or 12 years ago, and while Hot Springs has not had any racing in the past six years, Oaklawn has been constantly used for automo- bile races, horse shows and other special events and has also served as the home of the annual Arkansas State Fair.
 Oaklawn can be put in readiness 1 for the proposed running meeting i'll 6 weeks time. Louis Celia, of St. Louis, the principal owner. of the I property, is willing to turn it over to | the local colony. There is. a slight hitch or two in arranging the early organization, but it is generally thought all matters will be straight ened out within the next few days and that the running meeting will be- come an assured fact.
 Albert E. Gaines of New York City. the president of the Arlington and Eastman Hotel properties, is behind the movement and has subscribed $2,500 of the $20.G00 needed to float the proposition. If the running meet ing is staged it vii! serve to lengthen the season" Formerly the tourists have commenced Hooking homeward in mid-March. With the meeting opening St. Patrick's day and running three weeks this will keep the hotels crowded until we'll into April The present arrangement also calls for 30 days meeting in the fall.
 Society's big event of the week ton Hotel Friday night. A great crush attended and the "tangoists" had their fill, as Professor Richard Barton had tango" as every sec ond n1tmber on his programme. 1 Among the hundreds of exquisitely at tired women observed in the ball. room were Mrs. M. NJ. Stapleton, Mrs. l.. A. Villas, Mrs. Thomas Shell, Mrs. Phillips Blagden, Miss Jane Tyrell, the actress, formerly Kyrle Bellows leading woman; Mrs. J. C. Hill, Jr., Mrs. G. Miller, Mrs. l.. A. Williams, and Mrs. George wv. McCaslin, of New York City.
 The ballroom was tastefully and appropriately decorated and the ball was clearly the banner one of the season" to date. The ballroom of the Hotel Eastman was also the scene of St. Valentines ball Satur- day night. The belles and beauxs, again turned out en masse. The golfers are enjoying a glorious inning on the County Club links. Phillips Blagden, of New York, rep resented the Stockbridge, Mass, ! County Club--he has his summer home in that tOwn--in the Fitch tournament last week and won the championship in the first flight. Mir. 
 Balgden, who is an uncommonly good amateur. was the runner-up in the Governors cup at Augusta last winter. He went out in 42 and came in in A OH rain-soaked course, a performance that was unusually brilA liant.
 E Southern arrivals at the Arlington tduring the week included Mrs. Chas. l, Maley and family of Yazoo City, Miss, , Miss E. B. Helgason, of Vicksburg, Miss. Mrs. Henry Marx and Mrs. Baer of Pine Bluff; A. J. Abraham, John A. Pelham, J. r. Frey and w. l.. Ken nett, of Louisville; J. D. Wollen, ot , Tamploo, Mexico; w. R. Bates, K. H