New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
Racing Season at
Be- mont Park
Opens Thursday
Part of r e.
ceiptS Goes to
Com mittee of
M Grey

r. tainment for local and foreign
charities has been given in New
York since last fall. and now that the
| outdoor season is on part OF the pro
ceeds from many Of the sporting at
! fsirs being held arc turned over TO
some worthy cause. Yesterday. on the
| Turf and Field Club grounds at
| Belmont Park. the fifth annual
show Of the Nassau County Ken
mel Club was held and the re
! coipts were turned over to the Blue
Cross Society. an organization which
looks after sick and disabled horses Of
all nations injured in the war.
At the opening of the regular rae
! ing season at Belmont Park on Thurs
Gay, which always attracts society in
larger numbers than any sporting affair
Of the spring, part of the receipts Will
be turned over TO the Committee Of
| Mercy and Lafayette Fund. Au-
gust Belmont, on behalf of the West
| chester Racing Association, has offered
| the proceeds from the sale Of boxes,
| OF which fully one hundred will be
available, as a number of extra ones
hive been built. There are six seats
I in each box and the boxes sell for
$50 each Tickets may be obtained
from Francis Roche, secretary and
treasurer of the Lafayette Fund, Room
1872 Vanderbilt Hotel.
Among those who have already taken
boxes are Mrs. f. Henry Hartman,
Mrs. Oliver II. p. Belmont, Mrs. Oliver
Gould Jennings. Mr.. and Mrs August
Belmont, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Hartman, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, Mr.. and Mrs. C..
X G. Billings. Mrs, Henry Disston,
Mrs. George T. Maxwell, A. s. Cochran,
Francis Roche, John Magee, Mr.. and
Mrs. Middleton S. Burrill, Ralph j..
Preston, Mortimer Schiff, Frank Gray
Griswold, Henry A. Budd and Clarence
H. Msckay.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Belmont will
give a large dance at the Turf and
Field Club at the park on the night
before the opening.
Garden Parties for Charity.
Garden parties are another form of
entertainment from which charity
nroAts. The annual garden party for
Branch No. /. of the Army Relief So
ciety. will be held on Friday at Gov
ornor's Island. Mrs. Charles Francis
Roe is president Of Branch No. J. and
tickets at 81 each may be obtained from
her at 35 East Thirty-seventh STREE;
from Mrs. Oliver B. Bridgmsn, SS5
Park Avenue; Miss Harriet VI. Center,
II West Forty-eighth Street; Mrs.
Francis VI. Gibson, 3lS West Eighty
fourth Street, or at Governors Island
ferry. on the day of the party.
The programme will include company
drill. exhibition aeroplane fight, even
irc parade. and Miss Anna Fitziu, will
sing "The Star Spangled Banner" Sup
nor will be served after o'clock, and
4 there will be dancing. Major Cen
oral and Mrs. Leonard Wood will re-
ceive in tent on the lawn, and they
will be assisted by several persons Of
prominence.
The affair is under the patronage OF
President and Mrs. wilson, Mayor and
/ Mrs. Mitchell, the Secretary Of War and
Mrs Baker. Major General and Mrs.
u God. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and
Mrs. Roosevelt. the Secretary OF state
.rd Mrs. Lansing. Mrs. Danniel La
mont. Admiral and Mrs. Usher, Com
r,issioner Arthur Woods. Mrs. Russell
SAGE General Daniel Appleton, General
/ C,orce w. Wingate, Mr.. and Mrs. FIN
Low J. Shepard, Mrs. James NJ. Law
ton Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius y. Bliss,
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Rev. Herbert Shipman, Mr. and Mrs.
/ Cornelius Z. Agnew, Colonel william
& Church, Professor and Mrs. h. r.
Oeborn. Mrs. Louis Fitzgerald. Mr.. and
/ ure Edward r. Hewitt, Colonel and
Mrs. William Cary Sanger, Colonel ana
Mrs z. NJ Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs.
lanes Speyer. Mr.. and Mrs. George
I,arv nr. and Mrs. William h. Draper
Major and Mrs. Louis l.. Seaman,
Charles Lanier, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Could. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Taft, Mr..
and Mrs. Otto Kahn, Mrs. Belmont
TIFFANY. Mrs. John Hays Hammond,
urs Thomas Hubbard, Mrs. Edward
uarkness. Mrs. Charles Cooper Cen
oral Oliver r. Bridgman and Mrs.
Helen Hartley jenkins.
For the benefit Of the Junior Auxili-
srv. a garden party will be held on
Saturday. at Fair Oaks, the home oil
NJ and Mrs. John Giraud Agar, In
No,y Rochelle. 1t will be novel al
fair as the guests will appear before
tho motion picture camera Of MISS
K,,ber;ne Russell Blocker as they
croet the host and hostess and stroll
ohout the grounds. There will be
dancing The reception committee
consists of Mrs. +. Burial Hoffman,
Mrs Michael J. Mulqueen, Mrs. Will
en- A Redding and Mrs. Cornelius
Tiers. IT,,
Among the members of the Junior
Auxiliary are Miss Helen Byrne' Miss
ro.,es putIer ir