New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-11
SOCIETY RALLIES
FOR HORSE SHOW
All Boxes Taken for the
Opening in Garden
To-day


uonal Horse Show, which opens to-day.
and prominent members Of society Of
this and other large cities Of the coun-
try figure on the list Of boxholders.
Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Chi
cage, Wilmington, San Francisco and
Baltimore will be represented in the
boxes, and the show gives every indica-
ton Of being better patronized by the
fashionable world than has been the
case in years.
The decorations will be more elabo-
rate than ever this year On each side
Of the Madison Avenue lobby large
mirrors will be imbedded in green. with
japanese lanterns suspended IN arches.
over the entrance 10 the promenade
| will be cottage, with matched roof,
reserved for members of the Horse
Show Club. The boxes will be draped
on the outside with red and white and
lined with white, and IN front Of them
will be flower pots filled with growing
plants.
Evergreen trees will be used in large
numbers.
The boxes have been allotted as fol-
lows:
Reginald c. Vanderbilt IS; Mrs.
David Wagstaf, 10. formerly held by
Alfred G. Vanderbilt; MIR. and Mrs. f.
Ambrose Clark, 29; Colonel Robert NJ.
Thompson, "a; Miss Carol A. Hartman,
Is; L. 5. j. McVickar, II, Mr. and Mrs.
W. VI. V. Hoffman, 81; +. Victor Loew,
"a; James Mclean. 30; Alfred B. Mac
lay, 81; Walter B. Bliss, 49,; L. Francis
! Hyde, SO; James Cox Brady, 40; Ed
ward L. Burrill, 40; +. T. Stotesbury,
40; Joseph W. Hartman, 65; Samuel I
Peters, 81; Foxhall p. Keene, So; Ed
ward B. Mclean, 60; Harry La Mon
tagne, 90; William +. lselin, 63; Dallas
"A; Judge William II. Moore, 45; Sir
Adam Beck, 20.
Regal Shetland Family
Officially the Horse Show will open
| to-day, but as far as the ordinary pub
lie was concerned il began yesterday
morning at the corner of Fifth Avenue
and Thirty-fourth Street. Traffic was
held up and crowds gathered as dozen
Shetland ponies halted at the word Of
command from a patrolman on duty.
In the van was pony not quite so
tall as the others, which bore himself
with great dignity. This was Prince OF
| Wales. The rest of the retinue was
| composed of Princes children. grand
children and great grandchildren for
| Prince of Wales IS just the same age
as Madison Square Garden. He was
foaled in 1890, the year that the Horse
! Show opened at the Garden. and ne has
/ competed there each year since 1902.
Prince is the property of Charles h.
| Bum, of Peoria, Ill. He will appear
! officially in several of the children's
classes to-day.
Judge William H. Moores horses ar
| rived on Thursday from Rockmarge
Farm, at Pride's Crossing, Mass. Con-
spicuous among the thirty-two entries
we're four wonderful grays, with which
he hopes to win the 1000 gold cup
given by Mrs. Alfred e. Vanderbilt in
memory of her husband, who was
president of the National Horse Show
! Association from 1908 until he went
down on the Lusitania. The cup is for
| four-in-hands of the road type.
In the Moore string are the import
ed English hackneys Lord and Lady
Seaton, winners OF more champion
ships at the Garden than any other
harness horses ever shown there.
Miss Muriel Wiggin, one of the
youngest exhibitors, will show the
bantam hackney Bricket Brilliant,
which has just arrived from England.
| Miss Wiggin secured Brilliant as a
mate for her American-bred, pony
Odora. Among others she will show
the hackney saddle mare Norinda. re-
Gently presented TO her by S. NJ.
Vauelain, of Philadelphia.
Walter W. Rycroft, president of the
] uorco Gocfafv will
show to the public what is called in
hackney stallion.
Children's Day Events
To-day will be children's day. as
| usual. An interesting feature will be
the riding Of thoroughbred hunters by
children. In these contests little Ivy
Madison will compete. Miss Maddi-
son is considered to be the best child
rider that ever has appeared in the
show ring. At the recent Westches-
ter show she rode six hunters and
won three first prizes. To ride in this
show it was necessary for Ivy to leave
her home in Greenwich, Conn, and so
into quarantine for two weeks.
Polo pony stations will open the
show at IL o'clock. These will be
I
! Thoroughbreds will be in the hands
Of John Z. Madden, the biggest breeder
of the type of horse in the world
Robert Graham, who officiated so salts
I factorily last year, will have charge OF
the hackneys; Pierre Lorillard, IT,,
one of the finest amateur reinsmen In
the country; Z. r. Bovine, who solo
his seat on the Stock Exchange that
he might devote all of his time 10 the
breeding and training of light harness
horses. and George Willing, of Phila-
delphia, a cousin of Mrs. Ava Willing
Aston, will judge trotters and road
sters.
Reginald C. Vanderbilt and Charles
A. Baudouine, who in this day OF motor
cars still drives coach and four on
Fifth Avenue, will judge ponies In
harness and pony breeding classes.
Lady Beck, whose husband, sir
Adam Beck, is large exhibitor in the
hunter classes, will judge unlocked
saddle horses, assisted by James u
Marshall.
First Days Programme
Following is the programme for TO-
day:
II .oo a m.-Judging four stations for
Getting polo ponies, Glass ~.
ii 10 a. m-Judging eight pony mares
suitable for breeding polo ponies Class ~.
1925 a m.-Judsing three pony s'A'i'0''''
II II rs a. m.-Judging three saddle horses
O'1 III AZ a m.-Judgng fourteen saddle
horses. docked or unlocked. Class -,
/ ~ .O5 %. m.-Judsing SIX Shethhu PONIES
under saddle Glass lO4. It'll.
S.os N Judging FIVE horses suitable
10 become hunters. Glass IL s...