New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-18
&oteSbnry Busy
7gjh His Plans
for Horse Shoe
One Hundred Amateur fanciers
Accept Invitation to
Participate.

Although he is president Of the Read
ing Railroad. head Of the Philadelphia
banking house Of Drexel, Morgan & Go.
and director in nearly fifty corpora
tions, Edward r. Stotesbury, who sue
ceeded the late Alfred Gwynne Wander
bilt as president of the National Horse
Show Association, is finding time to
increase the membership of that organ
ization. which will hold its thirty-hrst
annual exhibition in Madison Square
Garden on November II TO L.
Close TO ono hundred amateur morse
fanciers have thus far accepted his in
vitation 10 join in making the show
national in every sense Of the WORD,
and the clubrooms set apart for the eX
elusive use of members during the week
At the Garden are likely to be thronged
as never before by men Of prominence
in the world Of society, sport and
finance.
To accommodate them both the con
cert hall and the ballroom st the Car
den will be thrown together as club
suite and arranged as an assembly
room, grill and smoking room and
tea room, the latter being for women
who are subscribing members. The
clubrooms as we'll a. the arena arc 10
be decorated sttractively for the occa-
sion, and the members viii, as usual
have their picturesque club box at the
Madison Avenue end of the arena, when
last year was made TO represent an OLD
English inn.
Notable among the out-of-town mem
bers are George Peabody Wetmore, OF
Newport and Washington, who was
formerly United States Senator from
Rhode Island and in the old days =
director OF the National Horse Show
Association; Horace White, Of syria
cuse. who was Governor of New York
in 1910, and a Judge of trotting horses
al the Garden in 1912; John A. Spoor,
Of Chicago, who is president of the
Illinois Trust Company and Savings
Bank and an amateur breeder OF hack
ney horses and ponies, with n lot OF
horse show winners in his stud SIR
Adam Beck, Of London, Ont, who IS
director OF remoBnts for Canada IN the
Department of Defence. and who has
owned more noted hunters than al
most any other horseman in Canada:
Colonel Henry 7. Allen, of the United
States army, who was lately placed in
command at West Point; Arthur g..
Leonard, of Chicago. who is president
Of the International Live Stock EXposl-
ton; William du Pont, OF Whining
ton. Del. and Montpelier Va. who has
the largest stud Of English hsckney'
100 America a. the old homestead Of
President James Madison: james COY
Brady. Of Gladstone. y. j. vino has
purchased more show horses and ponIo.
than any other man in the country IN
the last two years, David VI. Look.
owner 81 the famous Castletou stud
farm IN Kentucky. where the late james
K. keenc bred 30 many noted race
horses; Henry r. Rea. or Pittsburgh,
who won the championship prize for
saddle horses at the Garden when he
owned Indian Flower, Heartspring,
Panama and Doctor Crockett.
Others are Clarence ". Watson. for
merly United States Senator from West
Virginia, and owner of Lord Baltimore
Kitty Gray and other champion har-
ness horses; Pierre Lorillard, jr., Of
tuxedo Park, who will be one Of the
Judges Of trotting horses this year.
and John Z. Townsend. OF Goshen. y.
y, master Of foXhounds Of the Glen
Arden Hunt. president Of the Junior
League Of Amateur Driving Clubs. d.
rector Of the Horse Show Association
and actively interested in all branches
Of amateur horscmanship.