New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-13
l9l6'SLAST RACES
SEEN BY SOCIETY
Brilliant Gathering at
Final Day of Piping
Rock Meet

Columbus Day, an excellent card and
ideal weather conditions brought to-
gether yesterday afternoon at Locust
Valley, Long Island, the largest gath
ering of society that has been seen at
any racetrack near New York in
months. The attraction was the last of
the two-days' meet Of the Piping Rock
| Racing Association and the wind-up OF
the racing season on Long Island for
this year.
The Long Island, Tuxedo, Lenox,
Morristown and Westchester sets were
all represented in the gathering, and
many who have returned to town and
/ opened their houses for the winter mo-
| tored out TO the course. In the dis
tinguished assemblage were several
foreigners, among them being Captain
Guy Gaunt, of the British Embassy;
Count and Countess de la Cree, Prince
Poniatowsk, Lady Colebrooke. NJ. de
Sillec and Grose Claude.
Most of the owners Of country places
on the Island had house parties over
the holiday and motored over to the
track after luncheon with their guests.
! Others had luncheon at the clubhouse,
and many went out from the city by
| the special trains from the Pennsylvania
and Flatbush Avenue stations.
All Places Taken
BY the time the first race had started
| there was not vacant box or seat in
the grandstand, and the lawn in front
| of the stand was crowded with persons
| prominent in the social life Of New
! York.
! Among those who he'd luncheon at
/ the club were Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert NJ.
| Hartman, MIR. and Mrs. Wendell Baker,
| Dir. and Mrs. A. Delano Weckes, Mr..
and Mrs. Morgan Belmont, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Eric S. Winston, Mr.. and Mrs. Birdseye
b. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander d. B.
| Pratt, Mr.. and Mrs. L. Francis Hyde,
/ Mr. and Mrs. Warner NJ. Leeds, Mr..
ard Mrs. W. WhitewriGht Watson, Mr..
and Mrs Frederic Potts Moore, Mr. and
/ Mrs. James A. Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Kermit Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
! c. Winmill. Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Frs
/ kline, Mr.. and Mrs. W. Bryce Wing,
/ L. Stuart Wing, ir.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Stevens,
/ Charles II. Thieriot, Mr.. and Mrs.
! Samuel j. Wagstaf, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Samuel T. Peters, Philip Rhinelander.
/ George W. Case, Miss Alma Roe, Dir.
and Mrs. Charles A. Van Rensselaer,,
Harold S. Vanderbilt, Percy K. Pyne
I 2nd. Mr.. and Mrs. Woodward Babcock.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Hazard, Mr..
/ and Mrs William A. Greer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wright Barclay, Mr.. and Mrs.
John W. Minturn, Mr.. and Mrs. Allan
/ Pinkerton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mortimer S. Schif,
John Fox, jr, James A. Blair, jr, Frank
/ l.. Croker, Mr.. and Mrs. Graham
/ Blandy. Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence c. Pell,
/ Lawrence Waterbury, j. Sergeant Cram,
/ Mir. and Mrs j. E. Aldred, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Robert Sedgewick, jr., Antonio Scott
! Otto We'll, Mr.. and Mrs. John Tucker
/ Mrs. Lindsey Tappin and Robert b.
Kerr.
/ In Grandstand and Paddock
Others seen in the grsndstand and
maddox included Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney, Miss Flora Whitney, Mrs
| Pavne Whitney, Clarence II. Mackay,
/ MIR and Mrs. James Gordon Bennett,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Lydg Hoyt, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Adrian Iselin, Mr. and Mrs. +. Egerton
! Webb. MIR. and Mrs. Jorge Andre, Mr.:
and Mrs. Morton l.. Schwartz. Mr.. and
/ Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, Miss Helen
Hitchcock, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Pea-
| body. A.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Brokaw, Mr..
and Mrs. w. Goadby Loew, the Misses
| T,oew. Joseph E. Widener, Miss Rose
| Dolan. Mr.. and Mrs. de Bebian Moore,
Mrs. Thomas Hastings, nj ana MIs,
! Robert L. Gerry, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
| c. Rumsey. Miss Carol Hartman. Mrs.
Ansel Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Carnegie Phipps, Miss Angelica Brown,
! f. Burial Hoffman, jr., samuel VII
lets. Mr.. and Mrs. try X. Vingut,
! Miss Alice Beavor-N b, Mr. and Mrs.
lanes X. Mckee. Judge John J. Ora
/ ham. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Haus-
man. Miss Marian Van R. Kennedy,
! Mr.. and Mrs. Montaigu La Montague,
/ Harry La Montague, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
| Reeve Merritt Edmund Randolph, Miss
| Susan Fish Dresser, Henry W. Sage,
Mrs. James b. Eustis. Andrew Sage,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney S. Breese, Miss
Anna Sands, William II. Sands, Mr..
and Mrs. Allen G. Wellman, Mrs.
/ Richard Wharton.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. c. Oliver Iselin,
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Parker d. Handy, Mr.. and
| Mrs. +. Ambrose Clark, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Paul d. Crayath, Miss Vera Cravsth,
! Mrs. Charles Devallo Lathrop, Miss
/ Muriel Winthrop, Frederick II. Won
! Stade, Stanley Mortimer, Harry >:
| Page, Alfonso de Navarro, Miss Mabel