New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
Society from Many Cities
Sees Racing Season
Begun There.
DIPLOMATIC CORPS
WELL REPRESENTED
Automobile Parties Arrive Early
for Luncheon at Turf and
Field Club.

foreign diplomatic corps, were repre-
scented at the opening of the racing
season at Belmont Park yesterday af-
ternoon. The gathering was one of
the most brilliant seen at a racetrack
! I'M years, and the boxes, clubhouse and
lawn were filed with persons prom
inent in the social world of TINS and
other cities.
The Russian Ambassador and Nine
Bakhmetef and Mrs Charles Ii. Mar
shall were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Perry
Belmont in one Of the boxes. The Har
riman, Vanderbilt. Aston. Stevens, Ise-
| lin. Burden. Drexel, Hoffman, Living
ston, Parsons, Gerry. Whitney, Barnes,
Pyne, Hitchcock. Willcts, Burrill,
Sloane, Widener. Gillespie, Kane, Alex
ander, Pratt, Cassatt, Mortimer, Cow
din, Gallatin, Kip, Clews, Hastings,
Weekes, Appleton, Oelrichs and other
prominent families were represented.
Three hours before the start of the
first race, automobile parties from the
city and from country places on Long
Island began arriving at the Turf and
Field Club at the park for luncheon.
By / o'clock the piaZzas lawn and din
ing room, where tables had been ar
ranged. were crowded, and those who
came after that had to wait for table
before they could be served.
Mr. and Mrs. August Belmont had
among their guests at luncheon Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis c. Bishop, Mr.. and Mrs.
August Belmont, jr., and Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Sampson Stevens.
Albert Eugene Gallatin had as his
guests Mr.. and Mrs. VI. Orme Wilson,
jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. r. Horace Gallatin,
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel j. Wagstaff, Mrs.
John r. Drexel. r. Thornton Wilson,
Alessandro Fabbri. william Hude Neil
son. Hermann Oelriohs, William W..
Hoffman, Marshall K. Kernochan and
Robert Goelet.
In another party were Mr. and Mrs.
A. j. Drexei Biddle. jr, Mr. and Mrs.
Angler B. Duke, Miss Marion Tiffany,
Miss Maud +. Kahn and Miss Sympho-
rosa Brsted.
With Mrs. o. IT. P. Belmont were
Dr. and Mrs. Preston 7. Satterwhite
and Ralph Bloomer.
Mrs. Andrew Mckinney. Miss Marian
Kennedy and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Farquhar had luncheon together.
Others seen lunching at the club
we're Mr. and Mrs ". BOurke Cock
ran. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry h. Del
richs, Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm d. Sloane,
Mr.. and Mrs Frederick 7. Frelinghuy-
. 7.
and Mrs. Bradsh G.. Johnson, Mr.. and
Mrs Lawrence l.. Gillespie, Mr.. and
Mrs. bingham Lawrence, Morgan La
Montague, Walter Watson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hamilton W. Cary, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. Orme Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Rose. Mrs. Charles de l.. Oelrlchs, Mr..
and Mrs. 6. A. Warner Baltazzi, Mr..
and Mrs. Alexander d. B. Pratt, Mr..
and Mrs. Gordon Knox Bell, MIR. and
Mrs Rowland B. Allen, Dr. George
Boiling Lee, DR.. John Freeland, sam
uel Wulets. Mr. and Mrs. Henry W.
Warner, John Clinton Gray, jr.. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Gouverneur Wellman, MISS
Harriet Miss Janetta and Miss Mary
Alexander, Mrs. Herbert Shipman, Dir.
and Mrs Morton l.. Schwartz, Francis
and Maurice Roche, Miss Edith Nor
timer. Mr.. and Mrs. J. Philip Bernhard,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Stevens Ulman, J. DIV.
Cutting and Henry A. Buck.
After luncheon the guests walked
through the grounds over to the track,
where they occupied boxes and seats on
the lawn and in the grandstand IN the
club Enclosure.
The proceeds from the sale Of boxes
viii be turned over TO the Lafayette
Fund and the Committee Of Mercy.
Among those seen in the club in
closure were Mrs. John Jacob Astor,
who had with her Mrs. William II.
Force and Miss Katherine Force; Will
lam X Vanderbilt. Mrs. William X.
Vanderbilt, jr., Clarence II. Mackay,
Mr.. and Hrs. Frederick O. Beach, Mr..
and Mrs Frank Gray Griswold. Mrs.
Payne Whitney, Mrs. Cortlandt D.
Barnes. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hitch
cock. Miss Helen Hitchcock. Miss Celes
tine Eustis, Frank r. Hitchcock, Mrs.
Henry Clews, Mrs. Arthur Scott Bur
den, Miss Angelica Schuyler Brown,
Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, Mrs. Charles
Cary Rumsey, Miss Carol Hartman,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph f. Widener.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Gould Jen-
nings, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry X. Ningut,
Andrew Miller, James S. Metcalfe,
George F. Perkins. Mr.. and Mrs. Eric
s. Winston. Mr.. and Mrs Harry T. Pc
tors. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ellis, Mr. and
Mrs Harry La Montague, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nontaigu La Montague, Schuyler l..
Parsons. AIRS. Richard Wharton, Schuy
Ter L. Parsons, ir.. Mr.. and Mrs. John
G.. Livingston. Mr.. and Mrs Algernon
6 Daingerfeld. Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Stevenson, Nine. Frances Aida. Antonio
Scott, Mr.. and Mrs. W. Ellis Hoffman.
Also Mr.. and Mrs G. X. G. Billings,
Mr.. and Mrs W. Halsted Wander Poel,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bell, jr, Mr.. and
Mrs Frederick Lewisohn. Captain A.
3. Cassatt, Raj Parr, Middleton S. Bur
rill. Miss LeOnie Burrill, Mrs. Oliver
W. Bird. Miss Claire Bird, Jay Coogan,
Mrs Ansel Phelps, Clifford a. Cochran,
Alfonso d Navarro, Etienne Markow-
ski. DR.. and Mrs. jerome A. Lynch. Sid
new Dillon Ripley, Archer VI. Thorn
son. Frederick W. Bull. Miss Frederick
Bull. Mr.. and Mrs. John +. Cowdin, Mr..
and Mrs. Garrett b. Kip, Mr.. and Mrs
Grafton II. Pyne, Mr.. and Mrs. Wood
ward Babcock. Mr.. and Mrs. ". Carson
Kane, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Breyoort
Kane. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fletcher
GODFREY. Birdseye 3. Lewis. Robert C.
Wmmiil, Henry w. Sage, Andrew G. c.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark
Harry s. Page. Miss Anna Sands, Will
lam II. Sands, George T. Brokaw,
Thomas Slidell, Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar L.
Richard. Mrs. Thomas Hastings, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles r. Proctor, William
X Dick. r. L. Patterson, Allan Pinker
TON. Harold H. Weckes, II. X. Knapp,
Francis r. Appleton Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Nixon. John FitzGibbon, jr, Mr..
and Mrs Howard Price Renshaw, Mrs.
Johnston Livingston, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs
Frederick Johnston, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
Goadbv Loe y. Miss Mabel Gerry, +.
Victor Leow. Augustus d. shepard, Mr..
and Mrs. John Magee. John II. Nc
Cooev. Henry Fleitmann, Mr.. and Mrs.
william x. Hearst, Leo Ditrichsteln,
Donald Brian. Robert Warwick, Robert
billiard and Sam Bernard.
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