The sun., 1919-08-28
HORSE SHOW DRAWS
NOTABLE GATHERING
Newport Casino Filled With
Persons Socially Prominent
for Annual Event.
EVERY BOX Is OCCUPIED
Many Luncheons Precede the
Opening-Reginald Wander
bilt Is Host at Dinner.
EVERY BOX rs OCCUPIED

~ n sta6 Correspondent Of THE suN.
NEwryoRT, Aug. 27.--The twenty-third
annual Newport horse show brought out
nj the Casino the most brilliant gather
ing of this season. The executive and ring
committee included Henry F. Eldridge,
Prescott Lawrence. Reginald G. Wander
bIlt and Thomas G. Ashton.
There was prospect Of bad weather
esrly In the day, but rain held of until
nearly 5 o'clock, when there WIS brief
shower. II did not interfere with the
receipts for the day, however. All the
boNes we're sold in advance and the pro-
ceeds Of the show will be used for a
fund for soldiers blinded In battle. Many
luncheons were given in the villa colony,
and 1t was well after o'clock when
the boxes about the ring were filled.
Mrs Vanderbllt's guests were Mrs
George Henry Warren and Mrs. Moses
Taylor Campbell
With Mrs L. Cas- Ledyard were Mrs
William F. Sheehan and Mrs. Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler
Mrs Frederick Pearson had as her
guests Mrs Frederick Nelson, Mrs
George B. de Forest and Miss Charlotte
Pell.
Mr.. and Mrs. David wagstaff Of
Tuxedo Park were with Mrs. Forsythe
Wickes.
In Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry's box were
Countess Macchi Di Cellere, wife of the
Italian Ambassador; Mrs. de Forest
Danielson and Miss Mabel Gerry.
Miss Fanny johnson was with Mr.. and
Mrs H. A. c. Taylor, and In another
party were Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mrs,
James B. Duke, Mrs. Work Hewitt and
Mrs. F. Gray Griswold.
Mrs. Grenville Kane of Tuxedo Park
was with DR.. and Mrs Henry Barton
Jacobs.
Mr. and Mrs William Fahnestock were
with Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock.
Mrs. w. w. Sherman's party included
Mrs. Lawrence L. Gillespie and Miss
Audrey Hoffman.
Myron T. Herrick, former Ambassador
to France, came with Mrs. Hope Slater.
A Notable Gathering.
Among others in the boxes were Mrs.
Hamilton Mex. Twombly, Miss Ruth
Twomhly. Mrs John R Drexel, Mrs.
David King. Mrs. Walker b. Smith,
Oliver Perrin. Mrs. John Elliott Mr.. and
Mrs. John Du FATS. Mrs Clarence w.
Dolan, Miss Augusta Hunter, Miss Mar
tina Goldman, Mrs. Richard Gambr II. Mr..
and Mrs. Richard v. Gambrill, Mrs. Vim
cent Aston Joseph c. Baldwin Sd. Miss
Amy Varnum. Mrs. John ]. Wysong, Mr..
and Mrs. George Henry Warren, Jr..
Mr.. and Mrs Charles b. Hillhouse, Miss
Sylvia Hillhouse, Mr., and Mrs. James
Brown Potter. Mrs. Henry Clews, Mrs.
William P. Douglas, Mrs. Eugene s.
Reynal, Mss Adele Reynal Mrs. r. Liv-
mgston Beeckman. Mrs. Theodore A.
Haveneyer. James W. Gerard, Mrs.
Ralph NJ, johnson. S. Montgomery Roose-
welt, VINO was with Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
OF. Padelford. and Mrs. Herbert c.
Pell, Jr. 10 NS'f VT &c u
Mrs Ward Douglas, Mrs. Austen Gray
Mrs. Prescott Lawrence, Miss Katharine
Buckley Lawrence. Mrs Lawrence Paul
Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Mrs Frederick T.
Frelinghuysen, Mr.. and Mrs. George Pea
body Eustis. Miss Edith wetmore, Count
Raoul D. Adhemar. Philip La Montague
Major G. C. Webb, w. Goadby Loew
Mrs Robert K. Cassatt, Miss Rose Gros
venor, Mrs Rogers Benjamin. Miss Anne
D. Paulding, Mrs James Mcdonald Ar
thur Campbell. Mrs, Howard G. Gushing
Capt and Mrs. Livingston Hunt. Richard
Peters, Leroy King, Mrs. Charles de L