New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-01
Horse Show
At Newport
Opens To-day
Unusually Large Entry List
and Box Reservations
Promise a Big Fund for
Benefit of Hospital
Julia S prigg Engaged
Granddaughter of the Late
E. E. Duryea To Be Bride
Of Brodnax Cameron

Newport's annual Horse Show will
open to-day and continue throughout
tomorrow and Friday, on the grounds
of the Casino. 1t will be the last large
outdoor attraction of the season, which
has seen the Dog Show, the tennis
tournament and numerous entertain
ments for charity The proceeds from
. the exhibition this year will go to the
Newport Hospital. and as. there is an
unusually large entry list in the var-
Gus classes to attract society and the
public and most of the boxes have
been disposed of, large sum is ex-
pected to be turned over to the insti-
tuition.
Among those who have taken boxes
are Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman,
Mrs Henry Clews, Mrs. W. Watts
Sherman, Mrs. George Peabody Eustis
Mrs. Richard Gambrill, Mrs. Thomas
G. Ashton. Mrs. Forsyth Wickes, Miss
Helen Brice and Mrs. George Henry
Warren.
The executive committee is composed
Of Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Preston
lawrence and Thomas G. Ashton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cresap Spriggs, OF
@Morea; Charlottesville, Va, announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Miss julia Duryea Sprigg, to Brodnax
Cameron, OF Pete .sburg, Va. Miss
Sprigg is n granddaughter of the late
EDGAR E. DuryeA, of New York She
is a graduate Of the Spence School,
this city Mr.. Cameron was gradu-
ated from Princeton in 1918 and served
k,,I -
Sa.cnica. The wedding will take place
in October.
A concert and entertainment will be
given at the Greenwich Country Club
tomorrow, arranged by the women's
committee Of the Serbia Child Welfare
Association, West Eighth Street, for
the benefit Of the orphans of Serbia.
Sergeant Ruth Farnam, an Anne rican
woman who served with the Serbian
army and who has just returned to
this country, will give q brief word
picture of conditions there. Mrs. Min
turn Pinchot, chairman of the commit
tee, has arranged the concert She was
assisted by Mrs. 1. n. Phelps Stokes,
Mrs. William G. Rockefeller, Mrs
Charles Lanier, Mrs. Julian W. Curtiss
and others.
Miss Marion Rous will give a piano
recital
Augustus Howard WINS and Miss
Edith WINS, OF New York, will leave
Bar Harbor to-day on IN automobile
trip through the White Mountains
They will 60 later to the Greenbrier
at White Sulphur Springs.
Mrs. Walter S. Gurnee and Miss Bell
B. Gurnee, who are at Bar Harbor, will
return to their country place at West
bury, L. l., at the end Of the month,
Mrs. Vincent Astor will give dance
on Saturday evening at Beechwood, her
villa in Newport. It will be for the
younger set and will be preceded by
several dinners. This will be the first
large affair given at Beechwood for
several years.
DIR. and Mrs. r. Penn Smith jr. have
raturned to their country place at East
Wluiston, L. l., from Saratoga Springs,
N. Y.
Miss Mabel satterlee. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, of
81 East Thirtysixth Street, has sailed
1or South America to pass few weeks.
Mrs. George H. Hull jr. will pass
September with her parents. General
and Mrs. J. Fred Pierson. at their villa
in Newport.