New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Westcllester Folk
Plan Lively Week
During Horse Show
Country Estates Prepare to
Receive Guests and Dap
per Four-is1-Hands Again
Will Jaunt ON Highways
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

FpcSe"~ DtSpuC~t 90 fte 1 TiOUHe
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, June A.
The social and club season in West
chester County was opened formally on
Memorial Day and from now on there
will be many events to keep the So
ciety folk busy. One of the biggest
affairs will be the annual Westminster
Horse Show, which will be held at
Gedney Farm, on the outskirts of
White Plains, from June Is to 18.
Every year the show attracts manv
lovers of high steppers, who enter
some of the best horses in the coun-
try. During the week there will be
numerous house and dinner parties at
the big country homes of wealthy New
Workers who spend the summer in the
county OF across the line in Connect
cut.
1t is also the week when the four-in-
hands are once more in evidence on
the Westchester highways and the
long-drawn-out notes of the post horn
resound Nm the valleys and over the
WesCchester NILS as gay parties wend
their way to the horse show grounds.
Among those who will entertain will
be Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Hartman, Mr..
and Mrs. George Fordyce Leith Mr.,
and Mrs. Percy Rockefeller. Mr. and
Mrs. j. D. Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs
Finley Shepard and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
win Gould.
1t is announced that during the first
and second days of the horse show the
admission fees collected will be do
mated to the benefit of the White
Plains, Port Chester and Mount Kisco
hospitals.
Those in charge of the show are
Percy A, Rockefeller, John Nee. Bow
a E'Jsyn q
J. Downey, Oliver Hartman, G. D. f.
Leith, Everett L. Crawford, J. Macv
Willets, j. Richard Steers and Gordon
Grand.
The entertainment committees of
the New Rochelle, Larchmont and
American Yacht clubs have arranged
for dances every Saturday night at the
different clubhouses and many regat
tas will also be held during the sum
mer season on Long Island Sound.
The Scarsdale Woman's Club held
big bridge whist party on Tuesday
afternoon, The hostesses were Mrs.
r. Rutledge Davis and Mrs. Avent
Chiliress.
The members of the Westchester
Woman's Club of Scarsdale, who are
continually working for the civic bet
terment of the village, have donated
SlOO toward the cost of preserving Old
Scarsdale in pictures.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Clark Runyan
have been entertaining house parties
at their Scarsdale country estate dur
ing the last week.
N. Y. A. c. Clubhouse Scene
Of Many Dinner Parties
The New York Athletic Club house
on Travers Island has been the scene
of many dinner parties lately, while an
unusually large number of athletic
events have taken place in the last few
days, attracting clubmen from Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn.
Nine. Jeane Thiebaud, of Scarsdale,
has sailed for England to spend the
summer months travelling in Switzer-
land and France.
Never before has there been such a
demand for summer homes in Larch-
mont and Rye Beach on the Sound,
and the social season at these resorts
is now in full swing. Among the cot
tage arrivals at Larchmont Manor are
DR.. and Mrs. Thomas II. Willard in
| Beach Avenue; E. C. Tooker on Larch-
! mont Avenue; John 5. Clifford, Edge
wood Road, and Sidney Wolf, Pryer
| Point.
The Belvedere Hotel at Larchmont
/ has oVOhSu u large lhIILpSi VI Sut9tS
| for the summer months. Among some
of the arrivals are Mr.. and Mrs. E. w,
Moon, Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Williams,
| Mr.. and Mrs. George n. Armstrong and
daughter, Josephine, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerome Kennedy.
| Among the Mount Vernonites who
ST ent Memorial Day out of town were
| Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Cart, of Forster
| Avenue; Mr.. and Mrs. f. G. Cart jr.,
| of Lorraine Avenue, who were at
| Pratt's Island, Conn; Mrs. C. A. Speak
nan, of Gramatan Avenue, who was at
| Buck Hills Falls, Pa, and Mr.. and Mrs.
| D. H. Wilson, Of Fulton Avenue, who
| were in the Berkshires.
| Mr.. and Mrs. William S. Anderson,
1 OF Mount Vernon, have opened their
summer home at Taconic, Conn.
| Mrs. L. B. Parker, of Mount Vernon,
| has gone to Walcott, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin A, Merriam
and daughter Ethel, of Rich Avenue,
Mount Vernon, have gone to their sum-
! mer place at Lakeville. Conn.