Evening star., 1926-05-16
Belmont Park Racing
Season Starts Friday
Boxes All Engaged and New York Expects the
Best Sport of Many Seasons-Engagement
and Weddings of Interest.

NEW YORK. May l5.-The regular
racing season at Belmont Park be-
gins Friday next and will continue
until June u. No races in this coun-
Try draw a more representative
gathering of socially prominent per
sons than this picturesque course and
Friday will see a brilliant assemblage
of members of society from this city.
Philadelphia. Washington Boston and
from the Long Island and Tuxedo
sets.
The club inclosure has undergone
many changes and will be more at
traCtiVe than ever. The boxes will
he occupied by the Whitneys. Mil
burns, GraCes. Iselins. Wagstaffs,
Tanderbilts, Goulds. Cuttings. Hoyts.
Roosevelts, Stevenses.& &Phippses, Wild
ners, Wings. Parsons, Burrills. Mac
kays. Brokaws Waterburys, Posts,
Loews. F'relinghuysens Claims, Lor-
lizards, AleNandres AleXanders, Bid
dies and other prominent families
The Turf and Field club back of
he grandStand will he the scene OF
many large luncheon parties. II the
weather is favorable tables will be
placed not only in the main restaurant
and adjourning rooms, the sun porch.
but also on the lawn. There also will
be much entertaining at country
places on the Island in ConectiOn with
the opening and many of the owners
Of the big estates will have guests
over the week end and will take
parties over by motor for the races.
With the high Tide Of Spring en-
gagementS nearing its peak one ri the
most interesting announcements is
that of the betrothal of Miss Con
stance Woolworth McC9nn. daughter
n IL .1rN4.l l. ~
of East Eightieth street and oyster
Bay. Long Island. Her tiance is
Wyllys Rosseter Belts, jr.. of Tuxedo.
Both are members of prominent fam
lilies and popular in the outdoor life
OF the younger set.
After her graduation from Farm
ington School Miss MCann studied
for d year in Paris. Last Winter she
was introduced to society and is
member of the Junior League. Her
mother. who is a well known member
Of the d. A. r.. was Miss Helen Wool
worth daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank w. Woolworth. 1t was i'll
1858 that the first representative Of
the Woolworth family came 10 this
country. Nh Belts is a son of Mr.
and Mrs W. r. Belts of Tuxedo
Park,
May g there will take place we'd
ding Of International interest Miss
Marie Louise Bird. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Oliver ". Bird of this city
and Long Island. will be married to
Bernard y. Jackson. SON of +. NeFIH
JacksAl of London. The ceremony
will be held in -. Georges Church IN
Hampstead. Long Island.
Mrs. Bird Lewis viii attend her
sister and Archibald Savory will be
best man Other bridal attendants
will include Mrs. Oliver w. Bird, jr..
Mrs Charles r. HaVemeyer. Mrs. Rus
sell G. D'Oench. Miss Nancy Yuille
and Miss Mildred NJ. smith
The ushers selected We're Oliver w.
Bird. jr.. and Dudley Gautier Bird,
ltussel G.. DOench. Payton Burnett.
Cecil Douglas Ragenbach and Robert
Gross. The Rev. John llaight viii
perform the ceremony.
One of the smartest June weddings
viii be that OF Miss Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
Franklin y. Roosevelt OF 40 East
Sixty-f1fth street. She is To become
he bride of Curtis Beau Dali. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Austin Dali of
this city. June .. The plans for the
marriage. which have Just been an
nounced. are quite elaborate. The cere
mony will be performed in st. James
Z nHfCN. ftNue GdIN. New Dl Is. DS the
Rev DR. F,ndicott Peabody of Groton
School. and will he followed by a iecep-
tion al SpringWood, the Roosevelt
home in Hyde Park. The invitations
for the affair have been issued and
Miss Roosevelt has completed the de
tails of her wedding party In adj
iition 10 Miss Katherine s. Douglas
az maid of honor. the bridesmaids Will
he Mrs. Dave llennen Morris. ir. the
Misses Helen Douglas Robinson.
Dorothy +. Wimerding. Mary +.
Nicholson. Mary :. f. Gaillard and
Martha NJ. Ferguson.
John r du Blois Wack will be best
man and the ushers will be James
and Elliott Roosevelt. cornelius Rea
Agnew ir, Donald Agnew. Dave
Hennen Morris, ir.: Julian G. Ro-
maine, Harrison Il. Smith. il; Willis
O. Wilmot Peter A. II. Noorhis and
Ray +. Purdy.
Another June wedding which is be-
ing much talked about is that of
Miss Jane Bethel Scales. daughter of
Mrs. II. Wellington Scales Of Rich
mond, Va. She is TO be married on
June 29 to Warren Leslie. .ir.. son
of Mr.. and Mrs Warren Leslie of "A
East Ninety-fourth street. The cere-
mony. which will be followed by a
large reception. is to be celebrated at
Rothesay. the country home of Mrs.
Pohnathan Brown, near Rich
mond, Va.
Miss Scales will be attended by her
sister Mrs. Edward Moon, as matron |
Of honor, and the maid Of honor Will
be Miss Geraldine Thompson. The
bridesmaids viii be the Misses kath |
crime and Esther Leslie and Adele
Ryan of New York. and Virginia
nonnan and Ethel Fox of Richmond
James Leslie will be best man for
his brother The ushers will be Cor
neliuS Vanderbilt Whitney. Charles
Shipnlan Payson. William Gayley