Evening star., 1927-05-22
Society Turns Out in Force
for Opening of Race Season
Belmont Park Mecca for New York Fashion
Word-Turf and Field Club Scene
of Festivities
OF festivities.

NEW YORK, May 21.--Society wa!
out in force last Thursday for the
opening of the racing season at Bel
mont Park, the most popular race
course in this country for members oi
the fashionable world. and for the
next three weeks it will be the mecca
for horse devotees of the East.
The races Thursday were preceded
by numerous luncheons at country
estates on Long Island, and the Turf
and Field Club was the scene of many
parties. The members of the club and
their guests found the CLUB much al
tered and improved under the personal
supervision of and from designs sug'
gested by Joseph l.. Widener, presi'
dent of the Westchester Driving Asso'
citation. and Henry w. Bull, president
OF the Turf and Field Club. The inte.
rior has been rearranged with every
comfort for members. but the chief
feature is the new addition, an octa-
gonal pavilion for luncheon purposes.
seating $50 persons, giving view OF
the small lake, fountain and magnl1'
cent century-old trees of countless va
rieties, including one of the three
cedars of Lebanon in this country.
The large plate glass windows In
closing the dining salon sink into
foundations ground, as at the famous
Champs Elysee of Paris. The club
was founded in 1895, and always has
been one Of the most exclusive organi'
zation of its kind in the country.
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The certificate Of incorporation of
the Turf and Field Club follows:
I'VE. Perry Belmont, L. c. Potter,
Adrian Iselin. jr.: S. Van Rensselaer,
Cruger and John Z. Cowdin, all being
of full age and at least two-thlrds OF
whom are citizens of the United
States and at least one of whom is a
resident of the State of New YORK,
desiring to form a corporation pur'
suart to the provisions of the member
shin CORPORATION law, being chapter
$50 of the laws of 1895, do hereby
certify:
"First-The particular objects for
which the corporation is to be formed
are to ACQUIRE, by lease or purchase
clubhouse and grounds ad1acent
thereto or convenient for use In con-
nection Herewith, and to maintain the
same as a resort for the conduct OF
polo, golf and other sports generaHy
70, the purpose Of a country CLUB.
"Second-The name of the proposed
cornoration shall be Turf and Field
Club
''Third-The territory in which Its
operations are to be principally con-
Quoted is that part of the city OF New
York formerly the town of Westches-
ter and the territory adjacent thereto.
"Fourth-The city in which its prln-
cipal Office is to be located is the city
of New York: and
"Fifth-The number of its directors
is 3o."'
A unique entertainment, an exhibit
ton of furniture, reproductions ana
modified adaptations of early Amerl-
can pieces, was held under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt at
the Roosevelt home, 49 East Sixty
fifth street. The furniture is the work
of the Waikiki shop at Hyde Park.
The work of making it has been GO
ing on all Winter under the direction
of Miss Nancy Cook. Behind the new
enterprise are Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs.
Daniel O'Day and Miss Marion Dick
erman. Mrs. Roosevelt gave interest
ing reasons for starting the shop and
what had been accomplished already.
For a long time the fact has been
brought home to many of us who are
fond of old furniture" she said, "that
authentic early American pieces are
becoming more and more difficult to
secure. Some OF US have few which
we would like to have surrounded by
others which are in keeping, and so
the shop was started with the idea
of making copies of those in the Met
ropolitan Museum or in other good
collections. At present we are max
ing only early American furniture, but
we could reproduce pieces from any
other period in which our customers
might be interested.
"Our object is to give our furniture
the care which was given by early
cabinetmakers, so that the workman
ship and the finish may show some of
the charm which those early pieces
acquired because their makers really
loved the work which they did"
In the collection shown were bed,
dresser, chairs, gateleg tables and
many smaller ones, a desk, mirrors
and a highboy.
Mrs. Alice Haven Trevor, daughter
of the late George G. Haven, banker,
and granddaughter of the late George
q. Haven, who was president of the
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate
Co. and prominently identified with
many other large corporations, was
married a few days ago in st.
Stephens Church, .Ridgefield, Conn.,,
by the rector, the Rev. William B.
Luck, to William Otis Waters, jr.
New of the marriage was asuprise
to many friends of the couple in So
ciety, with which the brides family
has been identified for generations.
No announcement Of the engagement
had been made and a few outside Of
the family knew that it was to take
place. The ceremony was performed
with only a few witnesses present.
The Haven family for many years was
idetif1ed with Ridgefield and st. Steph-
ems Church.
Mr.. Waters is son of Mrs. William
Otis Waters of Chicago, and the late
Rev. DIR. Waters. He is a graduate of
Yale. in the class Of 1913, and has
lived in New York several years.
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An annual affair which is always
one Of the outstanding events of the
late Spring season was the garden