Evening star., 1933-09-03
New York Society
To Leave Resorts
For Autumn Fetes
Seashore and Mountains to
Get Last of Visitors With
Labor Day Holiday.

NEW YORK, September labor
day will close the season at many Of
the SeaShore and mountain resorts and
society will return to country estates
on Long Island, in Westchester County,
in the Morristown section Of New Jer-
sey and at Tuxedo Park where many
attractive affairs are scheduled for the
Autumn. which is the most attractive
season Of the year. Long Island will
offer many attractions. racing opening
at Belmont Park Monday, polo at the
Meadow Brook Club, the Piping Rock
Horse Show and the running Of the
famous Meadow Brook Cup, Long
Islands most noted steplechase event
This cast will take place September 80.
with Mr.. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark
as hosts. The race will be run on their
Westbury estate and will be preceded
by the usual al fresco luncheon. Bel
mont Park gives promise of attracting
unusually large crowds and all the
boxes have been taken BY prominent
members of society, most Of whom
will entertain at luncheon at their
country estates or at the Turf and
Field Club in the park. The two Sat-
urdayS of the meet, September 9 and
Is. the attraction is even greater than
Labor day and will therefore draw
much larger attendance. A horse show
was held today at Smithtown on the
estate of Lawrence Smith Butler and
was made social event, admittance
being restricted pretty much to mem
bers of the North Shore Long Island
colony A large luncheon was given by
Mr. Butler and dinners and dancing
followed this evening.
The annual Piping Rock Horse Show
always one Of the smartest affairs OF
tch nf
New York. will be held three days this
year instead of two as formerly. Sep
tember %, 90 and 80. The club was
opened on Decoration day. 1912. and
has been a popular rendezvous of So
ciety ever since. A turf track was
constructed near the club under the
knowing eye of August Belmont and
about 10 members of the club subscribe
to what became known as the Piping
Rocky Pony Subscription. The races
were run under the direction of Henry
w. Bull. Joseph E. Davis. Frank Hitch
cock. Thomas Hitchcock, Clarence H.
Mackay and Harry Payne Whitney.
The Piping Rock Horse Show always
has been known as hunter show ana
also one in which amateurs have the
first call. Henry Rogers Winthrop is
president of the club. Richard Babcock,
secretary. and Frederick Potts Moore,
treasurer.
Several engagements Of much interest
to society have been announced IN the
last few days Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Maitland Connfelt Of Brookville. Long
Island. have made known the engage
ment of their daughter Enid to Mr..
Ogden Goelet, eldest son OF Robert
Goelet of New York and Newport and
Mrs. Henry Clews. jr., OF Chateau de
la Napoule, in the Maritime Alps OF
France.
Miss Connfelt attended Miss Master S
School at Dobbys Ferry. N. Y, ana
afterward studied in Paris and Munlch.
She made her debut in 1881. Her
mother. the former Miss Una Rowland
Soley. is a cousin of President Roosevelt:
Miss Connfelt is a granddaughter OF
Mrs. James Russell Soley and the late
Mr.. Soley, and q niece Of Mrs. Howard
G.. Dickinson.
Mr.. Goelet is a grandson OF the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Goelet OF new
York and Newport and nephew OF the
Duchess of Roxburghs, the former MISS
May Goelet. Through his paternal
grandmother, the late Mrs. Goelet, ne
is a grandnephew Of Mrs. Cornenus
Vanderbilt. wife of the brlgadler gen.
eral; Of the late Lady Herbert, Wi1e OF
Sir Michael Herbert former British
ambassador to Washington, and the
late M. Orme Wilson and the late
Richard T. Wilson. Through his
mother, the former Miss Elsie Whelen,
he is q grandson Of the late Henry
Whelen of Philadelphia. The marriage
of his mother to Mr.. Goelet was terml-
mated by divorce in 1914. They have
one other son. Peter Goelet. In the
same wear Mrs Elsie Whelen Goelet
married Henry Clews, jr. In September
1925, Mr.. Goelet married Miss Roberta
Willard. daughter Of Col. Joseph ID.
Willard of Newport. Mr.. Ogden Goelet
was educated at ST. Paul's School, Con-
cord. NJ H.. and Harvard. He is a
member of the Knickerbocker Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Choate. lr.,
of New York-and Mount KiSco, N. Y,
have announced the engagement OF
their youngest daughter Priscilla to Mr.
Norwood Penrose Hallowell, jr.. of Mil
ton Mass, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Norwood
Penrose Hallowell and a grandson OF
the late Col. Norwood Penrose Hallowell
of West Bedford, Mass. On his mother S
side he is a grandson Of Alfred Bowditch
of Boston. He is brother OF John
Crocker, Mrs. Nelson Bigelow, Mrs.
Irving Pratt. Miss Margaret HalloWell
and Alfred Bowditch Hallowell.
Miss Choate is a descendant Of John
Choate. who came to this country
earlv in the seventeenth century. She
is a granddaughter of the late Joseph
Hodges Choate, former U. 8. Ambassador