Anvil Chorus Thrills Madison Square Garden Show
Second Cavalry drill and saber ride draw crowd as Adolphus Busch prizes draw near. King unhurt after a fall. Thompson’s team wins the four in hand event. Officers’ chargers competition prompts strong interest with prizes of 100, 50, and 25 dollars.
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Second Cavalry
Madison Square Garden
C. HE. King
Adolphus Busch 3d
Thompson
Gervice
Armaer
Adolphus Buschad
St. Louia
N. J. Hegs
Tallaman
Clemence Craft
Monk
Mr. Henley
Newgass
Rosebud
Gayeties of Italian summer festivals charm native life
During summer tourists flee heat to northern lakes and mountains while quaint festivals enliven Italian streets. Trumpets blare as processions pass and the Quettra Altar fete near Vesuvio attracts about 190 000 visitors yearly with flower crafted altars and ephemeral artworks. Montevergine fete embodies Neapolitan spirit.
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Italy
Peninsula
Marta
Quettra
Vesuvita
Feudailem
Society Throngs the Red Cross Horse Show in Garden
Notables from New York and nearby cities attend the Red Cross Horse Show at the Garden as crowds grow. Richard Mortimer spends hours watching judging and greeting friends while Princes Troubetzkoy and Roosevelt party guests arrive and linger through the evening amid notable spectators and fashionable boxes.
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Washington Port
New York
Red Cross
Richard Mortimer
A. Warner Battazz
Renesas Wasserman
Alice Beaver-Webb
John Gerken
Carolyn Gerken
Misa Ethel Boyd Bowers
Reginald C. van Derbilt
Louise Beaver-Webb
Anna L. Street
Samuel Witlets
Foxhail P. Keene
Prescott Lawrence
Henry F. Eldridge
Edward L. Tinker
Margaret Tompkins
Roger Guggenheim
Tertia Holm
Clavel Markham
Margaret Farrell
J. B. Hovera
Prince
Princess Troubetzkoy
Willian F. Hitt
James A. Roosevelt
Stephen H. Brown
Vicanor Seare
Adele Colgate
Henry Wolcott Warner
J. Campbell
Hackney Horse Society Elects Officers and Life Members
New York Dec 9 At the American Hackney Horse Society annual meeting Reginald C Van derbilt was unanimously elected president for the coming year Other officers chosen were Charles E Coac Fred Pabst and Gurney C Gus as secretary and treasurer Board of directors named J Wesly Allison John T Bushnell Charles Coac Daniel J Driscoll William du Pont W D Henry Henry Fairfax R P McGrath Pabst Alfred G Vanderpit Reginald Vanderbilt and William Zeigier Jr New life members include Miss Constance M Vauclain Paul Moore William H Wanamaker Jr Adolphus Busch 3d Clarence H Mackay John J Mitchell John A Spoor Francis George Roche Samuel Willets GI Boissevain M M Diamond Mortimer L Schiff B RF 8 Bexley Holcomb George D Flynn and John McE Bowman The outlook suggested England may replenish stock by importing hackneys from the United States after the war in Europe ends with a letter from England discussed by Vanderbilt.
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Washington Post
New York
American Hackney Horse Society
Garden
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Charles E. Coac
Fred Pabst
Gurney C. Gus
J. Wesly Allison
John T. Bushnell
Mr. Coac
Daniel J. Driscoll
William du Pont
England
Vanderblit
First Horse Show Ball Planned in New York Friday Night
Special to The Washington Post reports New York will host its first horse show ball at the Cascade ballroom in the Biltmore Hotel on Friday, a Red and White Cross benefit with society patronesses. The event features fox trot demonstrations and top horse entries from Cavalry and engineers, including Capt Burroughs Secuga and Lieut Nelson.
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Washington Post
New York
Madison Square Garden
Fartlera
Second Cavalry
John Tierken
Red Cross
White Cross
Cascade Ballroom
Biltmors
Red and White Cross
Burroughs
Secuga
William Pierson
Charles Walker Stewart
Fifth Cavalry
Pullen
Gregory
Ll. M. Newgass Company
Wambridge King
King's Court
Elig
Nightingale
Meadowland
W. Chapin
Taft
W. Zelgter
Auburn Bonfire
Ki Mackay
O' Burns
Broadlawn Farms
Ass Douglas
Paradise Farms
Florham Squire
J. M. Burroughs
C. W. Stewart
B. O. Nelson
Sir Dawn
D. B. Pullen
Flist. W. Zeigler, Jr
Auburn
D A R Reports Rapid Growth and Red Cross Support
More than 500 new members were admitted into the Daughters of the American Revolution as the national board met. President General Mrs William Story presided and reported the society growing at about 1000 members monthly. Continental Hall fund raising progress and state conference endorsements were noted. Red Cross gifts reached 7800 with a generous 1000 from Mrs Manson of the Mary Clapp Wooster Chapter. Mrs Story to address Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington.
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Continental Hall Committee
Mre
Daughters of the American Revolution
National Board of Management
William Cumming Story
Story
Alabama
Massachusetts
New Hampahiia
Rhett Goods
Charles B. Bryan
Tennessee
Lynchburg
Belgium
Red Cross
Joseph Ransdell
D A. R
American Red Cross Society
Manson
Mary Clapp Wooster
Society
Ladies Night at Press Club Parade of Horses and Music
A National Press Club ladies night features the Press Glee Club under Charles R. Bartlett with soloists and instrumentals. The event includes extensive horse show classes from Hackneys to Saddle horses, with named owners and winning ponies. officers in uniform present.
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Farriers
Willie Brook
Rasper Calypee
Kathleen Mavourtean
Seelig
Buahnell
Press Club
National Press Club
Press Glee Club
Charles R. Bertlett
A. Clifford Wilkins
Otto Luebkert
Olivera A. Phelps
Edwin Callow
du Four Brown
Walter Hott
Imo Thompson Ware
William T. Read
Harry Wheaton Howard
My Hallenger
Glee Club
Wilson EF. Wilmot
Goetz
Chapin
Perforated Skirt Edict For Winter Fashion From League
Special to The Washington Post from Chicago reports the Fashion Art League issued a new edict for winter lingerie. The petticoat should be net or lace, trimmed with lace and multiple ruffles, dainty and sheer enough to fit into a vanity box. Evening frocks feature low cuts and short bodices with many gores and slim belt piping, paired with a lace petticoat with a high waist.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Fashion Art League
Cannibal fish of the River of Doubt described by T R Roosevelt
Oyster Bay story recalls Colonel Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill talk on the River of Doubt expedition. He describes a ferocious 18 inch “cannibal fish” that attacked a native carrier, leaving only a skeleton when rescuers arrived.
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T. R
Washington Post
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Col. Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Fashions from War Shape Attire and Absinthe Tales
The article surveys how war shaped fashion and vice through history, noting absinthe’s rise in France during Algeria campaigns, Iron Cross origins in iron, and khaki and zouave jackets entering civilian dress. It also reports a Hempstead kidnapping of two French maids, chloroformed and left in a vacant house, with suspects sought.
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Germany
Frederick William Fil
Prussia
London
Wedded to Naval Ensign at Norfolk
Miss Mary Lawrence Stokes became the bride of Ensign George Barry Wilson US Navy at St Luke's Episcopal Church Norfolk Virginia The ceremony included maid of honor sister of the bride and several navy officers as ushers from the battleship Delaware The couple and wedding party wore full dress uniforms adding to the ceremony's brilliancy
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Mary L. Stokes
George B. Wilson
Norfolk
Washington Post
Mary Lawrence Stokes
George Hughes Stokes
George Barry Wilson
Wii
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Davia Howard
John—etner
MM. W. Callahan
P. P. Powell
J. E Nash
J. H. Nelson
P. W. Yeatman
J. M. Creighton
C. H. McCum
Delaware
Randolph Coupland
Dreas Naval
Rs. Wilson
Two Girls Report Kidnap Attempt Near Local Town
Miss Atche and a companion escaped after a man and a shorter foreign looking assailant attacked them and forced a train ride to Freeport then a trolley to Hempstead. County Detective Seaman questioned them after they reported the incident to Mr. Clodie and Dr. Warner tended the injured girl. Earlier May Hansen was attacked by a man who leaped from a car and fled when the victim screamed.
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Washington Post
Hempstead
L. L
Prospect Street
Alice Atche
Lizzie Antura
Paul Clodie
Rockville Center
Hempsford
Clodie
Floyd Weeks
Hempstead Village
Freeport
Hlempstead
Phineas A. Seaman
Miss Atche
Henry M Warner
May Hansen
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C. Vanderbilt Barton
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