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PROMINENT RACING ENTHUSIASTS GATHER AT SARATOGA FOR EQUINE EVENTS
Jock Whitneys to Come to Llangollen
Prior to Horse Show Scheduled to
Take Place at Berryville
August is one of the high points o‘n the equine calendar,
and Saratoga naturally holds the center of interest. The
famous watering resort is rich in turf tradition, and well
known enthusiasts of the track from all-over the country
are meeting there at this time.
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Mrs. John Hny Whitney
following the death of his father; but a month ago he de
cided to move them to the blue grass regions of Kentucky.
The yearlings are there now, and the five remaining
thorough-breds will be moved next month.
Brookdale Farm was leased to the Whitneys by Col.
Lewis Thompson. It’s a lovely old place, not unlike a
Southern plantation. There’s a great white house which
is reserved for Mrs. Thompson’s own use, and Col.
Thompson’s private quarters are used to entertain his bache
lor friends. The training stables take up a major portion
of the grounds, which arc covered with tall shade trees
and rare shrubs, and arc surrounded by a white-topped
black posted fence.
Children Ride Ponies at Very Early Age
The entire Whitney stable force is colored. From the
time the darkies are children they ride the ponies, and
many of them used for training purposes are barely eight
or nine years old. They stick like burrs to their mounts,
yelling and shouting as they pass the small frame shed that
serves as a miniature grandstand. These children may
ride the horses in the early morning before school, or in
the afternoon, after classes let out. Never between times.
At Brookdale Farm there is a little red school house for
the “darkies,” a cheerful little place with well-worn wooden
seats, much-used blackboards, and a schoolmaster’s chair.
Here many of the old negroes now in the employ of the
first learned their ABC’s.
Horses like colored people. They arc always at home
with them, never nervous and never out of hand. There’s
something soothing about the gentle drawl of their voices,
the tinkle of their banjos, and their cheerful laughter.
Virginia is probably the only state which will rival Sara
toga this month with racing and horse shows, for one of
the most famous of all horse shows will be held at Berryville,
only a few miles from the home of the former Virginia Gov
ernor, Harry Byrd.
Prominent among those who are interested in it are the
Jock Whitneys, cousins of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney.
They are at Saratoga now, and will remain there through
the racing season, returning to “Llangollen,” their estate
at Upperville, in time for the Berryville horse show.
Their house guests at Saratoga include Mrs. Whitney’s
brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Altemus, of
New York; Mrs. Frederick McLaughlin and Mr. and Mrs.
Austin H. Niblack, of Chicago; Mr. Maurice Legendre, of
New York, and Mr. Jack Anthony, of London.
* * *
At the White House
Mrs. Roosevelt will return to
the White House this evening,
coming by train from Hyde
Park, where she has been with
the President since early this
month. Mrs. Roosevelt will be
accompanied by her secretary,
Mrs. Melvina Scheider.
The President is expected to
return to the Capital on Satur
day from Hyde Park.
* * *
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow
Os the former President, will be
the guest in whose honor Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle will
entertain at a tea following the
races at Saratoga today. Mrs.
Wilson arrived in Saratoga to
day, to be the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Riddle at their summer
home on Union Avenue.
* * *
Box Party
The Secretary of the Treas
ury and Mrs. William H. Wood-
In have taken a box tonight
for “Perhaps We Are,” which
the Hampton Players will pre
sent at Guild Hall in East
Hampton, Long Island.
* * ♦
The Counselor of the Czecho
slovakian Legation Dr. Joseph
Nemecek is at the Hotel Astor
in New York city for a visit of
several days.
* * *
Leaves Lake Placid
Mrs. Thomas C. Hart, wife of
Rear Admiral Hart, superin
tendent of the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis,
has departed from Whiteface
Inn at Lake Placid, following
a visit with her parents. Rear
Admiral Willard H. Brownson,
U. S. N., retired, and Mrs.
Brownson. She was accompan
ied by her son, Thomas C. Hart,
Jr., and her daughters, Caroline
and Harriett Hart.
* * *
Has Visitor
The former Secretary of State
and Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson,
who went abroad in June, are
in Sutherland, Scotland, for the
mid-summer and will return to
Highhold. their estate at West
Hills. L. 1., in September. Colo
nel Stimson had as his recent
guest there Mr. Ramsay Mac-
Donald, British Prime Minister,
his friend of many years stand
ing.
For a brief season, palatial cottages
are filled with guests, fashionable
hotels are thronged with picturesque
crowds, and the track is gay with the
colorful silks of celebrated stables.
It is a sight well worth seeing.
The late William C. Whitney, the
first to bring serious attention of the
racing track to the brown and blue
silk of the now celebrated Whitney
Stables, was among the names famous
at the Saratoga trdek. Harry Payne
Whitney followed in his father’s foot
steps, with fine-bred horses, and they
were all trained at Brookdale Farm
near Little Silver, New Jersey.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney took
over those stables and continued to
train the horses at Brookdale Farm,
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Return to Capital
The former United States
Ambassador to Italy and Mrs.
Richard Washbum Child enter
tained at dinner in honor of
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Ken
nedy, who spent the past few
days with them at Newport,
Rhode Island. Mr. and Mrs.
Kennedy have returned to
Washington.
* * *
Visitor Honored
Representative Virginia Ellis
Jenckes of Indiana entertained
at luncheon at the National
Women’s Democratic Club, yes
terday in honor of Miss Anne
Royse of Terre Haute, of In
diana.
Among the guests were Sena
tor Hattie Caraway, former
Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross,
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, Mrs.
Edward N. Keating, Mrs. Charles
Douglas Herron, Miss Winifred
Mallon. Mrs. W. Clark Noble,
Miss Anne Royse and Miss Vir
ginia Ray Jenckes.
Unique table decorations were
used in the shape of porcelain
roosters which portrayed Dem
ocracy, and a large porcelain
frog, which the guests chris
tened “Repeal.”
* ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Peyton
Wilson entertained at dinner
last evening at the Essex and
Sussex, in Spring Lake. New
Jersey, in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter G. Distler.
* ♦ ♦
Admiral’s Party
Rear Admiral Spencer S.
Wood and Mrs. Wood enter
tained for the annual admiral’s
party at their residence, in New
port, with seventeen admirals
of the active and retired list at
tending. These parties were
started nine years ago by the
late Rear Admiral George C.
Remey and since his death have
been held at Admiral Wood’s
residence. Mrs. Wood was as
sisted in receiving by her daugh
ters, Mrs. J. C. Harsch, of Wash
ington, Mrs. John H. N. Potter,
and by Admiral Wood’s sister,
Mrs. Arthur Avrault. Mr. Harsh
was among the guests.
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Senator William H. King was
the guest of Mr. H. Ralph Bur
ton at dinner last evening at
the Carlton.
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MISS VIRGINIA BACON PENFIELD, of New York city, who is the guest of her
grandmother, Mrs. William M. Conrad, and Mr. Conrad, in their apartment at the
Shoreham. Miss Penfield is the daughter of the late Walter Scott Penfield.
Dr. Thorp Feted
At Stag Party
Dr. Willard L. Thorp, former
professor of economics at Am
herst and recently appointed
director of the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce
of the Department of Commerce
was the guest of honor at a
luncheon given yesterday at
the Mayflower by Mr. Charles
C. Concannon. chief of the
Chemical Division of the Bureau.
The guests included Senator
Kenneth McKellar and Senator
Nathan L. Bachman of Tennes
see, Representative William B.
Oliver of Alabama, Dr. Benjamin
Cohen, charge d’affaires of the
Chilean Embassy: Senor Carlos
de la Barra, commercial secre
tary of the Chilean Embassy:
Dr. Rudolf Leitner, counselor,
and Dr. Ernst Wilhelm Meyer,
first secretary of the Germany
Embassy; Signor Romolo Ange
lone, commercial attache of the
Italian Embassy: Mr. William
L. Slattery, comptroller. Post
Office Dffice Department: Mr.
H. Russell Amory and Mr. T.
R. Taylor, assistant directors,
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce: Judge Clarence C.
Goodwin and Mr. Charles H.
MacDowell of Chicago, Mr.
Paul Wooton. Mr. C. H. Pope,
Mr. Harold J. T. Horan, Mr.
Drew Pearson, and Mr. T. W.
Delahanty, assistant chief,
Chemical Division, Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Com
merce.
* * *
Persian Minister
Will Be Host
The Minister of Persia, Graf
far Khan Djalal, will entertain
at the dinner dance on the
Shoreham Terrace this evening,
in honor of the retiring Chan
cellor of the Legation, Dr. Taghi
Khosh, who will leave Washing
ton Friday morning for New
York, whence he will sail Sat
urday aboard the Aquitania to
return to Persia.
The Minister and the members
of the Persian Legation staff
will go to Baltimore tomorrow
to greet the nine Persian stud
ents who arrived there yester
day aboard the two Italian
ships, the Amerigo Vespucci and
the Cristoforo Colombo.
The Minister will entertain at
a luncheon or dinner party at
the Legation for the students,
who will come to Washington in
a day or two.
* * ♦
Miss Virginia Givens, of
Bayonne, N. J., is stopping at
the Shoreham where she will j
■ be for 10 days.
Social Notes
The Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, Col. Henry Latrobe
Roosevelt, is en route to the
West Coast. He spent some
time fishing off the Perlas
Islands, panama, before sailing
on the U. S. S. Raleigh for San
Diego, Calif. Colonel Roosevelt
was entertained at dinner be
fore sailing by Rear Admiral
W. S. Crosley, commandant of
the 15th Naval District, at the
Union Club in Panama City.
* * *
Mrs. Walter E. Edge, wife of
the former United States am
bassador to France, is spending
several days at the Mayflower,
while her home in Eighteenth
Street is being renovated. Mr.
and Mrs. Edge will probably
come to Washington in the
early fall to spend the winter
season.
♦ * *
Mrs. Royal S. Copeland, wife
of Senator Copeland, of New
York, is the guest of Mrs. Clar
ence W. Grosner in Atlantic
City.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. William R.
Howard 111 will go to Bar Har
bor, Me., in a few days to visit
the latter’s grandmother, Mrs.
Edward T. Stotesbury. They
will attend the Century of
Progress Exposition with Mr.
and Mrs. Stotesbury. Mr. and
Mrs. Howard entertained infor
mally at dinner Sunday evening
at the Gibson Island Country
Club.
* ♦ *
Mr. and Mrs. Julien H.
Harvey, of New York City, who
have been spending several
days at Wardman Park Hotel,
are leaving today, Mr. Harvey
returning to New York and
Mrs. Harvey going to Virginia
Beach, where she will spend
two weeks at the Cavalier.
* * *
Capt. Ray T. Middleton and
Mrs. Middleton, of Greenwich,
Conn., had friends dining with
them last evening at the Carl
ton. where they are stopping
while in Washington.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel K.
Martin 3d, entertained a large
company at dinner at Nor
mandy Farms last evening.
The Martins are spending the
summer on their estate near
Potomac, Md.
* ♦ ♦
House Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S.
Perot, of Washington, who have
been at the Weylin, in New
York, are leaving today for
Grenwich, Conn., where they
will be the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. R. Lawrence Oakley for
two weeks.
Th« National Daily
Miss Carey Sets
Wedding Date
Miss Louise Carey, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A.
Carey, has selected Saturday,
August 26, as the date for her
marriage to Lieut. Joseph Ed
ward Bastion, jr., U. S. A., son
of Lieut. Col. Joseph Edward
Bastion, U. S. A., and Mrs. Bas
tion, of Baltimore.
Miss Mary Fechet, who will
be one of the bridesmaids at
the wedding, will entertain at a
luncheon at the Army and Navy
Country Club. Friday, in com
pliment to I ' Ti ~' ~
Miss Carey returned yesterday
from Long
spent a few days visiting her
fiance’s aunt and uncle. She
left later in the day for Balti
more, to visit Col. and Mrs. Bas
tion, and she will return to the
Capital tomorrow night.
FACTS
W« DO OVR PART
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you should know
Read this suggestion- carefully and then
act according to your own judgment—but
remember, we are not prophets and can not
foretell the future.
Nearly all of our manufacturers and im
porters have informed us that future orders
for most merchandise must be increased from
10% to 40% over and above the prices at
which we were able to secure the same quality
merchandise heretofore. Our present low
prices are only possible because these goods
on hand were bought by us before there were
any advances in production costs.
Buy in the month of August things you are
sure you will need in the near future and save
the difference between today’s low prices and
the increased cost for the same merchandise
this Fall.
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WEDNESDAY—AUGUST 9—1933
Secretary of War
Expected Today
in Capital
The Secretary of War, Mr.
George H. Dem, who is ex
pected to return to the Capital
today, delivered an address in
Kansas City yesterday. He will
attend, if possible, the Summer
Festival Concert to be given
this evening by the United States
Army Band in the National
Sylvan Theatre at the Wash
ington Monument grounds.
Secretary Dern will accompany
Senator and Mrs. William H.
King to the festival program,
of which Capt. Kendall J.
Fielder, commanding officer of
the Army Band, and Mrs.
Fielder, are the sponsors.
Among those' who are ex
pected to attend the festival
concert are the Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury and
Mrs. L. W. Robert, Major Gen
eral and Mrs. George S. Simonds,
Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Adams,
Captain and Mrs. Russell McK.
Harrington, Lieut, and Mrs.
Karl B. Schilling, Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Gans, Captain and Mrs.
Doyle O. Hickey. Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Cappel, Major George Oak
ley Totten, Mr. and Mrs. Ful
ton Lewis and Miss Sibyl Baker.
Guest Artists
The guest singers of the oc
casion will be the C. & P. Glee
Club, conducted by Mr. Robert
H. Davidson; and the dancers
will be Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Shafer. Major H. J. Hernandez,
U. S. A. retired will be the
guest conductoi of the occasion
for the first performance of his
new march composition, “Pride
of the Capital” which he has
dedicated to the Army Band.
The entire program of the oc
casion has been arranged by
Captain W. J. Stannard, leader
of the Army Band, who will
conduct all the numbers, except
the new march, and a sym
phonic band arrangement com
posed by Lieut. Thomas F.
Darcy, associate leader, who
will conduct the band for his
own number.
♦ ♦ ♦
Plan Sojourn in
Scandanavia
Mr. John M. Sternhagen,
member of the United States
Board of Tax Appeals, with
Mrs. Sternhagen and their
daughter, Miss Frances Stern
hagen, will sail today from
Baltimore aboard the City of
Baltimore for Europe. They
will go directly to Norway
where they will be the guests
of Mrs. Sternhagen’s cousin,
the United States Minister to
, Norway, Mr. Hoffman Philip
► and Mrs. Philip in Oslo. Later
they will visit in Copenhagen,
returning to their residence in
Georgetown the middle of Sep
tember.
* * *
Plan Motor Trip
Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Meem
will leave tomorrow by motor
with their small daughters,
Anne and Eleanor, for Lenox.
Mass., to visit Mrs. Meem’s
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles A. Bristed.
Mrs. Bristed was formerly Mrs.
Clementina Hill Hendrick.
| Mr. and Mrs. Meem will re-
I main for a month with Mr.
' and Mrs. Bristed and on their
return will stop several weeks
in Atlantic City.
* * *
The former Commercial At
tache at Tokyo, Mr. Halleck A.
Butts and Mrs. Butts are visi
tors in the Capital and are stop
ping at the Mayflower.
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MISS MARGOT GARRETT, who is accompanying her
father, Mr. George Angus Garrett, to Chicago today to
visit the Century of Progress Exposition. Later they
will go to Newport to spend the remainder of the month.
Miss Garrett will sail in September to resume her studies
in England.
Mr. Garrett and
Daughter Leave
Mr. George Angus Garrett, ac
companied by his daughter, Miss
Margot Garrett, who arrived the
latter part of last week aboard
the New York from Euope, and
the Charge d’Affaires of the Irish
Free State, Mr. William J. B.
Macaulay, will leave today for
Chicago to visit the Century of
Progress Exposition.
Mr. Garrett and his daughter
will later go to Newport to spend
the remainder of the month.
Miss Garrett will sail in Septem
ber to resume her studies in
England.
♦ ♦ ♦
Tea This Afternoon
Miss Florence Ward will en
tertain at tea this afternoon
in her home in Virginia in
compliment to Miss Agnes
Ellen Harris, who is dean of
women at the University of
Alabama. Miss Harris is also
president of the National Asso
ciation of Women Deans and is
staying at the clubhouse of the
American Association of Uni
versity Women.
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Baron Is Married
In Virginia
The marriage of Baron Mar
cellus Donald A. R. von Red
lich, consular representative ot
Monaco in this country since
May, 1925, and Miss Fredericka
Adelaide Doll, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank T. Doll of
Shreveport, La., took place Sat
urday evening in the rectory of
St. Mary’s Catholic Church in
Fredericksburg, Va. The cere
mony was performed by the Rev.
Joseph Brennan. Mrs. Doll,
mother of the bride, and Baron
ess Rita Evelyn von Redlich
were present. Baron von Red
lich is the son of the late Baron
and Baroness Harold I. S. von
Redlich, of Austria.
The baron has been in Wash
ington for the past year, mak
ing his home at the Mayflower.
His plans are to sail soon for
Europe to spend several months
in Monaco.
* ♦ ♦
Senator Host
Senator Nathan Bachman en
tertained informally at dinner
last evening at the Carlton.