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...Kentucky Derby is not the oldest U. S. horse race. Saratoga's Travers Stakes was first run in 1864. The Derby, with its added money reduced this year from $50,000 to $30,000, does not offer the richest stakes. More lucrative for horse owners are the Belmont Futurity (between $80,000 and $90,000) and the Belmont Stakes (some $60,000). Better fields of older horses are to be seen on many a track, and there are those who believe that the Belmont Stakes, run in June by a slightly more mature and smaller selection of horses, offers...
...Manhattan. Born Alice Claypoole Gwynne, she was married in 1867 to the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died 1899), grandson of the fortune-founding Commodore. Her only social battle (which she eventually won) was with her sister-in-law, the late Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont) for the supremacy of the Vanderbilt clan. In Newport Mrs. Vanderbilt built "The Breakers," the resort's No. 1 mansion; in Manhattan, with permission of the French Government a copy of the Chateau de Blois, razed from its Fifth Avenue & 57th Street corner seven years ago. Her calling cards read...
...First step was to acquire active officers with influential names. Last month Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who had headed the Council after the death of John Grier Hibben, stepped up and out of the picture by becoming honorary president. To succeed him as president, the Council elected Mrs. August Belmont, who before her marriage was Actress Eleanor Robson. For her George Bernard Shaw wrote his ablest social service play, Major Barbara. Of late years Mrs. Belmont has been giving most of her energies to fund-raising for the relief of New York's jobless. For honorary vice presidents...
...sequel Mrs. Belmont announced Mrs. Grace Coolidge ... as honorary vice president. The true significance of all this is that the Rev. William Harrison Short ... is a great casting director...
Left. By Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont who died in January 1933, in Paris: the bulk of a net estate valued at $1,326,765.63 to her daughter, Mme Jacques Balsan and other relatives; $100,000 (the only public bequest) to the National Woman's Party...