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ASTORIA DINNER STAKES GUESTS GUESTSAccording According to the conditions of the Astoria Stakes the winning owner must give a dinner to the sub ¬ scribers to the sweepstakes and oilier prominent turfmen It T Wilson who won Tuesdays event with Naiad was the host at a banquet at the WaldorfAstoria that night Andrew Miller who won with Basliti in BUI took second place for the fifth time on Tuesday At the dinner many sitceches were made the chief topic being the future of thoroughbred racing iu this country Mr Wilson was heartily congratulated by those who enjoyed his hospitality If Early Bosc had won the dinner would have been i ostponed until the return of Alex Smith Cochrau from Europe EuropeAmong Among those present were wereJohn John Sanford C K G Billings Ral Parr And ¬ rew Miller Thomas Monahan James Butler 11 J Wilson Colonel Von Ilamiii P J Dwyer J I Follansbei K F Carman Frederick Johnson Al ¬ gernon DaingerHcld G A Cochran T S Metcalfe 1 J Graham J E Madden Chief Lally of the Brooklyn Fire Kept Eugene Wood Foxhall Keenly W E Edwards J S Auorhacli Edgar Murphy M Corbet t W G Streett John G Hunter Thomas Fortune Ryan Clarence II Mackay F It Hitch cock Samuel Itoss George P Kuslis William II llevnolds W K Vanderbilt S L Parsons Robert L Gerrv John E Vwdin L S Thompson Joseph E Wldenor H 1 Whitney E B Cassatt 11 C Halleubeck W P Thompson Payne Whitney August Belmont Jr George Brown Balto Anthony N Brady Frank J Nolan and George I idener
