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VISITING BREEDING FARMS Prominent Easterners Spend Day at Lexington Before Going to See Kentucky Derby. LEXINGTON. Ky., May 17.— Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords are at Faraway Farm, the home of Man o War, Golden Broom and Star Hampton, until the end of the week, when they will motor to Churchill Downs lor the Kentucky Derby. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and a party of friends are due here Friday morning In private cars from New York. The day will be spent at the Whitney farm, where a barbecue is to be given, and in the ever ning the party will proceed to Louisville to witness the running of the Kentucky Derby, in which the Whitney colors are to be carried by three or more eligibles. Mr. and Mrs. William Woodward of New York and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, who have come to Kentucky to witness the running of the Kentucky Derby, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hancock at Paris. Mr. Woodward has a number of Lis Birlair Stud mares at Mr. Hancocks Claiborne Stud. Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Salmon have arrived from New York to spend a couple of days at the Salmon farm, near Lexington, which is ia charge of Kenneth Kane, before proceeding to Louisville to witness the Derby. Mrs. Phil T. Chinn arrived this evening fram New York and will go tomorrow to Louisville to join her husband and witness the Kentucky Derby. They will leave Saturday night "for Washington to witness the graduation of their daughter Eleanor at Mount Vernon on Tuesday next. ♦
