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Whos Who at Derby — i Nationally Known Men Among ! I; Great Concourse of People-— Chicago Is Well Represented jj [ j It seemed that all America paid tribute to the thoroughbred horse. From every section of the nation came notables. Churchill Downs was the gathering place of leaders, social, political and commercial. There were rulers of society from every large center, governors, mayors and millionaires galore. An American "Whos Who" might well have been compiled from- those in box sections. If the personage alongside the Harry Payne Whitneys was not of New Yorks highest social strata, perhaps he was a United States senator or a millionaire catsup maker. Among the box-holders were Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Payne Whitney. Mrs. L. Viau, Walter J. Salmon. Miss Elisabeth Dainger-field. Harry F. Sinclair. Win. Ziegler. Walter M. Jeffords, Samuel Riddle. Samuel Ross, Mayor James Walker of New York ; White-ford R. Cole, president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ; Bernard Baruch, of New York, one of Americas leading financiers ; W. E. Smith, president of the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky; Edward B. McLean, owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer and Washington Post, whose colors were borne in the Derby by Toro ; Herbert B. Swope, ex-governor Edwin P. Morrow, Mrs. A. T. Hert, H. H. Colton. W. E. B. Crawford. W. E. Curley. W. F. Wiley. Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Albert D. Lasker, J. J. Murdoch; Stuyvesant Feabody, R. Brinkley Snowden. Judge Lafon Allen, C. O. Arnett, George McLeod, C. L. Bradley. Hon. Breckinridge Long, George E. Brennan, Frederic Byers, Rogers Caldwell. Sheldon Clark, If. W. Clement, James E. Gorman, Thomas D. Tnggart. Carl Laemmle, former Dnited States Senator William Lorimer, Benjamin W. Lord, John J. OBrien, James Oliver II., F. B. Patterson, Governor James Breathitt, Mayor William Harrison, Judge K. J. Welch, Maj. Gen. George Duncan, U. S. A.; Maj. Gen. D. E. Nolan, U. S. A. ; E. E. Spafford, National Commander of the American Legion, clarence Saunders. Halford Eriekson, F. J. Navin, Clarence Dillon, John Hertz, Polk Laffoon, Chairman Kentucky Racing Commission, and Leonard Roplogle. Mrs. Payne Whitney, who ha3 been making a visit to her farm at Lexington, arrived this morning with a party of seven in her private car. The entire party returned to Lexington this evening.
