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RENDEZVOUS OF SOCIETY Arlington Park Racing to Attract Elite of East and West. Men and Women Prominent in Business, Political and Social Life of Country Expected Visitors During the Meeting. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 21. Arlington Park promises to set a new record this summer both for its natural beauties and for the prestige of its annual racing meeting that will open on Monday, June 27, on one of the most beautiful tracks in the world. Many prominent eastern society persons, who had come West for the Republican convention, remained over for this premier. That the Democratic convention opens on the same day means that the first week of Arlington will have more than its share of visiting notables. Jouett Shouse, among others, is an ardent turf fancier. Quite a colony of prominent folk are starting the fashion of taking cottages near the track. Among others already installed there is Mrs. R. W. Collins of Lexington, Ky., whose racing silks of black and red were first brought to the attention of Chicago by the sensational work of her chestnut Don Leon. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carruthers always have a cottage at Arlington. Mr. Carruthers is secretary of the Arlington Park Jockey Club and general manager of the plant that has already cut a new notch in turf history and is the envied investment of thousands of prominent Americans. Charles A. McCulloch, who, with Edward N. Hurley, is among the Chicago financiers bringing order out of chaos in local finances, is chairman of the board of the Arlington Park Jockey Club. Mr. Hurley, who will have as his guest during the meeting, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the late president, is one of the founders of the Post and Paddock Club, which, like its famous and senior eastern prototype, the Turf and Field Club, is an organization of exclusive distinction. Laurance H. Armour is president of the Post and Paddock Club. Charles F. Glore is vice-president; Lawrence F. Stern is secretary. The treasurer is Earle H. Reynolds, one of the polo enthusiasts in the United States. Directors of the Post and Paddock Club include Mr. Armour, Samuel Insull, Britton I. Budd, John Hertz, Mr. McCulloch, Charles I. Pearce, Thomas E. Wilson, Otto W. Leh-mann, Weymouth Kirkland, Roy D. Keehn, Lawrence F. Stern, Earle Reynolds, Silas H Strawn, Leonard S. Florsheim, Vincent Ben-dix, Edward DAncona, Albert D. Lasker, Continued on thirteenth page. RENDEZVOUS OF SOCIETY Continued from first page. John R. Thompson, Jr., P. D. Block, Charles F. Glore, Paul Gardner, D. P. Green, Warrea Wright, E. N. Hurley and Roy Carruthers. Leonard Florsheim is treasurer of the Arlington Park Jockey Club; Otto W. Lehmann " is president, and the four vice-presidents are Laurance Armour, Roy D. Keehn, John R. Thompson, Jr., and Weymouth Kirkland. Among the fashionable devotees of the turf, who have entered horses for the Arlington meeting are Capt. and Mrs. Marshall Field, in., Mrs. L. S. Kaufman, Mrs. John Hertz, Mrs. William Hitt Katharine Elkins in her girlhood, William E. Hitt, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, C. V. Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hangar, Mr. and Mrs. H. Teller Archibald, W. R. Coe, Mr. and Mrs. Val E. Crane, Col. E. R. Bradley, J. N. Camden, the Foxcatcher Farms, Desha Breckinridge, Helen Hay Whitney, Jouett Shouse, S. D. Riddle, Mrs. Walter Jefford, William Woodward, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Walter M. Salmon, William Ziegler, Jr., F. Ambrose Clark, Walter J. Salmon, Col. Cary T. Grayson, George D. Widener and Robert S. Clark. Truly a notable list. Members of the Post and Paddock who will entertain extensively during the meeting include the Laurance Armours, John Deere Cadys, Benjamin Marshalls,. Alfred Ettlingers, Charles T. Fishers, Arthur Cut-ten, George Clarke, Arthur Clement, E. A. Cudahy, Jr., Louis Eckstein, Max Epstein, Benjamin L. Behr, Harold and Gerhard Foreman, George Getz, A. B. Hancock, John Irwin, J. F. Jelke, Jr., Albert D. Lasker, R. D. Lay, H. H. Lobdell, Chauncey McCormick, Mrs. R. R. McCormick, Joseph A. Moore, Austin Niblack, Vaughn Spalding, Walter Schuttler, Charles H. Schweppe and Alden, Charles, Gustavus and Harold H. Swift. Also James Simpson, Jr., Harry L. Thoma3 of Pasadena and Joliet, Robert J. Thome, Joseph E. Widener, O. C. Wells, George Woodruff, Harvey Woodruff, George Witt-bold and Philip D. Block.
