Twenty-five fine horses were "guests" at a testimonial dinner to rich Turfman Joseph E. Widener, president of the Westchester Racing Association, in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. The ballroom on the 19th floor of the hotel was made to look like Belmont Park. L. I., famed racecourse of which Mr. Widener is principal owner. Around the walls ran a pictured panorama of the course. In the foreground, near the tables occupied by some 300 guests in evening dress, was an actual reproduction of a corner of the park, complete to turf, a stretch of straightaway, white-painted railing, de luxe box stalls, striped water buckets. Here performed prize mounts of Manhattan's police, a local U. S. artillery post, and various racing clubs. As a special surprise to Mr. Widener, his favorite horse, the great sprinter Osmand, was led in, ridden by Jockey Mack Garner. Mr. Widener almost sobbed with joy. Most spectacular event of the evening was a hunt tableau in which three hunters, (one, Biltmore President John McEntee Bowman's prize-winning Over There) were ridden down the track by pink-coated riders behind a pack of working hounds. Publisher Roy Wilson Howard of

Scripps-Howard chainpapers bought a five-story, 16-room, elevator-equipped house on Manhattan's fashionable East Side, gave in part payment his home at Pelham, N. Y.

Mary Garden, 54. announced that she would not, as rumored, form her own opera company in Manhattan this season. Instead she will appear in 25 recitals in the U. S.

Mayor James Lee Key of Atlanta said last summer: "Prohibition will destroy our people." Last week Rev. Robert Z. Tyler of Atlanta's Grace Methodist

Church announced that "in the interests of peace'' Mayor Key would no longer teach the James L. Key Bible Class which he founded nine years ago.

Shattuck is a name to be dreaded by bandits and thieves. In April 1922 four cutthroats entered the Manhattan home of Mr. & Mrs Albert R. Shattuck, robbed them, locked them with eight servants in the wine cellar. With a pocket knife and a dime the prisoners worked their way out, close to death from suffocation. Mr. Shattuck vowed to capture the criminals. In 1924 the last one was captured, was sentenced to 45 to 65 years in Sing Sing. Mr. Shattuck died in 1925, avenged.* The name Shattuck again made news last week when Mary Strong Shattuck, widow of Albert, was sued by her former secretary, Frank Evans, for $300,000. He charged slander, ruin in body, health and mind, alleged that under the widow's guidance he prepared fraudulent income statements for her. The famed Manhattan law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft was named codefendant.

Among the first passengers off S. S. Olympic when she docked in Manhattan were white-mustached Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., and his bride, the former Anna Case of the Metropolitan Opera. They were among the last to leave the pier. Representatives of Mr. Mackay were at hand to expedite the clearance of the couple's 17 pieces of baggage. But customs officers insisted on closely inspecting every piece. Moreover, they questioned and requestioned the owners on the value of each item. Mr. Mackay was nearly speechless with astonishment and indignation. He would personally protest to Secretary Mellon. Tears began to course down his wife's cheeks as the examination dragged on. At the end of two and a half hours the customs men found nothing not listed on the declarations. It was understood that a tipster in Europe, greedy for the Federal reward of 25% of any fine collected, had set the agents on the Mackay's trail on the chance that some undeclared object might be found.

In Lancet, British medical weekly, Dr. Percival Macleod Yearsley declared that William Shakespeare's death at 52 resulted from a complication of fever, typhus, typhoid paralysis, epilepsy, apoplexy, arteriosclerosis, excessive smoking, chronic alcoholism, gluttony, angina pectoris, Bright's disease, pulmonary congestion, locomotor ataxia.

A burglar entered the Wheatley Hills, L. I., home of Executive Committee Chairman Elisha Walker of Transamerica Corp., and made off with jewels worth $12,000.

*Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain tycoon, pursued nine bandits who robbed him and his family, for eight years, caught the last one in 1930.

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