New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-30
The Charity hall.

After q night of fashionable dissipation in tho
way Of excessive dancing. expensive garments. costly
eating and drinking aud other sumptuous appoint
ment another Of the great annual balls OF the
became thing Of the past at about daylight this morn
ing, when
"Low on the sand and loud on the stone
The last wheel echoed away
and the galleries Of the Academy OF Music gradually
grew dark and cherries once more so TO remain until
the next entertainment of similar character shah
lumine 1t with gaseous eulgence and ell its corridors
with brilliant and mobile throngs Of youth and beauty
The enter tanmeDt on this occasion was tho Charity
Ball which may certainly be regarded success, II .
vast heavy, heated, uncomfortable multitude Of prim
gentlemen In black clothes, white chokers and milky
kids and lovely ladies' nlall the expansive habments
OF the rainbow, orammed into space which would be
Unwhoesomely crowded with half the number, can b
termed success.
As In most cases. there was supposed 10 be Com
mittee Of Arrangements somewhere about the prem
ises but they kept themselves remarkably shady. In
their ruess quest for information, which that Com
mittee might be supposed 10 possess exclusively the
only OF It's members which the representative %
the press could come across was lc co0red boy the
substance OF whose instructions appeared 70 be to pro
reporters from deposting their bats and coats In
the Committees cloak room. Between this duty and
two or three others OF equal importance and courtesy.
the Committeeman In question had his hands full for
about three minutes aud half after which be left
alone in his glory; But there was nothing, perhaps.
sufficiently unusual about this circumstance 20 deserve
such an extended mention
The bail ITSELF as we have said, was O grand affair
BY O'Clock the evening" the line Of carriages wait
ing their turn TO drive up TO the main entrance ON
Irving place, extended for a number Of blocks. 0na
amer another in tedious monooDy they would deposie
their gorgeous burdens until by IL o'clock the entire
interior OF the Academy crowded almost ~ sufo-
cation Every seat in the several tiers appeared 10 BE-
occupied the Hobbies were almost impossible, ana
the area for the gddy maze In the center Of the vaat
floor was no larger than could be found in the bach
parlor Of boarding. housethat is after moving tho
piano on side and turning the sofa end up Indeed
there wasn't any "giddy maze" ct ell II only q
numbering Iincumbered. josiling maze, which was
unsatisfactory and uncomfortable that thousands who
had probably intended to dance, were frightened from
making the attempt. and went away dissatisfied.
The music was very fine, comprising the ofcbestrs
under the leadership Of j. ID. Lander and c. s. Graf
fulas military band
The supper was furnished by F. Martinez OF the
Maison Doree, OF and after 10 o'clock. Tickets, ~
THE sPLESDOR or COSTUME
was as Is usually the the main feature or the on.
tertaioment. Many handsome toettcs were eK1i1tee
by the ladies' but the display 10 this respect was ~
terior TO that presented at the Light Guard ~ on
several nights ago Peculiarly, however, the Cnan-
~" was doubtless long way III advance OF any oil is
predecessors