New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-11-13
.IENKINSS PROGRAMME,

The trophies of The BIdtkerskite disturb the
rest of The Times and Season. AS soon as the
clipper Abreck folded its weary wings in the
Lower Bay, the true and only Jenkins niboed
his lord-loving quill to tell us what is going
to happen when young Romanoff comes. 1t is
d pity such glorious news should be confined
to the limited circle of the readers of The
Times and Season 80 we for once depart from
our rule about private balls and parties, and
give some of the choicest passages OF Jenkins's
revelations to the world which reads The
TRIBUNE. The first announcement which is
made will cause every wcll-conducted heart TO
lean for Joy: "The tickets are to be disposed
"of by the Committee, and are to be placed
&" in the hands of none but persons Who heH
CATER due inquiry, find to be thoroughly
respectable.n Grammar is not to be con-
sidered a requisite. A line must be drawn
somewhere, however, and the Committee draw
it with great Judgment: "Ring politicians
land corner hquOr-stOre millionalres are
"to be rigidly tabOoed." Even II these
disreputable persons succeed in corrupt
ing this Committee and getting tickets,
this will not avail them. Another Com
mittee with "blue bad ;es" emblematlc OF
their unshakable fidelity are to stand at the
door, and "subject oil guests to careful ex-
ANIMATION to see if they keep gig. II
they pass this ordeal rich reward awaits
them; for "among the toilets to be worn upon
"the grand occasion, there will be exquisite
"and costly dresses of silks, satlns, and vel
"yets, covered with laces whose price would
"buy a small farm in the Great West bro
loaded silk hounced, and poult de sole petit
"cOats with velvet trains and stOmachers, or
rather waistcoats cut in square lappels and
trimmed with rare old point lace.' Of course,
when there Is to be such conscientious sitting
of the company, and such unheard-of sDlendor
of raiment, it is not to be wondered at that
as Jenkins warns US, the intense respecta-
"bility of the assemblage may incline them to
abe more grave than gay, as is most betting
"a festive gathering
There are some things which still remain
doubtful in the mind of this arbiter of the
elegances, but of other things he is certain
THAT the Prince will dance is beyond ques-
" ton, should not some untimely accident In
"tervene with his movements" and Jenkins,
with his usual charming delicacy, says that
Ladies' DESTROYS of dance with him must
"apply to the floor managers" Fearing lest
the gorgeous picture he has drawn might in
duce his readers to think this is no mortal
business, he assures them that "when the hour
/" for the banquet approaches, the Grand Duke
"will not suddenly vanish to reappear as in
" fairy tales, but will be led to the banquet
"hall, from which all but the servants tciH be
"ercluded." OF course, jenkins will stay; but
what will become of the Grand Duke, shut up
in that apician dungeon with nobody but
Jenkins and the other servantsf The
answer is obvious, though painful lie
will drown his sorrows in the flowing bowl.
Jenkins hints as much, for he says: 1T is
probable that Alexis will go to tho Claren-
" don, after reasonable length of time spent
cat the banquet" 1t will doubtless be a
grand and thrilling spectacle to see his Impe-
rial Hghness sitting in solitary magnifcence
at table arranged for three thousand, while
the elite of American society perform the fol-
lowing solemn and impressive maneuver:
First-class artists will discourse strains Of
"choice music while the guests enter from
" room in a continuous stream, taking mean
"while q look at the Grand Duke, and make
their exit at the doors where they entered,
&" to again join in the dance and promenade"
Would it not be worth many years of hum
drum life to see all that we have of ShOddy
and Petroleum, and petit crere, and Girl of the
Period, marching past in serried column, and
gazing by platOOns at our MuscOvite guest
acquiring an indigestion in a Trappist silence