Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-03-12
The Grand Masquerade Rail.

ed from soft repose, from golden visions
and voluptuous ease, wherein the dulcat
piping tune of peace, he sought sweet
solace after all his tolls. No more in
beauty's siren lap reciined, he weayes
fair garlanas for his lady's brows; no
more entwine with flowers his shining
staff, nor through the livelong lazy Sum.
mer day chnnts forth bis lovesick soul in
madrigais. To manhood reused, he
spurns the amorous flute, doffs from his
brawny back the robe OF peace, and
clothes his pampered limbs in panoply
of 10y Ger his dark brow where late the
myrtle waved. Where wanton roses
breathed enervate love, he rears the
beaming casque and nodding plume,
grasps the bright trump or shakes the
ponderous AK, or mounts with eager
pride his fiery steed and burns for deeds
of glorious chivalry." To say that our
fire boys festival was brilliant success
is superhuous. The multiplicity of cos
tunes, novelty of many characters and
the uniform excellence with which they
were all sustained rendered it impossi-
bic to be otherwise.
Our friend Travis (whom unfortunate
", we must always persist in recogniz.
ing the moment We lay our eyes ON him)
was in full costume as Spanish caval.
Ter, accoutered cap-a-pie, booted to the
middle, sashed 10 the chin, colared to
the ears, whiskered to the teeth, sec
Ond Van Poffenburgh in truth.
Among the ladies We regret 10 have no.
iiced dmunition in their number of
masks at the festival. The decrease in
number, however, was more than bal
anc.d by the greater accuracy with which
characters were sustained.
Mrs. s. G. Barnes, as u young flower
girl, completely deceived the maskers as
to her identity by the poetry and grace
with which she enacted her part. Some
unmarried gentlemen-Dr Philson and
Mr.. Wright, for instance = lowered
around continually ranking her amid
the coterie OF young ladies grazing the
occasion. Mrs. Hickox, as Nan, the
good-for-nothing, was capital, both in
her costume and style of acting. We OBJ
served Mrs Bail as Columbia, beautiful
ly dressed in red. white and blue, con-
versing freely with Mrs. Sherwood, a
representative of the red, white and red.
In Phoebe at least the bloody chasm is
bridged. Mrs. Holland and Miss Ida in
plain domino, preserved their identity
Till the unmasking. Miss frankie
Brown made an elegant page, and ap-
peared to great advantage.
Many ladies were in attendance with
out masks, and served greatly to enhance
the beauty and pleasure of the occasion.
We noticed Mrs A. Brown, Mrs. Tyrrell
Mrs, Caldwell, Mrs. Aylesworth. Mrs.
Pedlar, Mrs. Halpin, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs.
hasten, Mrs. Cochina, Mrs. Cassidy,
Mrs. Bishop and others whose names we
were unable to learn.
Mrs. Bella Bird, we forgot to mention,
was an elegant Queen Of Clubs, and came
very near enticing our friend Sutterly
into game of draw poker. Among the
gentlemen, though there were number
of most comical characters, we are divi-
ded in our opinion whether Shafey, as
Jocko the Ape, Pntricus Holland, as Mrs.
Stewart, leader in the temperance reform
movement, or Jacob Levin, as Brother
Jonathan, deserved the prize. Shafey
received more attention from the ladies'
than any other person at the ball room,
from the fact that they couldn't help
themselves. We might apply to him the
ballad Of the Dragon OF Wantley.
.Hsd YOU but seen him in this dress,
How fierce he looked, how big,
you vould have thought him for TO he
Some Egyptian porcupig.
He frighed all, cats dogs ana All,
Each man, each woman, each child,
For fear they did flee, for they took him u
be
Some strange, outlsndish animile"
Pat, in his rendering of the reform
character, did splendidly. 1t was notice.
that he rarely sat down, and an lnquis
tive Young gentleman finally asceriaine'
he had on two rubber panniers. Iber
was one fault only in his acting, whic
was he smelt bad OF whisky.
j. Levin preserved his incognito bette
than any other character in the oa
room. His makeup was good, and b
proved himself TO be still young an
nimble, though he is over one hundre
years Of age.
yantaosoMr Wallace, as Queen Mar.
and Mr.. Clarissey, Ballet Dancer. M
NOR has il that Frank employed the Pe'
vine engine to enable him to lace
corsets. and then couldn't reduce b
waist less than fifty inches to save h
life. Clarissey's milliner procured tnr'
bags of saw-dust and many pounds
cotton before she was able to round
his scraggy male form TO tne requ'r'
standard Of female loneliness. NV, .
Our friend Dick Bourne, as a VIM
Monk of prayerful mien. scandalized 4.
greatly by seeking the society OF the laai
too much entirely. Bewould have mad'
good Monk were the amative portion
his Uranium not 80 large and well dew
oped. A. nm,
aid, Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Mattox, Mr.. oatht
and d. Mitchell appeared in Domino
and secondary characters. n.
Pete Miller, Chaplin and Harry ne
derson were veritably three imps OF
domain where water is scarce and pril
stone plenty. We saw Mr.. Miller a.
Mr.. Wright as q White Monk, quarreli
over the person OF handsome you
nape--presume it was the soul they W.
after. Henderson's and Chapin's MAJ
ups were paradoxes. inasmuch as tn
were hideous, yet still beautiful. =,
D. Crossman appeared as Capt "a
and Matt Halpin as young page.
strongly suspect Matt OF weakness ei, e j.,
sawdust and cotton. Adonls iiee ngu
are very scarce among the male pop,
ton Of Phoebe, and we missed one IN
absence of VIM. Manning, who ought
have been present--masked atleast.
Mike Tarpey and Jim Cronan ihou
that BY masking they could unoosei'
mingle in the throng and press the ~
Of some adored fair one. Mixes or'
shoulders and Jim's perfect dancing
trayed them however. Joe seguin'
foppish gent, and Mr.. Heitzelmsn, a
colored gent, with love notices IN
pocket for the young ladies', were wei.
ten up and rendered their cnafac'
well.
Sufficient praise cannot be confer
on the floor managers, James Clane