Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1878-11-25
A FAMOUS NIGHT AT FARGO
GOV. CHAPXN,SG GRAND OPENING
BALL AVID lsANQUET.S

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The Most Brilliant Social Event i'm
the History OF Dakota--An Elegant
4 Assemblage OF Fashion and Beauty
Careful Analysis Of Costumes and
Full Description Of the Entertain
ment.
|3 THE BALL. II
Especial Correspondence ct The Tri0une.]
FARGO, Nov22. Last night the city Of
Fargo covered herself with glory. She
had been making vast preparations for
weeks, but at last the thing eliminated,
and in the details of Chapin's grand open
ing ball, the town, Of Fargo immortalized.
herself.
The occasion of this effort was the com
pletion of one of the finest brick buildings
in Dakota Territory, erected by Messrs
Chaplin & Erickson. The structure is fit
ted up in the lower part for eight large
stores, light, airy and handsome in finish
Above the stores is an immense hall 100
feet deep deep, by so feet wide, and sew
enteen and one-haf feet high, and it was
the conservation of this hall to Terpsichore
can enterprise, as socially practiccd, that
tore all Fargo up by the roots and excited
lively interest many long mile toward
the East.
The night and day before the ball were
the liveliest ever known here. Strangers
came pouring in from all quarters. The
hotels were crowded The streets presented
busy air, and all was hustle and rush IN
preparation for the grand event.
Throughout yesterday the decorators de-
voted themselves to the walls and ceilings
of the grand ball room, and when the eve,
ming wore around and the lights tiasheu
up from the chandeliers, they illunllned
"a GAY SCENE,
theater we'll worthy the honor of well
coming those expected and expectant.
Graceful festoons of eyergreens and taste
full figures in silk chenille, half concealed
and half revealed the costly paintings on
the walls, while at either end OF the room
great mirrors reflected all the beauties OF
decorative art. At the north end the band
stage was erected, drapcd in eYergreens
and faneiful desi igns in He
In determining upon his ball, MI
Chaplin made the most careful arrange
ments to insure complete success, and to
that end made most judiciois selections OF
gentlemento tillhis committees. Inc re.
! ception committee was composed OF
Messrs. E. A. Grant, A.sJ. HARDWOOD, II. >.
Back, and f. B. Chambers, while the floor
managers were j. E.. Haggart and W. a..
Yerxa These gentlemen were unremlrtlng
and untiring in their exertions, and When
Mr.. Chaplin comes to reckon the extent OF
the obligations under which he lies to
| those who helped him, he will 1lnd the
debt to his committees the heaviest OF all:
The grand march had been announced
for quarter past eight, ana at that =, nour
the hall was we'll filled. The Great West
ern Band. of St. Paul, under the director
ship of Geo. Seibert, had been engaged,
and as the guests formed for the entree,
the strains of Mozart's pet march well
coined them, and with due fermality the
great ball, long looked for and eagerly ex-
pected, was opened to the most elegant as
semblage that ever gathered in Northern
Dakota.
It would be superauous to describe the
scene. Dances are pretty much all alike,
when you come to sift them down, while
to fifty describe the brilliant effect pro-
duced by thoroughly polite social COM
pany, thrown in strong relief against
broad mirrors by thousand lights, ana
toned by the graces that are enthrone9
upon the art of decoration, would demand
the pen of Irving, Irving's time. and lrv-
ing's patient power of painting word PIC.
lures The ladies were beautiful, and
beautifully attired, and it is now that your
correspondent clothes his hand in a fresh
" perfun.ed white kid glove and dips y
diamond pointed new gold pen into violet
ink. to describe the glories OF costume:
But first with his hand on his heart, and
penitence in his soul, he wishes to apollo
gize to any lady whose name IS omitted
| from his note book He has not inten-
tionally neglected any, but there were
some there so fair that as he contemplated
them. he became bcwildered, and often
I forgot the charms of toilette in the beauty
of the face before him. Let this apollo
gize for him, and rclegate his errors to his
Susceptibility.
| TEE LADIES.
MIs. f. B. Chambers, wife of the editor
of the Fargo Times, heavy black gros grain,
en- train and trimmed with flowers and
laces: hair in heavy braids.
Miss Nettie Hanson, of Fargo. heavy
black gros grait, tiounced and pufted !; cor
sage Of gas light blue silk, high in the
neck with ruche; hair in pufs and ban
0eaaE.
Mrs. E. s. Tyler, Of Fargo, in full re.
ception suit Of black gros grain, with seal SCI
4sllk hat and plume.
Miss skuce, Of Wadena, Mimi, white
/ 4orlota !, with deem fr1lfflca and putin RS