The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-19
The Bountiful Banquet at
Music Hall.
Visits to Our Many Manufac.
tories To-day,
And Another Attractive Programme
Arranged For Tonight.
THE GREAT BANQUET.

No event in the history Of Cincinnati
has ever occurred that this great city in the
future will look back TO with
more sincere and hearty self CON-
rTatulation than the banquet that was
last night the crowning sbeaf to the weeks
Of preparation that has been going on by
our merchants end other business men 70
properly entertain the thousands of South.
srn friends who had been hidden to this
feast after ride over our Southern Rail-
road.
The Music Hall, when the doors were
opened was blaze Of light and beauty.
The gallery was already filed with dense
throng, many of whom were ladies In ex-
suisite toilets, and handkerchiefs were
waved as the almost two Thousand guests
fled in and seated themselves at the forty
three long tables, laid with the magnifi-
sence of the most brilliant private enter
tainment.
Over one hundred exquisite designs in
The finest flowers that bloom in the con-
ssrvatory of the florist were scattered with
liberal hand along the tables. Slippers Of
roses and eupatorium. and carna-
lions and violets; horseshoes cir
cling the decks of ships made
ingeniously Of straw, work, where the rare
sxetics nestled amid the heads OF grain;
baskets and fans where great white callas
ahone amidst their fragrant surroundings;
the locomotive and tender before the great
organ made OF fadeless immortelles typi-
sal of the imperishable ligaments Of steel
that shall bind us forevermore to the
Southern land with which our railroad
unites us; rosebuds at every plate for
ths guests, plants selected from the rarest
10 be found, along with the flowers, decked
The tables, and great palms and pandanus
and 6cus, with their glossy leaves, fringed
The corridors and stage with their forests Of
green. Mr.. Critchell has done himself
honor for the excellence Of the prepara-
lions, the exquisite taste Of their arrange
nsnt of mass OF flowers that he almost
sansacked the continent to obtain.
The menu, which we have before pub
Nshed, was beyond criticism, and the drill
sf the almost 500 walters perfection. Mr..
Roth may congratulate himself upon hav-
ns served, with the elegance of private
dub dinner, the largest assemblage Of
people who ever gathered at banquet of
this pretention in the United States, If
sven in the world. Faultless linen was as
NOW upon the board. Napkins that had
not the haberdasher's marks upon their
corners decked the covers; silver shone in
spoons and knives and forks in abundance;
vine and water goblets were Immaculate,
syer 9C00 being required for the occasion;
purs white china, warmed for the meats,
md the wine was exquisite. There was no
Boise and hurry. no unnecessary waiting.
Quiet servants in white gloves and jackets
md aprons handed the guests the viands
without fuss or awkwardness, and the wine
vas turned as desired with the Iurtesy
that cbaracterizes private dinner at gen.
Nsman's table. Mr.. Roth threw his repu-
Ation upon the serving Of the great feast
regardless of pecuniary considerations, and
made It the success 1t was. There should
- no haggling about liberal compensa-
ton for his portion Of the huge duties Of
he occasion. We present below
THE MENU.
Blue Points on half-shell.
0aut eauterene Of Cruise d Fills Freres, Bor-
deaux)
Green Turtle Soup, Lord Mayors"
nGYy, Amontillad0 Superior, OF Gonzalez. Byasl
4 Coz
KMnsbee Salmon Boilsd, sauce Hollandaise