Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-30
THE MASQUERADE.
The Eureka Social Clubs Annual Masked
Ball

Ball
The Eureka Social Club last evening gave
its regular annual masked ball at Turner
Hall. The tickets, which have been the
local curiosity for some days, were wonder
fully gotten up. The club was evidently de-
ter1nined to Guido all rivals in one respect,
and in view of the cold snap issued cards,
which, if not used to pass the bearer in,
answered admirably for blankets, and were
of practical utility as door mats. They
measured something less than seven by nine,
but not much, and were weighty enough to
warrant the best energies of a double
truck in cartinS the bristol board to
the door. If the club intended the issue
of lis tickets to be taken as club joke, it
succeeded in the size of both ticket and joke.
The grim hunor OF these half-sheet poster
letters OF credit was something worthy OF
record in the annals of wit The hall was
deliberately decorated by Boyne, and the
walls fairly groaned with the weight of fan
testic designs while the very stones shook
with suppressed mirth at the huge carlca,,
lures which decked the sombre panels OF staId
old Turn Yerein Hall. The club was early
in attendance in full force, and in conyen-
tional white vests and the sharpest OF swat
low tailed coats, the lappels OF which bios
somed forth with the most dazzling OF
1osettes and other insignia of official eharac-
ter The young gentlemen were evidently
ont for a good time and snapped their fingers
at the expense but seriously, they succeeded,
for the ball was well managed, the club
members were self sacrificing in behalf
of their guests, omnipresent and constant IN
their attentions, and inheXible as the hills IN
the enforcement Of those necessary rules
which alone can make q masquerade toIera.
BE. In short, the management was uneX-
ceptionable. and the club can not only con-
graduate itself. upon the immensely Of its
tickets. but upon a social success which adds
new laurels to the history of its local achieve
ments.
TEE BALL.
In the upper end Of the hall, in front Of the
orchestra platform, was decorated stage Tor
the Judges, where sat the ladies and gentle
men upon whom Informal Judicial honors
were conferred for this occasion only, to wit,
Rev. S. Gerstrnan, Assembyman Brooks,
Adolph Hebron, J. T. GriHitts, Attorney
General Hart, Mrs. B. B. Glascock and
Mrs. C. T. Jones' These fanked table
on which were displayed the prizes
for which the maskers competed.
On either side the hail were three
long rows of seats, occupied by those
citizens who preferred looking on to sweating
beneath mask and being looked at.
The masquerade was not so large as those
of former years, as regards the number OF
maslers, nor was it so varied in characters
represented, or in originality of designs. But
what it lacked in these respects was amply
compensated for by the higher level upon
which it moved. The costuming was, through
out, chaste. Unlike most of the masked
balls preceding it here, there was an almost
total absence Of exhibition Of the greatly I'M
clothed human form divine. The ladies rather
We'd with each other on this occasion, in an
effort to completely mask the whole person.
The dresses were very few which were double
reefed top and bottom, and instead were COM
Portable costumes, which might be worn with
out blush anywhere. The maskers were merry
without being rude, and full of mirth without
being boisterous As spectacle the masquer-
ade was not equal to the display of former
wears; as a social ball, guarded by an observ-
ance of all the proprieties, it was worthy of
all commentator. But it was evident that
maskers, spectators and Club members would
have been better pleased had it been more
snowy, less staida more dressy. The spec
tators present formed brilliant array, and
the six tiers of ladies and gentlemen the
crowded galleries the rustic and chat and
buzz the half-suppressed laugh; the sub
dued Inurnaur of hundreds OF voices; the row
upon row of handsonely-attired women II
the spectators seats all went to make up 4
scene in the hall to which the naslers scarcely
added, when st
TEN O'CLOCK
The full orchestra burst forth in inspired
strains with soul-stirring and refreshingly
new airs from that immortal composition
I
"Pinatore, and the procession OF masker5
entered. FIRST came the members mem OF the
Club, two by t"o ana as alike as peas i'll
their immaculate fuIl-dresS costumes. Then
followed the entire company of II. Nj, S.
pinofora yg;th Sir .Ioseph and .JoseDhire and
I'll +he cd,s;,s ana onnts yLicb the history
al Tue an. - II: - III ~
OF Ohe opera gives ZIG Iisg I1',u VI C"S Au
miralty credit for; and Ralph Rackstraw,
the Captain, Dick Deadeye, the Nidshipmite
and the wonderful marines. Then came the
ney;l ,rho oAiciated a. SORT of drum
80, md norke5 the wav for +ha
long proc. ssion OF maskers that iol-
lowed. Alter the march dancing began
and continued until midnight, and mean
while the maskers competing for prizes en-
tered rr,on the dramatic business before Them
aYS ta,t nm their mimic sho,v with pond
1T IA In,cL r. tba ar1I1sar,ent of tho
sPlIlS' anu HIuch " nc "iIt"'eleHG Vi VIC
spectators frior 20 the enVTy OF the pro-
cession the orchestra RECALLED the audience
with an instrumental concert, playing these
seIectious. Grand march - ,ipht and
H., >, ,,,-s4,,,, ssrJlba G,lJan VadJino, -
NPPy t.,rL C,r :, tf
t1rGErV poihs'' g. ne CuIhoo' oneIeule'
Inc flrates OF St. Doinlngo; overture,
Lebenlu5t;" waltz, Frederiken Tame
Scotch medley, by Ringleben gallop,
" HoIidqv Street Theater"
THE MAsKERs.
The rnasl-Ars go far as could he noted were
me lhashSIs' b" lfA Do eVuiu OS ioUSd' "sie
-
Mrs. II. n. Rogers as Little Buttercup, in white
cashmere with navy-blue trimming. good
! makeup.
Mrs. II. d. Gamble as waiting maid.
| Mrs. Nettie forsrDan as French waiting mad,
| in pink aud white Swiss. Ne tly dressed.
! S. p Hoefer as Don CO ar dc Bazan. snowy
| costume
Miss Flora Coney as girl OF the period, in black
! grenldne, with pink silk ruffieS.
| Albert Lavenson 4 sailor
Albert j. Plant as Pinafore tai.
Miss Rosa COney as Gypsy queen. 4 pretty cos
tune.
X. LYMAN as the What is IT." An odd dom
inc.
d. Levy, NJ. Moose, D. Muiligan and Dewitt
Re. fro as four British marines.
Gus Felheim IS Ralph Rackstraw.
Mary dwell as Folly in ore OF the richest Of COS
TUNES and decidedly the best fitting OF ALL 1t was
OF cardinal silk. with blue silk trimmings.
Miss Eureka Brinbr as the washerwomdn, Ger
vaise in " LAssommDir." \ good make up.
Arthur Boyne French sailor Of 1872.
Master NJ. GInsberg Chinese rag picker.
Miss Emily A. Boyne Mrs. Darlington. A well
made Il character