Daily globe., 1881-02-23
CORDIAL GREETING.
BY CITIZENS OF ST. PAUL TO MEM
BERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

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of the City Grace the Occasion-The Ar
raneements Complete in Every Detail
Full Description of the Inspiring Scene.
The reception given by the citizens of st..
Paul to the members of the legislature at new
Market hall last evening drew ont one Of the
most select and fashionable assemblages ever
gathered in a public hall in this city.
There was a goodly representation of the
wealth, the fashion, the beauty and the culture
of the city--men eminent at the bar and on
the bench; pioneers of the city and State;
representatives of the great commercial EN-.
porium of the Northwestern empire and of
it's manufacturing industries, together with
their comely wives and beauteous daughters,
tastefully arrayed in fine raiment and bedecked
with jewelry
TIE BALL
was tastefully decorated for the occasion. The
stage, upon which the orchestra was stationed,
was hung with the national flag, and in the
center was representative of the great seal
of the State of Minnesota. The chandeliers
were profusely decorated with American flags,
and each side Jet was tlanked on either side
with red, white and blue !emblems of repub-
lican liberty. Festoons Of evergreen depended
from the ceilings and formed an inverted cano.
by in the center. In front of the gal
iery, which was literally decked
with flags, were the portraits of all the ex-
governors of the State, an excellent oil por-
trait of Gen. 81. H. Sibley, forming the center
piece, on either side of which were hung the
counterfeit presentments of his successors in
Office. The ladies' dressing rooms were in
charge of a number of competent attendants,
who paid every attention to the fair ones,
while the gentlemen's superabundant clothing
was disposed of in the gallery.
Here some difficulty was experienced by
the guests, owing to the fact that the
pated, but in time all clothing was duly cared
THE SCENE
on the floor of the hall was one of rare en-
chantment. The toilets of the ladies were rich
and variegated, comprising all the colors of
the rainbow and every texture known to the
world of fashion. Many of them were of
peculiar beauty, even for ball room, and the
blending colors as the fair possessors skinned
oyerthe floor in waltz, quadrille and racquet.
but seldom. There was 10 crowding,
the spacious hall affording room enough for
all of the thousand or more persons pres
ent to dance or to promenade as suited their
fancy, while those who preferred to watch the
scene of gaiety were not crowded to the
walls, but had ample room to indulge in
social converse without trenching upon either
the promenaders or the dancers. Where all
were so becomingly dressed it would be in
that both the entertainers and the entertained
displayed taste without ostentation, richness
without vulgarity, brilliancy without tawdri-
ness in costume.
THE REcEF4fGsl.
At s o'clock Seibert's orchestra fifteen strong
began grand overture, to the music of which
the guests began to arrive. The reception
committee and the committee of arrangements
appointed by the chamber of commerce, to-
gether with their wives and daughters, were
on hand, and as the visitors from the interior
of the State arrived they were duly presented,
and made to feel as much at home as circum-
stances would admit. Gen. johnson was
omnipresent, and labored increasingly
to make the guests acquainted
with their hosts. He was ably
assisted by Gov. Marshall, Mayor Dawson,
Hon. John NJ Gilman, Ferdinand Willius, w.
of arrangements, all of whom labored unre-
mittingly to render the occasion an agreeable
one to all present
THE DANCE.
BY the time the first quadrille was called at
$50 there were nearly 1000 persons present.
Gov. Pillsbury, with Mrs. D. A. Montfort as
his partner, led off in the first
quadrille, appropriately named "In the
new home" From this time till midnight
the dances followed each other In quick suc-
md hIy fbo
on-lookers as we'll as those who participated.
The company was unusually proficient in the
intricacies of the terpsichorean art, and skim.
med over the floor in rhythmic measure, their
nimble feet attuned to the music of the Or
chestra. There were but ten numbers on the
programme, and when the clock had tolled the
midnight hour all had been completed, with
participants were wearied by the over-exertion
or satiated with watching the ever-varying
picture spread out before them.
THE SUPPER.
To spread lunch for so large company
was no small task, land to serve all expeditiously
without crowding or discommoding them in
the least was an art which few can command.
Col. Allen, of the Merchants hotel, to whom
master of the situation. The dining room
had been fitted up with eight long tables COW
cred with snowy linen, upon which
were arranged, fruits, flowers, CONNECTIONS and
delicacies of every sort in great profusion and
with artistic taste, while heaping plates of the
more substantial trophies of the culinary art
cold fowl, meats, salads, etc.-tempted the
palates of the hungry guests Choice oysters,
with the customary appetizing condiments,
were literally served, and the
whole washed down with a plenti-
full supply of fragrant, steaming Mocha.
Relay after relay Of ladies and gentlemen
passed in to partake of the good things with
which the tables were constantly supplied, re.
ceived prompt attention from a corps of COM
petent waiters,s and departed satisfied in spirit
and in stomach.
A GRAND SUCCESS.
AS citizens and visitors departed from
the brilliant scene, they with one
accord pronounced the entertainment
splendid success in it's every
detail. The humblest person present received
the same consideration as did the wealthiest
and most distinguished. Pleasure and con-
tentment were pictured on every countenance;
smiles and words Of friendly greeting were on
all lips; cordial grasp of the hand was vouch-
safed to all. Though the time for making
new acquaintance and renewing old ones was
necessarily limited, the best use pos
sible was made Cf the few
hours offered, and it is to be hoped that the
casual meetings of last night will ultimate in
1lo os4obI;ebroopt Of friendchip fhot eha1I