Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-09
Junior or,Pronnenade.
4 Specially Bril1tant AfFair,

of the day was signalized by rush for the | programmes, which arrived in the morning | The entire supply of $50 was quickly ex- hausted, all corners, to an unheard of extent, l having promised their solemn intention to appear on the floor The committee, such was the demand for these beautiful articles, for the promenade and for prized memorabil, succumbed before appeals and partially promised to have new edition ordered as soon as the pressure of duties relative to the promenade should subside. The cost of the programmes alone was about $216. All day
 busy times of preparation prevailed at the
 Carl1 Opera House. The promenade com
 mittee most successfully discharged their
 work, and probably no more beau
 tiful sight has ever been present ed in the city in an affair of
 like nature. Several members of the com House most of the day, having oversight of the manifold decorations which were being arranged. Mir. Carll was in attendance also personally supervising the carrying out of
 the wishes of the committee and the construc- ton of a movable floor covering the entire space occupied by the parquette. "What a splendid floor for dancing" was the universal exclamation of visitors. There was pro- ] vided, including the stage, an extent of floor ! ing reaching from the partition between the I lower and upper seats in the parquette to the rear wall of the building, space over 125 feet in depth and D feet in width, and ! all on the stage level. Above the stage, under | the proscenium arch, there met the eye in ! brilliant letters of fire Junior Promenade 1882" Back of this suspended in mid-air over the stage was the shell in which Yale won tho great boating victory over Harvard ' in 1880. Far overhead from the top of the proscenium arch, lines of red and white bunt- l ing in graceful curves extending to the upper
 gallery front made graceful canopy. Ital- ian villa scenes, Etropical foliage scenes.
 and landscape and other scenery, formed novel and agreeable perspective. The stage was brilliantly illuminated by large circle of globe burners and smaller upper circle, the framework decked with smilax.
 These were among the special decorative fea- lures of the occasion. At the New Haven House was housed brilliant assemblage of guests representing many highly distinguished
 and noted families and wealth in abundance, and including as usual many of the young ladies who specially graced the promenade. The demand for rooms was such as to tax the capacity of the house to the utmost. MT. Moseley had the pleasure of welcoming many noted people, who were old personal friends.
 Mir. Gum, the genial superintendent, num- bered his seventeenth promenade at the house yesterday. The promenade arrivals at the hotel yesterday were as follows: New York-A. J. Pierson, Mrs. Waring Miss Susie B. Waring, Miss Baird, Miss F.
 Baird, w. P. Lamprey, B. Wendell, F. E.
 Wendell, Mrs. Carpenter, Miss Bradford, Miss Carpenter Charles B. Wood and wife, Miss Cornell, W. E. Johnson, E. Poindexter,
 MT. and Mrs. John c. Enc, John W. Curtiss, w. S. Benjamin.
 Englewood, N J.-J. J. Phelps, Mrs. F. Nichols Miss Nichols, Miss Hall, Miss Hum phrey.
 West Springfield, Mass.-H. A. South worth, Miss H. W. Southworth, Miss Alice H. Southworth
 Bridgeport, Ct-E. w. Seymour, J. T. Pattison, Mir. and Mrs. H. P. Parrott, Miss Hattie Parrott.
 Birmingham, Ct Miss witherspoon, Miss Witherspoon. Towanda, Pa.-N Eichelberger.
 Bangor, Me.--Mr and Mrs. N. A. Eddy. Boston, Mass.-Mrs. Lonebood, A. s.
 Thomas, George P. Gross, Richard Mcguire, A. R. Jones.
 WaJerDurY, CC-S. w. hellORR, NIT. ana Mrs. J. w. Webster and Miss Webster, Miss
 Nellie Ives, Miss Merriman.
 Brooklyn, N. Y.-Miss Burr, G. F. Darrell. Saybrook Ct.-Miss Grace Allen. Providence, R. Hiram R. Aylsworth, Cora B. Aylsworth.
 With Bernstein's famous orchestra, 22
 pieces, Wheeler & Wilson's full brass band, 20 pieces, the music for the promenade andt
 dancing needed no apologies, and charmed all
 listeners. The gay throngs began to arrive
 and occupy the floor at about o'clock. The
 whirl and rattle of carriages seemed incessant
 and endless. Carriages drove to the great
 rear door and side, and canvas canopy pro- tected the entrance At 10 the grand junior promenade of 1881 was in full blast, and the brilliancy of the scene delighted all eyes. Rich and lovely toilets everywhere danced before the gaze, and the flash and glitter of
 costly diamonds, while eyes shone and sparkled with happiness in the glamour of the dance
 or the fascination of the promenade, as the gay throngs mingled and intermingled. There were about three hundred couples par | ticipating in the dancing. In the seats in the
 rear, in the parquet and in the gallery l above, were 600 or. 700 lockers on, among l whom were many accustomed to most entic- ing and brilliant society events. The upper gallery, which was closed to the public, was occupied by the two bands. An arch of lovely pink, red and white flowers interwoven
 with evergreen adorned the entrance to the
 main aisle of the parquet, while the navy flags adorned the stage boxes and the SUD-
 porting posts under the lower gallery were
 wrapped in either red, white or blue bunting. Beyond, far down toward the rear of the stage, were the huge circles of globe burn
 CTS irradiating that portion of the lovely scene, and the Yale letters of fire, the great
 reflector in the ceiling and many isolated side
 burners, helped in the illumination. The
 collation. was served in the long library room
 and in the roomy vestibule of the first gal lery. The committee in charge of the affair
 were as follows:
 Floor manager-W. P. Enc, New York
 Chairman-AsaP P. French, Braintree, Mass
 Assistants-C. M. Griggs, St. Paul. Minn.;
 Chester W. Lyman, New Haven E. w. Mo-
 Bride, Goshen, N. Y.; G. P. Richardson,
 Bath, Me-; c. M. Sholes, Newport, N. H.; A. A. Welch Hartford William Pollock Pitts
 field, Mass.
 
 prominent gentlemen were favored with invi-
 tations to take a peep at the beautiful ap-
 pearance of the Opera House in the then ad-
 vanced state of the arrangements for the
 promenade. Prof. Loomis, the accomplished instructor in the most fashionable dances,
 was one of the spectators of the gay scene last night, wherein so many who have happily profited by his instruction, as well as by
 Yales classics, enjoying the giddy
 mazes; and under his experienced supervi-
 sion the important item of properly waxing
 the floors had been accomplished to charm.
 Many of his former pupils at the great wa tering places were present last evening A Sleightng Party. sleighing party from Ansonia, composed
 of some of the best people in that fourishing
 borough, were at the Austin House last even l ing to supper After supper the dining room