Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-20
Of the Ball.

"I'm tired out, that's what I ham," re-
marked a Vanderbilt retainer to q New
York Morning Journal man, after the
fatigues Of a more than usually heavy
period of domestic servitude incident TO
the ball of Monday evening. "And
we're all hupside down. Get straight
ened hout! Why, it'll take a week or
more to get things the same as they was.
Jest you fancy what things'd be like
after the visitors drunk $4,000 worth of
champagne, to say nothin' of the eatin'
and tother kinds of drinkin,' which was
various"
The faithful domestic seemed to be a
reflex of the aristocratic dissipation con-
sequent upon so notable al event in the
annals of the republican royalty. "It's
no use a harskin' me a lot O. questions
wich l can't begin to answer. Every
thing went hof lovely as the saying is,
though 1 guess the damage'll come one
way or another to nigh on ter 1000
'praps more."
How do you mean?"
"Why, there was torn curtains, for
thing. one or two broken vases, an
SIGH like proceedings"
"But cannot you give me an idea of
the appearance of the rooms at the close
of the festivities?"
(Which was, to say the least, hold.
You see the comp'ny didn'tgo away I'M
til after6 o'clock, and some on sem
must at least have left 'arf their cos
tunes behind 'em. There was bits CT
lace lyin' here, a part of a train there, a
feller's doublet in one corner, while the
middle of the ballroom was strewn with
broken flowers and leaves-lcoking for
all the world like q palace just before a
hauction."
"Wliat will be done with the fowerso.''
GA good many was taken away by the
guests. The best as Was left are waitin'
horders. Some'll go to The servants.
and l hear that sev'ral will be sem to
the 'orspitals and churches. It's too
early to say foYsure whatll be done with
'em. I guess there's nigh On 'arf ov 'em
that's as good as new"
"Were any of the pictures damaged2'
"Not as | know of, leastways l don't
hear of any, but the damage 10 lace cur.
tains was considerable. I couldn't be in
every place at once, so I don't know
everything that 'appened. Pm told
that quite a lot of jewelry was gathered
up this mornin' and landed to the detce-
tives,"
what detectives
"There vas, a dozen or more on duty
to see to that partickler dooty, an spose
to keep a hye on the walters lest they
might prig somethin'. We had a hund'
red hextra walters on purpose. Lor
bless yer, the jam was simpy 'orful, and
1 must say they did splendid"
"What is going to be done with the
surplus food?"
''Talkin' Of food, I reckon there.
enough left to supply a hundred fanilie:
for a week, Most Of it'll have to be Civ
en- away, COS it can't keep"
who'll get it2"
THE 'ospitals and the servants. Why
the waste in hices alone was gomethin
orful, and as for the wines aid lickers
they was locked hup just as soo as pos
sible to keep the men servants from get
ting drunk. T'wards the larst a goot
many OVEN had as much as they coult
carry. However, there wasn't much tt
complain of on that account, though
there was a tidy few OVEN pretty full
l s'pose, take it all together, there wa
as much as 81 1000 woth of food left hove
in one shape or another, mostof which't
spoil inside twenty-four hours. Thel
there's a tidy bit of broken glass, which
is always to be expected at such gather
ms. How much'd that come to? Well
I think q couple of hundred dollars't
about cover that"