Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-31
Junior Promenade.

Junior Promenade. A Brilliant OceRsIOn-0ne of the Finest
 Ever Gfven-A Great Array of Beauty
 and FAshiOn-EIegant Cestumes-Fins
 MusIc-A Very successfuI OceasIon.
 The junior promenade, class of 's4, last night at Carll's Opera House, was, as usual brilliant occasion, and, in fact, unsurpassed in brilliancy in years, if ever. The gay and beautiful scene presented will long live as one of the bright memories of junior life at Yale, class of '84. The sale of tickets was large, and the committee thought the re- ceipts covered fully the expenses, which for an affair on so liberal and fine scale are not bagatelle. The edition of programmes for the occasion, which were disposed of at pri- vate sale at 90 High street at twenty-five cents each, the cost being sixty-eight cents each, was exhausted some time before the ball. The exterior was red Russian leather with Yale 's4 in monogram on the face cover, and the inside was adorned with blue satin. They are in the design of card cases, with space for insertion of the dance programme. The decorations of the opera house were elaborate, and 500 gas jets added to the bril- EAo pipe chandelier over the stage recently pro vided by Marshall Carll for the house, hav- ing about 300 burners, and three crystal chandeliers dependent from the lower gall Iery front, and the crystal sun burst in the ceiling, furnished light enough for fairy palace. The gallery fronts and the prosce- nium boxes were uniformly draped with red silk damask, with scolloped edge hangings just below the gallery line, and embroidered velvet of blue and gold faced and contrasted finely with the damask red, while at inter- vals along the gallery fronts were set minia- ture suits of silvered armor and rosettes of mirror glass cased in foiI4 The boxes were additionally adorned by the tasteful setting of Yale trophies, navy flags in their various hues, base ball pennants, class crew flags and various banners and hanging baskets al So added to the effect. Glancing upward the eye met an array of wide bands of blue gauge stretched to form canopy near the | ceiling over the parquette, reaching from the proscenium arch to the upper rail of the up per gallery front. Banners of all nations were arranged about the hall, most of which were attached to the posts and pillars about the galleries. few potted plants added their freshness and verdure to the scene. The rear of the house under the lower gallery was fanked profusely with 8 red damask setting,' and z rope of smilax was festooned under the gal 1 lery. The rods of the new mammoth chan delier were trimmed with snilax, and swung l under it were base ball bat and the bast | balls won in the last year's great ball con tests, one ball each from Dartmouth, Brown | Amherst, Princeton and Harvard, the bat appropriately inscribed with the record ! of victory. In front of the chandelier, con | spicuous over the stage, was Junior Prom | enade Yale '84,' and under it massive ar | ray of flowers and laurel with champions in white immortelles across it's front, anG under it three decorated footballs whict were won last year from Columbia, Prince ton and Harvard. Across the stage suspend
 ed above the gay things was the shell of '76
 and over the rear and side of the stage wer' hung large blankets of red damask to hid' the stage timbers from view, but which real ly had the effect to dwindle the proportion
 of the. grand stage, authoritatively pro
 nounced one of the very finest in the coun
 try. The promenade music was by WheeIe
 & Wilson's brass band, located in the tol
 gallery. The orchestral music was by Ian
 ders' band, twenty pieces, who were seatet
 in the extreme rear of the stage. The back ground of the stage was palace scene. Tn proscenium boxes were occupied as follows
 The lower boxes on the right by the Junio
 Promenade committee, and the other b
 Prof. ". H. Farnam, of Yale; the cerre
 spending boxes opposite by Mrs. Dodge an
 friends, of New York city, and John
 Beach and family, of this city; the boxe
 over it by Mrs. MiIler and Mrs. Britton an
 their friends the corresponding boxes OF
 posite by the members of the Lambert family
 of New York city. The approach to tn
 rear or stage entrance to the opera hous
 was canopied.
 The display of beauty and fashion wa
 never eclipsed by any preceding promenad
 in this city. There were fully 250 couples O
 the grand march, and host of toilets wer
 exceedingly rich and lovely. There wer
 about 500 spectators in the galleries, and her
 too there was considerable dress. The to
 lets of the ladies in the boxes were very rich The nrooramme of dances was as follows: