The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-04
III Cornell Vanderbiits Boy
BlI's, Big Ball. Shoddy-c'aS
Showing Their Shinement

i, was. wonderful affair. The World,
hose editor knows more about soclc
IL than society knows about ltseIl or
hin. calls 1t AN event never equaied
n he social annals OF the metropolis.
The Herald says 1t was hike an oriental
H. and that is odd, for the house
;eFranco American, the pictures French
- the decorations more so. Neyerthe-
- Oriental Is a good mouth-h ling
wprI. and even an oriental dream l.
me- descriptive than AL society III
assume. as the Times had it. Eight
huudrcd people We're at William X. Van
der bilt's Easter Monday night. of a
c;ty of a million and a quarter. and they
vere "all society," were they! Who
then make all society in New York; \
few KDickerbockcr families were repre-
rented: Mr. and Mrs Hamilton Fish. who
are Stuyve.ant, the Goelets, John ge-
low and his majestic wife, Chauncy De
pew. seward Webb and his Vanderbilt
mouse. Mrs William Aston, the Butler
several of the family of Cutt-
i'll Pierre Lorillard, the LJriliard Spen-
al Schieffelm>, lsehus and furnures,
HI Jams. Ruthcrt ,rd>, Minturns, Abram
h, sit, August Belmont family, Hen
~ Claws. Mrs Mckee Iwombly, Cor
Of the obelisk Nine Christine
M son anG Miss PHssie Breese. The
psu4es are mostly familiar enough 10 the
re. crs Of tie New York papers, and
of them appear III connection with
thr word busy progress; yet there Is
10 eethlng thin and vacant about 1t con
sid rcd a. ''aIi society" There was on
" ne artist in the assembly. and the
ION If Mme Niii~son's name sounds
nd = AT echo from another world, with
wi Oh TINS Fahdelb llt cr wd have prop
ei nothing TO do except as they buy
thtlr tickets te The Academy of Music
>teiDway hal Tbs l. that peculiar
81 I'll meaning Of $50 Iety which has
be invented 10 describe the wearing OF
aud the worsh , Of wealth. such
vas exemphiied t. az extraordinary
desrec on this occasion IN "a s6cHe never
in republican America, and never
lone by the eayesl court IN Europe
at least says the oriental Jena ms.
\ tremendous play-sceHe, this house
Of Vanderbilt Monday night, with it,
ers1d hal! 50 feet long, loored with
ne from Normandy, hung with tapes
tri,s from Italy, its stair ways done in
Caen stone, the grand stairway
''one of the finest in the world" with
it. hosteSSs '>umptious and charming
including the most ex
bathroom ever built in this
cUuniry;' with It's two great drawing
roonIs, one In the style Of Francis | of
waiDscotcd in carvtd French
and hung in davk-red plush, with
carven cabinets and an i'm
deep fireplace; n in Louis
Nv fashion, to waIuscot which a French
chateau was stripped while Gobelin
t. estries drape its walls and Paul Baud
y 5 painting decorates Its ceiling with
tie marriage Of Cupid AMI Psyche; f.
naliy with it, gymnasium, where the
was done, and the music, a.
Emerson says, poured on mortals its
beautiful disdaiu.' One adnircs the
reporter who could quu.e Emerson at the
Vanderbilt ball.
Through these rooms thronLet a mar
array Oi figures IN a scene Of mag
ic. Not a man or woman thee brought
t. nInd the commonplace reality OF to-
day- They were of the last century, Of
IT,, 18th, wen O. mytl .ct ages ard Of
ages At all. vi all ages; they we're
French, Italian. Spanish aud Dutch;
they were historic, symbolic aud opera
] fife. Nrs w X Vanderbilt was &
n cUet!au princess 4 ter a picture by Ca
] aael, in brocadys that ran a gamut
j j white to orange, through the ycl
lows. with a light blue satin train EN-
in gold and lined in Roman
re5 rnd a heaG-drCss laden with Jewels.
en- aluu!E them a peacock Ia colored
gen $. n one saw the woman herself,
She wa, u' 80 consequence. Lady Man
" here, helping the i StesS re-
cei1e. 81 Wa, ConSueld lznaga, and
oac os the hritienaidS when the hostess,
ViaIa hrs smith. Elarr:s / Wander
bi.t; another Mss Smith. a sister ha~
Tee. mu "a tIrs lzudsa, and 20 It Is that
ths nation. Of the ear b join blood in
priacely alliances. L, " Manieviile
wore 4 Ia K satin an velvet dress after
d prince, dc Croya painted by ian
dyke. Ne1deIb t, the host, copied the
duke o. Gulse il ". IL. Nanderbilt'~
art galler CsIueiius was Louis WI.
and his ", presented the electric light
ii q satin Dies painful with diamonds.
Mrs. Or Inc,y Depew appeared a. I'm
due IN satih; Ab-am ) Hewitt
as lear before he went mad; Miss Work
= Joan OF Are attracted great atten-
ton IL a white China Grape embroider-
cd with tfeurs dc lyS, with cuirass, hei-
net aud gauntlet of solid silver mail,
bod &c. Ieggings and shoes of steel
cloth aut spurs of sterl. Lady Wash
linton, ~Pompadour, the Nile, Marie An
toinette, Music, Innocence Lady Teazle,
the earl of Leicester, Charlie, Surface, a
cat and a peacock were all ~pcrsonated.
William ii HurIbeTt was a Spanish
knight OF Calatrava, aud ex-Comr Cor
liH-e an Arab shcIkh There we're tive
distinguished foreign guests, Mir Nun
To Butler tombstone aud the duke OIL
Maruy. Ii Is a great honor to receive
- aobie a creature as Morny, from
WI n even d duke can take points to
iIntecilty. Aud over all this array
spread the glory of the treasures Of the
ca. ia, silver and gold aud precious stones
d Almonds and bullion everywhere, un
til taey were vulgar.
They had a hobby horse quadrilje OF
great humor, wherein ladies and gentle
meu pranced about as they would in
clrcls IT that had been their sphere o
life They had an electric quadrille, il
winch the feminine participants had t,
float long hair down their backs anC
bear electric stars on their f,reheads
They had a Dresden china quadrille, il
which ali the dancers were Vatican Ar.
cadiaus They had, finest of all, al
opera boufe quadri'e. -Boulotte anl
I;arbe Bleue, Serpoiette and Grenicheux
ON, file aud Mourzonk, Le Petite Ouch
esse, Petit Due. Then w~altzes, galops,
falAas, and daylight saw the last dancers
hone, and frowncd, gray aud solemn
up.H heir d ysime mockery of sleep.
Bat without, on the street, for hour
until after midnight, a different sort q
:. Spectacle was seen. ~ great mUlt;tud
of PEOPLE to whom, plainly, the habit
cI high class society was unknown,
says a reporter wise in his generation