Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-20

Realistic Masquerade On the Ice at
the Rink.
A large crowd attended the masquerade
at the Eureka Skating Rink last night.
The proportion OF skaters was very large,
although there were a great many specta-
tors also. 1t is evident that since the rink
was started here many nave learned to
skate who never trusted themselves on
frozen water before. The Union Guard
band was in attendance, and added its
fine music to enliven the splendid exercise.
The masquers were gotten out in costumes
wonderful, plain, fantastic, baZarre, start
ling, horrible and nondescript. To describe
them in detail would retake up all Of our
Sunday paper. 1t is enough then to say
that many of the costumes were artistic,
and the characters they indicated well sus-
tanned. Several very funny things hap
pened during the skating before the masks
were raised, but the funniest OF them all
was this: Among the last who appeared
on the ice were Tom HALEY and Geo. W.
Baker, dressed TO represent . brace Of
"holy terrors from Arizano." They were
made mp in the hight of cowboy style,
buffalo breeches, clanking spurs, big white
SLOUGH hats and n brace Of navy revolvers
each, stuck into a wide leather belt around
the waist. They were veritable "terrors"
to behold, and when they struck the ice
with . whoop they seemed actually to be
the bad men they were representing. To
carry out the role, they asserted them
selves loudly and acted as though they had
Just dropped in to clean out the whole
business. Their acting was so realistic
Il &b.k "a ownttaA tka faa~nf a.an-n1s,oan
females, and reused the ire of more than one
man. among them Bill Matthews in par
particular, who was acting out John Tore
in good style. He stood the affected
bravado for = turn or two, but at last his
dander rose to such a pitch that he skated
up in trout of the two cowboys. and turn
ing around in front of them with a whiz,
he told them il they had come in there to
run that rink they were dead off, and that
he, for one, wouldn't stand any more OF
their f~oolishness. he got hotter as he
talked, and when the ''terrors" only
laughed and undertook to jostle him, he
grabbed the bigger one of the pair, George
| Baker, by the coat with his left hand and
with his right gave him a diff on the nose.
Baker parted the blow partially, but
came ont OF the scrimmage with his
masks nose mashed fat against his own
nose underneath. OF course, Mr.. Mat
thews, as soon as he found out bis mis-
take, went and ~apologized, when they all
laughed together very heartily. This bit
Of acting is the best and most realistic we
have ever seen, and the lick that Mr.. Baker
got on the nose is the finest compliment
and most pointed he could possibly have
got.
The ladies in costume we're as follows:
Miaa A0Uta Han nnninns Mra II n
Levy, Evening Star; Miss W. II. Mat
thews, Domino; Miss Lizzie Dorsey, Nom
descript; Miss Edith Matthews, Scotch
Lass; Miss Plumstead, Snow; Miss Gertie
McGeary, Airy Lady; Mrs. Sessions,
mask; Mrs. McClaren, French Waiting
Maid; Mrs. J.. @. Powell, fancy dress;
Mrs. McNicol, mask; Miss Olsen. mask;
Miss Egleston, mask; Mrs. Douthett,
mask; Mrs. Joannes. mask; Miss Lucy
Lewis, Cotton Seeds; Miss Blackwell,
mask; Miss Gussie Mannheim. Spitfre;
Mrs. Ward. Frost; Miss Lou Farrell,
mask; Miss Riley, mask; Mrs. McGovern,
Domino; Miss Lulu Mccartney, Floss;
Mrs. j. Schiller, evening dress.
The getlemen were: Herman Ballinger,
Jester; Paul Douthett, Sailor Boy; W. H.
Matthews, "Big Russian" alias John
Tore; s. A. Bedell. mask; E. H. Rose.
mask; ii. i. Hohdley, Ded tlck;
Charles Laid. Chinese Gisntess; Al.
S~netsinger. mask; Johnnie Cromer.
Rooster" Willie Wethered, School Girl;
John Baxter, Old Stiff; Will Creme, Roust-
about; John Droger, a Stork; Louis Book
and Joe Roberts. Double-Song- and Dance
Team; j. N. Hill, Red. White and Blue;
Mr.. Cralius, Chinaman, Willie Mckay,
mask; Jake Alexander, China Boy; Mamie
Harris, q Pink; Patsey Green, himself;
Gus Boye. Darkey Gal; Jimmy Hall, mask;
Jimmy Henderson. the Devil; Joe David
son, Mother Hubbard; Col. VIM. o. Mills.
Jr., Mild. Mannered Military Chief; Tom
Haley and G. w. Baker. Holy Terrors
from Arizona: Tom Trainer, Dsrkey; Ed
Phillips, a Swell; Writ Hopkins. Dude
Darkey; E. H. Rose. mask; James Laird
and r. M. Hazen. Miscellaneous" Will
Pardy. "Suniower Brown;"T T. H. Heales,