The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-23
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The fircmen's Brsi ~ the Mcafelisns
0pers FfoBve Last Night.
There was sound OF revelry. :
last night. aud the brave fire laddial
With their iassies had assembled Al
the McClelland opera house, and with
them were several hundred ,itizrns
Y determined on having an evening
VI pleasure. Preparations for the
ilremen's masquerade ball have been
in progress some time. aud the com.
mittees were actively at work IN per.
,cting all the arrangements. Be-
tween 200 aud 300 tickets were sold
Ire list Of the committees are M fol.
low:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS s. PlLnkett
lloyd Anderson, W. X. Stills and j. n,
Wilkes Floor managers-John Wor.
sham, Il. s. Smith, NJ. Lachman aud
Tom o. Plunkeit. Inspectors--A NJ.
Prescott, j. L. Egin, w w. Seley, b,
Alexander.
D0orkeepers- Homer Anderson,
10, ), Thompson, John r. Wilkes, w.
II. Stills.
Ushers-- Master Levin PIupkett
and Abe i.y Gus.
Prof. A. Krause's string band fur
nished the D.tlsic, and when the hour
offs o'clock came nearly every seat In
the dress circle was occupied, and the
floor in the parquette was crowded
with merry masquers
Promptly at the hour of Q, the
music struck up and the programme
Of dances, which led of with waltz,
and which consisted of twenty -four
numbers, was. commenced, and il
was late hour before the old Vir-
ginia was finished. When the last,
long strains of "HOme, Sweet Home,,'
died away, an evening of great
pleasure had been passed.
At IL O'Clock, when the masks were
taken of, they showed the following
characters represented;
Oscar Ragland, Bad Bill; Miss Ludic
Downs, Tacky school girl; 4. p Moore,
Indian chief; Tom Brown, Knight OF
the Road; Miss Matte Evans, but,
terfly; Annie Evans, baby; M.llie Rusc,
winter; II. S. Galloway, dude; b. T.,
Taylor, farmer; L. W. Taylor, cor.
poral; l.. F. Parker, Dntchman; e. w
Massey, painter; A. l.. Languille and
u. u. Languille, red dominoes; George
Yeates, Waco grey; John Donohoe
fireman; Alma Darby, Queen OF
Hearts; Mrs. w. II. stills, little imp,
Lillian Darby, ser, ant maid; Laura
Peterson, school girl; Stena Barnch,
knight; w. L. Orchard, dude; Will
Jones. United States; W. L. Gambrill
dade; win numphries, grcaser;
q. +. Stanberry, McGregor
skater; Ed. Rcnick, Farmers alliance;
Mrs j. o. Green, Queen of Hearts;
Mrs. Julia Shelb, Snowflake; Miss
Hnnie Shelb, French girl; VIII Reese,
Italian nobleman; Tom Padgitt, cow
boy; VIII Schaefer, negro; Frank
Workman, gentlcman; Mrs. Nc
Closky, guess-who; Katie Barnard,
flower girl; Florence Barnard, flower
girl; Tyler Wilkinson, EXAMINER;
Sadie Lrowder, peasant girl; Bette
Davidson, popcorn girl; Hoyden
clown; John Fall aud John
Connor, Mexican gentle man; w. d..
Williams, Chatham street dude; Wat
sou Craus, Highlander; u. Il. Hill
Tough, candidate for reelection; Il.
j. Roller, New Yorker; II j. Wilson,
no character; w. Il. Wood, no char
acter; w. S. llrllieiicld, dude; Pink
II. Pogue, washwomau: Bud Wor-
sham, Chinese impersonator; Mrs.
Tom Padgitt, the happy family; I. u
MILFORD, soldier; Herbert Little, fire.
man; Z. w. Hotel. fireman; Miss
Praruch, school girl; Miss Ray
Lyman, Spani h girl; Mrs Win Jones,
Domino; W. M. Cheesman, Wander
bits nephew; Shapley Ross. AT. b
ARG. W. Brown, millionaire; Mrs.
q. w. Brown, fly brush; Miss Jennie
Slough, snow flake; +. w. Emery,
black domino; Levin Plunkett, red
devil; Frank johnson, American
dude: Ben Solomon, Mike Wise, 10.
Shapiro, MuIligan Guards; Ford Par
kcr, duke; X. L Burnhain, domino;
Pat Massey, domino.
The supperw was given in charge to
that most excellent rcstauaantcr, Mr..
Alex Brulc, who had banquet pre-
pared that has had no rival other in
the excellence of the dishes or the
artistic decorations of the tables.
The tables were personally super
vised by Mr.. Brule himself, who saw
that each guest was sumptuously sup
piled with all the rare daintics.