Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-11-27
GRAND BALL AT THE MANHATTAN
HOTEL

| GRAND BALL AT THE MANHATTAN
| HOTEL.
The most escharte and tony affair that has
ever been witnessed in this city was the
grand ball and supper at the Manhattan last
| night. The spacious dining rooms Of that
| hotel was cleared for ladies and gentlemen
| invited by the committee of arrangements
to participate in the festivities of the even
ing. Early the invited guests arrived and
the splerdied orchestra engaged, dispensed
the most lively airs and the ball commenced
with some thirty couples and soon was augu-
mented to near fifty, and "on went the
dance mid JOY unconined" until the wee
hours. Fair ladies il costumes of elegance
and grace by the side of partners, flushed
with admiration of the scene of fes;ivity
tripped lightly DER the hall presenting at
once gaety and magniicence that charmed
the beholder.
In an adjoining room the most sumptuous
repast with bill of fare unequaled and I'M
exceiled was spread for the refreshment of
the exhilerating exercise.
The hotel was lighted up with becoming
briiliancy, and everything vieing to enhance
the effect OF the scene of gaety and pleasure.
All who saw the array of beauty, elegance
and refinement pronounced it the
browning affairs of the most gorgeous of our
entertainments. Without enumerating the
gentlemen present it is only necessary to
say that they were the representative men of
our city, of whom many were from the fore
most ranks Of the commercial and property
circles.
The ladies who graced the occasion are
mentioned, together with their dress, and
are as follows:
Miss Mamie Mead, wine silk.
Mrs. A. Katz, black silk, Jet front,
diamonds.
Mrs. Tella Tusch, white cashmere, pink
satin panels and lace.
Mrs. Frank Dale, cream lace costume.
Miss Agnes Lynch, cream nuns yelling.
Miss Maud Strouble, brown silk and vel
vet.
Mrs. Fannie Hartzell, black silk. white
silk front with escurisl lace.
Mrs. a. W. DAVIS, cream lace dress,
natural flowers.
Miss Carrie Fisher, blue silk and brocade
Miss Laura Woodcock, blue satin and
Spanish lace.
Mrs. J. Sohn, cream nuns yelling, pink
satin front.
Miss Harrie Smith, scarlet dress, cream
satin corsage.
Miss Clara Lynch, blacl, satin dress, white
ostrich tips.
Mrs. Chas. Smyth, black velvet jet trim
mings, diamonds, natural flowers.
Mrs. Roy Oliver, ashes of roses silk and
brocade.
Miss Louise High, brown and white silk,
ostrich tips.
Miss Kate Murdocls, blue satin with lace
draperies.
Miss Lucy Louck, blue satin princesse
with pink trimmings en- tran.
Miss Addie McVicar, cream challie with
lace and scarlet satin trimmings.
Miss Sadie York, wine silk with lace.
Dell Bsynum. cream lace and satin.
Nettie Barnes, pink satin and lace.
Miss Piper, pink satin.
Mrs. Bradshaw, cream satin and lace.
Mrs. Jacks, wine silk, hand embroidered,
diamonds.
Miss Suits, lavender cashmere, swans
down trimmings.
Mrs. Levy, black satin princesse, scarlet
satin petticost, Jet fronts and psssementerie
diamonds.
Miss Ida Skinner wine velvet, blue satin
front.
Miss Skinner, ashes of rose. and pink
silk.
Miss Belle Kohn, cream satin and green
velvet
Miss Mossie Baldwin. cream satin.
Miss Ross, black silk, white lace trim
mings.
Miss Hazen, pink silk. white lace over
dress.
Miss Fannie Stroud, Oshkosh, Wis, pink
satin and brocade lace iouncs.
Mrs. Josie Stanley, pink satin, lace trim
mings.
Mrs. Harry Peck, ivory satin and brocade,
Spanish lace and diamonds.
Mrs. Lindenmuth, cream silk, en- train.
Miss Helen Hess, pink satin, black lace
trimmings.
Mrs. Johnston, brown silk and fancy bro
cade.
Miss Taylor. cream satin.
Miss Moore, black satin. ostrich tips.
Miss Kidd, warbask Iud lavender silk |