Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-11

ready offered Sc, 500 to exhibit them
for one week VA :==...z
Some idea of the elaborate prepare
ton of these floral designs may be
gathered from the fact that $1,000
has been paid out in cash for the flow
ers which compose them. The con-
tract included 10000 choice roses,
5000 lilies of the wales, s, 1000 tulips.
and q miscellaneous assortment of
10000 other varieties. For the deco
rations, 10, 900 yards of garlands have
been made, and 5000 strings of smilax
ordered. It required 5000 Yards of
muslin simply to form the observations
proper. The entrance to the ante
rooms were hung with fine silk damask
curtains, twelve feet long, made of ma
terial worth $l3 yard.
The ballroom floor was 316 by 1l6
feet, covering more than one acre in
extent, and was calculated to accom-
modate 1900 persons engaged in
square dances or 5000 in
! AOui!u u1ACco' 4uo uu"OeE OI people
on the aoor at all times was very great,
and the scene was magnificent in the
extreme. 1t was a brilliant multitude
OF swallow-tailed coats and decolette
dresses. The costumes of the ladies
were mostly new for the occasion, and
no less than a hundred Worth dresses
came from Paris. The dance music
was furnished by the Germania Orches-
ira, of Philadelphia, and the prone
made music by the celebrated Marine
Band of Washington. The latter
charmed. the great crowd until III
O'Clock when the dancing began. The
dancing continued nearly all night.
The refreshment department. oc.
| cupied fiverooms at the northeast end
of the building, and preparations were
made to supply {, 900 persons with srp.
per, about 1000 at one time. The
dancers developed abnormally sharp
appetites, and the Murray Hill Hotel
people, of New York, who provided the
refreshments, laid in stock of 900
quarts OF ice-cream, 500 quarts of
water-ices, $50 boned turkeys, 1000
pounds of lobster, 5000 picked oys-
tiers, 5000 CLAIMS, six large salmon, six
large striped bass, 200 roast turkeys,
500 boiled turkeys, $50 tongues, 100
hams, sixteen sets OF roast beef, fifty
pate de fol gras,' 100 quarts of con-
somme soup, fifty dozen punches ofcel-
cry, fifty dozen head of lettuce, two
barrels of chicken salad, 5000 rolls,
$50 loaves of bread, 1000 pounds of
cake, gallons ofclaret punch, 900
bottles of wine, and oceans of coffee.
The supper was fair, and the price 81.
The dancing programme was an ex-
tensive affair Of sixteen pages-a book
infact-and furnished in envelopes. The
pages were of heavy cream-colored pa
per, with beveled gilt edge on the out
side sheet. On the cover was finely
engraved portrait of Cleveland and-m
the back view of the Pension build
ing. The programme Of dances was
neatly printed in gilt letters, and the
names OF the committees were re-
corded, a considerable proportion of
the population of Washington; but
few Democrats escaped. Ten thousand
programmes were printed.
The ball ticket of admission. was a
modest affair. OF the separate ball
| invitations twelve Thousand were
struck off. Each was Z by 10 inches,
large enough to be used as a fan by
some of the ladies. 1t was a copper
plate engraving, executed at the gov
| eminent bureau, and showed a me-
dallion of Cleveland on the left side
and one of Hendricks on the right side.
Below these medallions are leaves con-
nected by a knot at the center. Be-
hind each of the medallions the Amer
lean flag is draped. Immediately be-
low this drapery there are on each side
two columns, upon which are engraved
the names OF the general committee.
In the upper right hand corner there
is picture of the Washington Monu-
ment. The inscription is as follows:
Inauguration Ball.
March 18th, 1885,
Commemorative OF the
inaugural ton of
Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks,
President and Vice-President
OF the United States.
The Address.
The folowingis the address delivered
by President Cleveland:
FELLOW CITIZENS I'm the presence Of this
vast assemblage OF my eountrymen, am
about to supplement and seal by the oath
which shall take the manifestation OF the
will OF great and free people. In the exer-
else OF their power and right of self
| government, they have committed to one
OF their fellow citizens q supreme and sacred
trust, and he here cOnsecrates himself to
their service. This impressive ceremony
adds little to the solemn sense OF RESPONSE
bility with which contemplate the duty
owe to all people of the land nothing can
1,.A H., oe
mine thelrlnterests may suffer, and nothing
is needed to strengthen my resolution to
engage every faculty and effort in the pro-
motion of their welfare.
Amid the din OF party strife the peoples
choice was made, but its attendant circum-
stances have demonstrated new strength
and safety Of government by the people.
In each succeeding year it more clearly APP
pears that our democratic principle needs
no apology and that in it's fearless and
faithful application is to be found the sur
est guaranty of good government. But
the best results in the operation OF gov
eminent, wherein every citizen has a share,
largely depend upon the proper limitation
of purely partisan zeal and effort, and a
correct appreciation OF the time when the
heat of the partisan should be merged in
the patriotism of the citizen. To-day the
executive branch OF the government is
still government of all the people and it
should be none the less an object OF their
affectionate solicitude. At this hour the
animosities Of political strife, the bitterness
of partisan defeat and the exultation OF
partisan triumph, should be supplanted by
ungrudging acquiesence in the popular will,
and sober and conscientious concern for
the general veal. Moreover, If from this
hour we cheerfully and honestly abandon
a II sectional Drpin6ice and 6iSfr11at and de-
termine with manly confidence in one an
other to work out tremendously achieve
ments of our national destiny, we shall de-
serve to realize all the benefits which our
happy form OF government can bestow. On
this suspicious occasion we may we'll
renew the pledge of our devotion
to the constitution which, launched by the
founders of the republic, and consecrated
by their prayers and patriotic devotion,
has for almost a century borne the hopes
and aspirations OF great people through
prosperity and peace, and through the