The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08
The Bacchanalian Scenes That Werf
Witnessed at the Recent
AriOn Ball.
Some Novel ideas I'm Regard tn Houes
Decoration Advanced by New
Art Prophet.

not only among the Hibernian contingent,
who have reasons of their own for rejoicing
ever any dilemma of their ''oppressor," bit
among Americans generally. What an ~.
defensible attitude, said one of these 20 nh.
England invades the Soudan country witt
out cause, spends $l00, 0000 900 to merely be.
n the war, and denounces the people W 40
are defending their native land as 'rebelsl't'
II is rather odd 10 zee the English newspa'
pers addressing America in wheedlirg
tones and appealing for sympathy. We GIN
almost hear the song floating across the st
lantic:
BRITANNIA TO DAME COLUMBIA.
| Dearl Dear " hat can the matter be-
Dear Dear B Ds Wh hs, can the the matter 6e'
Johnny so long at the Fair!
He promised to bring me the Christening rsd
Employs to subdue the Monammedsn's body;
He promised-he promised to fetch me the
To tie as q slave to my chair
Dear. dearl Why should the journey be
! Fun OF disaster, and why should the touring Ae
4 Fatal to Gordon Earle Stewart and Burnaby
Why did my Johnny go therel
tie promised to send me the head OF a prophst {,
trinket OF triumph to hang on my sofit. 3
| But. dear mel never see anything of IL,
Aud nothing comes back from the Fair
And so sorth. aud so on Let us not enlarge
upon IL c grieyous situation. Ii IS peplexin.y,
aud melancholy, for the rarity immeia ely
engaged. If Christ aad Mshomet are lock
4 ing down The armies tEat are being led 10
battle n their name. the oae for re'ig ots
oonqus 81 aud the other for the sacred pdr-
pose of revenge" 1 wonder wba. they thi,.k
of it!
THE ARIoN DEBAUCHERY.
OF the great hats of the gear, the Arien
of Monday night vas incomparsbly sse
worst. The masquerade of the ''Cercle .e
rHarmonie" w5s bad eno0gh-lo1d, ia.
modest bedizensd and unruly; bat WHOM
the Arion PASS d under the wire. the revdl-
ers OF the Acacamy were found 10 be quite
distanced. The French ball was not only
chaste in oomparison-it was actually "a
prude. If old Arions ghost bad beer in Oee
of the boxes at the Madison Square Garden,
Monday night, aud whistled on his hngfss
| (f ghosts have 6ngers) it would not haze
been q lot of dolpnins that responded, as Cd
the shores of Corinth, to his lutte, but bey Is
and swarms OF living danes and damsee,
with ffocks short at both ends and tricksd
/ out in fantastic toggery. From ten at night
till FIVE in the morning the reve ~ went oh
| The vast, weather be actin old building wins
transformed into palace of beauty, with
gay decoration, flo wers, evergreens aud eits-
trio lights, AND the opening scene was gay
one, when thu great PISS .ebos ard portcullis ~
the me dieval keep in front OF 9 battlement(d
castle at one end was slowly lifted. and TIE
gorf eous PROCESSION came gallopiDg ard
dancing out-the Princess Columbibe,
harleQuins and clowns, commit
tees, and allegorical cars repfe-
senfing the board OF aldermen. Congress, tie
i Congo, China aud the Soudan, folio we'd By
Arion and Prince Carnival. II was an IN.
DoI - 81. "a
mesa, and II seemed as orderly and virtuo9s
as 10 was charming to the eye. But thdn
came the dancing, the drinking the half
unmasking, the carouss. This last assumed
its boldest character, of course, during TIE
last hours, aud IL may safely be said that 20
previous public ball in New York in recs3 I
! times has been so indecent. Full one-hsif
were women. and these were graduated oil
the way from curious and oircumspe 1t
wive, who went with their husbands curiosls
and semi circumspect wives, who went wlsh
other women's husbands, respectable girA
4 who got akay from home somehow, aid
went lust TO see, you know" down through
all grades of the demi monde. Women with
pretty faces unmasked early. The men
present were n ostly business men, but ma "
professional men were on hand and the swe ;ls
and dudes Turned out strong II the names bf
the weil-known men who took port in tse
gro.esque debsucheries were published ;t
would create CONSERVATION. am not quiz
able to zee why such an exhibition should re
permitted with Capt. Williams in uniform
to lead its fantastic procession) for its teSl
dency is grossly demoralizing. At the Frenfh
ball, when q nymph was hauled and BOOST
up into a proscenium box from the floor. Ut
was a. ways head frat, bat at the Arion her
latitude seemed matter of no consequence.
The can can vas not danced after 3 o'clock~-
nobo " was sober enough. Women wlo
tainted or reeled to the floor from too mueh
champagne were dsagged into the boxes
where men cut their stays with their PA.
knives and revived them with more cha,l
payne or still stronger potions Then tae
dizzy ones returned to the Bacchanalifn
lorgie below, with their corsage in q state 3Di
Iindescribable disorder The riot of The NOR
fig was SO gross that even the newspaper
men present (who are accustomed to all so.ts
OF signs and scenes) revolted, and declared
that such revelery ought to be prohibited
but their virtuous resolution to expose 81
,aded IS the morning light grew stronger,
and their reports administered very amianle
reproof. For the men present were WAL
street men. club men, leaders OF society aAd
princes of commerce and finance; and is not
the Arion benevolent society, fors0oth 3
and how could 1t get money to spend in good
deeds without allowing the guests TO make a
sin offering to Eros? The first drunken rev
eler staggered out of the garden ct 2 o'clock
to catch q train. One of the band of thiey.ss
waiting outside gently took under his afm
the swelled head of the debanchee, relev hd
him of his watch and pocketbook, and 90
litely told him which way to go. There were
several In stances Of this festive sort Itsis
estimated by those who stayed to the endI
did not. thank you) that not less than fotty
intoxicated women were borne OF in CIR
riages Several were perfectly helpless, AID
were carried out and dumped into the veki
ces like bales of hay. One, an unmasbfd
little woman with blonde hair blue eyFs,
aud O mermaid's evergreen garment DIN,
fought 80 hard that IL took four policemenitc
remove her, and one of them lost ports9n
of his hirsute decoration, and had his sizai ID
nose made candidate for court plaster. O
all our local papers, the Telegram alone Sc
marks without entering into particulars
that the Arion ball died Of delirium tie
mems" /:
II soME NOVEL IDEAS ABOUT Art.
| A young diciple of Delsarts. named I'D
lmund Russell, has excited . good deal o
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