Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-09
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very Large Crowd Attend the Annual Hall
Lass Evsning In the societys Hall
The annual masquerade and carnival OF the
Lancaster Mennerchor which took place in
the large hall Of the society last night was
one Of the largest affairs of the kind ever seen
IN this city. The building was literally
packed with people early in the evening. Ar
rangements had been made. byl which per-
sons outside OF the society were admitted
upon payment of an entrance tee. This as
sisted In swelling the crowd.
The members Of the society have been busy
preparing for this big event for several weeks
and the result shows that their labor was not
in vain. Early in the evening the gay mask
ers began to put In an appearance and by y
O'Clock there was merry crowd present
All kinds OF characters were represented and
while some of the costumes were funny most
of them were very handsome and costly. The
hall was tastefully decorated and the stage
was handsomely trimmed with flowers; on
either side were large lot OF green plants in
potA
At 9 o'clock precisely the entertainment on
the stage began. When the curtain was
drawn 1t disclosed the Princess Carnival
seated upon rock by small stream and
surrounded by pages. Miss Clara Rean as
sumed the character OF the princess and
looked charming
The Prince Carnival soon Joined the prin-
cess. Joe Roger was a noble-looking sover-
eign and came in on a boat accompanied d by
four little boys who acted as pages They
we're Frederick Kicker, John Dinkleberg,
Frederick Hoeiel and Monroe Reese, The
costumes of the whole party were very hand
some, and it was very pretty sight Scene
second showed the prince and princess seated
upon their throne attended by pages.
| During this scene there was dance
| by large party of little girls
| dressed as fairies. Miss Lulu Fiss,
| a little daughter of William Fiss, danced
| Fishers hornpipe in immitable style. The
great hit of the evening was made in scene
| third, when round dozen OF young and
Jolly members of the society with blackened
| faces and grotesque uniforms appeared as
the "Skids." The boys, under the supervi-
sion OF Tommy Mack, the well known min.
weeks and they had it pat Israel Carpenter
acted as captain of the squad with Johnny
Berger, lieutenant, Tommy Mack, bass
drummer, Johnny Hubley, tenor drummer
| and Harry Free, target bearer. The min.
strels sang, "The Skids are Out To-day"
| and they did it so well that they received
three encores. They certainly made a grea,
hit and ended the stage performance.
About 10 o'clock the grand promenade
| begun. 1t was headed by Henry Wolf
| Henry Gerhart, Frederick Hoefel and Henry
| Schmitt, of the committee of arrangements
| The others followed in this order: Prince
| and Princess Carnival, pages, fairies, Skids
| clowns, II. c. Demutb, chief floor manager
and his assistants Ed. r. Zahm, VIM, Hsr
| kins, Ed. SNYDER, Christ. Hoefel, 10. Smith
| +. Reynolds, II. Bair and Frank Hsmbright
These were followed by the masqueraders
| and there were at least one hundred aud
twenty five couples in the promenade. The
| dancing began to the music OF Taylor's or
| chestra soon after the promenade, and abou
| IL o'clock the masks were removed and
| great deal OF fun was bad. The whole crowd
enjoyed themselves until late hour this
morning and all voted the bail a big success