Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-09
a BRILLIANT EVENT.
The Arion Gives q Grand Masqus
Ball.
The Variegated Assemblage Of Masks
The Minstrel Show, and the General
Good Time INDUCED in
by the Large Crowd
proeanf

Present.
The masquerade carnival given By the
Arion Society at their hall, last evening,
was one of the most brilliant ever given BY
that Society. The notice sent forth BY the
grand mogul was as follows: Know all
fools by these presents, that I, the great
mcgul, highest Of all ye fools, the Prince
Carnival, will Aunis Lucie 1886 in the
reign of my authority, Ami Domiui 1886,
with my court, staff, servants. male and
female, appear and make my annual
march on horseback, mules, frogs, ele-
phaats, bears, goats. sRsils, monkeys, &c,
sc. before ye-when it strikes s sharp
IL TIE BIG CLOCK,
with the big hammer, on top Of the big
hall on the evening before March, the day
of the ninth. said and guessed to be the
third month of the year, just twen,y.three
DAYS before All Fools Day, and in the
22Oth year of my reign, and then wilt all
ye fools take up my grand march as given
ye here below
According to instructions boneoge.
nous crowd OF masks rolled up, tumbled up
into the hall some time before o'clock,
and at $3.50 o'clock the grand review by
the Prince Carnival took place. Ii was
certainly O fine sight. Fret came the
Reception Committee, followed by the
Arion Burnt Cork Combination, Bulgarian
and Seryisn Gypsies, Prince Carnival and
staff, flower girls, Amazon groupe, bears
monkeys, Chinese soldiers and all the 9th
er fools. After parading around the hal
for some time the trumpet sounded and
President Stitel, of the society, introduced
the
PRINCE CARNIVAL
| (Mr. A. c Eyerter) and delivered to bin
the keys Of the Ation.
The Prince Carnival then arose ard II
neat speech gave all Arion fools welcome
snd babe them enjoy themselves, closing
BY wishing them merry evening. Their
the regular programme followed. A pro
menade waltz was followed by the psIfor
nance of the "Arion Burnt Cork Combina
ion" When the curtain went up some
fifteen or twenty gsudily co3tumed ME
streis were disclosed, and during the over
ture
THE FOUR END MEN,
Messrs. Will Sesbright and John Yaha OF
the tambo end, aud Messrs Merkle anC
Ross on the bones, appeared and took theil
seats. Then followed the regulation min
strel performances with some good jokes
Mr.. Frank Cruise, as conversstionslist, die
we'll, and Messrs Geyer and Diegmiller
who sang solos, did likewise. Seabrigh
gave Luz Bros, Of the Home LAUNDRY, {
good send off for having done up ,heil
cuffs and collars for nothing he also gave
several other gentlemen little attention
for having done nothing. The performance
was good and ended with chorus that die
creoit 10 the boys.
Prof Josie Kramers orchestra ther
played a qusdrille, which was danced il
by all the masks present, after which to-
animal trainer and his "dorg" gave al tx
hibition, the beast getting the best OF it-
SOMETHING TO EAT BEFORE EVERY ACT.
Then the general dance wac INDUCED in
The scene was certainly bewildering enc
pleasant one. St. Jacob could be seer
dancing with an Indian maiden, while 1
bumpty dumpty might be seen swinging 6
Topsy around in the may measures Of
the dance Little maids from school, dyns
miters, school girls, dudes, negroes, wine
girls, etc, etc, were there in abund
ance The display of costuueI
was unusually fno many ofthem being fur
nrsned ny Miss Maggie George, Of BAlti
more, Nd OF course
MANY OF THE Young LADIES
and gentleman INDUCED 10 little private
tete-s.te,es and endeavored TO discover tht
identity of each other.
Dancing was kept up until an early houI
this morning, when the gay sssemblsgt
dispersed firmly convinced that if an
society knew how to get up an epjoyabl,
social affair, it was the Arion. THU
ended the last, but not least enjoyable O
Arion entertainments, until after Lent,