The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-30
TIE WATERLOO BALL.
An English Student Apparently Lo-
Gates the Historic Spot.

at length the researches of Sir Will
liam Fraser have been rewarded. Dur
ing his recent visit he ascertained that
the site of the Duke of Richmond DOM
icile at Brussels was now covered by a
urge hospital in the Rue des Cendres,
o3e of the wings of which is the original
fabric; but neither here nor in the gar
beyond was there any trace of ball
room. The interchangeable baronet, de.
termined not to be bsff1sd. pursued his
investigat ons until he observed beyond
the hospital wall the roof of high
building, which he was informed was
the brewery of the Rue de la Blanchis-
serie. He walked around to the "bras-
serie" in question, but the proprietor
could tell him nothing about any terpsi-
chorean doings there in the year 1915.
His father, he said, had purchased the
property OF coaohbuilder named Van
Asch, and his depot for carriages was
now his (the brewer's) granary. The
room he courteously offered to show to
his visitor, who was conducted to an
apartment 120 feet long, 81 feet broad
and about Is feet high, the floor being
quite smooth enough, even after this
long lapse of time, to be danced upon.
On the night of June 10, 1915, the par
quetn was, in all probability, chalked
in symmetrical and parti- colored pat
tern.
In any case, Sir William Frazier
seems to have conclusively made out
his contention that the "WaterloO Ball"
was held in the carriage depot of the
coachbuilder Van Asch, now the gran
airy of the "brasserie" Vanginderachter,
Nos. AZ and 43 Rue de la Blanchisserie,
Brussels, and the public are indebted to
the baronet for l0ng-needed and vain
ly sought-for piece of information. The
doubt which for sc many years has en-
veloped the question is not, after all,
so very incomprehensible. The coach
builders warehouse was evidently
used as al "annexa" to the Duke
of ri 3hmond's house; and, Consid-
ering that there were some 400 guests
at the ball, most of whom may have
been almost strangers to their noble
host and hostess, it is quite feasible
that the majority of the company never
roubled their heads for moment as
to whether the capacious, but low
rooted ball room was part and parcel of
the house of their entertainers, or
whether it belonged TO some con-
tignous premises, of which opportunity
had been taken, just as the promoters
to the tea party to Messrs. Smith,
O'Brien and Meagher, in 1913, "by the
Shannon shore" took the opportunity
of Tim Doolan's store"
But there is one other point touching
this memorable festival which, could
Sir William Fraser clear it up, would
entitle him to still greater need of
gratitude at the hands of his cotem-
poraries. Napoleon's travelling car
rage, captured by tie Prussians
after Waterloo, and now at Nine.
Tussaud's, was built at Brussels Was 1t
built by Van Ash, who seemingly was
leading "corrossier of the periodP The
question is worth asking, for when
Byron, after his separation from his
wife, stared on that which was
virtually Childe Harold's pilgrimage, he
purchased at Brussels travelling car
riage which was the exact counterpart
| of the one made for Napoleon the Great.
If Mynheer Van Ash was the maker,
the poet IN all probability visited the
depot in the Rue de la Blanchisserie
which only recently has been used as a
ball room and that long, low apart
ment, converted by poetic license into
a "high hall" he might have felt The
first inspiration for one of the most
magnificent of mis- lyrical achievements
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