St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-30
In Honor OF Yale.

The audience that greeted the Yale
Glee club at the Peoples theater on
Friday evening was Respondent in pur
pie and fine linen. A man who did not
90 in full dress felt out of place. and
the woman who was gOWned to the
throat in street attire felt her shoulders
and arms reproaching her with not
being on exhibition. The spectacle pre-
scented by the array of beauty in its best
and least clothes was surprise to one
Yale man, who confessed in the hearing
Of a reporter that he had always sup
posed scraps" with the Indians were
everyday occurrences in st. Paul
society, The Yale Glee club,
which consists of seventeen mem
bers. was assisted by the Yale
Banjo club. The programme presented
was in the main of the bright, catchy"
order Of music, full of good spirits that
are contagious. The twelve numbers
originally intended became twenty-nine
through frequent encOreS. After the
concert reception was rendered the
club by Col. and Mrs. John l.. Merriam
and their son Robert, who is an under
graduate of Yale college. Col. Mer-
Rams handsome home was thrown open
to society for the first time, and its
spacious apartments, exquisite furnish
ingS anu artistic floral decorations were
calculated to impress the Eastern man
with due appreciation of the elegance
OF st. Paul social entertainments. The
large library was converted into ball
room and supper was served In the
billiard hall and room adjoining. Guests
were received in the drawing room
by Mrs. John l.. Merriam, Mrs. w. X.
Marian Mice INiIdar anH ROhnrt II
Merriam.
Mrs. John L. Merriam wore trained gown
of black velvet, draperies of thread lace
covering front of white satin. The open
neck was filled with point lace corsage
louquet OF Puritan rOsebuds, an ostrich
feather fan and diamond ornaments COM
pie, The costume.
Ms. W. II. Merriam was gowned in empire
style. train Of silver gray brocade,
dashed with pink and blue. fell over O. petit,
coat of shrimp pink brocaded velvet. draped
with PINK mousseiine de sole. Pink and
blue Ostiich tips graced her corsage and
tips of the same color were held in place i'll
her hair by old Grecian band Her orna.
ments were pearl necklace and diamond
pendant.
Miss Wilder's dress a a Partisan fancy of
soft pink silk and blue crepe de Chine.
Beautiful lace trimmed the neck. and her
ornaments were diamond hairpins and an
tique gold necklace studded with diamonds.
All OF the 400 were present TO meet
the gentlemen from Yale. Among
them were:
Mesdames Marvel, Schurmeier, Drscoll,
Stockton. Finch, Fulton. French, CLARK,
Bates, Draper, Bass, Wright Rhodes, Watson,
Gutter, Frost, Sessions, Pope, Young, Lightner.
Dmpkins, Drake, Ruudlett, Tarbox, Selmes,
Flandrau, Furness and Taylor, Misses
nuerbach. Goizlan, stufgls' lawson; Mann,
Trmberly, Forepaugh, Newport, Smith; Nina
Smith. Knapp, DenegIe. Gordon, Taylor,
Beaumont, Prince, Peet, Moves, Moore, Dean,
Dassell Emmett, Carpenter, Clough, Curran,
Alnes. Banning. Bend, bigelOw. Belote, Bris-
lin, BeaupIe. Beebe, BOFup Bunker Cliuch,
Dunbar, a ngton, Flandrau, Field, Gill
tllun, Granger. Griggs, Gates, talusha, Ham
mond, Jersey. Hale, HOlcombe, .ngerSoll,
Johnson. Kelly, Knox, lie Due, MacLaren,
Mann. Mason, Moore, MacMillen, Murphy,
McQuillan. Mackubin, Meader. Nelson. New
man, Perm, Price, Perkins, Rice, Ruger,
omythe. Spaulding, Stickney, Stevenson. Sui
Ivan. shaw. Taylor, 1imberlake, Thur,ton,
Washburn, Williams, Whitney. Wheeluck, Grif
I'M and Newell, and Messrs Armstrong, Ban
ming, Bigelow, Brlsbin. Dlaikie. Becker Beau
mont, Borup. Boyey, CutcheUn, Cathcart.
Corning, Cattell, Crosby, Dawson. Drake,
Driscoll, Dresser Foster, Farwell, Ferguson.
Gordon, Getty, Grace, Gilman, Gilbert Hau
son, Hawks, Heath Hewitt, Howe. Hewitt,
Hastings, Jaggard, johnson, Kirby. Knox,
Lyon, Minot. Nichols, Moves, Parker Peet,
Paget Price Odell, Rugg, Read Rider, Speel,
stewart, Spenser, Thorne. Thomas, Wright,
Wood, Weatherby, Washington, Webster and
Young