Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-02
TEE WHITE HOUSE.
President and Mrs. Cleyeland's
New Years Reception.
Prqnonounced One OF the Most Bril-
Liant Scenes Ever Witnessed at
the Exceed tive Mansion.
The Large Parlors beautifully DecOrated-A
Galaxy OF Fair Ladies Assist the First
Lady OF the Land.
Hhite Horse Reception.

White Horse Reception.
WASHINGTON Jan. 1.-The white house
has seldom, if ei-ar, presented a more
brilliant spectacle than it did to-day on
the occasion of the presidents New
Years reception Special palns were
taken with the decorations, and the beau
tiful suite of parl0rs where the reception
was held never appeared to better advan-
tage. There was n prOfuSion of flowers
and plants, and they were distributed
with charming effect. The choicest flow
ers were placed in the blue parlor, where
the receiving party stood, but the most
elaborate floral decorations were in the
east room, where che visitors spent a few
moments iii social conversation after
having paid their respects. The walls
were banked with bright-hued flowers,
and festoous of grass were suspended
from the large chandeliers. Tall palms
were placed in the window recesses and
IN the corners, and tropical plants of all
kinds lined TIE corridor running
through the center of the house.
A large divan in the east room
was ornamented with a beautiful
vase containing large palm of different
hues Part OF the lower floor was
illuminated by gas, but the sunlight was
given full play III the east room. The
weather was bright, sunshiny and cool
and III fact every hing was most auspi-
cious. The reception began at II o CLOCK,
at which hour the receiving party de-
scended the stairs and took their places in
| the blue parlOr. AS they appeared in
sight the marine band, which was sta
toned in the main hall, started
F'HAIL TO THE CHIEF
and continued playing it until the party
had taken their positions. A passage was
made for them through the crowd that
| had already gathered in the house. They
came in the following order:
| COLONEL WILSON and LIEUTENANT DU-
| VAIL, of the army,
The PRESIDENT and Miss BAYARD,
SECRETARY BAYARD and Mrs. CLEvE-
LAND,
sECRErARY FArRcHILD and Mrs. WHIT
Sc cRErARY ENDIcoTT and Mrs. DICK
INsoE,
Sc RETARY ylLAs and Don NJ. DIcKIN-
son
Tiey took their places with the presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland in the following
order: Miss Bayard, Mrs. Fairchild,
/ Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Dickinson.
| Grouped behind them were number of
invited guests, including
MRS. FOLSOM,
| Miss MARY HASTINGS,
Miss CARRIE HASTINGS,
MRS. NELSON,
Mrs. CHIEF J JUSTICE FULLER,
/ MRS. SPEAKER CARLISLE,
MRS. FLORENCE BAYARD,
! MISS Villas,
MISS PAULINE WHITNEY,
MRS. LAMONT,
Mrs. LINCKEN,
MRS. GEORGE BANCROFT,
Hon. HUGH MCCULLOUGH and MRS.
MCCULLOUGH.
Mrs. COLONEL WILSON,
Miss WILSON,
MRS. MARSHALL WILSON,
MISS MARY WILSON,
Mrs. SENATOR BUTLER,
MRS. SENATOR CALL,
MRS COCKRELL,
MRS. DANIEL,
MRS. HEARST,
Mrs. PUGH,
Miss VOORHEES,,
MRS. WALTHALL,
! MRS A LEO KNOTT,
MRS LUCIUs TUCKERMAN,
MIR. SAMUEL g. WARD,
Mrs. JOHN RODGERS,
| MRS. w. { Fl, T. BRECKENRIDGE,
Mrs. MCADOO,
MRS. JOHN F. RUSSELL,
Miss RANDALL,
MRS. SPRINGER,
/ Miss S W. TOWNSEND,
MISS LETTER,
! MRS. HOWARD,
| Miss THORN,
Mrs GOVERNOR MORRIS of New York +,
Mr.. and MRS. FRANKLIN MCFEIGH,
Mr. and Mrs GLENNY of Buffalo,
JUDGE DAILY of New York.
The president wore a black Prince Al
bert suit with black tie.
Mrs. Cleveland wore beautiful robe
! of pale pink faille made with round train !,
corsage rounded at top and short sleeves.
The front Of the skirt was draped in sill
yer embroidered net, fringe of bugles
At the foot On either side were panels Of
soft French gray silk embroidered in a
pattern o. rosebUds in silver. The back
of the panels was edged with heavy Rus
sian fur that commenced at the waist line
and continued around the pink train
The back of the dress was princess shaped
with pink folds on the waist fastened
| with pearl embroidery. The front was
jacket shaped and fell over the vest of
pink silk dTaped with white net.
edged or the arm with pearl beads The
lower bodice was edged with heavy fur.
She wore 3 diamond necklace and dia-
mond star in her hair, that was dressed in
loops on the top of her head. Her gloves
were soft pearl color.
Miss Bayard, vino stood near, wore a
short dress Of blue brocade with point lace
bodice, upon which was laid folds OF
gauze Sprays OF white adorned the
bodice, and game was draped
about the upper part of the skirts
The sleeves were out TO the elbow, and
the hair was dressed high with a blue
feather
Mrs. Fairchild, wore dress of pea
colored, silk. The front was draped with
friils of lace, and the petticoat was Of
duh white satin. Across the front of the
bodice was tied fichu of lace.
Mrs Whitney wore superb gown OF
white brocade, made with higt
bodice and train Down the front
Of the bodice and skirt were
folds Of elbow satin and gold embroid-
/ TIL I,;rrF, collar Voc &c