The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-21
St. Nicholas Church Folk
Combining Pleasure With
Benevo1ence.
FUN AT THE BIG FAIR,
Ladies at the Booths in Kessler's
Hall, and the Handsome Wares
They Have to Sell.

AhCJ AufV " HSAAs
The steady patter of the rain on the roof
of Kessler's Hall last night was monot-
onous, but it could not depress the spirits
of the pretty girls, gay youths and jolly
children who thronged the great room.
People are never depressed where the
good Father Weyland thinks they ought
to have good time.
1t was the second night Of the annual
fair of St. Nicholas Church, for the bene-
fit of the parochial school, and all was
merriment. The young men joked with
the pretty girls at the booths, while the
matrons smiled upon their children,
smoothed out their aprons and remem-
bered when they were young.
Not much time has been wasted in dec
Grating the hail. the gay booths do that,
but everywhere there are pieces of fancy
work, which show that the young girls
have not failed to learn from the skill of
their grandmothers.
The never ending turn of the wheel of
fortune helps the money to roll up, as
little snow ball becomes vast body by
the time it gets to the bottom of the hill.
Father Weyland stands there and decides
what price shall be put upon the bats, I"
on wooden tickets, imprinted with five
numbers apiee-there are twenty of them,
and one hundred numbers fill up the
wheel On the rim of the wheel are one
hundred pins, and catch at the top
shows what number wins when the wheel
stops.
1.-TWO cents bat; only two cents a
bat!n cries Father Weyland. "Here is the
last bat; who wants it?p
Then some one buys the last bat, and
Father Weyland gives the wheel spin.
Number fifty-three wins,n says the
good father, and some pretty girl with
dancing eyes reaches through the crowd
number for a neck ribbon, or handker
chief, Orwell, almost anything.
SOME OF THE FANCY THINGS.
AS l strolled about the room and
stopped at the different booths, was
charmed by the many exquisite articles
of fancy work that came from the dainty
skill of the fair daughters of the congre-
cation. / was taken in charge by Mrs.
Friedrich Schlueter,. sweet faced old
lady, who began to ask me, in German, to
buy chance in silver watch, given to
Booth No. 5 by her husband. / don't
speak German, and as Mrs. Schlueter's
stock of English is quite limited, it looked
as if we were coming to a standstill. Mrs.
Schlueter was equal to the occasion,
however. Born in Germany and brought
up in France, the language of politeness
is really more familiar to her than her
mother tongue. We were soon on the
best of terms, and l was shown all the
gems of the fair.
First and foremost are some wonderful
flowers, made from tissue paper by the
dainty fingers of Miss Lizzie Probest.
Great, punches OF most delicate roses
looked as If they ought to perfume the
whole room. These were at booth No. z,
where was also to be seen beautiful
daisy tidy, made of narrow tape and
ribbon by Miss Amelia Smith. Perhaps
the prettiest thing on the table, and the
one that pretty Miss Annie Walter took
the most pride in showing, was per-
fumed crochet bag made of silk ribbon
by Mrs C.. d. j. Noelke. Miss Walter
herself made a sofa pillow and embroid-
cred it with yellow wheat.
At Mrs. Blum's booth, No. l, there were
two beautiful embroidered cushions, one
made by Mrs John Kern, and the other
by the Sisters of Charity of the parish,
who gave some tasteful piece of fancy
work to every booth in the fair.
Mrs Nessler presided over booth No.
2, and looked like the mother of the parish.
She called my attention to baby's shawl
of delicate white fannell, beautifully EN-
broidered by little Amelia Wedel, a pupil
in the parochial school, who is but four
teen years old. The two things that Mrs.
Ness1er was chiefly vain of were a toilet
set, made by Miss. Stahl, and an Irish
chain" quilt in American colors, which
she made herself. Mrs. Engel gave the
booth satin pin cushion, which she had
painted exquisitely in water colors.
A q l., NTo o fro ErihT, she yaI ma or1
embroidered mantel scarf made of crazy
silk patch work by Mrs. SpatZ, and pair
of lovely hanging baskets for flowers made
by Mrs DR.. Faber and her mother, Mrs
Hammond of chenille made by carefully
ravelling off the lint from the edges of a
long narrow strip of muslin.
The great things at booth No. 4, where
Mrs Och looked after her young assistants
as motherly hen watches her brood of
chicks, were baby's dress made of lace
by Miss Frank, pair of embroidered slip
pers given by Mrs. Och, and portraits of
Father Weyland and Father Grief.
At booth No. Mrs Kathrina Sommer
had given a very pretty embroidered crazy
work silk sofa pillow, and the good Sis
ters had embroidered one on velvet in
high relief. The booth was crowded with
pretty things, and it was hard work for
me to leave it for No. 9, just across the
room, where Mrs. Kraus took care of half
q QOZeu pretty girls anu lOto VI 1duCS
things. There was long flannel petit
coat for a baby, embroidered in silk by
Miss Aubert; some wax flowers made by
Mrs Steidel, and table cover given by
Mrs Bonner
Dealers had treated the fair very iber-
ally; there was Princess parlor organ
with twelve stops, given by the maker,
Mr.. Bowlby; articles of furniture from f.
L. Hanley's and EhlDeck' rugs from
Dobson's, in New York, and a lot of other
things. Nothing is sold; everything is put
up for chances" and there is book for
every article in the fair, with a pretty girl
for each book. The chances are very low,
almost everything being put up at five
cents chance
In the shooting gallery there is a double
barrelled breech loading shot gun, with a
full outfit of boots, hat, coat, breeches
and so on, and they will be given to the
marksman who makes the best score of
three shots before the close of the fair,
which is to run for two weeks.
Every evening there is some kind of
amateur entertainment. Last night it
was singing by the St. Cecilia Club, and
Thursday evening the Dramatic Club of
the church will play THE Bogus Talking
Machine" the performers being Mr.
Simon Schlueter, Mr.. E. Maebert, Mr..
John Koepfer and Mr.. f. Baumhoer.
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