The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-08-30
A MAGNIFICENT AFFAIR.
THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB RE.
CEPTION LAST NIGHT.

was the ASSembIaGe that Esarti-
cIpated-FOwIe, Shepherd, Jar.
Wis, Avery and Others Present,
One OF the most magnificent receptions
ever attended in this city was that given
by Ashevlle's ultra-fashionable Cosmo-
poIItan club at its handsome building on
South Main street last evening. Addi-
t1onal interest was centered in this event
yesterday when the news became known
Ill society circles that his excellency
Governor Fowle, accompanied by his
charming and brilliantly accomplished
daughter, Miss Helen, had accepted an
invitation to be present on the occasion,
Thus 1t was that the assemblage was SO
large and thoroughly representative last
night.
The club building was beautifully iIlu-
minated, and Prof. Pearson's Battery
Park orchestra furnished delightful music
throughout the evening.
A wealth of beauty, wit and fashion
filled the spacious reception rooms and
parlorS, and OF all that throng it would
have been difficult to have selected one
who was not a distinguished leader in
the social world to which he or she be-
Iongcd. Every section of the Union was
represented, and more delightful COM
I'aiy OF iair women and gallant men
could not possibly have been drawn to-
Scther Ill any city other than AsheviIIe.
Carriages containing those who had
received invitations to the reception be-
gan arriving at the club house at $50
O'Clock, and from that hour until nearly
ten there was a constant stream of visi-
tors pouring through the large double
doors. Each arrival was warmly wei
coined by the ladies receiving, Mesdames
J. Evans Brown, Elliott Hazard, Chas.
+. Fenner and John H. Barnard, and soon
found himself or herself enjoying to the
fullest extent imaginable the pleasures
ofan evening that will not soon be for
gotten.
At l1.3O supper was announced, and
those present sat down to an elegant re-
past, served in exquisite style in the large
dining room of the building. Such a
spread as this was cannot be described
1t was feast for the gods; or, what is
better banquet for the daintiest of epi-
curean mortals.
Among those who occupied seats at
this banquet, the most observed of all
observers, was the beautiful daughter of
the honored guest of the evening. Miss
Fowle was a veritable queen regnant,
but none the less so, were the many
matchless and bewitching maidens, who
We'd with her in dazzling beauty and
superb accomplishments. Of these were
the Misses tombstone, Monteiro, Deguir,
Trapier, Skinner, Coppleton, Chambliss,
Giles, Roulhac, Cohen, Murchison,
Branch, Potter, Cheesborough, Car
nomska, Long, and Others.
Among the married ladies, Mrs. c. A.
Moore, Mrs. D. c. Waddell, Mrs. Ed. X.
Overman, Mrs. Thos. J. Jarvis, Mrs. Ed.
Lee, Mrs. c. J. McCape, Mrs. T. NJ. En-
erson Mrs. H. Z. Smith, Mrs. Geo. He'll
dcrson, Mrs. T. D. Johnston, Mrs. T. B.
Doe, Mrs. w. p. Holmes, Mrs. w. E.
Breesc, Mrs. Iredcll, Mrs. Greenleaf, Mrs,
Tupper, Mrs. Chatheld, Mrs. Nelson, and
Mrs. Waddell were he most prominent.
Ofcourse, Governor Fowle headed the
list OF gentleman participants, with Mai.
w. Z. Brecse, Col Frank Coke. Mr.. ID.
{. Waddell, ex-Minister Jarvis, Capt. T.
NJ. Emerson, Mr.. Andrew Simonds, ir.,
Judge Chas. A. Moore, Lieutenant Green
leaf, L. S. N, Capt. L. |. Homes, Messrs.
w. T., W. X. and c. F. Penniman, Mr..
Drayton Hastie, Mr.. {. c. Maingay, Col.
w. +. Williamson, and a half hundred
Others whose presence added much to the
very brilliant and long-to-bc remembered
reception of a1l receptions in Ashcvilc.