The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-02-28
BAY0NNE FIREMEN DANCE
HOOK md LADDER CoMPANY NO.
4 HOLD THEIR ANNUAL Ball.
A Long List of Guests P~resent-The Cos
TUNES of the Throng OF Dferrymakers
-Th Rest of Bayonne's Budget.

A Long List of Guests Present-The Cos
TUNES of the Throng OF Merrymakers
The Rest of Bayonne's Budget.
The friends and members of Bay
onne Hook and Ladder Company No.
i of Bayonne made merry last night in
the club house of the Pamrapo Ath-
letic Club at Pamrapo. The event
was the seventeenth annual reception
and masquerade ball. and a gay COM
pany thronged the spacious ball room
of the club house. Among the guests
were members of the Jersey City, Ho-
boken, Union Hill, Brooklyn, New
York city, Long Island city,
New Lots, Newark, Elizabeth and
Staten Island fire departments.
Each of the seven other companies in
the Bayonne Volunteer Fire Depart
ment was also well represented among
those present. The ball room was
handsomely decorated with numerous
American flags, streamers, firemen's
lanterns and other aceoutrements, etc.
The varied elegance, color and novelty
OF the costumes worn by the maskers
were somewhat softened in tone by the
evening dress in which many ladies
and gentlemen were attired. During
the grand march, led by Secretary
James NJ. Leogne and Miss Mamie
Fallon, the scene was exceedingly.
picturesque. Messrs. Charles NJ. Com
fort, James NJ. Leogue, Joseph Magee,
Jr., Norman G. Blauvelt and George
H. Wake, the reception committee;
James Howell, the floor manager, and
Louis NJ. Phillips, Cornelius b. Nett
Ter, John w. Howell, Frank Simpson,
John Roth and Dewitt w. Blauvelt,
his assistants, wore the dress of French
ehevaliers. John 7. Frederick, a
court jester danced with Mrs.
Louis M. Phillips. as the Daughter
of the Regiment; Mrs. Charles Mitz-
enins, as Minnie Palmer, in Brother
and Sister, !" ~promenaded with r. j. ID.
Lutz, as a French chevalier; Zeph Don
nell, as a Chinese clown, escorted Miss
Cora Mason, as a princess, and Mrs. j.
Lutz, as q hussar, waltzed with
George SkillInan, one of DIVERS
jockeys. Among the other characters
we're Mrs. William Mitzenins, as a Ger
man Princess, Miss Mamie Brooke as a
waitress, Miss Mile Michelfelder as
Crazy Patch, Miss Emma Stove
ken as Morning Star, Mrs. Brooke
as Queen of the Night, Mrs.
Frank as a 'diffldent school girl,
Mrs. Hill a. a snow queen, Miss
Louisa Lutz as a French peas
ant girl, Mrs. r. Lutz as Protection,
and Miss Carrie Black, of New York,
as Tariff Reform, Mrs. David Smith as
Snowflake, Mrs. Norman G.. BIauvelt
in q pink domino, Miss Jennie Hill as
a fiower-gjrl, Miss Carrie Mettler as a
Swiss peasant girl, p. Mettler as a
National Guardsman, Charles. .Slaight
as the Joker, Robert G. Morton as
an Irish workingman, Miss Nellie
Meyers as a yivanderie, Miss Annie
Chatter as Charity, William Mitzenins
as a Dutchnlan, Mesdames Isaac Moore
costumes, Arnold Hutner as a Jockey,
Harry Sleaman as a schoolboy, Thomas
w. Mass as a royal guardsman, Will
lam A. Motley as a Toffey guards
man, Edward +. Carbin and
George w. Comfort as Indian cow
boys, Miss Phoebe Ivey as Folly,
Miss Phoebe Rollston as a snake
charmer, Mrs. Wesley Salter as a
Holland peasant girl, Miss Julia How
ell as Folly, Mrs. John Haight in a
black domino, Frank Conlin as q
Spanish page, Charles Steedach as a
dude, Mr.. and Mrs. August Schinde as
Prince and Princess Carnival, J. Dun
don and ID. Fitzpatrick as jolly coons,
Miss May Stoyeken as q dancing girl,
Miss Florence Mason as Liberty,
James Rollston as a lager beer keg,
Mrs. @. w. Smith and Mrs. Irene Sal
ter as Tyrolean girls, Frank 6. Howell
as a fireman, William j.. Dorne ia a
white domino, Miss Antoinette Dorne
as a sea nymph, Arthur Disser and
Michael Disser as hooded monks,
Miss Tillie Rollston as the silver
queen, Mr.. and Mrs. George Mitzenins
In Mikado costumes, Miss Mary Mitzen-
ins as a Polish princess, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Mitzenins as a Spanish cava-
lier and lady, Miss Daisy Hirschman
as the daisy queen, A. L. Howell
as u Mexican vacquerO, Miss
Louise Schwatting as 'Gretchen,n Miss
Mary 0fReilly az Queen Elizabeth,
Mrs. r. p. Perkins as Mary, Queen OF
Scots; Eugene Loring as Don Quixote,
Robert Ellison as the Count OF Monte
Cristo and Miss Irene Burroughs as
Caprice. Among those present who
We're not IN COSTUME were PRESIDENT
John w. Goddard, of the Council;
| Chief of Police John b. Mcneil, Chief
Engineer j.. Herman Mahnken, of the
Bayonne Fire Department; Miss Ella
Skillman, Of Jersey City, Patrolman
and Mrs. Edward Harrigan, of Jersey
City; Patrollnan and Mrs. J.. Henry
Macdonald, of Bayonne; Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Nc Mann, Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore Combes, MI. and Mrs. Rich
ard Wauters, Mr.. and MIS-. George
Stanton, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
H. Vogel, MI. and Mrs. Robert
b. Youells, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lisk,
Mrs. Frank G.. Howell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lester b. Harris, Mrs. Robert Perry,
Miss Lolita A. Berry, Mr.. and Mr.. John
P. Hill, Miss Elizabeth Clark, Mr.. and
Mrs, Philip Seaman, Messrs. John A.
CLARK, Frank Smith, Louis Rothrin-
haller, Edward N. Griffin, Charles A.
Wake, Charles r. Vogel, William f.
Ritter, George w. Strieder,
John b. Brooke, Michael
J.. Cookery and Charles Reppenhagen,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cassidy, and Misses
Nellie Cassidy, Annie Dorm, Ida
Dorm, Margaret Watson, Lulu Fife and
Maggie Dorm. Mine host Charles Il.
Mum, of the St. Charles Hotel, at
Bergen Point, acted as caterer and
served an excellent lunch.
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