The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-05-09

union and fraternity shall be as last
ing as the home of the stars-as eter-
nal as the foundations of the evellast-
ing hills-and in your harbor here,
may Liberty enlighten the world
join the swelling anthem, and proclsim
to her subjects everywhere, that the
problem of free, popular and Constitu-
tional government, has been $ lved
upon the American Continent.
THE CENTENNIAL BALL
The New York Times, in its account
of the disgraceful incidents of the ball,
says. There were features of Monday
nights ball which were down on the
programmed and for that and for other
reasons were very much of a surprise
It was during the last four hours that
the most interesting, if not the m st
creditable, phases of the great centen-
nial ball were displayed. Scenes were
enacted that have occurred at Me-
tropolitan Opera House balls befpre,
but which were hardly to be looked
for at this. great national affair,
managed by committee Of eminent
respectfully, and attended only by
people who had furnished proper Gre
dentials as to character and standing
in order to secure tickets. One man,
Of fine appearance in spite of the maud
lin condition he was in, picked up a
great salver loaded with salad, and,
lifting it above his head, went reeling
through the room. He had not gone
far before he stumbled against young
woman and literally threw the oily
salad all over her neck and arms and
over an exquisite pink silk and lilac
gown. A young man picked up a
bottle of champagne and broke off the
neck across the bare shoulders of his
female companion. Fortunately she
was not cut by the broken glass, but
she was drenched with the wine. A
man fell on the sloppy floor and in
JureG his leg so as to necessitate the
summoning ofan ambulance Several
impromptu fstic encounters were only
stopped by police interference
Crockery and glassware were smashed
with reckless Indifference.
Things were getting 50 bad that In
spector Steers, who had charge of the
police, had to order the room cleared
This order came shortly after one
o'clock Stuyvesant Fish, chairman
OF the entertainment committee, and
the only member then present, was
leaning "wearily" againsI pillar
when the order was given and sig ghed
with relief. 1t took nearly half an
hour to carry out the order. Argu-
ment and persuasion amounted to
naught, so clubs were drawn, and the
crowd was fairly driven out. When
empty, the supper-room looked as if a
cyclone had swept through it. All
the table decorations had been broken
or torn to pieces, broken glass was
strewn everywhere, and the floor was
Uttered with fragments.
Driven out of the supper room, the
high merry makers scattered TO all
parts of the house. The result of this
was that everybody else left Given
everything to themselves, the cele-
brants soon turned the whole house
into most undesirable sort of place.
Some had succeeded in concealing and
bringing away from the supper room
bottle or two of wiue. These invited
their friends into the empty boxes,
and before long an order had to be
issued foi clearing and locking the
boxes. Some people went to sleep on
the staircases. The majority went
upon the dancing surface, and there
for two hours ran, jumped, hoped and
reeled through the dances. They
were as rapacious there as in the sup
per room. Beautiful potted plants,
used in decorating the presidential
and lower tier boxes, were torn down
and carried off, and such flags as were
within reach became the prizes of
those who spied them first.