The sun., 1890-01-05
WH0CONSPIREDiWHOi WHOi
NNX or IHQsR. 1NIzoUs CENTENNIAL
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.rEr. HEoAnistsr WIN Nee say %, 1ut - ls
Feared That ne Thinks Bo-Four Tluasa
ne discovered Breakers Ahead OF Hin.
Pretty nearly everybody who took any
interest whatever In Mn Ward MeAllister's
New Years ball was wondering yesterday who
the person or persons could be whom the
creator and manager OF the ball suspected Of
having worked In the dark to frustrate his Of
forts and make his brilliantly designed struc-
ture tumble to pieces at the last moment Mr..
McAlllster talked with much reserve the dag
after the BAH about the occult influences
which had worked against him, but which had
fortunately been revealed and counteracted
IN the nick OF time. He even limited darlly at
o conspiracy. thus leaving It to be necessarily
inferred that there we're at least two individu-
ais who had cherished designs against him
and the ball He mentioned a few difficulties
which had been discovered Just In time and
quito by chance, and which, II they had not
been discovered. would inevitably have
wrOoked the whole beautiful ball But Dir.
'l7eAllister refused even to sugRest who the In
.ntiGRtoTs Of disRateT were supposed to be. He
pOrsistently and skilfully evaded questions on
ths point
This being printed In yesterdays Sun at
once aroused q vast deal OF comment and
speculation. Lots OF people who had attended
the ball overhauled their recollections of it In
the hope OF finding some trace of the designs
OF the schemers. But there were no blots on
the ball. except an unexpected absence OF
xoses in the decorations tho Rlaring light from
che electric lamps and the failure OF the deco
Eators to canopy the ceiling entirely. The sup
Per and other appointments were absolute
perfection. and the outbuildlngs, the order for
tho making OF which had not been signed by
the Mayor, were lef! undisturbed, II the cun-
EplrSSsSS mr. sqSSSsaGS bs s 1t was by letter
r. But klunder said yesterday afternoon that
M,b S Mere the nsy
selling. and that was due to lack OF time md
pot to anybody's oppoa aition, Ho said he had
way, but they were all traceable TO the peculiar
kind OF composition that seems TO prevail
With ali the difficulties be had met with, but
Serls.s whe bad got GOOD GOOD JOBS, IA precisely tie
But Mr.. MeAllisier. renewed Yesterday the
statement OF his belief that il was only by rare
Rood fortune that he had discovered the
breskers ahead and saved the ball from ship
wreck. There were minor matters which
looked suspicious. but, not considering these.
there were four POINTS which seemed to him.
ali attendant circumstances considered. to
point conclusivey TO malicious design.
enEnged nity me men to act as lacSeys and
stend the rGoors sand on f the sSra and in
the corridors and be generally useful and pic
turesoue secured fine new uniforms ior
them. l considered them engaged. and did
NOT bother myself any more about them. What
vas my astonishment, Just before the ball
had eSatrsetssd sd had had zone zone bsos Il on ne @s, on
Syb ybnts bprStext It cost Sreat GSai OF
that breach Of contract. and the idea was to
asa S beste s S e @ RSna.yy sms neSt et
not SECURING the trees he needed to decorate
The o,Sn op9 i0sse NTH on the he
of Ola certain % CONTRACTOR 10 New Jersey to fur.
nlsh tho trees. The trees came along al
man II he would destroy them instead Of send
tractor had AIKEN the bribe, where would the
bull have been? n You can't go down , town
ne r& eSs OO2 This foube % os sof tie Thq Wne
s f Staataa S 0 haS S not p rven @e
he Fsa BSSa liz day Sew
Suppose the, question had not been brought
decided on Thursday to send up u lot OF police
TO choke off the wine at O'CLOCK heard
ahandred polieensp would haye inysdsd me
bail room. Again, there was the trouble about |
S ms1o4 %ssSn end an hs hs TR
pever signed It. lie said it was against the
%T Me s9d Spss ss Il 81 hs Ss
hasa Saa red sed
for the Ceptsnniel balls. But We got mo- per.
mission. although all we asked for was four
feet on Thirty-ninth street to lead from the |
door outside to the outside entrance to the |
os the you
Well, .Pinard said to me that. we must
have that or the ball would be q failure. 80 at |
o'clock on the night Of the ball that was put
up without any permission. If Il had not been |
Tor the noise the newspapers made over i l
tell you there would have been q catastrophe. |
in spite Of ell efforts there were enough |
handles left opt for the right persons to have
ruined the bal! even after II commenced"
Still Mr. McAllister positively and persist
entity refused to say whom he suspected. lie
would not even say that he suspected any one
An Interested public. however, has drawn its
suspects The late Centennial. the alteration
0A ~ EN- EN-
forced retirement from the management of
t1H ss % sGa SsG SG 6s pSS%tgs Eli % M sioSG Ma
be. point in only one direction.
Che Cesnn!ts,ninial sn!t,i bnli were Wi.ii0m WuhIdioEi
GRSirman hc6ert Gceiet, William jay.
Stephea ~ i. oiin. William Il. D. StoEes.
William X. Vanderbilt, and EGerton L.
Wers hos At Ss new Ball.
Stuyvesant Fish and Mr.. w. i. D. stokes were
at that time resnrled by AIR. Mchllister rs
hqstiles; Mr. Stokes was a supporter Of Mr.
the outnidlngs around the MeTopoli;
tan opera House for the ball md
banGnei; but relin9uishcd it later; Il was
about this contract that ne and Mr.. McAllister
ofthla committee. rs has beon said, he won't
eayso.