Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-01-03
BEAUTY AND FASHION
FLOCK BY HUNDREDS TO THs GREAT
WALLIsTRR BALL.
New Yorks Exclusive -Four Hundred Open tbt
Ranks and Pew Of the Outside
World Are Taken In--hcIlls-
Tor Rules With Kngly Hand.

NEW YORK, January "A SIS, 600 ball
is in progress to. Eight at the Metropolitan
Opera House, and its chief executive spirit
is Mr.. Ward McAllister, he TO whom Is
credited the statement that New York's
best society consists Of only 400. Last
April Mr.. McAllister was rendered ex-
csedingly unhsppy because Mr.. Fish,
who had the power to do 50,
Ousted him from the management of the
great centennial ball. Then Mr.. McAllis-
ter said he would get up ball Of his own
some time, aud he would demonstrate
what really perfect ball would be like,
and the affair of tonight is designed to be
the demonstration. The McAllister ball is
on and this is
THE WAY THR MONEY WAS RAISED
to pay the expense of it. There age 144
subscribers to the ball, including William
Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Cbsncey M.
Depew, ]. Pierrepont Morgan, W. X. Van
deIbilt, Pierre Lorillard, Abram s. Hewitt,
Edward Cooper, Austin Oorbin,
Henry Clews, William @. Whitney,
James A. Roosevelt and Edward Living
stone. Each of the subscribers had paid
in 500, making total OF $14, 400. Each
of the subscribers has received an invita-
tion from Me-. Ward McAllister CARY
ing with it the right to invite seven gen
tlemen and five ladies. That makes the
full number Of invitations 1,728-1, ,O0S
gentlemen and 720 ladies. So you sea
there really are many more than 400"
said Mr.. McAllisteT.
FASHION AND BEAUTY.
The patronesses of the ball include Mrs.
William Astor, Mrs. Delaney Vane, Mrs
Elliot Roosevelt, Mrs. Philip Schuyler and
Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore. The
great ball of Mr.. McAllster and his friends
was to be in swing at eleven O'Clock, and
Mrs. Astor and her colleagues were
not kept waiting Guests came in their
own carriages, which were then discharged.
At l0:4O q lice of carriages two blocks in
exteut, was slowly moving to the entrance
of the opera house. Each ticket bore the
name of the holder on the face and the
autograph of the issuing subscriber on the
back. No person, however we'll identified,
was admitted without q ticket, and no
explanation of how it was lost or stolen OF
destroy ed OF forgotten we're received.
PROGRESS OF THE GAIETY.
At IL O'Clock the dancing floor was astiI
with prOmenaders, and soon after the
strains of music crept forth from some
where and the vast floor was swhirl wi
dancers. A polka, lsnciers and another
waltz preceded the great figure Of the bal
the quadrille D'hOnneuror the Sir Roger
d. Coverly. There were four principal
sets in line across the middle Of the Opers
House The two outside sets danced by
Young persons and the two middle sets
were composed Of society leaders. The
ladies in the two other sets had beer
selected principally on account of their
beauty.
THE PROMINENT DANCERS.
Mr.. McAllister led one of the centre
sets. dancing with Mrs. Robert GOelet
The opposite couple was Mr.. Lynch Prin
ple, with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Th'
others were Mr. w. Bayard Cutting
with Mrs. Coleman Drayton; NJ. Lseett,
the Belgian minister, with Mrs,
Paget; Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt
with Mrs. W. O. Whitney; Mr.. II. G.
Edwards, Secretary Of the Euglish lega'
tion, with Mrs. Edward Cooper; Mr.. W.
O. Whitney with Mrs. Burke-Roche; Mr..
Perry Belmont with Mrs. Bradley Martin
ard Sir Rodeiick Cameron with Mrs.
Paran Stevens. After this, supper in &
room, ywhere 1000 might sit once
The lady patronesses were seated at one
table, presided over by Mr.. McAllister
who had Mrs. William Astor on his right
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, brought by F. K
Robinson, was seated at Mr.. McAllister'
LEFT.
AT THE FOOT OF THE TABLE
was Cornelius Vanderbilt with Mrs. Ell
liott Roosevelt. Others at this table wer
Count D'Arco Valley, the German Minis
ter; Secretary of Navy Tracy, O. M. De
pew with Mrs. Paran Stevens, and Grover
Cleveland with Mrs. Whitney. Before al
these had had coffee waltz music was float
ing again up the stairways, then a polka
and afterward the largest cotillion eve
danced in America was formed and dance'
as the good night number. There were II
it $50 couples, and was led by LispeoaT'
Stewart with Mrs. Coleman Dfsytop, as
sisted by Mr.. McAllister with Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Baron Eckhardsteii
with Miss Amy Rsnd, Mr.. J. ]. Astor, Jr
with Miss Alva Willing, and Mr.. Corneliu
x.y;th Mrs ROpha