St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-03

colleagues were not kept waiting.
duests came in their own carriages,
which were then discharged, the return
nome to be done with the carriage line
provided by the management. At 10:45
line OF carriages two blocks In extent
was slowly moving to the entrance OF
the opera house. In some were guests
VINO came gally and went rapidly and
angrily home again for
FORGOTTEN Oh LOST TICKETS.
Each ticket bore the name of the
holder on the face and the autograph of
the issuing subscriber on the ticket. No
person, however well identified, was ad-
united without il ticket, and no expla-
nation as to how If was lost or stolen.
or destroyed. or forgotten, was received.
AS the porters at the door could not
Identify the person presenting the
ticket. the subscriber issuing the ticket
was hunted up and called upon to iden.
tlfy his guest. Once. however, every-
thing moved smoothly and pleasantly.
The cloak rooms for the ladies were
the corridors on the first tier. properly
fitted up with boxes and supplied with
ladies' maids gifted i'll the handling of
wraps and other feminine BELONGINGS.
There were nine of these ladies' maids,
Inc mems coat room was on the first
floor and on the Fourth street side of
~ Hou'0f ~ IL CloCh tDc QaQclng
floor was astir with prOmenaders, and
soon after the strains of waltz
music broke forth from some where
and the great floor was awhirl with
the dancers. A polka, lanciers, and an.
other waltz preceded the great figure
of the ball-the quadrilIe d'honneur. or
the Sir Rodger De Coverley. There
were four principal sets in line across
the middle of the opera house. The
TWO SIDE sets danced by young persons
ana the two middle sets were composed
Of noted society leaders. The ladies i'm
the two outer sets had been selected
principally
ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR BEAUTY,
MIR. McAllister led one OF the center
sets, dancing with Mrs. Robert Goelet.
The opposite couple was Lynch Pringlo
with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The
others were Bayard Cutting with Mrs.
Coleman Drayton, NJ. lie Paight, the
belgian minister. with Mrs. Paget. G..
DR.. Chauncey NJ. Depew with Mrs
Elliott Roosevelt. Charles Francis
Winthrop with Mrs. De Lancey
Kane, Frederick D. Thomson
with Mrs. Henry Clews, H. G. Edwards,
secretary of the English legation, with.
Mrs. Edward Cooper, w. G. Whitney
with Mrs. BHrke-Roche. Perry Belmont
WIFI MrS. bradley Martin and Sir Rod
erlck Cameron with Mrs. Paran Stevens,
After this supper was served in a room
where 1,200 might sit at once. The
lady patr0neSSeS were seated at one
table presided over by Mr.. Meal
lister, who had Mrs. William Astor
on his right. Mrs. Grover Cleveland
brought in by E. +. Robinson, was
seated at Mr.. McAIlister's left. At the
foot of the table was Cornelius Vander-
oilt with Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. OLhers
at this table were Count D'Arco-Vallev,
the German minister; Secretary of the
Navy Tracy, G. NJ. Depew with Mrs.
Paran Stevens and Grover Cleveland
with Mis-. William G. Whitney. Before
all these had coffee, waltz music was
floating again ND the stairway,
Then polka, and afterward
the largest cotllon ever danced in
America was formed and danced as the
good night number. There were in.ii
$50 C uples, aud it was led by Lispen-
ard Stewart with Mrs. Coleman Drayton,
assisted by Mr.. bieAIlister with Mrs.
forneiiuS Vanderbilt, Baron Eckhard.
stein with Miss Alya Willing and C0rne.
llus Vanderbilt with Mrs. Burcke- Roche.
The moon hung half-skies down and the
air was solf and clear as an early Nav
night when the revelers left the scene
of McAllister's triumph and whirled
away homeward through the still streets
of the City, which had since sunset
achieved high record in balls