Omaha daily bee., 1891-10-25
Most Brilliant Reception Of the Season at
Happy Hollow.
MOVEMENTS OF WELL KNOWN PEOPLE,
Honoring an Officers wife-SmaIl aud
Informal Partics-Gctting Ready
for the Seasons Cam
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gay women Of fashion and the bellies Of So
ciety, are putting in an appearance on our
public thoroughfares,% disputing with nature
her claims to supremacy.
In this luxurious age and amid all tho
other accessories and evidences of the city's
wealth aud prosperity, the feature Of social
life, aud especially its fashionable life, are
missed during the summer and early
autumnal months while transferred out Of
town and 10 distant resorts Of pleasure, and
everything seems brighter and more
animated with their return.
The streets present a gala appearance, the
women contributing not a little to the
panorama which unfolds itself, their bright
colored gowns lending lustre to the enlivening
scene.
The season promises as much gayety as ever
and the number OF small CLUBS and other Co
terics of friends formed both among ladies'
and gentlemen, will have the effect OF keep
ing up "A great deal of social activity, inde-
pendent of the larger events, People who
have been away and thrown much together
during the summer, have formed little fra
ternIties, as it were, to keep up associations,
ana many Of these groups have arranged for
dinners, card parties and other like forms of
entertain ment, and sometimes for small
dances during the season.
An effort was made Thursday evening to
bold "a meeting of the Omaha lodge of Elks in
order to take some definite action regarding
the affairs OF the club, which are now under
the direct control OF the louge, but the men,
bers instrumental III calling the special meet
ing were not present and definite action look
ing TO the liquidation of the club debt could
not be taken. While the club is in excellent
condition and has been paving its
own way since the lodge took
matters in hand, IL still owes some money,
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control feel that the debt should be l%iquldat-
ed ard In this they have the support of all
lodge members. Something should be done
to relieve tho stress and place the club upon
the plane where it deserves to be-, alongside
the leading clubs of the western country. 1t
has a very large clientele and with proper
work the balance still due should be easily
raised.
The members of the athletic club are on
the uui vive for the opening of the new club
house on Harvey street. Everything is
nearly finished and the details OF the opening
night have been arranged, but as vet Presi-
dent Ames prefers to keep the programme in
the dark. The house Is wonderfully well
adapted for the purposes in view and will I'M
doubtedly be the popular resort for club men
during the dreary winter evenings soon to
come. The apparatus is the best in the mar
ket and no expense has been spared to make
it equal to the best appointed athletic clubs
In the country. 1t is, of course. a pity that
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will undoubtedly last the club until the eX-
p~iration of the lease which 1T has taken upon
the building.
1t is very rare that the representatives of
metropolitan papers are called upon to write
of a more brilliant reception than that which
was accorded Senator and Mrs. Charles f.
Henderson by MIR. and Mrs. j. N. Fl. Pat
rick Wednesday evening at Happy Hollow.
Certainly the event has never been equalled
in Omaha and will continue for a long time
to come, as 1T is now. the talk OF the ex-
elusive circles of society.
There have been many handsome recep-
tions and dancing parties gwen i'll Omaha in
the past, but none can IN any wise compare
with this event in point of brilliance, in lux
urious surroundings and in the delightful
charm which prevailed it.
The Patrick residence eXteriorly is fash
toned much after an old English country
house. IL nestles among the trees in Dundee
Place, the approaches to il being through
long lines of naples and cottonwoods. To
the Causual passer-by it would give
the impression of a comfortable home
of well-to-do people. Its broad piazzas give
one the idea of rest and contentment while
the out buildings show the careful husband
man at his best. But all these thoughts are
banished when one sees the interior of this
ideal home of gentle people. No greater
contrast could exist than that between the
exterior and interior of Happy Hallow. One
Is PLAIN ana unpfeteuJOuS, the Otner Is upon
q scale of magniiicence seldom equalled even
in these days of lavish display. 1t
Has not alone tho wonder of
the stranger to Omaha who had
been invited to the reception, it was equally
n matter of delightful surprise to those who
have dwelt in Omaha for years.
The hallway in the center of the residence
is imposing in its proportions, being almost
square in size and making a charming place
for the display of the rare works of art which
MI IDat rick has COLLECTED in his tDur re abroad
The gallery overhanging the hall gives il the
appearance Of some feudal court ana
decorated with tho tleur dc lis upon a sage
background gives a warm color TO the apart
ment. Bierstadt's best picture, "A View Of
the Matterhorn,n occupies "A prominent place
on the north wall OF the hallway ABOVE the
gallery, while Les Ecluses,n by Peter
Alfred Gross, one of the gems Of the collec-
ton, hangs on the west side. There are
other Just MS rare paintings hanging on the
east and south walls, while in the southeast
corner stands tho magnificent statue
of Jael, in front of heavy dark
runs from the central hall to the east, on
either side of which are the drawing rooms
ana dining roorl, eXquisitelv decorated and
hung with masterpieces while here and there
vases stood in the corners aud inches, in
themselves representing small fortunes,
The dining room on the south was made
additionally beautiful by the massive mahog
any table, which was ornalrented Uy cut
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a wealth of cut glass. From the dining room
the windows led out into small rooms,
which had been ingoniously built
on the porch, and these were
made charming by rugs, ottomaps and
small tables which held pretty colored fairy
lamps, 1t was such a graceful
and dainty place for tete-a-tetes
that throughout the evening they were
constantly occupied until the service
of refreshments when the tables were
utilized. The long piazza on tho east had
beer canvassed and enclosed with awnings
and here the guests were permitted TO dance
in addition to tho port cochere between the
manor house and the bachelor apartments OF
MessrS, Robert and John PATRICK on the
north which had been loored over.
changed these spaces into bowers
of beauty. Midway OF the porch a band
platform had boen erected for the occupancy
ofthe Second infantry band from the garri-
son, which gave inspiration to the prone
naders, while 10 the north a second band
stand was occupied by the Musical Union
orchestra, under the direction OF Harry Ir-
vine, which furnished the dance music. The
rooms OF Messrs, Robert and John Patrick
were turned over 10 the deyotees
of high i've, seven-up and hearts,
and here prominent politicians Of the
state and nation discussed national
problems over the cards and cigars,
or the soldiers present discussed the last
general order Of General Schufeld.
In the throng Of distinguished guests sena-
iOrs kuoplpd alhOyVg with tra1aaman MAN,