, 1891-02-11
THE ALERTS' BALL.
A Successful and Enjoyable
Masqus Ball.
Attended by Kings, Queens, Noble
men, Princes and Grandees.
5000 Realized for Furnishing the
New Hose House.

The Alerts never do anything by
halves. If they 90 to a race they win it,
ii to a FIRE they put it out, and when they
give a ball there Is no discount to the
good time, the big crowd and the financial
and social success. Everybody goes %
the Alert masquerades, and each succeed
ing one becomes more and more an insti.
tuition of the company and the city.
The ball given last evening was
no exception, and from $50, when
over a hundred couples in every variety
of costume joined in the grand march,
until al early hour this morning, when
the orchestra played Home, Sweet
Home" there was no let up to the iun
enjoyed by those present.
The costumes worn by the ladies were,
as a rule, very elaborate and pretty, while
some were decidedly odd. A pretty
dress was one of black velvet decorated
With s%unaowers. The wearer, a young
girl, wore as a cap an imitation sunAower.
Decidedly striking was a costume repre-
senting a snowstorm-dazzIing white with
tufts of white. One LAZY wore a costume
made up entirely of American flags. A
short dress of white with bodice of light
blue and trimmed with chrysauthemums
was a becoming costume worn by a young
girl.
A Turkish costume of bright red, tho
wearer having a iaunty turbau and tez
was very pretty. There we're scores of
princesses, milk maids, Dolly Vardens,
making a s%trikingly pretty picture and
forming a happy contrast to the grotesque
costumes ofthe gentlemen. OF the latter
Harry HYderman was perhaps the most
deliberately dressed. He wore a rich silk
party dress of light blue, e%ntrain, and
slightly decollete representing Sarah
Bernhard. Not until the hour of I'm
masking did any one suspect be was not
what he represented himself to be. Gus.
Jenkins and Maj. f. E. Brown created a
sensation which did not subslde until the
dance ended. Gus represented Smoky
and Brown. who was slightly off color.
represented Stokes. Max Meyers as an
Indian sachem was a very eredItable aud
polished representative of Tanmany,
while Mr.. j. Flynn as a section man in a
blizzard was aDplauded by all Ralph Friend
and Doug. Rhodes had to put on but a
thin disguise to assume the characters of
New York Counts to perfection. Two
elegant costumes were worn by Will
Walker and Mr.. Knapp of Kirkland's
gallery. They represented Austrian
princes aud were respondent in snow
white uniforms decorated with gold lace.
Besides these there were scores of Jockeys,
French noblemen, Mexican grandees, In
dams clowns, regular army officers,
militiatDen. base ballists, fat men, dudes,
walters and nondescripts representing no
particular character but very effectively
disguised. Ten numbers were danced be
fore unmasking. An elegant supper pre-
pared by the Saddle Rock chef occupied
the time of the intermiss;on which was
followed by ten more dances. There we're
a large number of visitors who did not
dance who enjoyed the fun almost as we'll
as those who did.
Those who had charge of the ball
we're as follows: Arrangement commit
tee, F. A. Roedel, L. G. jerks and A.
f. Spaulding. Reception committee, J..
L. Thomas, Lem Ellis, Ed Towse, A.
Cooper, +. j. Smalley, VIM. Croft.
Floor committee, A. f. RoedeI, A. f.
Spaulding, F. Vreeland, Geo f. Thomp-
son, jr., G. B. Richardson, Geo. Artist.
aud A. j. Schilling. Door committee,
Chas. Thompson, q. Boulter, F. A.
Roedel, John Volk. f. S. Smith. VIM.
A. Schilling. L. G. jerks, and F. H..
Cutter.
About 5000 was retted by the ball,
which will be used to help furnish the