San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-27
HURRAH FOR THE LADIES
VERIFY THEY ARE A GREAT
PEOPLE.
Their Big Ball and Dinner for the
Benefit of the Belknap Rifles
Grand SUCCESSFUL
About It.

Last night, at the Casino Hall. the eff
forts of the ladies in behalf of the Belknap
Rifles blazed forth in one great big ball.
The affair was grand, surprising the
highest expectations of the ladies, the
boys, and the people who bought tickets.
Everybody was pleased.
The prettiest, the sweetest and the iol-
Hest girls in all San Antonio were there,
arrayed in the daintiest costumes ever
seen on the old Casino floor.
And dancing with them were seen San
AntoniO'S representative young men,
some in white uniforms and some in blue,
some in the conventional full dress and a
larger number in go as you please"
suit of clothes and calico necktie.
1t was given out that IL was to be
calico hop, but we are sorry TO chron-
icle that there were very few ladies
attired in this most charming of costumes.
There were few, however, who wore
this dotted wrapper cloth, and they wore
il with all the grace and dignity of a
duchess.
The hall, well, it was one grand dream
of beauty. The ladies, by their artistic
taste and magic touch. made il so. The
decorations were few, but they were ar
ranged in manner that made them show
off TO the best advantage, and to say the
least, we're very attractive.
Hanging from the ceiling of the stage
was seen five foot Texas star made of
laurel, white and red roses. In front of
the foot lights, along the edge of the
stage, was moss, sprinkled here and there
with yellow and white roses In the cen
ire of this was large BASKET of fresh cut
roses, of all colors, and on each side We're
smaller baskets of roses. Two stacks of
guns. bayOnetS fixed. were On the stage.
From the chandelier hung many colored
roses interviewer in moss, which I'M
der the brilliant gas lights looked like
some fairy wand had touched it. The
front of the gallery was covered with
bunting of stars and stripes and trimmed
with moss and RED roses.
The music. never did more delightful
dancing music echo and reecho through
out these grand old walls, than came from
the half dozen instruments that compoS-
ed Theo. Ariz' orchestra. Theo. is pa
triotic citizen, and furnished gratis these
beautiful melodies, that made. whether
they would or not, the feet OF the three
hundred souls present, glide over this
smooth glass like floor in terpischorean
pleasantly.
The refreshments, they were of the
choicest brand and of the most delicate
nature. They were served by uniformed
walters, the Belknap Rifles.
program Ol bWeHUy uduCeS was ar
ranged. and MesSrS. Carlos Bee, chair
man, George Chamberlain, Louis Huer-
mann, Z. NJ. Winstead, j. Findey and
Ed. M. Stapp. Jr., as the floor committee,
saw to ii that it was carried out in most
satisfactory manner. The reception
committee was composed of Captain r.
b. Green, chairman, Lieutenant Ed.
Richardson, and MessrS. Claude Wright,
Willard Frommer, Dave Watts, w. G.
Tobin and K. MueZenberger
The financial part was, however, the
grandeSt of the grand successes. The
dinner yesterday netted them abont $50,
possibly more AT the door of the ball
room two hundred tickets and eighty dol
lars in money we're collected The ladies
claim that there were about two hundred
tickets sold beside those takeb in at the
door,
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock the
board of directors will meet in the armory
for the purpose of settling up and giving
thanks