Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
BOYS FROM OLD YALE.
Brilliant Reception Arranged for the
Glee and Banjo Clubs. T.
an IMPORTANT SOCIAL EVENT.
Informal lance at the Pittsburg Club After
the Concert
TIE PARTY TO REMAIN OVER SUNDAY

If the sky has any respect for the fitness
of things it will be blue to-day, for that will
be the prevailing color in Pittsburg. The
reason for this is that the Yale Glee and
Banjo Clubs will land in town at 1880 this
morning. They will come in their two spe-
rial cars, the Cleopatra and q sleeper, in
which for couple of weeks they will live
and sleep, when they are not singing and
drumming to the public, or dancing or din
ing with their hospitable friends in the big
cities at which they stop.
The annual tour of the clubs began yes
terday when they boarded Pennsylvania
train at Jersey City and journeyed to Har-
risburg, where they left the cars and at
pnce proceeded for rehearsal to the Grand
Opera House. This work over they
offended q tea given in their honor
bv Mrs Haldeman. In the evening
the first concert was given at the Opera
House to a large audience. The concert
went of smoothly and almost everything on
The programme was encored, so that
singers and musicians alike had excellent
Rppetites for the supper given by the
Alumni Association, and after that were
ready enough to sleep in their cars as the
train carried them on to this city.
Social Event of Importance.
The preparations for the entertainment
Of the Yale men here have been elaborate,
and as a social function alone the concert to-
night will be of great importance. The
concert is to be given in the Carnegie Hall
in Allegheny.
There are % voices in the glee club and IA
instruments in the banjo club. j. S.
Cravens is the President of the glee club,
and j. j. Brooks, Jr., son of the we'll.
known attorney who resides at Edgeworth,
is the President of the banjo club The
reports from Yale indicate that the
clubs are both above the average this wear
in ability. A good many of the members
took part in last years tour. They will be
glad to know that the audience will be
above the average also in manv ways 1t
looks as if there would not be vacant seat
in Carnegie Hall tonight. The audience
will be an unusually pretty sight, for not
only will the fair sex predominant but
feminine charms will not be overshadowed
by hats and bonnets, or veiled by envious
high-neck dresses.
A Dance at the Pittsburg Club.
This will not be so much the result of any
special provision that those who attend the
concert shall come in full dress, as that
majority, at least, of the audience will pro-
ceed from Carnegie Hall to the Pittsburg |
Club, where an informal dance will be |
given, under the auspices of the Yale |
Alumni Association, Immediately after the |
concert The Carnegie Hall lights up well |
and will form an attractive frame for the |
Thousand or more society people who will |
certainly be there
But the Yale men Will have plenty to do |
besides play and sing while they are in |
Pittsburg. This evening before the con-
cert early dinners will be given for them |
bv Mrs. Walter McClintock and Mrs |
Charles L. Fitzhugh. The ball at the Pitts
burg Club will occupy them after the con-
cert On Saturday an early evening recep-
tion will be given for them by Miss Mabel
Clarke at Mr.. Charles j. Clarke's Oakland
residence, after which they will 60 to |
another reception at Mrs. D. A Stewards
IN Allegheny.
Objects of Social Attention.
il is altogether likely that their spare
moments will be absorbed by the scores of
people in both cities, bound by all sorts of
ties to Yale, and who are eager to entertain
the representatives of their alma mater.
Fortunately they Will have a chance to en-
Joy the inimitable calm of Pittsburg Sun
day before descending to the grosser atmos-
phere of Cincinnati, which is their next
halting place,
A glance at the itinerary of the clubs is
enough to convince one that their pilgrim
hge is anything but a penance. Between
now and January 6 they will give concerts
III Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, Cleye-
land. Buffalo, Rochester, Utica and Al
bany. and in ali these cities alumni asso.
citations and other hospitable nosts will en-
deayor to their waking hours with feasting
and social festivities of all kinds. 1t is
worth while to remember, however that the
object of this tour could hardly be better,
Tor the money which is made by these con-
certs is turned over to a fund designed to
assist needy students through the Univer-
Eity Every year large sum realized by
The hard work OF the Glee and Banjo Clubs
for singing and playing of the sort these
young artists give can only be accomplished
by long hours Of practice, and the concert
in itself is an uncommonly stiff grind-is
dispensed by the faculty of Yale privately +
among the undergraduates whose purses are
slim.
a supreme Justice for President
The Yale Alumni Association of Pitts.
burg has at present membership approach
ing hundred The officers are: The Hon.
George Shiras, President; Albert Childs |
and the Right Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead,
y ice Presidents; KIer Mitchell, Treasurer:
J ohm MoOrhead, Secretary; and E w.
Smith, Oliver d. Thompson, Remsen V.
EIessler, Henry Oliver Jr., and A. G. Me-
Directors. Judge Shiras and
Bishop Whitehead always make point of
the Yale concerts. and they will
not miss this one
The Yale Alumni have worked like
beavers Tor the success of to-night's con-
rert. The ball, or as it is modestly termed, |
the informal dance, 10 be given by them at
the PIttsburg Club, will be a beautiful
sight. The stage of the theater will
be screened with holly. Toerge's Orches
ira will furnish the music. Even if the |
sky does not put on Yale colors, the weather
seems likely TO be as seasonable as could be
wished.