San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-17
A GRAND AFFAIR.
The Club Social Mexicana Celebrate
The Sixteenth of Septemb er With
a brilliant Ball and Banquet.

The sixteenth of Septemb er With
Brilliant Ball and Banquet.
The Casino, where so many gorgeous
affairs have been given, was last night
the scene of a grand ball and banquet
| which for brilliance and enjoyment, never
has been surpassed in the history of the
city. When the invitations from the
| club Social MeXiCana were received, an
nouncing that the would celebra lie the
10 de Septembre," or Mexican lndepen-
dence day. their reputation being so well
| known, that society was all agOg, for
| they knew that it would be grand in all
| its features. Society was not disappoint-
| ed. and the ball last night marked an era
| in in the social calendar that Will stand
| out and shine for many months.
| Every feature of the ball was sue
| cess. The hall was most beautifully de-
| cOrated. On the stage In a bank OF flow
| erS, feruS moss and palms, was the pic
| ture of the venerable priest Migvel Iit-
| dalgo, the Washington of Mexico. A
| grand man he was, who cost aside his
| prieStIy robes and took up the sword for
his country, thereby inviting the wrath
| of the Holy Pope. On each side of this
was palms and flowers and evergreen, in
profusion. Flags and ensigns of Mexican
aud American colorS graced the front and
| top of the stage, on each wall was a
Streamer of evergreens, with now and
then flag: StreamerS OF varied colered
| tissue paper were strung from wall to
chandelier, and from chandelier TO chan
deier.
The hall was in prime condition. thanks
to the efforts of Herr Julius Reicht. Sr.,
and his al BILE assistant. The floor was like
glass and to RocO PerSia's string band,
two hundred souls danced the hours away
until supper, the grand march being led
by Mayor CaIlaghan and lovely Miss Car
denaS. The mayor and his partner did
hahn HnrE hi
The ball was opened at lO:l3 o'clock by
Mr.. Juan Il. Cardenas introducing Mr..
+. A. Chapa who, in the Spanish tongue.
delivered perfectly composed Grafton on
the day the celebrated. After the grand
p:arch. Mr.. Z. M. Chapa, delivered an
other Grafton which was highly credit
able to him. and he was greeted at the
close with cheers.
At 1890 o'clock the supper march was
formed and the gay aSSemblage wended
their way to the banquet hall. Here John
Schoeppe had prepared for them mag
nificent supper. 1t was eaten with relish
and highly enjoyed. At the conclusion
there were speeches and tOastS and many
glasses of fine wine was drunk to the
health officers and others.
After the supper the dance commenced
again and it was near three O'Clock before
Home, Sweet Home was played, that
closed one of the most successful balls
ever given at the Casino.
To procure the names OF all was we'll
nigh impossible, and the reporter bees
mercy from those he skipped. Those
names he did get were: MeSdames A.
Brown. S. NJ Ellis, Max Neuendortf, f.
VillareaI. :. VILLAIN euva, CarlOta Ruiz A
Bruni. Thad Smith, f. Canales, Garcia,
A. Joske, A. Ii. Blair. S. .Vidaurri. l..
Guerguin. Geo. J. F. Schmitt. Gutierez,
Misses Minnie Smith, TOME Brown, Fe;
nd
Theresita Neuendorff, Maria Nimenez,
Maria. Sophie, Nita and Amalie LacOste,
Carrie. Sophie and TilintO Bruni. COlari-
ma CasSianO, Canales, Fenwick. McEIrOy,
Refugia and Maggie Flores, Sarah Leal,
| Cecilia and Theresa Garcia, Louisa
| Chavez, Deccas Garcia. JeSusa Car
| denas, Paulita and Maria Wulfr,
Alice and Celene Moritz, c. and L. Beze,
| Lilly Dittmar, CarIotta Garcia, Edna
| TruaX. Maria Cuelar. Lucinda Cervantes.
| HeuSenger, Luz. Perel6a, Tessie and TuS-
sic AilIanueva. Simona Esparza, Gutierrez
| and Flores, MeSSrs. Ed. FrObose Sr.
| Andreas Brown, S. NJ. Ellis, Jas. Villa
nueva, A. Huth. Julius, August and Her
man FrohOeSe, Ed. and a. RiVaS, +. Ben
| avidas, VICENTE Cantu, j. Neuendortf, c.
| Nmenes. j. T. Cardenas, II. Wulff. j. j.
| Meyer, +. ViIleral, Dr. NJ. M. de la Cara,
| +. A. and Il. NJ. Chapa, V. and A. BeZe,
| A. Cara, Z. Ruiz. NJ. Garcia Ii. A Blair,
| + s. NPdurri. f.. q. CerVanteS, l.. Guer-
guin, b. CalIaghan, Will Alexander. Geo.
IL. +. Schmitt, Lucian LacoSte,
| A. Garcia p. HOlStein Pat and
James Dryer. Mix. Thad Smith,
| DR.. Chapa, l.. p. Peck. ChaS. Crawford,
| Tony and Alex Garcia, S. Leal, Jr;, Alex
JoSke.
The committee of reception was com
posed of E. G. Cervantes, + NJ. Chapa, j.
J. Meyer, Aug FrOboeSe. DR.. NJ. M. de la
Cara, Julio FrObOeSP. +. BeneVides. 5.
Villanueva. Jr. The floor committee,
that so ably conducted the affair, was
composed of Leopold Guerguin and Nato
| VilIareal
In the wrestling match at the
Washington theatre last night
Hunter won. He accepts Nelson's
challenge for the championship.
"A practice game of Lacrosse will
probably be played at the Springs to
morrow morning at $50 o. clock,
Quite an exciting scene was o.
casioned at the corner of R ON ana and
ACC Juia streets this morning, by s
mad dog. The animal was caugh
with a rope by Officer Magner, and
killed, with his club.
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A Freight Wreck.