The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-20
OLD MEMORIES.
A Wichita Ball Of Six Years Ago and the
Participants.

| A Wichita Ball Of Six Years Ago and the
Participants.
"Where have they goneT' asked an old
man yesterday 81 refer to our young
people of six years ago." he explained. 81
am an old man, and maybe it is my age
| that first awakened a fatherly interest in
| the young people of Wichita. For I have
always read the society news and scanned
the long lists OF names appearing every
week with unfagging interest. Though
my years prevented me from ever joining
in their festivities, still have always read
with interest the accounts of their merry
making. And as the years rolled by. new
names appeared and old ones dropped out
and vanished, so that today the misses
who dance and the young gentlemen who
bow and curtsey are not the ones Of few
years ago"
Where are the others gone? Six years
is not long time, only fraction of three
score and ten. Last night ran across an
EAGLE of Nov % 1856 The boat club was
then in all its social glory; the Eagle
Rifles in high feather; the Shakespearean
club deep in the mysterious beauties of the
immortal bard; aud so many social organ
iZations that are now dead and gone, that
/ must struggle to summon even faint
remembrance of them.
But who was at that bali:
Where are they gone? Some have wan
dered away into the world and are ire
vocably lost: some only heard from at
long Intervals in desultory correspondence
from distant states and cities: some, let US
speak it softly. bright souls they were
have joined that innumerable caravan:
One or two, let US not specify. have fallen
by the wayside and are today, outlaws
from society.
Where have they gone? Most of the
girls are lost In woman hood and now have
strange names, taken in wedlock; the boys
have left the city and state, propelled like
Byron's Childe Harold
There is fire
And motion of the soul which will not dwell
In Its own narrow being, but aspires
Beyond the fitting medium of desires.
And, but once kindled evermore
Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire
OF aught but rest
The ball was given in the old opera
house, now an implement store room.
You will notice that even the young people
who afterward married were here with
other persons, than subsequently, proved
their iife-companions. l only mention this
incidentally. Look over the couples there
Leonard Washburn and Mile Sappen-
field. Washburn was crushed under a
locomotive at Chicago; Miss Sappenfield
is Mrs Charles Carey. Mr.. Ed Phillips
and Kate Redfeld. Phillips has been on
the Pacific coast for many year; Kate
Rsdtield is Mrs. George Whitlock; Mr..
Robt. Smyth escorted Miss Cora Miller;
Mr.. A. S. Munson and Miss Kate Muir
dock, Mr.. Oscar Smith and Miss May
Skinner, Mr.. Calisch and Miss Belle kohn
Mr. Harry Moore and Miss Emma McClees
w. n. Priddy and Miss Hattie Hays, Mr.
w. o. Hilbish aud Miss Sadie York, L. 2.
Culley and Miss Mary Miller, II. H. Hess
and Miss Virgins. Mr.. Behring and Miss
Blakemore, Mr.. Fred L. Sweet and Mrs.
Julia Hunt, Mr.. Smith and Miss Vawter,
0. B. Stocker and Miss Carrie Fisher, Mr..
Will Hoffman and Miss Matte Fabrique,
Mr.. Carl Hibarger and Miss Mile Moore,
Mr.. I. II. Van Tuyle and Miss Ella Por-
ter. Mr.. Charles Pratt and Miss Adele
Rudolf, Mr.. Cliff Sawyer and
Miss Grace Bear, Mr.. and Mrs. kanouse,
Mr.. Chester Firebaugh and Mrs Josie
Stanley, Mr.. B. 3. Cushman and Miss
Bertha Niederlander, +. A Smith and
Miss Mcdowell, Mr.. Hettinger and Miss
Mamie Mead, Mr. Howard Case and Miss
Clara Lynch, Mr.. Harry Lesh and Miss
Renetta Ross, Aft NJ Rhoads and Miss
Laura Woodcock, Mr.. Hoffmaster and
Miss Mossie Baldwin, Mr.. George Nc
Donald and Miss Emma Hazen, w. A.
Smith and Miss Wooberry, DR.. Hougland
and Miss Clark, NJ. Hoffmaster and
Miss Ida Struble. Mr.. and. Mrs.
A. w. Davis. Charles Holton
and Miss leila Tusch, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. p. Stem, Mr.. F. B. Clark
and Miss Allie Littell, Mr.. and Mrs. Lin
dermuth, d. w. Cooper, and Miss Nease,
Harry West and Miss Lena Oliver Mr.
Green and Miss Maude Struble; J. W.
Weston and Miss Alice Suits, Paul Jones
and Miss Fry, Hi Alden and Miss 10 Piper,
Charles Miller and Miss Berkman, J. E.
Humphrey and Miss Winnie Hinton, NJ.
f. Hoffman and Miss Fecbheimer, Mr.
Meeker and Miss Grace Jewett.
''As | read over these names, long
panorama of local gossip, of little scraps of
and faint memories of by
gone f1irtations and odd bits of town talk
float before my eyes"
Some of the names have slipped my
memory entirely. and try, hard rs I may,
l cannot recollect them. Others, the mo-
ment see the name, brings back some
familiar figure of that day that had not
thought of for many a day. How many
of these | have named, do you think,
ho OF 81 hill .,Ir
Wichita now? Not many, know.
Where are they gone? Where are Hi
Alden, the Hoffmasters, Van Tuyle,
Harry Lesh.
where are they gone why Lew
Springer. the EAGLE reporter who wrote
up that Boat Club bail, even he is gone,