The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-03-12
DELAMAR IN IT.
The Gentleman for Whom our Town
is Named, Gives a Banquet at
Washington, D. C.

siluWS tHdt Shpt. OSLdiDdr CdH HOt OUiy
entertain the best of people, but do it ir
the best style. If we do live in littls
gulch in the mountains, guess we are
somebody just the same:
"The dinner given at the Arling-
ton last night by Mr.. DeLamar, in
/ honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Harrison
marked an era of entertainments, for,
with the exception of the banquet given
! the Pan American Congress q year
| since, tie splendor of the appointments
has never been equaled by anything
given in Washington.
The immense table, about which
gathered thirty-sevsn guests, was set in
| the second of the suite of three parlors
on the right of the Vermont avenue en-
trance. The table, extending from end
to end of the room, was rounded at the
corners. From the center, high above
the heads of the company, rose sago
palm tree, the trunk and stems of the
leaves outlined in tiny electric lights Of
every color. About the base, for dis
tance of several feet on every side, we're
clustered maiden-hair ferns, studded
with La France roses and pink orchids,
large Jars of which stood in the mirror
rests, palms banking the window re-
cesses. From the center chandelier the
ropes of smilax, which extended in
every direction to the corners and sides
of the room, were thickly studded with
on the central palm. Suspended from
these ropes Of illuminated green were
immense balls of roses. At the conclu-
sion ofthe dinner Mrs. Harrison touched
an electric button at the side of her
plate and the rose balls, breaking into a
thousands pieces, descended in q shower
of pink petals over the table. The
guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell B. Harrison,
Mrs. Mckee, Mrs. Demmick, the Misses
Kerens, guests at the White House;
Private Secretary Halford, Assistant
Postmaster General Rath bone, the Turk
ish minister, Mr.. and Mrs. Slack, Mr..
and Mrs. Lay, Miss Peterson, Miss War
fl I'D Miss Brice, Miss Lindsey, Miss
Parker, Miss. Condit Smith, Miss.
Gouverneur, Miss. Foster Miss. Foster,
guest of the secretary of the Interior;
Miss. Gordon, Miss Horde, Lieut.. Little
field, Lieut.. Chamberlain, Mr.. Allen
Mr.. Jessup Blair, Mr.. Lee
Phillips, Dr. McClurg, Mr.. HELEN, Mr..
Acklan, Mr.. Clary Ray, and Mr.. Farber
and Mr.. Taylor, of Baltimore.
At the reception which followed the
dinner the guests danced in the ball
room adjoinig the parlors. Among the
guests at the reception were:
Mr.. John Mclean Senator and Mrs.
Carey, Senator and Mrs. Warren, Miss
Elkins, Miss Grace Davis, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Thompson Harris, Miss Rusk,
Mrs. and Miss Brodhead, Capt. and Miss
Mulan, Miss Carroll, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Gordon, Mrs. Burton. Smith,
Miss Brice, Mrs. Howard Gauson White,
Miss Roberts, Miss Higgins, Represen-
ative and Mrs. Dixon. Senator, Mrs.
md Miss Blackburn, Major and Mrs.
Tucker, Senator Sanders, Miss Men
lonca, Commissioner Carter, Director ;
If the Mint Leech, Mr. and Mrs. John ;
A. Logan, Jr., Mr.. Frank Tracy, Mr.. :
Beatty, Mr.. Morrill,, Mr.. and Mrs.
Perry, S. Heath, Mr.. Goldsborough, and .
oaymaster Heap.
Mr.. DeLamar had the pleasure of Civ
ng the last entertainment of any size
nd splendor to society's ranks. 1t is
lot hard for a millionare to spend :
money but to do it without obtrudng !
he fact constantly is an art that Mr. ;
)eLamar has in perfection. AS beanti
nj as his dinner was in honor of his
riends, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Harrison, +
he ball that followed it was even more t
o. 1t was attended by nearly all he
ounger mem bers of the diplomatic
orps, the cabinet families and hosts of d
theirs who added eclat to social occa- !;
ions, Nothing that could add pleasure
) the event was omitted. Z
At 1870 the band played "Home, t
weet Home,u and as the ladies' were K
iddng their host good night he !,
egged them to help themselves gener- =
usly to the magni6ce roses and lilacs "
lat decked the table and room. In tt
every lady went home ii
18th an armfnl of posies and thank ful :,
rat kind fate had permitted her to be
resent at Mr.. DeLamar's first Wash p
,gton ball,o g