New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-23
FOR THE CITIZENS BALL.
AN ORIENTAL PALACE TO DANCE IN.
DECORATIONS FOR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

DECORATIONS FOR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
COMMITTEES TO ESCORT GUESTS.
Several Of the committees and subcommittee WHO
are arranging the details Of the Citizens Fall winch
IS to take place Thursday evening after the Naval
parade held meetings at the Waldorf yesterday The
time az preparation has been short that there mas
naturally been confusion. Questions OF pre-
cedence and etiquette also have had to be con-
sdercd which do not arise ordinary occasions, ana
these have complicated the work. But the committees
have the arrangements we'll in hard now and every
thing down to the minutest details, will be settled
in day or two.
The Committee on the Ball have placed the general
arrangements In the hands Of the following Executive
Committee: james NJ. Varnum. chairman; :. Nchol-
son Kane. secretary: Cornelius y. Bliss. Auguste r.
Montant, George q. Haven. J. Sergeant Cram Walter
Stanton. Howard Carroll Henry Wizard Clarence ".
Bowen and Daniel X. Bayne
This committee has turned the sale of tickets
10 Controller Myers. who has placed the tickets on
sale at his Office, No. $50 broadway, and at the
Waldorf Holland. Windsor and Fifth Avenue hotels
uptown. Controller Myers said yesterday that there
had been enormous demand for tickets, and that
every would soon b. Sold
The list Of invited guests has fcen prepared by
the Committee on Invitations ana Supplied to the Ball
Committee. The Ball Committee has power TO
enlarge this INST and except for the prominent guests
TO whom special invitations were sent, there will be
no complimentary tickets TO the bah. All officers
and members OF the Ball Committee Of the Committee
of one Hundred and of other committees must pay for
their own tickets. Applications for the boxes re-
manning must be made 10 Peter F. Meyer. No. III
broadway There will be two bands each OF one
hundred musicians, In the amphitheatre. The Hun
garan band will play in the concert hall, which will
be used a supper room for the official guests.
The following have been invited to act with
the Executive Committee OF the ball Floor Com
mittee Adrian Iselin, jr. Peter Marie. 5. Van
Rensselaer, Ciuger +. J. Oakley Rhnelander. John j.
Groy. J. Frederic Tams. Lspenard stewart. Chester
Giswold, John c. Furman, Amory B. Carhart Ed
ward de p. Livingston, John V. = Oddie. Francis
". J. Hurst. X. suydam Palmer Charles NJ. Oelrichs
T.. Randolph Robinson, Charles F. Roe
stephen ii. Olin, Henry Hoyt, Richard ~
Young. +. rockingham Strong, samuel w.
Bridgham, D. d. Wheeler, T. s. A.. james
Ous II. u. Patterson, L. :. A.. David Price Y. s. A. ;
Charles q. Treat, L. s. A.; Robert e. Hone, William
A. Duer. Daniel r. Worden, II. lie Grand Cannon
Philip schuyler. Frederic j. De Peyster Elisha Dyer
lr.. Henry W. Bibby, George Lawrence Myers How
land Pel. Cornelius n. Bliss, jr. George &. Haven
IT,. Loyal Farragut. Norman j. Blackwood, L. S. ".
T. Dclano Wcclcs Woodbury. Kane, William p. White,
T. : ~. Franklin Bartlett. John Jacob Astor. Arthur
NJ. Hatch, Matthew Wilkes. william A. Read. Wood
bury Il. Langdon. Jacob W. Miller, William Butler
Duncan. jr.. Jordan l.. Mott, jr., Eugene Kelly jr.
Herbert l.. Sattcrlee, Charles c. Emmett and Fred
eric Foster Carey.
The following special honorary committees for the
ball have been appointed:
To Escort the President OF the United Sates-Con
troller Theodore W Myers. George b. Mcclellan, Pres
dent Of the Board of Aldermen; Francis Iynde Stet
SOD and William ii. Clark, Corporation Counsel.
TO Escort the Members OF the Cablnet-General
Benjamin L. Tracy, with aids.
TO Escort the Judges OF the United States Supreme
Cotrt-Ex- Senator william VI. Evarts, with aids.
To Escort the Governor OF the State OF New York
General Louis Fitzgerald General James Cavanagh
and Colonel Francis V. Greene.
To Escort the Governor OF nnois-Franklln Edison,
Colonel Daniel Appleton ard LieutenanColonel
stephen IL. Olin.
To Escort the Admiral DIXIE de Vcragua and the
Other Descendants Of Columbus, the Guests OF the
Nation-Gcneral Horace Porter, Cornelius ~ Bliss and
John Austin stevens.
To Escort Admiral Gherardi, Commandant OF the
American Heet-Ex Mayor Abram 5. Hewitt, with
aids.
To Escort Admiral Benham. L. s. N.-ExMayor
Hugh J. Grant. with aids.
To Escort Admiral Walker, L. 5. N.-Samuel D.
Babcock. with aids.
To Escort the Admiral OF the British Flect-Ed-
ward Cooper.
To Escort the Admiral Of the French Fieet-white-
law Reid. exUnitcd states Minister TO France
To Escort tie Captain of the Netherlands manor
war Van Speyk-frederick J. De Pcysier president
Of the ST. Nicholas Society," and j. W. Beekmsn.
president OF the Holland society. with aids.
The Escort for the Officers Of the B.itish, French
and Spanish fleets will he appointed later The
escort for the Spanish Admiral Is also be appointed.
The decorations have been placed in the hands ct
Auguste r. Montant, Daniel X. Bsyne a. b. dc Frece
and Mayor Glroy. They have prepared a display
which will include electrical, floral. and other deco
rative effects. Madison Square Garden will be like
an Oriental palace. The main entrance to Madison
Square Garden Is TO be decorated with a background
OF pure white. with a delicate tracery OF smilax and
paragus and smlaX will be spread choice cut flowers
while thousands of tiny incandesccDt lights will shine
through tbs foliage. Dragons holding electric lights
with small incandescent lights studding their wings
Will illuminate the entrance.
In the centre Of the Garden will be a gterIng arch
at the apex Of which two sprays OF lilies of the
valley win support silver Cupid holding chain of
lights At the base will De wheels. each carrying a
design In miniature lamps which will change color as
the wheels revolvc. Surrounding the arch will b.
palms and tropical plants with statuary, all shining
with electric rays
On the Fourlhayc side viii be an immense Japanese
fan outlined In electric lights The current is al.
ternately to be put on and shut off. giving the an
pearance OF opening and sbuttIngthe Under this
fan will be the reception platform, corner of
which will be two silver dragons similar at
the entrance.
The PRESIDENTS box will be draped with cloth Of