The record-union., 1893-03-03
MERRY MASEERS.
The Athletic Club Bal Masque Was
a Great Success.
A Splendid Athletic Entertainment
Precedes the Ball-The Char
acters Represented.

| The second annual masquerade ball of
the Sacramento Athletic Club took place
at the old Pavilion last night, and was
without doubt the finest affair of the kind
! given in Sacramento in years.
/ The big rink was decorated profusely
with streamers, banners, comic paintings,
( flowers and the like, and looked veri-
table paradise. The seating arrangements
1 were splendid, and t.y o'clock the place
was jammed with spectators. The mask
ers entered from the M-street door and
kept themselves in the gymnasium,
which adjoins the rink, until after the
athletic entertainment, which preceded
the grand march, was over.
! The entertainment opened at S:15
o'clock with an overture. Then followed
a clever spring board act in which H.
/ H!llebrand, l. Morris, L. Halder, W. G.
/ Lands, Dexter Dunphey, Robert Alex
ander, Frank Whitmore and +. A.
york (clown) participated.
The "Roman ladders" came next, Pro-
lessor Arthur Keller, III. Hillebrand and
A. hlelnsorge being the performers.
Then came boxing by Charles Strobel,
Otto Hebron, w. McGiraw and w. Bird
sail; parallel bars by G. j. Sinister, A
/ hCllClY L. 1lIlcDIdiIu anu OSCAR NTOep0I.
Then followed the feature of the enter
tainment, a fairy dance-the Irish
! Washerwoman," by Lottie O. Malley and
Alma Grady, and tambourine dance by
Idalene " Malley.
Wrestling by Kelter, Alexander,
! Spanger and Ed Cox came next, and was
| followed by pyramid ladders, i'll which
| >. Flint, L. blanchard, l.. Isnam, c. Nc
Manon, L. Isham, +. Cox, V. Valentine,
r. Ankener, {. Kent and Ii. Hillebrand
| participated. a fencing bout between
| Professor helter and Henri Bine closed
the athletic performance.
1t was now IL O'clock, and President
! Clark blew his whistle Tor the grand
march. The maskers had not shown
themselves up to this time, and many of
the spectators thought there were not
many of them. But when the bur
lesquers began TO string out from the en-
trance, and the line OF couples Lwined
twice and then thrice around the big hall,
the question was asked: "Where are they
going TO put them alp" There were
close on TO six hundred and fifty people
i'll the n arch, and the scene presented
! was dazzling one. The club had sta
toned calcium lights on gallery, and
now and then the electric lights would De
turned out and coiored glares thrown
upon the maskers with charming effect.
| Dancing for maskers only continued I'M
til midnight, after which the spectators
were permitted to participate.
it would take columns to describe all
OF the pretty comical and original cos
! tunes worn or to describe all of the
characters delineated. There were
clowns, MINISTRIES, dudes, fairies, "collud
Llmale men, milkmaids, students. school
girls, jockeys, miners, beside ''take-offs"
on every nationality by the dozens,
The principal features, however, were
the Football Crank" Judge Henry"
The Minstrel Troupe" "Niobe," THE
/ Miners" "Orangevale" and "The Gam
| blers."
'The Gamblers created no end of fun.
and brought back recollections OF fair
time at the racetrack. They had wheel
OF fortune and were dressed in as loud
suits as they could get hold of. Every
body was invited to gamble with bogus
chips which were provided, but nobody
was allowed to win. Even Chief Rod
gers, who happened along TO pull the
game" was invited to try his luck.
The minstrel troupe had stage erected
for them, and up to unmasking time
kept up an endless first part" They
had barrel-ful of gags, songs and
musical turns, and kept crowd around
/ them all the time.
! During the dancing Frank Kleinsorge
gave statue club-swinging act which
was very pretty. He was assisted by
| Fred york, as the clown. The act was
take off" on one recently given at the
/ Foresters' ball.
The ''washerwoman" with her tub and
/ line of clothes attracted considerable at
tention, as did also the representation of
the statue, "Niobe, the blind girl.''
PRIZES AWARDED.
At midnight the masks were removed
and the committee awarded the prizes as
| follows:
Ladies - Handsomest costume. SIS.
FAIRY Queen" Miss Pomeroy; original
character, $40, Eastern Marke =" Mrs.
| II. Rubenstein; best sustained character.
! SIS, "Niobe," Mrs. Len Kidder; best
local character. $40, "Blind Woman"
| Miss Stein; best group of five or more,
S25. Girls of '93 Style" Mrs. Judge
! Henry and Mrs. Groves.
Gentlemen-Han costume SIS.
prince Carnival l.. G. Siller; original
character, $40, "Citrus Fair" G. Politz;
best sustained character, SIS, English
| Dude" John j. Maloney: best local
character, $40. Judge Henry" Len Kid
der; best group of five or more, S25.
wheel of Fortune;' second best group.
| SO, minstrel Troupe:'' coupon ticket
! No. 9s2 ladies ticket, $40, Mrs. II. Will
kinson.
The Wheel of Fortune group was COM
posed of G.. A. Bower. Joe Nathan,
Irving Nathan, Fred Kidder and Brick
| Mansen.
The Minstrel Troupe was composed of
Nat Liebling, Frank II. Veach, Charles
Brier, Julius Gotthold, F. w. Holland,