The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-24
STUDENTS MAKE MERRY.
YALE'S JUNIOR PROMENADE 4
 GR4ND SUCCESS.

of Yale's great social week, took place
 at the Second Regiment armory or
 Meadow street last evening, and was Q
 brilliant and elegant social event sucf
 as New Haven sees but once a year
 There were a great many more tickets
 sold for the Prom. than ever before
 the actual sale reaching as high as 900
 each ticket being good for three per
 sons And it would seem that the en-
 tire number was on the floor at the armory last evening, judging from the
 vast and brilliant assemblage of danc- CTS. The whole armory was one blaze l of light, many additional electric lights having been placed in the building. It is somewhat of a task to transform a 1 rough, barn-llke structure like the Sec l ond Regiment armory, into an elegant and tasteful modern ball room. But this task is accomplished each year by Roster of New York, with wonderful success and with satisfaction to all. | Ii was the general verdict this year l that the decoration and adornment of the armory was fully up to the stand ard of previous years, and in the opin- 1 ion of many it was much prettier. The | prevailing colors were pink and light blue. The sides and ceilings were very beautifully draped, entirely obscuring | the walls of the armory The sides were adorned with large panel pictures, l which is a new and unique feature in the decorations of the armory for the Prom. The floor was entirely covered with white crash, and above were sus- | pended on each side two rowing shells in honor of Yale's supremacy on the | water and in the center mammoth | football of white carnations bearing the inscriptions in the respective college colors, Yale "A, Princeton o." "Yale | I2, Harvard f." The boxes were built around each side of the building and were elegantly furnished. The squad rooms were used as sitting | rooms, but no supper was served in them, The supper arrangements were excellent, Stewart the caterer, having charge. A waiter was Stationed by each box, while supper was served to the stags in the third story over the
 
 as well satisfied with all the arrange ments
 Itwould seem that last night at least St, Elihu had taken it bpon himself to smile for an all-too-short time upon his much abused sons, and bidden them enjoy the pleasures, music, beauty, light, color and the dance The six short hours of delight are what the average Yale man looks forward to with m uch of hope and expectation, and what he looks back on too often with much of philosophic reflection when he feels the shrunken plumpness of his pocketbook. But for all that 1t is in the Prom. and Prom. week that is consecrated almost the whole of the social life at Yale, Men who never exert themselves on this occasion and bring their mammas and sisters and sweethearts here to participate in this event of events.
 It is almost impossible to describe the beauty and the brilliancy of the scene after the dancing had commenced, The inspiring, marshal strains of the band, and the beautiful and entranc- ing waltzes of Lander's, the lights, the decorations, the rich, elegant and many colored costumes of the women, many of whom were themselves beautiful, all tended to make the scene little short of fairyland.
 Both the string orchestra and the brass band was furnished by Landers of New York and were deserving of the highest praise. The program of the string orchestra was published in this paper yesterday morning. The follow ing were among the selections played by the band
 Liberty Bell (Sousa), Washington Post (Sousa) Chicago Belle (Sousa), Toreador BitzeD, Mamie The Jolly Coppersmith, American Patrol, Sweet Marie, Vogelhandler, Blue Danube, Santiago, Wang.
 The grand march was led at 9l o'clock by Anson Phelps Stokes of the promenade committee, with his cousin, Miss Bessie Stokes, who was elegantly attired In a costume of blue silk.
 Among those who were in the boxes were the following:
 Mrs. John Sloane in a costume of blue satin
 Mrs. Coffin of Brooklyn, in white satin.
 Mrs. Wyckoff of New York, attired in lavender satin.
 Miss Adee, sister of MT. George Adee, l of the senior class, in blue silk.
 The Misses Phipps, attired in elegant | toilettes of pink silk with diamond i ornaments.
 Miss s. Lewis, in pink satin with an elegant boquet of roses.
 Miss May F. Stephenson, in blue and white brocade silk costume.
 Miss Grace Stephenson, in white satin | with violets. Tn box were the guests of Richard ! '95 S., the captain of the Yale crew. They were Miss Whittlesey | and Miss Goodrich of Cambridge, Mass. Miss Sanford and Miss Addie Sanford. | of New Haven; Miss Armstrong of | Hampton Roads, Va, and Mir. J. T. | 
 Miss Smith of Andover, Mass, was attired in an elegant and beautiful cos- tume of blue satin,
 Miss Winter of Indianapolis, Ind, in white satin.
 Miss Billingham of Summit N. J., in pink satin.
 Miss Helena Billingham of Summit, NJ in, rybita