The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23
ON THE MAIN TRACK.
The Conductors Ball a Gran d Sue
cess Last Night.
FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE PRESENT.

Mayor Harrison Greets the Guests
Supper IL served on the stage of
Hamilton Hall.
The order of railway conductors, their
wives, and friends generally, in all to the
number of 900 people. danced in Hamil-
ton hall last night 1t was their seventh
annual ball and it was the biggest and
happiest one of them all From the
head of the grand-stairway to the alley
fire escapes, nothing was overlooked or
left undone to add to the complete sue
cess of the occasion. Flag and lantern
signals in green, red and white were con-
spicuous about the room. The ladies'
auxiliary of the order served supper all
evening on the platform, where you
could get quail on toast or punchwith-
care on short order.
The good natured conductor who took
tickets at the door used his ticket punch
of course. He tried taking tickets with
out punching them and the strain was so
great that he sent for pair. He exam
ined the tickets with the same care he
does the company's and none passed but
those with proper transportation.
In addition to the Topeka conductors
and local railroad men there were go
trainmen from Argentine, so from EN-
poria, 40 from Horton and many more
from other Kansas towns. And they had
a good time, everyone of them. Some of
the head officers of the road were ex-
pected to be present General Manager
Frey, who led the grand march a year
ago, was in New York this year. Gen
eral Superintendent Nudge got in last
night from long trip and was too ia :
tigued to get out Trainmaster Fl. A.
Tice and several other officers were
there and made few remarks. Mayor
Harrison was there to give an address of
welcome that was brief but happy and
| full of pleasant generalities. Trainmas-
ter Tice responded in kind.
A. ]. RAIDER, the master of ceremonies,
then announced that the dancing should
begin and asked that SOY be uncon-
| fined" The people looked on this as
authentic and the grand march formed
and executed all sorts of intricate coun-
| ter-marches under the leadership of
| Major A ]. Shreve, and music by Wat
sons orchestra. Conductor G. Peterson
| and wife led the march. There were 416
| people in the march. Then the dancing
commenced. In the words of the song,
| "They danced two-steps, door-steps anC
highland filings; and Cassidy took out his
knife and tried to cut the pigeon wings. y
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and triangular dances followed the
square ones, when they couldn't ge
| enough couples to fill out the set.
Some of the conductors who couldn'
| dance as well as others were side tracked
in the jam, while the good dancers haC
the right of way. They had a good time
till after o'clock. and they stopped only
| occasionally twenty minutes for supper
During the interval between the frs
| and second halves on the programme
tickets were sold to q voting contest, and
out of 1853 votes cast Conductor DAT
| Myers, of Topeka, received the highes
number of any one conductor, and wa
given gold-headed umbrella.
Mr.. Myers is the chief conductor o.
the Topeka division, and one of the mos
popular railroad men in Kansas Hi
regular run is on the Missouri Pacifi,
from Topeka to Fort Scott
The dancing was resumed, and there
were numbers in honor, respectively, o
"Our general manager" "our general su
perintendent," stour division saperintend
ent," "our trainmaster" and sour trail
dispatcher" as we'll as the orders. o
Brotherhoeds eff Engineers, Firemen
Trainmen and the Ladies' Auxiliary. Tia
last one was "Royal laneers-To our mex
annual ball, February %, 1896"
The committees, who worked hard an,
made the event the most successful in tn
history of Topeka railroad balls, wer
composed of the following well know
| Topeka conductors:
Arrangements-M. Peterson, Georg
Speer, d. F. Shafer.
Reception-A- G. Ferguson, II. R Rice
E. RAIDER, ]. NJ. Albright, p. 7. Forster
w. w. Proctor, E E Hay, ID. 1. FurbecI
]. McCambridge, w. R. Simmons, w.
Anderson.
Invitation-C Peterson, G. w. Scott
terfield, R E. Hoyle, II. McCaimbrid
H NJ. Marshall, John Hurdle, Fl. e
Campbell, G. II Tilford, ]. 81. Griffith. J
Z. Lemon.
Transportation-C L Short, R. Wilson
| Geo. Rainey. w. NJ. BeaIs, W.R Mckay
Floor Managers-D n. Myers. Get
Colbert, w. B. Huston, G. T. Coffin, R e
Stockton. John Cortrite. c. N. Alexan