The Washington times., 1895-05-19
RODE into The BALLROOM
Decidedly Picturesque Episode of a
Dinner at the Country Club.
Fun Was Fast and Furious When q
Young Lady Dared IA Foreign
Diplomat TO the Feat.

Society has notify any means been asleep,
even if things have seemed some what
dull for the past few weeks. Some mem
bers Of society have been decidedly wide
a wake or late, so wide awake In fact that
their dolngs have furnished no end of talk
Ia the others OF less lively disposition One
Of the latest, the very latest escapades
that has startled society was that which
marked Que of the fashionable dinner par
ties given during The week at the Country
Club
The fun was fast aud furious when
one of the young ladies, prominent i'll So
ciety. dared one of the foreigners, a MEM
ber of the Diplomatic Corps, Ia ride around
the bali room on bis horse, upon which he
had ridden out TO dinner. No sooner
said than done.
The bet was taken up in a flash aud
rushing from the dining room the foreigner
reappeared a moment later at the front
door of the club, mounted upon his spirited
sleed which he rode Gathering into the
hallway aud from there into the ball room
The pace set must have been a lively one
in more respects than one and the ride about
the ball room must have been more than just
once around, for the next day the beauti-
fully waXed floor was found to be utterly
ruined and in such state that it is likely
to lead to some serious results, little looked
for or thought of at the time.
Since the dinner party there has been a
meeting OF the board of governors of the
! Country Club and Indignation has been the
| order of the day. 1t is stated that this
meeting Of the board of governors will re-
| suit in the making of a rule that in future no
! foreigner is ever to be allowed to cross the
| of fha Country Tluh
Should this be the case the sensation viii
| be one OF the largest that has agitated
| Washington society for some years past.
The Country Club would seem to be
| making a record that will render IT IA
nous in the social annals of such things.
| 1t will be remembered that year or two
! ago certain of the members of the club
gave dinner party at which the guests
| of honor were some of the prominent
| farmers through whose fields it was GUS
| tomary to ride to hare and hounds and over
| which the paper ciIases plowed their un-
hidden way whenever the fancy of the
sportsmen so willed it.
! The object of the dinner was to propi-
tiate the farmers and show them every
honor possible at the dinner. This enter
| tainment turned out to be q most meInor-
able one because of many things. First
and foremost, there was no stint in the
quantity of the wines provided for the
occasion, and as the evening waned the
| intervals between the toasts grew less
and less. The upshot of the whole affail
was a general free fight, first with fists
and then this sort of thing proving lnsufIi-
cient to express the feelings of certain
of the guests of honor an assault Wat
made upon the walters
The club members looked on, extracting
all the amusement possible out OF the state
| of affairs, until fists in turn proving made
| Fnr haf
| to carving knives and such things.
Then the club members remembered
important engagements that demanded
their instant return to town. Never wait
ing for the order of their getting out, the
members without further ceremony climbed
pell nell through the club windows anC
hied them back to town with all speed
possible.
The wheel within the wheel governs not
only the political, buy extends as well to
the social life of the Capital, and enters far
more largely into many of the plans OF
amusement than the unnitiated would
ever dream. Some very interesting matter
could be compiled in this respect that would
have the effect ofopening people S eyes.
During the first Cleveland administration
when the President and eX-Secretary Whit
ney had fine country places out in Tie dl
rection oil Tenallytown, the rage for huylng
property III tDdI BteCllOI DIOhe pub III Iul
force The fact that these two men held
property there was in itself more thar
sufficient to start one Of the iiyeliest rea
estate booms that has ever been known II
and around Washington.
At that time the Chevy Chase boom wal
not even in the earliest stages of it's in
fancy, but in the years that have elapset
since the outgoing Of the first Clevelant
administration and the incoming OF th
second Cleveland administration a radica
change has taken place. Not few for
tunes have been made and lost III the trans
fers of property that have taken plac
, in these two rival sections.
For some time it has been apparen
that the cry of Westward, Ho'' is M
longer as applicable to real estate deal
as was the case some half dozen year
{ ago. The "effete East has been coming
7 in for large share of the profits OF lan'
: speculators so much so, in fact, tia
j those owning property in the opposit
direct ion awakened to the fact tha
something decisive had 10 be done, an
| that quickly.
The wiseacres put their heads togethe
= and the result has been decidedly condnciv
to the enjoyment OF society few members Q
which body of tile elect imagine for a.
, instant that they are beiug utilized III an
IpannAr what tsasvar other than in col