The record-union., 1895-01-30
TIE INAUGURAL BALL AFTERMATH.
Several Instances of Short Sighted
Management.
Committeeman Who Were Evidently
Out of Their Element-The Pri-
vate Door to the Banquet,

There never was State ball that "the
press gang" did not find some of it's notes
crowded to the wall, nor that there were
not comments desirable to make which
could not be made in the first report. AS
rule it is best to let the most of these go
the way of the dead, but there are also
some that it is best to put into historical
record, that the future may profit by the
experience of the present.
1t was sad error of judgment to send
two massed columns of people stimuli
taneously down two winding staircases,
to meet at the foot upon common land
ing, with the expectation that both COL
umns will file through one narrow en-
trance at one side. That there was no
more serious accident as a result of this
error Monday night than the fainting of
several ladies and the crushing of many
handsome ball dresses, is not to be cred
tied TO good management.
II was serious mistake to send all the
people to supper a. one time when the to-
tai number exceeded the table capacity
three to one, and as result many left
without supper and others got a good
lunch In The Well" How easy it
would have been to have had classified
supper tickets, so that guests would have
known to which group they belonged.
Thus, While lot number one was at sup
per, with lot two (and those who would
have made up lot three had they re-
malned) the order would have been ION
with the dauce." As it was, however,
when supper was announced ''all hands
and the cook" made break for the sup
per-room, and the cry was ''catch as
catch can," with result We'll known,
But suppose the plan had been adopted
common at the East where larger as
semblages are handled, namely the
formation Of a column by couples, in a
march to music, and when the number
OF couples To be seated had passed given
point that the line had been cut Qtt, and
then ION with the Dance" not the slight
est confusion would have occurred.
1heSe things are valuable to say now,
because this jam and rush for supper is
dlsgraceful, useless and wholly unneces-
sary and should never be repeated.
An amusing as we'll as provoking
thing about this affair was that the musi-
clans OF the two bathrooms were among
the very first at the tables, while invited
guests cooled their heels and passed the
time as best they could for an hour and a
half Of ''intermission." For some in
scrutlble reason there was no more dane
lug until lot two had had its fill; even
the musicians. who had in the meanwhile
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selves in royal fashion in the smoking
room, though five hundred guests
waited their supreme pleasure in the
bathrooms.
But from all this comment let the sup
per committee be excepted. 1t was in its
proper place, below, and attending to tue
duties incumbent upon it, no part of
which related to the upper floors or the
arrival of guests at the tables.
1t trDP-anl these shall no
nothing more nor less than the impartial
truth-that it was explained that to have
had dancing proceed would have broken
up lists on the engagement cards. But if
so, how was it that while lot two was at
supper, dancingl was resumed in the AS
sembly Cham Der, regardless of the
dancers at table below with their we'll
filed engagement cards stuck in their
girdles? 1t would have been no hard
ship upon the well-paid musicians for
them TO have played 'extras" during
that hour and half of wearisome wait,