The San Francisco call., 1895-08-02

inspired in the minds of the male spec
tators at the social last night as they
watched the girl of the bloomers not on
her bicycle, but whirling through the
may measures of the dance with graceful
abandon which is incompatible with the
wearing of voluminous dresses and skirts.
There was a charming variety in the
bloomer costumes displayed, not only in
diversity Of color, but in design of styles.
Some wore bloomers which contained as
much material as any dress ever manu-
factured, while others leaned toward
economy both as to width and length.
Some wore snug-ftting sweaters of va
ried hues and some showed better judg
ment by wearing SETTLING waists,
which were much more comfortable in the
heated room. But taken all in all the
long bloomers, the short boomers, the
wide bloomers, the narrow bloomers and
the blue, dark green and the black and
white bloomers were all becoming and
made the bike girls charming, not only
in the eyes of their clubmates, but with the
fifty or so spectators who attended the
social.
Considerable credit is due to the COM
mittee of arrangements for the manner in
which the evenings programme was car
ried out from beginning to end. Prelimin-
ary to the grand march the bloomer girls
wheeled around the floor and edited the
spectators by their clever performances on
the bicycle. Owing to the small space,
though, many of them met with amusing
misfortunes. There were several collisions,
in which no one was hurt, and one tall
girl.in blue boomers and yellow boots be-
came entangled in the wheels of her upset
machine and it took the united efforts of
three of her lady friends to disentangle her.
Their success was celebrated by the
blowing of several "bike' whistles. which
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vigorous cyclone. These stormy sounds
were heard at intervals between dances
throughout the evening.
The grand march began at $50 o'clock.
Before it started Master of Ceremonies
Charles f. Brown made formal annouce-
ment that the South Side Cycling Club
has great respect for the bloomer girl and
that no smoking or rudeness would
be tolerated. furthermore, that no ladies
would be allowed on the floor without
being arrayed in boomers unless the
bloomer girl, as the representative of the
new woman, agreed among themselves to
permit their sisters in skirts the privilege
of dancing with them. Through several
dances the bloomer girl was inexorable in
denying the thirty or more ladies who were
attired in skirts the privilege of dancing,
but later they relaxed and decided to allow
them the pleasure of a "dance or so"
The grand march procession was headed
by Charles Bir dsall and Miss Lena Egge-
berg on bicycles. Following came Floor
Manager A. H. Moore and Miss Aggie
Kilday and eighteen couples. The first
dance of the evening was the "bloomer
waltz" and there were fifteen additional
dances. Each one had distinctive title
on the unique programme. Among the
titles were the following; "Good Streets"
"The Bike" 'The New Woman "Tbe
Old Man, "f'Chickens Pest, The Beach,
"Our First Road Run" "Keep Nov
ing,' etc. The fun lasted until mid
night. Among the guests was Police Judge
Campbell, who glided through the waltz
jauntily, with fair young maiden in gray
boomers. The Judge is an enthusiastic
bicycle rider himself.
Following are those who composed the
committees having the affair in charge:
Committee of arrangements James c. Sy-
mons, Charles F. Brown, G. ]. Heating, w. f.
Donald, B. f. Jones; reception committee, C.
lie Clair, J. Heilmann, Thomas Kelley c. J.
Harrigan, J. Reuault, A. Tietjen, ]. T. Clifford,
Charles A. Arms, E. J. Toohy, d. Mahoney +.
Oster, s. Sullivan; floor directors, A. j. Dow
ling, James E. Daley, John Bennett, Joseph
Hansen, H. Virgins, II. Mulcreevy, J. Meagher,
Thomas Burke, George Covey, D. ]. Leary, j.
Matterson, Bert Kahn, VIII Britt.