The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
Fitting Close of the Most Sue
CeSSful Carnival Ever
Held.
SOME VERY QUAINT COSTUMES.
From the Stately Minuet the
Dancers Glide Into the En-
chanting Waltz.

~ ANA BARBARA, OAL., ApEll
19-The floral festival here wound
up tonight in blaze Of glory
| ~ with a brilliant ball. The Cali
fornia Press Association and the
| Half-milIion Club were obliged to return
to Los Angeles after witnessing the grand
| battle OF roses. Other visitors stayed for
the ball, and spent the morning driving
through Mission Canyon, Montecite Val
| ley, sightseeing generally and collecting
| souvenirs.
| The pavilion and dining-room at the
/ Arlington for the ball guests were elab-
| orately decorated. The colors in both are
| chiefly white and gold, against which are
arranged thousands of pink roses. The
floor were covered throughout with can
vas, and a promenade 100 feet in length
was lined with 700 potted plants. The
circular ballroom was Illuminated with
electric lights, showing to advantage the
| handsome toilets and arrangement OF
roses.
The latter were caught in white fish
| nets suspended on the walls and round the
| center pole, from which ropes OF roses
| curved to the side, ZOO roses being used.
| a brilliant company was present, COM
visitors. Tickets were SO each. An elab-
crate supper was served in the dining hall,
which was made to represent tent. The
walls were covered with 5000 yards of
| lemon-colored cloth and the tent roof
| with tishnet 4Sx2S0 feet, studded with pink
roses. Potted plants stood on the tables
| banked with moss. The scene, lighted
| bv 100 incandescents, was sofuened with
yellow shades. The guests began to ar
rive at $50 O'Clock, and shortly after 9
nearly all were assembled.
As the guests drove up they were struck
with the appearance Of the Arlington
grounds, which had been transformed by
stringing Chinese lanterns and fairy lamps
from the roof OF the house to the surround
/ ing fence. All the verandas had been
decorated with white cloth and hung with
branches of oranges. Arrangements for
uncloaking and assigning places had COM
| menced.
The opening minuet was given to enthu-
slastic applause. Under the direction of
Henry J. Kramer twenty couples, attired
in Louis XIV costumes, the men with
cooked hats, powdered hair and knee
breeches, the women powdered andpatched,
advanced to their places.
There were FIVE groups, the central one
white in color and the others at regular
distances, their exact place being marked
with tall pedestals bearing vases full OF
roses OF yellow, pink, green and blue. They
| came in to the music of Steffano's gavotte,
and after dancing the minuet 70 Mozarts
| Don Juan" changed places TO the music
| Of the Bocherini minuet. III this way the
eolors were interehanged with indescriba-
| bly, pretty effect; so much 50 that the
spectators insisted on an encore, and again
| the courtly dance was treaded, the dancers
| finally forming full circle round the hall,
| courtesying to partners and retiring to the
! gavotte step again. A more perfect dance
had never been given. The dancers were
the same who participated in the prelimi-
nary minuet in the Hazard Villa Wednes-
| day.
After the minuet general dancing was
| INDUCED in until a late hour. The dan
GERS were costumed in colors by quartets
The white quartet which took the center
of the floor, consisted of Mr.. Whitney and
Miss Panchita Dibblee, Mr.. Worthington
| and Miss Colby, Mr. Burton and Miss
| Douton, Mr.. Summers and Miss Everhart.
| The ladies wore pompadour gowns of
white satin with vatican trains, and wore
their hair dressed in pompadour style and
powdered. white black patches adorning
| their fair faces.
| The gentleman wore Louis XIV coats OF
white satin finished in gold lace and en-
| broidered knee-breeches and high-heeled
pumps. Arranged on the opposite sides of
| the latter were the green and blue quartets.
| The green quartet was organized of the
| following: DR.. Harald Sidebotham and
Miss Miriam More, Mr.. Cameron and Miss
| Grace Harrison, Carl Stoddard and Miss
| Fairbanks, Frank Bliss and Miss Sarah
Boyce.
| The ladies wore pale green satin petit
coats and vatican gowns of brocaded silk
falling over them. The gentlemen wore
pale green satin coats and breeches, with
l doublets of white satin and trimmings OF
gold lace. Opposite the green quartet was
ranged the blue, the ladies with satin pet
ticoats of the palest blue satin and bro
| caded vatican overdresses, with alternat-
| ing stripes of pale blue and pink with
| small figure.
The gentlemen were costumed in CORE
spending colors. The yellow quartette was
composed OF DR.. Thaw and Mrs. Thaw,
| Samuel Isley and Miss Sidebotham, Mr..
Evans and Mrs. Sidebotham, Carl Howard
and Miss Ynez Dibblee. The yellow and
white costumes were dazzling in effect
and the ladies' toilets were heightened by
the pearls they wore.
Opposite was the pink quartet, the
ladies gowns being of the palest apple
blossom tint and the gentlemen s costumes
the same delicate shade. The blue quar-
tet was composed OF VIII Alexander and
Miss Stoddard, Mr.. Hayne and Mrs Mar
| tin. Mr.. Vail and Miss Nickerson, Mr..
| Vance and Miss Gaty.
The dancers costumed in pink were Mr..
Dreyfus and Miss Wheeler, Mr.. Greenleaf
and Mrs. Dreyfus. Mr.. Rogers and Miss
FeTnald, Herman Eddy and Miss Double
day.
/ The ladies taking part in the minuet