The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-11
Sneietu Ynpi1s.

year. rate, IN the guiSe OF lHe Officers ol
the Fourth, has decreed it. The Com
mittee of Arrangements has been ap-
pointed, the date has been set, and the
subscription lists are out. Captain Henry
H. Brinkerhoff is chairman of the COM
mittee. The other member are Lieuten-
ant Wallace N. Vreeland, Lieutenant A.
La Rue Christie and Lieutenant J. J..
Toffey, Jr. The ball will be held in the
Armory Wednesday evening, February "a.
1t will be on the same magnificent scale
as its predecessors. No expense will be
spared. The regiment does not expect to
make money out of it: no money was
for decorating the drill shed has not as
yet been awarded. 1t is not yet known
positively what the music will be. The
committee want Sousa. It is probable,
however, hat they will be unable to get
him, as his band will be West at that
time. Victor Herbert is second choice.
If it is found impossible to get Sousa they
Will have Herbert's band.
The list of the patronesses is not ready
for publication. 1t will be ready in a few
weeks. When that list is published a
question will be decided that is now being
discussed more or less at length. Will
society take up the regiment once again /?
Will the fact that the drill she'd has a
good dancing floor outweigh the many
other conditions that make the regiment
the year? vii the society matrons and
maids consider it sufficiently enjoyable
to go to the trouble to attend it? Or
a they decided that they did their duty
when they attended two balls and that
a third is much more than can be ex-
pected of them?
1t must be taken into consideration that
the Toffeys, the Bumsteds and the Abbetts
are interested in the regiment. They will
be able to influence a number of people.
It is probable, taken all in all, tina So
ciety people will be ~patronesses and will
attend even if they do not enter into it
with quite the zest of the first time.
Good music and the best dancing floor
in the city are strong attractions and
when the best people of the city add
their names as pa~tronesses the result
may be anticipated.
Talk about runs on banksi They can't
be compared with the run on the Public
Library last week. All the assistants
We're in despair and got so they almost
answered "~Tennyson is out" to everyone
who asked for a book. The trouble was
that great minds thought too much alike
Mrs. Wait lectured to her class about
Tennyson and requested that the ladies
read up about him. Forty ladies alone in
curing for the same book might have
created a panic, particularly If each lady
insisted that the book she must have
But when added to these ladies are a
large class of boys and girls all insisting
that they must have that book or e.be
marked way down." the panic is almost
certain. A large class in the High School
were told to write essays on Tennyson
and bring them in on a certain date. OF
course each member of the class started
Immediately for the Public Library and
Lives of T~ennyson," only to find that
Mrs Waits class had all the books out.
So
? The ladies of the Duplicate Whist
Club, an evening uchre club, who last
year evoluted into a Lenten Sewing
Circle for the benefit of the Newman
~ $500 NAA2l cSV VI aitGiI C1ldIltY Ill
another way this year. There will be
no Sewing Circle. Instead the ladies
will give a New Years dinner to the
Newman Home. They viii also give
barrels of provisions. The Lenten Sew
ing Circle was not quite exclusive
enough after it was started. No such
mistake will be made this year.
The proora "a of fho -oa4s--. e -
Rambler Club have been issued. They
are:-December 16, Christopher Column
bus. Talks: with Columbus in Spain.u
Irene Calvert Phillips; with Columbus
in America" Pearl l.. Brooke; 1.-THE
Ups and Downs of Columbus. Life.
Gertrude May Bushfield; columbus the
Dreamer" Maud Williams; .What we
Admire and What We Regret in Col
umbus," the club; Miss Park.
January 13. Current Events" Grace E..
Tompkins, Edith E. Robertson. Bessie
G. Van Horne. January 2T, ..The Liter
AZURE of SPAIN. 1.-THE Cid,p Eta s.
Pelzer; Spanish Ballads Heloise
Hamilton; ~"Cervantes,y Grace Toffey;
Stories from Don Quixote,'' the club.
February 10, The Spain of Today: ..The
Present Political Status Kate N. Ram
dali; Extent of Commerce., Anna Ell.
Borden; THE People, Glasses, Condi-
ton" Matte L.. Wiggers: club topic. |
Show that Spain of Today Is an Out
growth of Past Policy" Virginia IA. C..
Martin; summary, Miss Myers. Febru-
airy "A, "A Ramble Through Madrid,:
Typical Peasant Family Hattie A.
Hartnett; "A Lady of High Degree
Eleonore L. Wiggers; .Amusements.''
Florence /. Gritten; Street Lights
Grace Loomis Harrison; Buildings
Margaret M. Page; "The Most Inter
esting l Saw the club. March 10,
Some Books of the Day: Alice r. Lew
is, Edna Marion Edwards, Nellie Parke
Holbrook. March "a, Anthony Hope and
His Works. April 7, Sidney Laurier,
Musician and Poet. April ri, Current
Events, Elizabeth Batche1ar, Alletta v.
A~bernethy, Mary e. Grevatt. May s.
Summary of Spain, illustrated. May 10,
business meeting.
The officers of the club are:-Miss
May Florence Park and Miss Amelia B.
Myers, associate presidents; Miss Bes-
sic J. Van Horn. secretary and treas
urer.
TIL Odd volume viii be entertained by
Mrs. Horace c. Wait next Wednesday
at her residence, No. "a Clinton
avenue. The Odd Volumes are having
Some very 1na1s11a1 arua al. |