The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-01

I0Se&-f y would have made
green with envy any possible lurking
Ghost Of memory connected win the
pleasant. old, annual events in the Wyo-
ming House. The 1894 ball in
the rockingham was an agree
able diAappointment-'agr be
cause few had imagined 1t would
prove the great success it did; but the
1895 ball is more entitled to pleasant
retrospection because everybody I'M
agined 1t would prove a success. and 1t
was. No regrets follow 1t; certainly the
Bachelor officers congratulated them
selves on what they had done. and
whatever disappointments exist today
must be of u tritiing and individual ma
tlige So much for success.
Usually caterer, musician. decorator
and the dancing arrangements consplre
to make II large ball either a pleasure
or otherwise. A hitch in any of these
might set things all askew. but they
were all perfect last night. and In addi-
tion there was such collection or ex-
quisite gowns, beautiful women ana
spirit Of pleasure as to render improb-
able any eclipse of the event In few
years to come In part or i'm whole 1t
was such as to make any Scrantonian
proud OF his residence: its scale from
the time the dancers entered the the
ater until their departure was one or
beauty allied with magnificence, ana
that IL a great deal to say of a ball
away from the large cities, because
'beauty" and 'magniiicent" mean
much and are words which admit of
no trifing.
Five Hundred Were Present.
Possibly 800 persons were present. and
Of these fifty or more We're from out
OF town and the others represented a
high social standing in every section
Of the city. A rule of the Bachelors
makes 1t imperative that every admis-
sion ticket issued must contain the
name of the person who uses it, thus
avoiding the annoyance which mig
result from the presence of anyone OBJ
jectionable. AS consequence each
dancer or spectator was there with the
immediate consent Of one Of the Bache-
Tor committee of five and with the sup
Elementary approval of the well known
ladies whose names appear In the list
of patronesses. So II w9s a gathering
representative OF ScrantOn's most fash
ionable and most reputed personages,
and II was a gathering which few, II
any. cities conditioned as Is Scranton
could display.
The partroneAses were Mrs. II. ]. An
derson, Mrs. ]. B. Dickson, Mrs. James
Archibald, Mrs. f.. l.. Fuller, Mrs. X. w.
Archibald, Mrs. w. II. Smith. Mrs. Henry
Belin, jr,, Mrs A. NJ Decker. Mrs. +.
B. Sturges and Mrs. Il. n. Willard.
President II. p. Simpson. A. G. Hunt,
Fl. w. Kingsbury. Major j. w. Oakford
and b. E. Watson composed the Bache-
lor committee under whose immediate
planning and supervision the ball was
given. The other members of the
Bachelors are James Archibald. jr.. Il. +.
Archibald, Montrose Barnard, James
Blair. 1r.. Paul Belin. j. NJ. Boies, f. F..
Chase, ]. NJ. Chittenden, jr.. ]. w.
Decker. w. NJ. Dickson w. I. Finch, Il.
+. Watson, F. p. Fuller. r. s. Fuller, l..
B. Fuller, F. Fuller, G. p. Griffith. jr.,
A. E. Hunt. jr., G. b. Jermyn. W. II.
Jessup, tr.. W. p. Kingsbury. j. II. s.
Lynde, ]. L. Wentz, f. d. MCGOWAN,
Thomas Moore, c. X. Parke, F. T.. Platt,
+. ]. Platt, A. T. Post. H. b. Reynolds.
CLARENCE Sturges, Fl. b. Ware and
Everett Warren.