Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-18
KING CARNIVAL.
S"enKerbund Held High Revcl Last
Night.

King Carnival held high revel at National
Rif1es' armory last evening The occasion
was the forty-fourth annual masquerade
ball Of the Washington Saengerbund II
was decided success in every sense of the
word. The attendance was large the COS
tunes rich and varied and the pleasure nm
confined. Mirth and merriment reiened
supreme and care and trouble were sue
cessfully banished. The grand march be-
gan at O'Clock. 1t was unique process
sion of funmakers and afforded lots of in.
nocent enjoyment to the spectators All.
thoueh there were many handsome cos
Tunes, representing kings, queens, cour-
tiers and ladies in waiting, the majority of
the characters assumed were of a grotesaus
or comic sort, intended to caricature per-
SOILS and events of the day. As is usually
the case. the female contingent DISPLAYED
the most originality in their fmpersona-
tons. The advanced woman was repre-
scented in most approved style. and the
Iransvaal incident received intelligent
treatment One group that attracted eeu--
eral attention was composed of five sum-
m"r girls. dressed in regulation seaside at
ure They wore abbreviated skirts and
carried tin buckets filled with sea shells.
1nere We're also girls galore I'm -bloomera
ana mems apparel, and a number of men
assumed various types of the gentler eek
IL was most conglomerate gathering Of
beauty and groteSqueness and the Judges
had a difficult task in selecting those en-
titled to the prizes.
The signal for unmaslling was given at
ii O'Clock, and provoked a general excla-
nation Of surprise. No one was who Won
thought he or she was. and everybody
turned out to be somebody else.
Awarded Prizes.
Mr. F. Claudy, president of the society,
awarded the prizes, and proved fully equal
to the situation, kissing all the successful
ladies and patting his male brethren on the
back. The colored camp meeting group
won the first prize of SIS. The characters
were taken by Edward Evans, ]. F. LOT
tus, 2. III. LOTUS, Miss Lizzie LOTUS
Frank Rupertus. John Horner. Misses
Maud and Ella Ehlshlager, John Kessell.
John Reese Miss Martha Rupertus and
Lulu Rupertus
The second group prize of SIS went to a
coterie Of young ladies representing the
new Saengerbund Hall They were Mrs
klinge. the Misses Klinge, Miss Mamie Vol
land, Mrs. Escherich, Mrs. Brandes Miss
Schleyer, Mrs. Bocharding and Mrs Wal
ter. .r.-
group representing a colored excursion
on the steamer Mary Washington took The
third prize of SO. 1t consisted of p F.
Downey, George F. Keegan, George King.
Herman Friedlander, Harry Fleischmann,
Frank Harper. NJ. p Green, Gordon Phil
lips. Miss Agnes Booth. Miss Carrie Brown
ley, Miss Smith, Miss Wimsatt and Miss
Carrie Jones.
Miss Blandine Lutz won the first ladies'
prize Of $40 in the character Of the Com.
ing mn, Man" The second ladies' prize for a
similar amount was awarded Miss Anna
Rhyner for her impersonstion of the
Weather Bureau" Prizes of 81 were
awarded Miss Lena Ehrmantraut as a
black-faced Sunshine of Paradise Alley"
Abe Cohen, who enacted German stu
dent After the Ball. and Otto Birchaid-
ing and H. keul who were Enthusiastically
CARRIED as President Kruger and his better
half of the Transvaal republic.
The Committees.
Much Of the success of the affair is due
to the well-directed efforts of the following
committeeman: President Frank Claudy,
A. Jorss. John Waldman. Henry Leon
hardt, A Lepper, Louis Faber and Carl
Xander. The floor committee were F. Al
trup, c. Hosch E. kuebel, Anton Lerch,
r. c. Tuinman, Charles Meyer, A Pitt q,
Schilling and II. Schneider.