Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-30
THE HOSPITAL CARNIVAL
Beautiful Girls il Brilliant Costumes
Will Gracefully Dance.
Great Interest Aroused ia the Evens-1hose
Who will Participate

fair to be the most brilliant spectacular
performance ever seen in Augusta
but, as a society event, is being en-.
joyed and entered into with the inter
est which occasions of this kind inva.
riably stimulate, due to the fact, per-
haps, that it is local talent who will
take part, and best of all in the inter-
ests of cause that is vitality local.
that of the Augusta City hospital. The
carnival will be for the benefit of this
worthy cause, and the representative
people of Augusta are working hard to
make it perfect success.
The date of the performance has not
yet been decided upon. 1t will prob
ably take place about the 10th or 18th
of February, and will be given on two
evenings.
The carnival, as is indicated from the
name. is to represent the several not
ours. from the landing of Columbus.
Characters will represent these eras.
There will be Columbus and Uncle
Sam. Who these will be has not yet
been decided. Mrs. H. L. Pishon will
be Columbia, and Mrs. G.. H. Bangs,
the Goddess of Liberty. Charles Bal
lard will be Don de Gardo, and Thomas
Fox, Jr., will be the soloist, giving
songs appropriate to the occasion. The
Abnaki quartet. consisting OF Mr..
Lewis A. Burleigh, Mr.. Blackington,
Mr.. Lowell, and Mr.. F. B. burlington
will give selections during the per-
Torrance, setting off in opera fashion
the movement Of the performance
The singing will be feature, and the
selections are very pretty.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Nickerson Williams,
of the Williams Carnival Co., are in
charge of the affair. They will furnish
the costumes. which are elaborate in
detail. and in the dances include some
very dainty, delightful creations of the
airy fairy style which, with the grace
and beauty of the dancers will combine
to makeit all very pretty. Colored lights
will be. used to produce the best spec
tacular effects.
A special dance will be given by Miss
Chase. 1t will be called 1.-The Shadow
Dance" Miss Chase-willh have a spec
ial costume. and THU dance will intro
duce some Of the latest French steps. ~
THE Indians wifi be the first of the
several special features. They will in
clude F. J. c. Little, as chief; 1st scout,
Mr.. H. L. Locke, with C. F. Sturte-
want as the great old Cushnoc chief
tain. The other Indians will be James
Stone, w. w. Barrows. and Edward
Bean. The Indians will require no
chaperones.
Mrs. d. w. Weber, Mrs. o. c. Web
ster and Miss Carrie Jones will chap
erone the "Puritans." These will be
Misses Christine Fogg. Effie Snyder
Ruby Carver, and Miss Marion Heath;
Messrs. Warren Sanborn, Blaine Owen,
Charles Downing and Daniel Nash.
The several other dances will be as
given below, with the names of those
who will participate and their chaper-
ones:
Tambourine dance: Misses Eleanor
Little, Susan Badger, Ethel Stickney.
Frances Haskell, Blanche Webster.
Rubie True and Villa, Emma and
Elsie Packard. The chaperones will be
Miss Myrick. Miss, PARROT and Miss
Katherine Webber. ...
Grotesque dance: Guy Gannett
Philip Hayden, Robert Partridge.
Gardiner Heath, Ralph Webber,
Howard Webber. Robert Cole,
and Charles Kinsman. The chaper-
ones will be Mrs. r. Il. Kinsman, Mrs.
A. H. Chadbourne and Mrs. c. r. Whit
ten.
A special skirt dance will be led by
Miss Chase including Miss Hulda Sew
all, Miss Ella Reid and Miss Cutler.
Mrs. NJ. V. B. Chase, Mrs. S. W. Carr
and Mrs. Elias Milliken will be the
chaperones.
OF the serpentine dance. Miss Belle
Smith will be the leader. The follow
ing "a young ladies will participate:
Misses Louise Tracy. Louise Cony, Ad-
die Gannett, Addie Weeks. Edith Nc
David, Mamie McDavid, Alice Hunt,
Edith Shea, May Doughty, Cassie
Holmes, Fannie Knowles, May Knowles,
May Ward. Ethel Partridge. Annie
Williams, Mabel Gould, Maude SAM
bern. Kitty Noble. Miss Bryon. Miss
Besse, Miss Wiltshire Miss Doe. Miss
Hamlen, and Miss Devine. The chap
erpnes are Mrs. T. ]. Ingraham, Mrs.
George Cony, Mrs. Algernon s. Bangs,
and Mrs. Stewart.
The scarf dance: Misses Irene
Thayer, Gertrude NeWbert, and Ethel
Lishness. The chaperones are Mrs. A.
w. Thayer. Mrs. John Goodwin, Mrs.
j. f. Pierce.