The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-28
A DAY WITH PRINCETON
THE BOYS OF OLD NASSAU GIVEN
MANY ENTERTAINMENTS.
Their Concert at NiEht-Mr. Pierce's
Tfger-Breakfast,T Teas, Dance
and Other Functions.

intermissons the large and fashionable au-
dience enjoyed the musical selections. Mr..
Pierce unfortunately was not in sufficient
voice to bear up the entire programme, and
by virtue of this fact the audience would
have been trife disappointed had not this
old Princetonian, in his zeal, brought along
other amusement for those who paid their
regular admission fee. This three-ring-cir
Gus idea was a. very happy one-Mr. Pierce,
the Glee Club. and Mr. Pierce's young Tam
many tiger-though it was a shade worse
than strabismus to keep them all in view
at the same time.
The tiger came on the scene early in the
evening It was just such a beast as a
Princeton man might put in his child S
stocking on Christmas morning. with the
animals "n'ards'r filled with sweetmeats
and bon-bons. Through the mechanism in
his lIead-that of the tiger-the audience
was gravely saluted once every two Sec
onds, and when the mechanism didn't work
satisfactorily Mr.. Pierce would jab the au-
tomaton back of the neck with his Prince
ton flagstaff, and make the tiger bow again,
willy-nilly The glabrous beast doomed over
the edge of the north proscenium box rail,
where its master, the enthusiastic son of
Nassau, could keep nervous watch on its
movements. Inc Tiger DtSl, anu NIL
Pierce did the rest.
1t was just the most fun. once, an orange
ribbon on the neck Of the tiger fell off into
the audience. The man sitting below was
afraid of the tiger, or perhaps he was one
of those gruff fellows who always go to a
college glee club concert expecting to hear
songs. Mr. Pierce suavely, sweetly in fact,
asked for the ribbon, but the man below,
xxr1,o Iad in
handed up 81 look instead, and the look was
OF a paler yellow than the college color.
Mr.. Pierce was insistent he leaned over,
went through a dumb show, smiled and
smiled, made a motion as if to get it him.
self-the ribbon please. BY this time the
importuned auditor below was growing
vexed at having the audiences attention
directed to himself, and he tossed the rib
bon to the box al the same time thinking
some things which he didn't say because
his wife was with him. The wheels inside
the tiger had to be wound up very fire.
quently
The audience recognized the kindness of
Mr. Pierce in contributing to its entertain
ment. and it was by the merest oversight
the ladies and gentlemen forgot to encore
him. Mr.. Pierce understood this. Ihere
were no hard feelings between him and the
audience TO show this he came on the
stage with the college boys in the last in
ming, standing at the end OF the nne, ana
soul1ul ecstasy and youthful intensity when
none but an old college man can under
stand. And thus the curtain went down
on a glorious night of Mr.. Pierce, his tiger,
and incidentally the Glee Club.
THE REAL CONCERT.
The concert given by the Princeton Glee,
Banjo and Mandolin Clubs was the best in
quality of any like concert ever given in
the city. The voices harmonized well, the
instruments were well played and perfect
attack and time made the music very en-
joyable. The soloists, Mr.. Thomas and Mr..
Jayne, were so well liked that they were
recalled several times. Mr.. Jayne respond
ed to the fourth recall, and remarked, in a
low voice, that only the front rows could
hear, Il should think you'd be tired of
this, but the audience evidently was not
tired, and could have listened to another
set of coon songs" from the same singer.
The large audience fully appreciated the
college songs and the rollicNing glees and
medleys. The club members are nice look
ing men. Prominent among them, to his
friends, was Stoughton Fletcher, jr., the
futist of the Mandolin Club. Mr.. f. G.
Wishard, of Utah, of the first bassos, is a
nephew of DR.. w. n. Wishard, Of this city.
During the concert the boxes were visited
by the college men, who had met many OF
the young ladies of the city at the various
functions that had been given for them
since early in the morning.
The Grand Opera House was appropriate
" decorated for the college men. The stage
was set as a conservatory. In the center
was q huge tiger, and feStOoned below the
proscenium arch Were the college coiors OF
orange and black. The front boxes were
draped with large. flags of black and
orange, the black having Princeton in
orange letters and the orange vice versa.
There a brilliant audience that filed
every seat in the house. In the left pros
Pierce and party, which included Rev. and
Mrs. j. A. Milburn, Mr.. Charles Clafiin AL
len. of st. Louis, the leader of the first
Princeton Glee Club, and who retains the
first tuning fork as a souvenir, Miss Mary
Noble, Miss Florence Hayward and Mr..
Pierce's children, Douglass and Elizabeth.
In the right proscenium box were Mr.. and
Mrs. J. S. Harrington, Mr.. and Mrs. o. b.
Jameson, Mr.. N. Il. Harrington, Miss Mary
Hussey of Chicago Miss Mary Foster, Rev;
Ct. A. Christensen and son and Mr.. Howard
Virgins. In another box Mr.. and Mrs. A.
NJ. Fletcher and daughters Miss Clough
and Miss Dale their guests; ; IN r another mr..
WATSON, Miss Wilson, Miss Leta Holman
and Mr.. Parker Boice; in another Mr.. and
Miss Edith Smith Miss Ella vonnegut'
Miss May Henley Mr.. f. Il. Gates Mr..
Page Chapman and Mr. Otto Haueisen.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Murphy of Chi
cago, Mr. and Mrs George Wood of Den
Yer and Mr.. and. Mrs. Harry Murphy; an
other party was Miss Mary Sayles, Miss
Louise Fletcher, Miss Julia Fletcher, Miss
Sarah Wilson, Mr.. Keyer Winter, Mr..
James Floyd and Mr.. S. A. Morrison. In a
box were Mr.. and Mrs Walter Milliken,
Misses Lois and Ruth Pratt and Miss
Louise Bybee; another consisted of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. S. Denny. Miss Denny Miss Ridge
ley Miss Day, Miss Miller, Mr.. Hopper and
Mr.. George Denny. Another box party was
composed of Miss Ransdell and her visitor,
Miss Nema Whitcomb. Miss Millard, Miss
Mary Vajen and Mr. Larz Whtcomb.
Others in the audience included Mr. and
Mrs. l.. b. Swift and their visitors, the
Misses Lyon of Detroit, the Misses McDer
mott of Cincinnati, with Miss Van Camp
and Messrs. Van Camp, Mrs. Daniel Stew
art and Miss Martha Carey and visitor,
Miss Edith Rogers of Cincinnati; Mr.. and
Mrs. W. II. Coleman and Miss Garrard Mr..
and Mrs. c. L. Hare, Mr.. and Mrs w. c.
Haueisen Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. G. Adams and
daughter Stella, Mr.. and Mrs. George T.
Adams and Miss Ellis. Rev. and Mrs. NJ. L.
Haines and visitor, DR.. and Mrs. w. N
Wishard, the Misses Malott, Mrs. r. O.
Hawkins, Miss Clara Hawkins, Miss Brad
shaw, Miss McLaren. Miss Sarah Foster
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Bradshaw, Mr.. Ferdi-
nand and Miss Julia Hollweg, Mr.. Stoughton
Fletcher and daughter Hilda and Miss
man, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Foster daughter
and son. Mr. j. H. Holiday and family. Mr..
and Mrs. Marvin Rice Maxwell, Mrs H. b.
Holman and daughters and Dr. and Mrs.
Theodore Potter.
The Princeton Entertainment.
Miss Jessie Miller gave breakfast yes.
terday morning for Mr.. Hopper. Of Balti-
more, who is q Princeton man. and three