The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-03
Royalty Entertained Last Night at the
PiccadilIy Home of the Duke and
Duchess of DevOnshire.
PRINCE OF WALES WAS THERE
AND LED THE PROCESSION OF IT,
TIED MEN AND WOMEN.
Cause of the Outbreak of MOhamme-
ranged-HindOOs Making Trouble.

LONDON, July 2.-The Duke and Duchess
of Devonshire gave magnificent fancy
dress ball tonight al Devonshire House,
Piccadily. 1t was exceptionally brilliant
affair." even for this season of brilliant So
cial functions. Nearly every royal family
in Europe was represented among the
guests. The costumes were mainly those
of the sixteenth century, being for the
most part copied from portraits of the
kings and queens and courtiers who flour
ished in Europe during the reign of Eliz-
abeth Along with these were presentations
of other historical or classical celebrities.
The Duke of Devonshire received his
guests attired in the garb of the Emperor
Charles V of Germany. Among the latter
were the Prince and Princess of Wales,
the Duke and Duchess of York, the Duke
and Duchess of Connaught, Prince Charles
of Denmark, Prince Christian, Princess
Victoria of Schleswig- Holstein, Col. John
Hay. American ambassador, and Mrs. Hay,
Lord Rosebery, Mr.. Arthur Balfour, Mr..
ASQuith, Sir Horace Farquhar, the
Countess of Warwick, in a costume of the
Marie Antoinette period; Lady Tweed
mouth, in Elizabethan costume; the
Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, both
in Louis XIV style, the latter very elegantly
gowned in white satin and wearing emer-
aids and diamonds; the Duchess of Port
land, in dress of the time of Louis XIII;
Lady William Beresford LILLIAN, Duchess
of Marlborough, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Cur
zon, Mrs. Ogden Goelet in a white dress
covered with diamond crescents and dia-
mond stars Lord Charles Montague, Lord
Crewe, Lord Stanley Lady Mar, Lady St.
I-n,, H. o. Con
Vito, Lord Lathon, Marquise Hautopoul,
Lady Corinthia Graham, Mrs. Rothschld.
COmte De MenSdorf and the Earl OF Dur
ham personating King Philip of Spain.
1t may be safely said that London never
before saw a scene so gorgeous. The rooms
We're transformed into a paradise of flow
erS. Everywhere were ClumpS and banks
of beautiful roses and festoons of electric
lights. After II o'clock the Prince and
Princess of Wales arrived and were led by
the Duchess OF DeYonshire to dais at
the end of the principal room, where they
formed the center of a brilliant group. The
chief feature of the ball aside from the
dancing, which was desultOry, was pro-
cession of the various character led by
the Duchess.
huge tent, each table being arranged
around a palm tree, whose branches were
hung with electric lights. At the table of
the duchess were twelve guests, among
them the Prince of Wales, the Duke of
Fife, Mr.. Balfour and Lady Randolph
Churchill. At the dukes table We're the
Duke OF Marlborough. At the Duchess of
Yorks table We're Prince Charles of Den
mark Lord Salisbury t. the lord ChanGe
to supper was led by the Princess of Wales
and the Duchess of DeVonshire. The prin-
cipal dancing features We're the quadrilles;
in which each set was danced by ladies and
gentlemen attired to represent a particular
historical epoch.
knight hospitaler of Malta, in black velvet,
with Maltese crosses in white satin worked
on his cloak and satin brocade doublet.
velvet trunks slashed With black SATIN,
high crowned hat with a large Maltese
cross in diamonds in front and white os
trich plumes at the back. Around the hat
was a silver chain. He wore high boots.
| The Princess of Wales appeared as La
Refine Margot, with a brilliant array of
train bearers, courtierS of the time of
| Henry Troi She wore a Paris made gown
| OF white and gold with an Elizabethan ruff
| and heavy white train. gorgeously embroid-
| cred with gold, silver and colored jewels;
| Her other ornaments were diamonds and
| pearls. The immediate attendants upon her
| were her daughters and the Duchess OF
J cent costume. Mrs. Arthur Paget wore an
| Egyptian costume of black crepe de Cnlne;
| embroidered with gold scarabaei and lined
| with cloth of gold. The costume glittered
with diamonds and precious stones,
The Duke of Connaught presided at
| ba nouet given this evening by the Colo
| NAL Institute to the colonial premiers at
the Hotel Cecil. Covers were laid for six
Salisbury the Lord Chancellor the Earl
| of Selborne the Earl of Jersey Lord Loeb.
Mr.. Goschen. the first lord of the admit
rally, Sir George Faudet-Phillips lord
mayor and most of the consuls general.
The Duke of ConnauEht toasted the
United Empire, coupling Sir Wilfred
Laurier's name with the toast. Sir Will
fred Laurier in responding, said that If
the colonies premiers remained much
longer in England they would be all killed
by kindness. He admitted that the goal of
his aspirations was to see Canadians of
French descent sitting at Westminster. If
he were a younger man he would hope TO
realize that ambition, but to-day his only
ambition was to get a denunciatton Of GER
tain foreign treaties which were blot on
colonial Development
The Right Hon. George j. Goschen. re-
spending for the British navy, said he
would not improve the festive occasion by
inviting the colonies to contribute to the
support of the fleet but ne would say that
in the unhappy event of an outbreak of
war the British fleet would seek the enc
mics of the empire wherever they could be
found Every one of the cruisers at the
Spithead review. he said, has already been
assigned in it's space and duty as a pro-
tector of British trade routes and com
merce and therefore the government is
glad of the opportunity to discuss with the
colonies the best means of securing naval