The San Francisco call., 1897-10-29
Many Novelties Planned
for the Stanford
kirmeSS.
Costumes of All Nations Will
Be Seen at Palo Alto on
Halloween.
Me mbers of the Faculty TO Pre-
sent the Farce 1.-THE Train
RObber."
Special Dispatch TO THE CALI.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 2S-
Elaborate preparations are now under
way for decorating the museum for the
Halloween kirmess. Flowers from ali
parts of Santa Clara Valley will AID to the
beauty OF the interior of the Stanford
museum. Professor Abbott is chairman
Of The committee in charge OF the decora-
tions and has amply provided himself
with assistants. His corps of helpers
consists of forty-two young men, each of
whom is expected to invite coed as an
assistant. The decorators are divided
into squads, under Professor Abbot,
Architect Hodges ana Professor Altar
dice.
The faculty farce will undoubtedly be
the hlet feature of the evening. 1t was
written by Professor II. &. Nash, libra
rlan, and is called "The Train-robber. q"
The cast OF characters is as follows:
Johnson BrowioneS a plumber on q racket.
- Profes sor W. IL. Hudson
Frank somers. broker on a holiday. .........
---.-: ...--......-. Professor Allard1ce
HawEeye' detective on trail ................
BIZ Buster cowboy oFeG FeGisssOT s % g hH'h
Iun...........- ......... Professor d. ". Murphy
Mrs johnson Browionrs. a lady OF chara,ter..
-..... Mrs. D. w. Murphy
Mrs Aewport lady Of ias MON .. Miss Uu eIeas
Gretchen N. id or Wcodslde Inn................
scENE-The Prior at Woodside Inn. '''' 'ei sef
The vaudeville performance will follow
the faculty farce and will contain the bes:
talent In The university. Among those
who will take part are Dillon, Riley, Nc
lntosh. Rosborourh, Strohm, Deuel., Nc
Neil, Sutherland, Abbott and Klns.
The flower girls Will be the Misses Alice
Bailey, Rose Payne, Halle Hvde, French !;
Ida Beermaker, Julia Mathews, Virginia
Hearne, Swiss; MaryIine Barnard, Stella
Rose, Dutch; Grac. Dinki kiespiel, Harrie
Morhcn, Spanish.
The following young ladies' clad in
japanese costume, will serve Japanese
tea: Misses Clara Earl, Georgia Caswell,
Frances Johnson, jessie Haskell, Louise
Gerichs. Christab bel Sobey, n ellie Hindsy,
EmmabelIe Tucker, Helen Lathrop, Mar
garel Phillips, Agnes Ferguson. Josephine e
Iurcot, Mabel Charles and Esther Kosen.
craniz.
A decidedly interesting feature of the
kirmeSs Will be Ihe 'ireak show" IL is
claimed that everything which deserves
this distinction as 1t is applied in college,
will be represented.
The "Luiabies of Nations" will incl ude
selections from the japanese, Breton,
Spanish, Italian, English and American.
The lights which will be used for the
promenade concert, which will continue
during the evening, were tried again last
night, and proved satisfactory in every
respect. BY their light the smallest print
can be easily read at distance of 400 feet
from the museum. The interior lighting
will be made particularly beautiful, so
that none OF the grandeur of The splendidiy
finished interior of the museum Will be
lost.
The fraternities met this afternoon and
decided on sending as many men as pos
sible to the kirmess in costume. Each
fraternity viii represent separate nation.
The meh will invite ladies, who will wear
the costumes of the nations correspond.
ing 10 their partners. The traternities
expect 10 be able to turn out fifty fellows
IN costume and there will be at least ii + Y
outside men similarly attireu. This fea-
ture will add greatly to the picturesque
ness of the scene.
There Will be any amount of side-shows,
such as Egyptian fortune-tellers. Chinese
oraces, and freak shows, all OF which,
taken with the main features of the af-
lair, will make the Kirmess the greatest
junction ever given at Stanford.