Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-11-30
New York Nuggets.


Especial Correspondence from New York
thanksgiving seems to be pre-eminentl
date members Of the family circle gather
around plentiful board to "let digestion
wait on appetite" and to frame their minds
to mirth and merriment." A unique dinner
given on that day was for - covers with
name cards at each place on which gilded
wishbones were tied with red and yellow
ribbon. Long streamers of the same rib
bon we're drawn up from the four corners
to the chandelier and suspended huge
CRIMSON chrysanthemum. In the centre OF
the table was a large pumpkin followed
out to hold bonbcns containing paper caps,
toy whistles, etc. Ropes OF cr3nberries
trailed from the pumpkin to the guests,
each rope ending in cucumber, squash,
beet, turnip, bunch of asparagus or otEer
vegetable made of papier-mache in perfect
imitation and filled with sweets. The enu
was typical of New England with especial
reference to great variety of pie, no
fewer than II kinds being offered but not
partaken o. by the same Individual.
Another celebration Of the day was
tallyho drive to Yonkers by a party Of
young people with a modern dinner at
Woodmansten Inn, quaint hostelry. A
lively game OF blind mans buff and dance
to finish was the after pre- gram. Theatre
parties including bevy of school girls in
charge of governess was another feature
of the day.
The Deg Show has arrived to take turn
in the wave of popularity that has swept
the Snake Show into high tide of fortune
and another exhibition week. The Ameri-
can Pet Dog Club is composed of society
women who are dog lovers and owners.
Mrs. Walter Stanton, the president, has
one of the finest pet dog kennels in the
country situated at >Hillsdale, N. j. The
exhibit took place on Thanksgiving and
enough for the blue blooded CANNES to
stand critical examination from un unknown
crowd. Silver trophies and loving cups
were prizes offered in special classes.
Dachshunds are still the leading favorites,
despite strong leaning toward the ugly
bulldog. There is a story of beautiful
French woman who, when told that her
pet deg had bitten great Ambassador,
exclaimed, mon Dieu! Did it hurt my
dogP" This explains the sentiments of a
portion of the feminine race toward por-
ton of the canine race. Some owners fix
their affections so firmly upon their pam
pered bow-wows that it is impossible to
reason with them.
The First Volunteer Engineer Regiment
who have just arrived from Porto Rico,
were rendered Thanksgiving dinner as
welcome home by the National Society OF
New England Women at the Sth Regiment
armory on Thursday. This regiment was
.eaboard, from Buffalo and Albany. and
battalion coming from New England. AL
though the soldiers did not see any serious
fighting in Porto Rico, their work of build
ing bridges and Notifications, new roads,
repairing the waterworks of certain towns
and extending water systems for the use of
camps, involved great physical exerton in
a climate dangerous to Northern bred men.
In spite of this their health has remained
good and the deaths have been few.
"The Battle of San Juan Hill" i, being
portrayed in graphic and thrilling man
ner at Proctor's Pleasure Palace. The
curtain rises on military outpost in tropi-
cal woods with Spanish colonel and his
soldiers sauutering among the woodland
growth. A mounted courier informs them
that the Americans are advancing. The
colonel laughs scoIntully and declares
he will ambush the foolish pigs, and
instructs his men to conceal themselves in
the dense forest until they hear the signal
of three cuckoo calls. They disappear to
hide. In the distance faint humming
prophesies that "There Will Be a Hot
Time IN the Old Town Tonight Finally,
in columns OF tours our boys swing into
] view with Colonel Roosevelt impersonated,
as we'll as General Hawkins and General
Wood. They. all chat and joke until
third cuckoo call startles them. Fall
in Silence!" commands the colonel
Down on their faces they 60, with rifles
ready. The Spanish rifles crack in the
bush, but do not make a target by reason
of their smokeless powder. Roosevelt
roars out an order, and the Americans fire
as fast as they can load. Through the
blackness and smoke, nothing can be seen
except great bombs that gare and boom
from time to time. Suddenly, soldier
darts out of the firing line carrying the
captured flag of Spain, and great applause
and ENTHUSIASM are evoked. The Stars and
Stripes appear above the blockhouse as the
final curia'n falls to the air of the Star
ISpaugled Banner"
The New York College of Pharmacy
has at last succeeded in electing eff ,ers
in the junior class. For president, j. Rey-
nolds OF Swsnton, Vt, has received cleo
ton.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel continues to
retain fair amount Of Vermont patron
lsge. Urbsn A Woodbury., a rmer gov
ernor OF Vermont, is here; also G NJ.
Blake and H. L. Blake of Bellows Falls.
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