The herald., 1898-11-29
SAINT JOHNS BAZAAR
OPENING OF THE ANNUAL FAIR
IN THE CHURCH ROOMS
The Booths and Those Who Will Pre-
side Over Them-Great Prepara-
tions for the Entertainment

The annual bazaar of the ladies of ST.
Johns Episcopal parish opens today at
O'Clock and win continue every afternoon
and evening for three days. The commo-
dous hall in the basement Oft the church and
the guild and choir rooms and kitchen have
been thrown into one large room brilliantly
illuminated and richly decorated. Booths
have been erected on one side of the space,
and the other side has been reserved for
the tables at which dinners will be served
each evening from $50 to s o'clock
In the most prominent OF these booths
many of the leading society ladies of the
city will offer for sale fancy and useful arti-
cles The booths are arranged side by side
and spacious passageway divides them.
On entering the hall, St. Agnes booth
first engages the attention, beautifully done
in evergreen, and over it presides Mrs.
Knewing, assisted by the Misses Clinton,
Daggett Tayler, Davis, Merryweather, Bal
ley, Cronkhite Raze and Cady. Next to it
is the Altar guild booth, presided over by
Mrs. b. W. r. Tayler, assisted by Mesdames
Ii. l.. Hyatt and j. Musser and Misses Ha-
geny, Osborn, Reynolds, Bailey, Heinze-
man, Dryden and others. A splendid dis
play of fancy work of all description is
shown here including embroideries and
laces. Beyond it is novel feature, the
boys booth, under the direction of Mrs.
Theo. A. Eisen, the popular "choir mother"
Of the choir boys. Sioyd work done by the
boys and miscellaneous knick-nacks are of
tered for sale here Those assisting are the
Misses Robinson and Mcclure and Messrs
Page, Eisen, Morgan, Cortield, Hageny, Os
born, Stillwell, Rounsefell, Mcbride and
Taylor.
st. Faiths guild for girls has pretty
booth adjoining, under Mrs. Albert Crutch-
er, ASSISTED by bevy of bright young ladies,
the Misses Henity, Parry, Peters, Tayler,
Vandovort, Narver, Davis, Osborn, Merry
weather, Deming, Snow, Jenkins and others
The display here is largely of dolls. Mrs.
Henry Bleecker, assisted by Mesdames King
Rounsefcll and Hadley, has transformed the
guild room into dainty place of refresh
ment and serve ices and creams. The choir
room has become ''chafing dish resort -
where Mrs. p. S. Peterson Of Chicago, as
sisted by Mrs. Strange, gives lessons on the
newest fad, the chatting dish. Mesdames
Springer, Raze, Warrington and Attig sup
ply infants furnishings from a cosy corner.
The practical and domestic booth, with
Mesdames, Houghton, Morgan, Pollard,
Snow and Mccullough is daintily done in
green and white, and shows an elaborate
display of linens and embroideries
The Altar guild candy booth is delicate in
its soft tones of pink and white and invt-
ing in its display of homemade candies and
confections. The English booth displays
the Union Jack of Old England intertwined
with the national colors and is decidedly
English in its personnel. Mines. Edmunds,
Winstanley, Partrdge-W Grasett,
Montague, Fortescue, are all English names
Art needlework, embroideries, ETC., are the
distinguishing features. Mrs. Gregson, as
sisted by the Misses Lewis and Hanna, has
the chidren's booth. Perhaps the most
striking of all is the national American
booth, resplendent in the national colors
and canopied with stars and stripes. A fine
display of sofa pillows, cushions, ETC., grace
this enhancing corner, which is presided
over by Mrs. o. p. Posey, assisted by Mrs.
Van Giesen and the Misses Houghton.
The dinner department is very dainty in
its coloring and displays of silver and cut
glass on snowwhite cloths and lavish dis
play of ferns and roses. The whole dining
hall is bewilderment of color and richness
The ladies who preside over this depart