Evening star., 1898-02-10
Miss Lavinia Dempsey Crowned
Queen of Holland Danes.
she WORE A GOLDEN CROWN
Gorgeous Pageant Attending the
Ceremony Last Night.
WASHINGTON REPRESENTED
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, February 8, 1898
Tonight occurred a social function that
| had been awaited by all the sets" with
| great interest. Innumerable gowns had
been prepared, and innumerable parties
| gathered together to visit the Waldorf
Astoria to see Miss Lavinia Dempsey
crowned queen of the Holland Danes of
| the New Netherlands. This ten-thousand-
dollar insignia of royalty was placed upon
Miss Dempsey's queenly head in the ball
| room of New Yorks newest hotel, and al
| though the invitations are said to have been
| originally limited to six hundred, it is
| known that at least two thousand were is
sued, so great was the demand for cards.
There was a coronation, dance and a
feast.
The incidents of the ceremonies had been
| carefully rehearsed, to the slightest detail,
and were carried out in this order: A
coach and four conveyed Miss Dempsey at
$50 o'clock from the porte-cochere of the
St. Cloud to Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Orange
tulips adorned the brides of the four dark
horses, while both coachman and footman
wore boutonniereS of the same flower. The
coach used was one of great age. Tradi-
tion says that in it Thomas jefferson once
rode through the streets of this city. Be
fore the royal coach two masters of cere-
TUte III IL smaller COACH drawn Dy
two horses, these again decorated with
orange tulips. Knights and danes in full
court costume of the sixteenth century re-
ceived their queen in a vestibuIe specially
set apart. Upstairs in the colonial room, at
| the left of the ball room entrance, the pro-
cession was formed.
Composed the Coronation March.
At precisely $50 o'clock an orchestra of
| fifteen instruments struck up the corona
] ton march, Miss Dempsey's own compost
| ton, and costumed Hollanders about four
score in number, entered the ball room
| The decorations of the ball room were
chiefly in orange bunting, with standard:
OF Holland and of America numerously dis
played. Streamers of red, white and blue
helped to obscure the gilded balconies and
| the painted ceiling, and a golden eagle and
United States coat-of-arms capped the
! climax.
The queens throne. which stood on
slight elevation upon the dais at the south
wall of the room, was newly devised
chair of ancient pattern. Its spreading
arms, like its foundations We're guded
| The upholstery was Of orange satin with
! a Dutch coat-of-arms upon the back Three
crowns surmounted the back and arms A
canopy of blue and gold rose to a height of
nine feet above the throne. Here also an
peared the coat-of-arms of Holland The
curtains were of orange satin, while behind
hung panel of ermine measuring three
yards long by two yards wide Tropical
piohlS ioi ilitu lilt background, and cleo
trlclan stationed high up among the oppo-
site balconies cast over the throne and its
surroundings rainbow of electric light in
prismatic colors
When the queen and her court entered
| the ball room the line of march was. ac-
cord1ng to good old Dutch custom, once
around the entire hall and then up through
the center to the dais upon which stood the
throne.
The Order of March,
The order of march rabo,rc ,,-a.
follows: Two heralds, Master John johnson
and Master w. H. Trafton led the way.
| Immediately behind them walked the first
master OF ceremonies, Sir knight c. w.
Van der Hocgt of Baltimore These as
well as all who followed, were in ancient
court dress. Two knights went before the
two danes who preceded Mrs Joanna G.
Mitchell, the directress general of the Ma
tional Society of Holland Danes Mrs.
Mitchell carried the queens crown, a royal
crown of gold with cap of blue, it's jeweled
arms eliminating in cluster of golden
tulips instead of the usual fieurs-de-lis. The
crown rested upon cushion of orange
satin.
White satin was the material of Mrs
MitchelrS court robe; her mantle was of
ermine. Two children, Master and Miss
Thompson, were the pages appointed to
| carry her train. In the Lext group, similar
ly introduced by two knights and two
DANES, appeared the regent of the national
society. carrying the royal scepter The
regent is Mrs. Frank L. Osborne of Chica-
go, also regent of the Illinois branch. Her
costume was of canary-colored satin with
mantle of violet velvet. The court train,
four yards long, was borne by two pages
For headdress Mrs. Osborne wore diamond
ornaments in the form of diadem After
the directress general and the regent came
the principal group of all. Two knight
marshals. DR.. J. r. Peet and T. Freling-
| huysen Reed, led, with two DANES follow
Ing. Then came six ladies of honor to the
May Banks Stacey, Mrs. A. Hayes-Smith,
Mrs. Franklyn. Miss Wynkoop-Clark of
Brooklyn and Mrs. Mary Wynkoop- Hay of
Hagerstown. Md. Before the sovereign
Fosdyck of Montclair. N. ]. They carried
baskets of tulips, each basket tied with
bow of orange ribbons
Now Comes the Queen.
The person who walked next in line was
Miss Lavinia Dempsey, the queen. Six
pages carried the royal krain, which was
six yards in length fr2n the point where
it reached the floor. The queens robe was
Of turquoise blue velvet, the petticoat of
cloth Of silver being embossed in tulips of
orange velvet. Orange satin was chosen
for the slippers, which had diamond
buckles, large and square, after the old
style. She wore q square-cut bodice, also
of turquoise blue velvet the neck cut semi
low" with high Catherine de Medici collar
in filigree silver. The long puffed sleeves
Of cloth of silver were broken by jeweled
bands, meeting white gloves at the wrists.
Through a court mantle of orange gauze
the simmer Of blue velvet beneath out
lined delicately and family the royal figure.
Diamond dust powdered the hair. dressed
high to suit the requirements OF the crown.
There was one long necklace of pearls with
diamond clasp while the neck was bound
with collar composed Of four rows of dia-
monds, pearls, rubies, turQuoises and en-
eralds in glittering confusion.
Upon the little finger Of her left hand
the queen wore the great topaz ring, the
signet of the society, and q bracelet with
yellow topaz set in frame of diamonds up
on a band of gold fligree encircled one
wrist. Two other bracelets were of plain
antique gold.
Behind the queen walked two DANES, Mrs
Julia T. 1inthicum and Mrs. William II.
Topham; also two marshals. Sir Knight G.
C. Dempsey and Sir knight Jesse LARA
bee: also the second master OF ceremonies
Sir Knight w, Irving Van Inwagen. In the
later groups of the procession two knights
and two danes introduced Mrs. Leonard
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