The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-25
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Their Help Enjoy a Dance in
the Vanderbilt Stables.
The COtilliOn Led by Wander
bits Man.
MAIDS AND COACHMEN
Took Preference According to
Their Masters Rank.
Ice Cream and Beer Served in
MAIDS AND COACHMEN
Ice Cream and Beer Served in
the Stalls.

New York, Nov. 25.-ATr. Robert AEcDon-
aid invited his friends last night to cele-
brate Jefferson NJ. Levy's election to con-
gress. Mr.. Mcdonald happens to be
Mitchell A. Levy's coachman and Mitchell
A Levy happens to be Jefferson Levy's
brother. Mr.. Mcdonald received his guests
in the Vanderbilt stable, No. 126 East
Ihirty-Second street, which was beauti-
fully decorated for the joyous occasion.
The guests, who numbered &c., were
young women to whom many fashionable
women owe their comfort, and men who
daily have in their hands the lives Of the
richest men in the city; ladies' maids and
gentlemen's gentlemen, coachmen, foot
men.
The big g.able doors were locked and
the well-mannered and weIl-dressed guests
entered by the side door. The carriages
had been removed from the coach room,
over whose spacious floor, clean as
whistle, a little sand was sprinkled. The
big room was prettily adorned with bunt
ing evergreens and palms, and from the
caslons stretched long streamers OF bunt-
over the door between the coach room
and the stalls was a large portrait of JEFF
in flowers. Along the walls of the coach
room were arranged chairs for the ladies
ed as Kitchen chairs,'' but which were
not so called last night.
There are nine stalls in the stable In
f1ve were Mr.. Levy's horses, which, thanks
to McDonalds loving labor, wore very
of the other stalls-and all of them were
as sweet ana clean as could be-WGr6 used
as hat and cloak rooms.
In a third stall ice cream was constantly
men who could tell secrets about other
WOmens compilations. In the fourth
stalwart and good-looking men who drive
mlIhonalres, and who are the only men
Not a man there last night had a mus
tache, and not one wore a dress suit-only
clothes fitted them, and all showed pref
erence for strongly marked neckties
coaching horns and stirrlps The COACH
men and footmen were introduced to the
This is, Mr.. Cornelius vanderbilt's
Judge HiIto95s man Ia Ward E36ondV rs
This is Mr. Brayton Ives man, Thomas
It should be told for the benefit of hack
and bus drivers who wish to improve
their manners that these coachmen took
rank last night according to the position
in society of the men whom, in one sense,
fet most honoPe # y9gns va3deF
bits man asked her to dance, and was
w. D. Sloane's man. William McCebney
invited her to measure time to the very
Violin .--''''- '-----7 IA = PAM anu
E. G. Kings man, Hugh McDermott;
Edward kellys man, Patrick Kepp; Mrs
Norman L. Munro's man, Robert Thomp-
son, and Leonard Lewisohn's men, coach
ana loot, RoVert slower and James Deery
We're considered very good partners.
The barn dance, as it was euphoniously
called, began with z grand march, led by
the coachman of Alderman Thomas F.
Woods, president of the board Of alder
men, who seemed very happy. Between
maid Obliged with song or a jig. When
a man was introduced to maid he did
not bow, but raised his index finger to his
forehead, as if he was touching a cock
AIDED hat, thus proving that force of habit
is even stronger than politeness.
Dancing began at quite a fashionable
hour, 10 D.. m. Soon after Mitchell NJ
Levy and some ladies, returning from the
horse show, visited his coachman. They
We're most hOspita bly, received. John j.
Fox, president of the John J. Fox assocfa-
ton, made a little speech and expressed
the hope that Jefferson Levy would enjoy
himself in congress as much as Mr.. Nc
DOnaldS guests were then enjoying them
selves. Mr.. Levy sighed and said:
ssImDOsSible impossible"