The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-11
IN oGLETHoRPE'S CoLORS
The Guards Hall Was Decorated for
Monument BalI Last Night.

beauty
mirable in the spirit which prompted
it. and the memories which it hon
ored. the Oglethorpe manument ball last
evening must be counted one of the
notable successes of this season and
of many seasons past. That it had a
deeper significance than its merely So
cial side, in recalling, for new honors,
a man who stands, among many Won
derful figures in Georgia history, alone
and remarkable, gave it, in the touch
of patriotic feeling it aroused, an adj
ditional charm. The Guards Hall had
never looked more beautiful, and in it's
decorations, which bore the colors of
Oglethorpe, white and green, and his
shield, showing the black boars' heads,
touched the significant note of the en-
tertainment.
The chaperones were Mrs. w. w.
Gordon, Mrs. Walter G. Charlton. Mrs.
]. A. G. Carson, Mrs. Rauers, Mrs.
]. H. Estil Mrs. Isaac Minis, Mrs.
w. A. Bisbee, Mrs. B. H. Levy and
Mrs. James T. Dent.
The balcony at the western end of
the hall was screened with bamboo
and drapery of green and white.
Softening the curtains of the back
ground were trailing vines of wild
sn6lax, looped into garlands where
they fell from the lower edge. Beneath
this gallery was draped the flag of
Georgia, and before it stood a pyramid
of cocoa palms and ferns, giving a
charming decorative touch to this por-
ton of the hall. At the corner, the
musicians platform was screened with
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around it's base were arranged many
rare tropical plants. A narrow frieze
of smlax outlined the wainscoting be-
low the windows, and was continued
above falling into fuller garlands
across their sheer white curtains, sur
rounding the shield of Oglethorpe.
which was hung upon each. Tall and
graceful palms were placed on the
floor between the windows and mass
ed together on the musicians stand,
giving just the needed softening touch
to the severe outlines of the hall.
A great American flag hung at the
southeastern corner, reaching almost
from the ceiling to the floor, made
brilliant spot of color in the room.
Here at the center stood the receiving
party in a recess formed of palms.
Above them was a portrait in oils
of the great general, draped with two
British flags. The smaller gallery
which overlooks the hall was pref
tily decorated with bamboo, into which
was thrust the regimental flags of the
Fifth United States Cavalry, and the
space below was shut in by an en-
broidered screen that added an at
tractive touch to this corner.
From overhead, across the entire hall,
fell a lovely canopy of smilax, glisten-
ing in the light of innumerable cleo
trio bulbs Vines were caught at each
corner of the room and drawn up to-
gether at the center almost entirely
hiding the ceiling, and from the middle
were stretched wide bands of bunting,
alternately white and green, upon
which vines of smilax, holding many
small electric bulbs, were strung. The
shades that covered the lights were
handmade, fashioned of crepe paper in
green and white, and were eXquisitely
pretty and f1owerlike in effect, the
gree mailing from the drapery OF
white and the white from the green.
At the center was a dropping cluster
of lights, fastened to a garland of sml-
lax, and from it two flags were broken
out, American at one side, British at
the other, full of suggestion to those
who reflected, in the midst of the
general gayety, upon the purpose OF
the entertainment and the life of the
man it sought to honor.
The stairway and hall leading down
to the supper rooms on the first floor
were carpeted with red, and lined with
palmettos, which, brought in from Mr..
DeRenne's place, were grouped to-
gether at intervals along the halls,
making most effective decoration. The
stair rail was twined with bamboo, and
bamboo covered the chandelier at the
entrance. Rare and beautiful roses
from Greenwich House, a gift from Mr..
Shooter, made the supper rooms love-
ly. American Beauties. La France,
pale yellow, and delicate white, they
were an exquisite mass of color and
sweetness. An elaborate and delight
full supper was served.
Among those present during the
evening were Mr.. and Mrs. J. S.
Wood, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Chestnut,
Dr. and Mrs. ]. M. Thomas. Hon.
and Mrs. Roland Leigh, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. w. Gordon, Jr.. Capt. and Mrs. f.
D. Bloodworth, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Heard Hunter. Mr.. and Mrs. Godln
Guerard. Jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. A. l..
Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Law
ton, Judge and Mrs. Henry McAlpin,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert NJ. Hitch. Mr..
and Mrs. William E. Harper, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Bacon. DIR. and Mrs.
]. Lawton HERS, Capt. and Mrs. j. Z.
Postell, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Daff1n,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hunter. Mr. and
Mrs r. T. Semmes, Mr. and Mrs;
OBrien, Mr. and Mrs. Scherff, Dr. and
Mrs. w. E. Fitch, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Aver, Mr..
and Mrs. Cooper Myers, Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Howard, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry M.
Steele, Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius F.
Moses, Mrs. G.. H. Remshart, Miss
Blanche Mohr, Miss Gutman, Miss
Remshart, Miss Mary Wayne, Miss
Bessie Denham, Miss Isabel Shotter,
Miss Eliza Lamar Hull, Miss Eunlce
Lippman, Miss Estelle Gutman, Miss
Parrish Miss Elsie Barnard, Miss
Edith Robinson, Miss Angie Cub
hedge, Miss Stella Bailey, Miss Marion
Maclean, Miss Cornela Maclean, Miss
Catherine McIntire, Miss Ethel Mcln-
tire, Miss EclSstein, Miss Helen Bins
Wanger, Miss Edith Ulmer. Miss Car
oline Medrim, Miss Clermont Huger,
Miss May duBignon, Miss Freda
Rauers, Miss Gladys Lippman, Miss
Rita Gutman, Miss Withers, Miss Molly
NewcoIab Miss Righton Habersham,
Miss DeRenne, Miss Dora Cohen, Miss
Georgia Wayne, Miss Lily Anderson,
Miss Greenlea of Asheville, Miss An
derson of Fort Screven, Gen. w. w.
Gordon, Mr.. j. A. G. Carson, Col. j. H.
Estill, Mr.. w. J. DeRenne, Mr..
William Barnwell Mr.. Dan Hull,
Mr. Clarence Connerat, Mr.. Remer
denmark, Mr.. Thomas Denmark Mr..
Cosmo Hardee, Mr.. Thomas Harper,
Mr.. Edward Barnwell, Mr.. William
May, Mr.. Sam Clay. DR.. Louis War
neld Mr.. Lathrop Morehead, Mr. Ray