The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-17
All Attempts mt Local Entertainment
VIII Be Eclipsed on the Evenings
of July goth and 3Oth.
CHINESE MUSIC, CHINESE FEAST
BEAUTIFUL AND ARTISTIC DECORA-
TIONs FOR THE OCCASION.
Great Canvas Roof Will Protect
Guests Against Possible Ruin
Arrangements i'm Detail.

With Chinese lanterns OF red, green, yell
low and purple flaming in festoons of Chi
nese flowers, with Chinese orchestras softly
playing Chinese music, with Chinese wait
ers serving aristocratic Chinese food, with
Chinese joss sticks pertaining the air with
incense TO Confucius, the Columbia Club
will entertain its members and their ladies
in a Chinese garden the nights of
Wednesday and Thursday, July 20 and 80.
The roof of the Columbia Club these two
nights will be to the most exquisite detail
exactly ike fashionable garden of Picking.
with such modern improvements as Occi-
dentals excel in. superintendent Hurley
and the members of the entertainment COM
mittee, DR.. Harry Kahlo, chairman. DR..
George l. Hunt. Sam ID. Miller and Arthur
c. White. have not had much time to plan
the details of the entertainment. but so
much has been accomplished that the sue
cess of the affair is assured. The decora-
tions have been secured. the costumes or
dered, an army of walters employed, and a
hundred and one things essential to the
perfection of the scheme attended to.
Rain or shine. the Chinese garden cannot
fail. To guard against wet weather the
garden will be under canvas roof, SIS by 65
the lights would CLEAN, the music would go
on, and the Celestial entertainment would
still be success.
OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT.
The garden will be open from 1880 until Il
each night. On the first night members
will be allowed TO bring three ladies for
whom cards of admission must be procured
at the club. On the second night members
will be given the privilege of inviting three
ladies and one man from the city with the
same reservations as to cards of admission.
Accompanying the announcements which
are being sent out by the entertainment
committee are blank applications for cards
for guests
The lanterns. which will be one of the dis
tinctive features of the decorations, will
not be grouped I'm helter-skelter fashion,
but will be arranged artstically in perfect
keeping with the spirit of the entertain
ment. They will be of all sizes, all kinds
Dragons will spout flames. red globes will
swing. yellow devils will grin Indignantly
everywhere the four colors of the nation
will blaze. Three hundred lanterns from
the smallest, half foot in length to the
largest, three feet in length, will be used
The electrician who will take charge of this
part of the decorations three days before
the opening of the Chinese garden, will re-
arrange all the lighting of the roof and his
genius will find ample opportunity in the
lanterns.
Around the sides of the garden and
wherever there is a foot of available space
gorgeous Chinese flowers will bloom. There
will be not one but many bamboo trees
under which the guests can sit to enjoy the
viands of the Orient. Bamboo will be used
as a basic feature of the decorations in
festoons and lattice work. Great Chinese
umbrellas, some of them fourteen feet in
diameter, picturing Chinese scenes. will be
hung among the lights and flowers.
But the unique feature of the garden will
oe the Chinese kitchen. 1t will be placed
TO the right of the stage. Three Chinese
cooks will prepare the most delicate foods
within the range of their culinary expert
ence. A Chinese head waiter with fifteen
coolies and fifteen dainty japanese girls
to assist him will serve the guests at their
tables The Chinese servants will be
dressed I'm beautiful costumes of silk and
satin. For the men San Francisco was
searched for costumes. Marshall Field d
Co., of Chicago, are making the kimonas
for the Japanese girls.
FIvE-COURSE CHINESE DINNER.
There will be no edible Chinese dish that
a guest cannot order. A five-course Chinese
dinner will tempt him. Chow Mean. Lii
Hung Chang. chop sooey. Ii Chez ice
cream. rice cakes. Look On tea. hajaciji
wine. the heady drink of the yellow people.
birds -nest soup, and hundred other queer,
but good tasting foods will be cooked in the
garden and served by the silent, soft-footed
| COCileS anu Jap SlElS-
All the while three orchestras will be
| playing. Two balconies will be erected on
| the roof, each of which will be used by an
orchestra, and additional space will be
found for another one. Besides the bar
barrie Chinese chants and delightful songs
| indigenous to the country, the orchestras
will play operate airs from San Toy
"A Chinese Honeymoon and others. Dur
| ing the evening a Chinese gentleman and
| his wife will play duets on native instru-
| ments. The musical programme has been
arranged with the greatest care. A big
| photograph will render fifty Chinese airs
at intervals.
Ladies will have an opportunity of pur-
| chasing beautiful and dainty Chinese
| souvenirs. To the left of the stage will
| be erected a booth I'm which Chinese arti-
| cles secured through an importing house
| will be sold. There will be fans. bracelets.
| flags, pin trays, chop sticks, coins and a
| thousand other trinkets TO delight the
| feminine heart
Everything will be arranged in delicate
| taste, and there will be nothing objection
able even to those who have a prejudice
against the Chinaman and his ways.
| Everything will be new and especially pro-
cured for the occasion. The cost of the
| entertainment will be heavy, but the en-
| tertainment committee is determined to
| break all records and TO set a precedent
/ for future summer affairs