The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-02-27
FANCY DRESS
PATIENTSBALL
New Jersey State Hospital
Holds Its Twenty-seventh
Annual Last Night
WAS A BRILLIANT SUCCESS

w AO "A ONAALkA4t4 OONNECO
The Costumes Worn by the Patients
We're Tasteful and Excited the Adj
miration of the Several Hundred
Guests who We're Present by Invi-
tation From the Managers of the
Institution.
The twenty-seventh annual fancy
dress ball for the benefit and entertain
ment of the patients of the New Jersey
State Hospital has gone into history.
The event occurred last night and was a
decided success from every standpoint
including that of attendance, and num-
bered among the guests were men famed
in the political and business life Of the
state as well as ladies of social promi
nence. The hospital management had
issued about six hundred invitations and
goodly proportion of these were res
ponded to in person. The ladies were
gowned in bright colors, the gentleman
clad in conventional evening dress. and
these mingling with the vari-colored
costumes of the masqueraders formed
scene of brilliancy and coloring such as
may be witnessed only on such occa-
sions and in such places
Promptly at eight o'clock the signal
was given for the opening of festivities
and Mr.. Hughson and Miss Cummings
entered the hall IN costume and march
ed to the centre Of the large room where
they were duly presented to George and
Martha Washington who were repre-
sented by Warden Everitt and Miss Ida
Rittenhouse. The patients then con-
tinued to enter the hall in pairs about
twenty seconds apart and their names
were announced by the Herald. DR..
Peter S. Mallon, after the CARDS were
handed him by James N. Hyde Jr. who
has served as page for the past ten years.
AS the couples were introduced they
formed in line on the side of the hall.
| The grand march was then begun and the
line trod in stately manner toward the
stage, and began the formation of COM
plicated figures gracefully executing
them and skilfully performing the
parts assigned; the whole forming a
spectacle Of grandeur enhancing to the
spectators and apparently greatly en-
| ioyed by the participants. The march
ended in a bewildering maize of spiral
INTERVIEWING that caused one to wonder
at the expertness of the dancers and the
patience of those who had trained them.
Among the characters entitled to
special mention for the expertne SIS
with which they performed their parts
as we'll as the unique manner in which
their costumes were constructed were
those of ''Alphonse and CASTOR" as in
terpreted by Mr. Ball and Mr.. McCarry.
The antics of this pair attracted partic-
ular attention and they depicted the
characters as humorously as did the
cartoonist who invented them.
Buster Brown" and Leon" two
modern victims of the humorous pencil
were delightfully."- portrayed by Master
b. Buckley Evans, son of DIR. Evans
whose antics were rather suggestive of
naturalness, and William Ruth the Hos
pital humorist Miss Margaret Evans
and Miss Bertha LeBlond were charm
ingly costumed as Miguonette and Wild
Ro e. Miss Soaring and Miss Hill at
tracted much attention in their charact-
ers as girls of Sunny Southern Cline.
Messrs Hunt and M ,kenzie were col
ored men.
After the grand march there follow
ed costume dance by the patients of
the hospital only, and then the guests
of the evening were permitted to enjoy
themselves on the dancing floor.
Music was furnished by the Hospital
orchestra under the directorship of
Prof. George GraiIey.
The several rooms were handsomely
decorated with palms and hot house
plants taken from the hospital green
house.
The evening was great success and
the several hundred people present
seemed to have exhausted Morristown's
capacity for furnishing conveyances to
get them to the scene of it all.