The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-31
Hundreds of Members and Their
Friends Attracted by the Glow
ing Announcements.
OVERFLOW IN THE BALLROOM
THERE ALSO THE DECORATIONS
WERE ELABORATE.
Tonight the Entertainment VIII BE
Repeated, and Another Large
Crowd Is Expected.

night, for between the hours of s and
there were hundreds of people climbing
the stairs or going up in the elevator to
the roof garden or waiting on the pave
ment outside till they could present the
card which would give them admission
within the portals. The occasion was the
Chinese feast which the club has been ar
ranging for several weeks, and the fact
that there were so many guests that they
had to wait for admission to the clubhouse,
and then well-nigh OVERLOOKED IT, was
proof that they expected something out of
the ordinary in the way of entertainment.
And they found II. For up on the roof OF
the clubhouse Chinatown and fairyland got
mixed up in some inexplicable way, and
the result was most satisfactory to all
the members Of the club and the ZOO of
their friends who were fortunate enough
to have cards which admitted them to the
garden where this wondrous mixture was
effected. The first impression which the
visitor received when he stepped from the
elevator out into the garden was of lam
terns-brilliant. glowing lanterns. a riot of
color and light. There were lanterns which
were big enough and gorgeous enough to
light the Emperor of China; and there
icate of color and design. that only a bit
of fairy would be an appropriate owner.
And in between there were all sizes of Ian
| terms, some long and slim, some short and
| round, painted in brilliant or in delicate
| hues, but all Of them glowing with light.
CHINESE THINGS.
But the lanterns weren't all of II. After
| the lanterns one became aware of all kinds
of Chinese things, beautiful, wonderful or
grotesque. A wondrous fitted-up Chinese
den, where swung heavy lamps of Chinese
workmanship, and wall screens and tapes
| tries of the cunning Chinese handwork.
which has no counterpart in the Western
| world. fronted the entrance. The furniture
| placed in it was of quaint Chinese design,
and bamboo portieres and gay parasols
added their touch of color to it's brilliant
| effect An orchestra of fifteen pieces was
there, and all the members of the band wore
coolie costumes, which added to the Chi
| neseness" Of the general effect and detract-
ed nothing from the music.
Across from the den, right above the en-
| trance, hung a small balcony, painted scar
| let and yellow. where six musicians-three
girls and three men-twanged light guitars
and lighter mandolins. Hidden around one
corner. though not hidden so deeply that it
| was difficult TO find. was the booth, draped
with yards upon yards of colored stuffs in
| scarlet, yellow, green and purple-The Chi
| nese colors. Here were sold souvenirs of
the fete-all kinds of quaint, wonderful
| things from PARKWAY China
In the center of the garden was a great
pyramid of palms, which started out brave
| ly to touch the ceiling. but was prevented
| by an almost unbelevably big Chinese UNI
| brella-it looked almost like a Japanese
umbrella. but Japanese umbrella at
| Chinese feast is not TO be mentioned. The
| terms, for it was edged by fringe of little
| ones and big ones and medium-sized ones,
and where there We're not lanterns there
| plete the fringe Lesser pyramids of palms
and ferns stood at the sides of the garden.
and all around the edge of the garden ran
a fringe of what all other nights of the
summer is probably the club garden of
American pink geraniums and green things,
| but which last night, in the light of the
Chinese lanterns, seemed a mass of won
drous Chinese blooms
FEAST FOR THE PALATE.
And the Chinese feast was not merely
feast of light and color for the eye. There
was Chinese feast for the palate as well.
| For the serving of the feast there were
| Chinese tables of bamboo and to serve the
| feast there were fifteen men and fifteen
girls, all of whom might well have come
| straight from the land where all the women
| are Acknowledged and all the men wear pig
| tails. For the women were all Acknowledged
| and they all wore brilliant Chinese kimonas
and sashes whose beauty and brilliance
were part of the decoration, and they had
little pattery shoes and their raven tresses
were gathered up in the wonderful ways
| that Dame Fashion of China elects. The
men who trotted about with the trays were
in coolie garb. and If the black pigtails that
hung down beneath the coolie hats were
just make believe ones, at least everybody
in the Chinese garden was ready to make
believe that they were real ones. they
did just as well.
Ali during the evening there was music
| in the garden The orchestra in the Chi
neSe-decOrated bandstands played pro-
gramme of airs which had Chinaland or
China people for their themes. and In the
and gaas paVed At still rarer
there was the real for true" Chinese
music given by Mr.. and Mrs. Moy Kee
native Instruments which were effective if
not beautiful. Mr.. and Mrs. Moy Kee, even
when not playing. were among the chief at
fractions of the garden, and the guests filed
past them as they sat in front of the coolie
| perky little nod from little Mrs. Kee in
| her quaint Chinese costumes and tiny red
| satin shoes.
IN THE BALLROOM.
| The ballroom on the floor beneath the
roof garden prettily arranged as
summer garden, and it was here that those
| of the guests who could not make their
| way up the crowded stairs or in the ele-
vator into the Chinese garden sat about
| among the Towering trees at small tables
and ordered and drank American things,
| for the Chinese menu which prevailed on
| the roof did not obtain here
The fete will be given a second time this
| evening and the cards issued for Wednes-
| day evening will be used for this evening.
| There will probably not be so large a num-
| Der of guests present tonight, for the
cards have been issued only TO the woman
| friends OF the club MEMBERS and the num-
| Der issued was not so great as that for
| last night 1t is just possible that a small
er crowd may make the Chinese fete
still greater success tonight than IL was
last night, for the beauty of its decoration
and appointments will be more apparent.
One or the enjoyable features OF the fete
last night was the presence of a large num-
| Der of the -out-of-town members. who were
attracted TO the city by the announcement
| of the entertainment. A large party of
members from Greenfield and others from
! the northern part Of the State as we'll as
scattering members were among the bril-
| liant gathering which filled the clubhouse.
| The great success of the fete was due
| largely to the interchangeable work OF the
| chairman of the entertainment committee
| DR.. Harry c. Kahlo. and TO the superin-
| tendent