The evening world., 1908-01-08
Randolphs, of Philadelphia, in
Coming Out Ball for
Daughter Exceed in Extrav-
agance The Similar Event
Given by Neighbor Paul.
Only This Time Victims Are
Not Crushed by Feet of
Dancers, and Pretty Fish
Caught with Hooks Are
Thrown Back Into Water.

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. s.-GorGeons'y
,lurnaged i've songbirds fu,tereo
,brourb miniature forests and simmer
ing goldfish darted about In clear little
lakes. to be caught with hook and line
Nv misses and matrons. al bal gwen
last night at the Bellevue-Strattord
Hotel when Miss Dorothy Randolph
made her debut.
Society to-day is convinced the Ran
da!phs have not only seen the James
". Pauls. who gave n mcrH S o,oN0 COM
4, c-out affair for Miss Mary .Nsior Paul
in this city a few weeks AGO. ut have
gone them one or two better
The Pauls had to content ther'se'''es
with the noveity OF freeing fifteen
hundred tive butterflies. The Randolphs
combed the American and foreign mar
kets for beautiful birds that could sing
Ike ,rma do! ma. and sayly colored
fishes that lit no the depths of artificial
pools like golden shooting stars. So
ciety is in a sort of ccsta.ic despair
ove- the effect of 1.-THE despair being
due 20 the lurking fear that no Phila-
delphian will he abe to think OF any
thing more oddly extrava CANT tor the
future.
If there be one feature in which the
ball OF the Pauls outdd that of the
To-, ,la fa Ia, l,a
weak little lives of most OF the butter
flies were ended beneath the feet of
happy dancers. or against the not
globes of electric arc lights.
Torture but No Slaughter.
The Randolphs' songbirds were not
slaughtered-they kept we'll out of the
way OF glancinE feet-and the goldfish
were thrown back in the water when
the Joy OF striking a hook in their
mouths and drawing them from the
pools had been felt.
But then Miss Pauls ball cost only
Sloov0 and Miss Randolph's father beat
that. 1t is declared. by $4,000 at least.
Twelve hundred guests assembled in
the grand ballroom of the Bellevue
Stratford for this affair of all Phila-
delphia affairs. Among them were Mr..
and Mrs. George Gould. Mr.. and Mrs.
Eric Dahlgren, Mrs. John r. Drexel
and Miss Marjorie Gould. of New
York. There they found themselves in
Q woodland so arranged that the long
arcadAs OF real trees seemed to open
before them and lead off into some
fairy domain.
Rustic bridges spanned the little
lakes. Bowers of roses, made to ap-
pear as IL nature in her love OF beauty
had grown them on the spot, were ar
ranged here and there. Fountains cast
their spray like dew on the fowsrs
Up in the trees were the birds-gay
canaries sombre mocking birds and
focks Of all the birds that Philadelphia
gold could bring in from their natural
abodes. sat on limbs in painful silence
and looked down through the glare of
tinted lights on scene such as Rome
never saw even in the days when the
empire was selling at the lowest prices
1t ever brought.
Victims Of the "Fun.'
The birds didn't seem anXi--s to
sing. They could not understand what
1t was all about. and they appeared to
long for the silent forest where civil
xstion had not come with Its refined
and cultured wand
The goldfish-there were other sorts
of fancy fish. too-swam with kin
O, dull content through their lakes.
The lakes were Of real water, and that
was sufficient for the fishes But When
hooks fell among them they bit with
terociousness which would have per
haps convinced old Izaak Walton they
were hungry. Beautiful girls and
women cast the lure gracefully. and
laughed with the delight that comes OF
the chase when the li.tle foolish f!nny
things snapped their soft Jaws on the
sharp hooks.
But there was no sloatiuS over the
pain of the FISH. The ladies had their
partners uuloose their catches and side
them back-to bc caught again If tne.r
first experience had no: overcome their
hunger.
Taken all in all the society folk pro-
nounced the ball exquisite"
Mr. Randolph was called rare genius
in devlsing such an unusual an ir He Is
the owner OF most OF Narraglnsc:t Pier
snl holds tile to u slice OF Lakewood
which furnishes MIN AZ income I'm ad-
dit!on to other interests. wAiah viii not
feni lulg the effect OF his last m-IJs
expenditure. even though times are d
trihe dull.