The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-12
BY ANNIE kENDRlcK WALKER.

BY ANNIE kENDRlcK WALKER.
 Mrs. Henry B. Gray. chairman of the patronesses for the Charity ball, has added another beautiful feature to the ball She has decided to have, in ad- dition 10 the brilliant ball which in it. self will be a most picturesque spectacle, no less so than the garden party on the same evening of the ball, a May pole dance, in which 16 belles and beaux will participate. It will be danced on the lawn. directly in front of the club house The illuminations will be brilliant and coored lights may be thrown upon the May pole dance. It will be one of the prettiest features of the ball. and will take place immediately after the grand march. Rehearsals for the May pole dance will begin on Monday at the club
 Those who have been selected to partici- pate in the May pole dance are Miss Sadie Gillespie, Miss Lizzie Morris Mason Miss Florence Smith, Miss Marjorie Weather ly Miss Marianne Hamilton, Miss Mary Kirkpatrick, Miss Mary George Crulk- shanK, Miss Anna Vanhoose, and MT. Ed ward Crawford, MT. Robert Gregory. MT. Tracy Lay. MT. Henry Bolton, Mir David Roberts, MT. Mercer Barnett Dr. Lorenzo Luclde and MT. Bert Meadow
 Patronesses for the Charity ball were announced in these columns a few days ago.
 It is intended to make the ball both beautiful and entertaining to those who do not come for dancing The garden party and the May pole dance will certain ly be attractive to hundreds of speeta- tors. Refreshments will be served on the club balconies and on the lawns, and the alfresco features will make the enter tainment perfect in every way. The it. luminations will make the grounds about the club house like fairyland and the arrangements for the Charity ball are on such an elaborate scale as to assure a most brilliant event socially. There have been no Charity ball to precede the one which Mrs. Gray is managing with slngnal success. and as these balls are to ] e annual events, it will establish pre- cedent for all future balls.
 The visit of MT. William E. Corey of New York city and the party of New York and Pittsburg people, who came
 
 vey," was the occasion of great deal of entertaining at the clubs the past week. While the party had suite of 15 rooms at the Hillman hotel, they seldom ap- peared in the cafe, as when they were not on their private car on their visit to the industrial plants, they were either dinning or lunching at the clubs. They frequently lunched on MT Coreys private car.
 The first of the series of dinners in honor of Mir Corey was given on Tues day evening by MT. and Mrs. Frank Hearne Crockard at their residence on South Nineteenth street. It was one of the most beautiful dinners of the season. Sweet peas were used in lavish profusion, hundrds of them in the table decora- tions and in the corsage bouquets for the women guests. Tulle in the sweet pea tints was used in big bows and the candles were shaded in silk fringed with gold and tied with sweet peas.
 MT George Gordon Crawford gave two dinners at the Country club in compliment to MT. Corey. They were universally pro- nounced the handsomest ever given at the club. For the first dinner on Wednes- day evening the decorations were in
 
 valley 4 canopy of smilax fringed with lilies of the valley was built over the table and this was studded with natural American beauaty roses and myriads of lights in crimson shades In the central decoration. which practically covered the circular table, over 100 American beauty roses were used.
 At the second dinner, on Friday evening, the large cafe was used, nearly 40 guests being seated at the table. The ceiling was garlanded and from the center hung a shower bouquet of Easter lilies tied with pink satin ribbon in a lovers knot. The lights were also decorated with shower bouquets, Easter lilies and La France roses being used with the pro- fusion that the northern guest always seems to associate with the south. The climax of the decorative scheme was reached in the miniature furnace embedded in Easter lilies. It was a complete replica, even to the hauling cars filled with ore, and upon which was inscribed, TT. C. l. By a clever contrivance beneath the table a draft was created which sent smoke Issuing from furnace stacks, and the ''plant'' appeared to be in operation by means of the electric wiring very cleverly .6ecuted In order to have details com plete a patternmaker at the furnace designed the one in miniature and more appropriate decoration for a dinner to MT. Corey and where the guests included a number of the most prominent iron" men in the district, could not have been selected At one of the dinners the din- ner cards also were decorated with minla- ture furnaces, the picturesqueness of the towers, and stacks, and the general Hook of a furnace. making an interest," ing picture when reproduced in water coiors Miss Douglass reproduced faith fully all the furnaces in the district. even to Tannehill, now in ruins. Garlanded with American beauty roses they were much appreciated by the New York party.