The Washington herald., 1909-02-02

Teddy in Darkest Africa" in rough
rider costume and accompanied by nature
fakers, official photographers. Secret
Service men, guides. prize-fghters. scien-
lists. Hfe-size teddy bear. an elephant.
which. al the most Inopportune moments,
would part IN the middle, and a whole
tribe OF African savages formed the fea-
ture at the annual grand masquerade
ball OF the Arion Gesangverein az Ma
tionaI Rifles Hall last night.
II should not be imagined. however.
that Teddy was the only pebble on the
beach. for the great auditorium was much
too small to comfortably accommodate
the great number OF fancy. original. and
comical masks which had entered the
contest Of mirth and nsrretei.
Unique Costumes.
There we're rainbow ladies. japanese
Geisha girls. clowns with black mouths
and red noses. Indians with patent leather
slippers. dairymaids. fortune tellers. Ger
man handwerksbursche loafers and
buns" with buIby noses and big toes.
farmers with hay whiskers and straw
hair, japanese Samurai with diamond
rings and red neckties. sausage-makers
with sawdust dogs. Marguerftes and
MephistopheieS. foweT-girls. comets.
American Beauty rose girls. Scotch
laSsies, a barn dance company. cavaliers.
.colonials. Puritans. Quskers, Dutehnen.
Irishmen, Frenchmen, "dazoes." Spanish
pirates, Welsh coal miners, and many
others.
The following prizes we're awarded
Ladies' first prize. rose Eirl. Miss Minnie
Coulter; second prize. comet. Miss Minnie
GTaUe: third prize. fortune teller. Miss
Eta White; fourth prize. coiOred nurse,
Miss J. H Thomas Gentlemen: First
prize, John D. Rockefeller. John Doerr;
second prize, sausage maker, Mrs. August
Schmidt; third prize. woodsawyer,
George Pitt: fourth prize. German
immigrant. Hermann Fischer: Groups:
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liam Smith. " A Crawford, ].
". CarmOdy. Theodore Griffin. Edward
Schmidt, J. Fitzgerald. John and Mrs.
EckenrOde, J. Flynn. Mrs. Gus Schmidt,
Mrs. tn. Griffin. Miss Viola Latham. Lu-
retta. Katie. and limo Griffin. Kate and
MarieeBuckley; second group prize, barn
dance, August Schwarz Misses Anna
Schwarz, Eleanor Schwarz. Elsa Lossau,
Margarete Holzer. Nay Lohmayer. Lulu
Buechner, and Paul Schwarz.
The judges were: Alexander Brink. Mr..
Miller, and Anton Lerch. and those In
charge Of the ball consisted Of:
Members OF Committees.
Amusement committee-Henry Wass-
mann, Charles Gerner, William wjex-
mann. August Schmidt. John wischhusen.
and William Xander.
Reception committee-P. NJ. Becker.
Carl Brodt. Julian Egl0ff. Harry Roths-
child. W Ruckdaeschel. Emil G. Schaef-
fer, John Sterzer, and Fred Stohlmann.
Floor committee-WilIIau1 Wiegman7
Louis Schmidt, Fred Reisinger. Fred
PTeisneT. August Schmidt. Henry StaffeI
John Schaedler. and John Schaener.
William Tell Lodge. No. ). I. o. K OF
P. entertained its friends and invited
guests az Masonic Temple al their annual
masquerade ball last night and the fol-
lowing committee was in charge:
Executive committee - Chas. KuecbIs
chairman; Karl Egolf. Chr. BeiIstein. Ia
Bruegger. John Kraft. Carl Hamnel On
MaieT, Geo. Miller. tr.
Reception committee-C. T. SchwegJer
chairman; Ernst FloegeI. Dan. Mar
quardt, Geo. Koppman, Walter Dement,
Carl WamPl. Jean Fishbsch, Ben WaIz
Theo. Weimsr.
Floor committee-Geo- Miller. jr.. chair
man; Fritz Hennige. Chas Maier. Carl
Hammel, Theo- Weimar. Z. R. Chism.
Emil Waltert, John Kraft. Alois Rein
hart Philip Dittes.
Refreshment committee-Conrad Schroe-
ter, chairman: Carl Egolf. Chr. BeiIste;n.
John Kraft. Carl Hamme.