El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-01

5 day night when the first annual watch
{ party and dance was given at Hotei
/ Paso del NOrte by the FL PasO Soelal
club.
: Broadway had nothing on Ell Paso
/ street Tuesday night for brilllance OF
/ the New Years celebration. ThE dance
/ was held in the ballroom on the IOth
! floor of the hotel and the watch party
/ and supper in the main lobby. rms
I proved to be the most unique and spec
/ tacular event FL PasO society has ever
| witnessed and surpassed the annual
! New Years celebration which the no
! tells in San Antonio hold each year
! The tables for the $50 guests at the
! dancing party were arranged in the
! main lobby with a large center table
I in the middle, surrounded by smaller
| ones, giving an al frescO effect Whlch
/ was most pleasing in the big marble
At II o'clock the favors were dis
J tributed in the ball room, and the last
J dance, a Virginia reel, was started The
favOrs were Mardi Gras hats and caps
I of tissue paper in eccentric shapes and
| characters. These we're - orn during
the final dance by the raTclCrS and
converted Staid business men, PROBES
/ siOnaI men and army officers into
turkey trOtting China boys, tin SOL
dierS and clowns Everyone, including
| the girls, wore these caps and hats
during the dance ana down to supper.
The lights were then turned off and
the square dance COMPLETED by the
! light of a make believe mncn in the
Celllnk II
| band played for the dance and sur
passed itself in the swinging. dance in
spring music which it rendered.
The big feature of the annual New
downstairs. Everyone was seated in
the lobby dining room by 11:30 and
the first course Ct the supper WSS
served. A few minutes before u the
lights all over the lobby, dining room
and mezzanine floor were dimmed I'M
til the entire hotel was in darkness just
before midnight. An orchestra played
AUD Lang Syne' as the lights were
turned off. Just as the hands Of the
big office clock reached y. the music
stopped and a chime struck the hour
which uShered in the new year. The
orchestra then played Hot Time" and
bell boys stationed on the mezzan1ne
floor started a shower of glistening
sparklers and festoon streamers- The
effect was great, and when the diners,
who had also been provided with the
sparkIers and festOOns began throwing
the streamers and waving the SparklerS
in the dark. the scene was like an en-
chanted fairy land. The lights we're
slowly turned on and the picture on
the main floor of the big hotel was
applauded by the crowd OF spectators
in the smoking room AMI mezzanlne
floor. The paper festOOns were thrown
over the chandeliers until they hung
down over the watchers like snow. The
tables and floors were so filled with
these streamerS that 1t was almost I'M
possible for the walters to walk
through the paper storm Everyone
was provided with sack OF the
Year" they threw them across the lob
by to their friends. It was an original
idea and worked out perfectly, to give
a Mardi Gras effect to the new year
While the supper was being served.
Parvin Witte sang number OF solos,
late Soldier" Lewis CoggeshaH also
sang a beautiful baritone solo and the
Witte quartet sang number OF Sc
Iections during the supper. The or
chestra played old familiar airs while
the supper was being served and the
crowd sang the choruses to the songs
After the supper, the party went
back to the roof garden, where dancing
continued until , o'clock To Mr.. and
Mrs. J. L. Dyer, DR.. L G. Witherspoon,
Allen Grambling and Ballard COldWeu
belong the credit for Fl Paso's flrst
formal observance of New Years eve
as il is done in the east. Mr. Dyer, as
president of the Social club, planned
and executed the entire affair and in
Producing the novel ideas for the first
time in FL Paso Mrs. Dyer worked un-
ceasfngly in arranging the details and
she was congratulated many times
Tuesday night upon the complete sue
club were assisted by manager George
Benton and assistant manager Louis
Thoerner, of the hotel, in carrying out
the plans for the first annual watch
party.
Those present we-a:
Mr.. and Mrs. John l. Dyer. Maj. and
Fredericks. Mr.. and Mrs II. w. Broad
dus, Mr.. and Mrs. Claiborne Adams, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H Austin, Mr.. and Mrs
H N. Andreas. Mr. and Mrs. W R
Brown, DR.. and Mrs W L Brown, Mr.
and Mrs. ". S. Crombie, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Leavell, Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Aw-
brey, Mr.. and Mrs. 4. P. Coles, DR.. and
Mrs. James Vance, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman NJ. Walker,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Dudley. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. F. Kerr, Dr. and Mrs. G. A
Reinemund, Mr. and Mrs Davis May
field Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Moore. Mr.
and Mrs. J G. McNary, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert NeiIl, Mr.. and Mrs Charles New
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles POmeroy.
Mrs. J. A. Pickett, Mr. and Mrs. S. P.
Weisiger, DR.. and Mrs Hugh S. White,
DR.. and Mrs. l. G. WitherSpoon, MI.
and Mrs. Julius A. Krakauer, Lieut.
ell StackhOuse, Mr.. and Mrs. r. E
Thomson Mr.. and Mrs. A L LathrOp,
Mesdames J. E. Barkley and Roy Vol
colt. Misses Henrietta Buckler. Olive
Davis, Lucille Daniels Anne Thur
mond, Lucille Snyder, Ivah Cool, Wanda
Race, Doris Fredericks, Carrie Race,
kSice Wulff, Frances Mayfield, Lemire
ker, Martha Thurrlond Eileen
Josephine Clardy; Messrs. Bal
SQldweu, Tom Newman, ]. M. Rid
Sse1 Ramey Allen Srambling,
trick, Robert Holiday. Rob-
Noe Warrington, Eugene
nd, NJ. B. WessOn, B. F,
Downing, LOwther
80, tiisU Russell J.
ittakcr. Tanning
Fclnl5 MUrchi-
PANE, Talbot
HOughtOn, =.
acher. George
Z. Carpen- r
ger parties