Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-12

slope WHICH ydMueu Opeu lO luc HCAl level-1O0 feet dOwn-an improvised floor had been securely built with floor space sufficient for a kitchen, a long dining room and anter-roOm for coats and an alcove for the orchestra which was comprised of a group of Mexican miner musicians, who dis coursed tuneful Spanish airs through out a dinner of seven courses.
 Electric Lights Flash Forth
 As the merry (though gasping) party entered the spacious under ground banquet hall, the gleams of innumerable electric lights flashed suddenly forth from festoons of gay red and green holiday decorations with which the earth walls and cell ings had been elaborately adorned.
 To the signal of a gong concealed in a huge silver bell swinging over the center of the table, the guests were seated about one of the most original and ingenious dinner tables ever ar ranged in Arizona-the state which has long been noted for it's clever stunt" parties.
 Lumps of Ore for Place Cards
 Place cards of Jumps of ore of vary ing grades with enameled name plates were the result of the efforts of the engineers office, while the blue print menu cards containing the following appropriate and unusual dishes were done on blue prints in the Tucson main offices.
 A Novel Menu
 A. s. & R. Co. Imperial Mine
 Silverbell, Arizona, Dec 31, 1918 Assay Plan-200 1t. L.
 Grape Fruit Porphyry Olive Nuggets" Celery "Stulls'
 Bullion" Soup la Mine Stump"
 Pavo releno a la "Stope "A"
 Cranberry Concentrates"
 Escalloped Potatoes Imperial"
 Asparagus "on the level' Ice Cream and Cake "Breccia'
 Coffee Black Oxide of Copper
 The Seasons Compliments. 200 it. level.
 Red carnations, .cOrnfloweTs and candy-tuft in tall vases gave the patri- otic note to the table decorations while candles in wood blocks and favors of fancy colored butterflies, parasols, Poirettes and clowns developed into crepe paper caps and buttonierres and added general note of brightness and good cheer.
 Toasts to Host and Hostess
 Toasts were drunk to the host and hostess, MT. and Mrs. Julius Krutt- schnitt, jr., and a number of interest ing features were introduced by Mir. Thompson and MT. Ben Hill of Tue son.
 The guests at the dinner were as fol low: MT. and Mrs. H. s. COrbett, Mir. and Mrs. B. C. Hill and Mir. and Mrs. Julius Kruttschnitt, jr., of Tucson; Mir. and Mrs G. E Anderson, Mir. and Mrs. A. Swan. MT. and Mrs. J. w. Hardy, MT. and Mrs. Alberto Mascaranas, MT. and Mrs. c. w DietZ, Mrs. Henrietta Davey. Mir. and Mrs. Edward Thorn ton of Silverbell, and Mir. and Mrs. Percy Williams of Fl Tiro.
 Following the dinner. the guests re- paired to a ball given at the company hotel Imperial to which number of Tucson and Sasco people together with the entire camp at Silverbell had been invited.
 The hall had been appropriately decorated with green and red orna- ments and festoons, while BOokman's s orchestra provided the music for the 100 couples participating.
 Greet the New Year
 Promptly at F o'clock scores of noise making favors were turned loose and the new year entered in the min ing camp with a clamor of voices and the shrilling toots of innumerable horns.
 Untrue to tradition there were no stage hold-ups staged" nor were there any sudden deaths, but these two in cidents could easily pass in this the baoinnino of a onaaoafup' wear