Show J BACHELORS AND BENEDICTS BALL WAS A UNIQUE AFFAIR Chicago Ch Jan 16 Chicago society eclipsed itself last night and anil early to today todar today day dar at the Bachelors and Benedicts ball The affair taking the place paco as aB It did lid of oC tho the midwinter cotillon tho tor big dance of the closing season was TillS tho the weirdest and an most fantastic social event ever held In the tho city The electrical favor had hod Its com cont coming CODling ing big out party In fantastic lighting and scenic displays on which thousands of or dollars were spent Tho The apparatus alone cost coat 1000 and anti ten ton mon men were necessary n o work tho the big spot and novelty lights which east their weird reflections about tho the great hall hail Tho The stunts and thoro were wore more than twenty of or them were the most fantastic and novel noel ever evor Introduced by b society In Chicago Weird monstrous snakes snake crept about tho the great ball bull room floor while lightning crashed and thunder roared Whirling seething curtains with motions motion would 3 Ji 2 fall fail f from tho coiling ceiling draping the tile dnn dan In their coils colls while vari varicolored arl ari I colored kaleidoscopic lights throw light lIsh l on the scone Long Italian gondolas lit iii by 13 h tiny cents ent across the tho floor while Venetian singers standing In their In Interior nor sang Ran love lovo 00 ballads Then tho the coile would change and the tIle dressed women and their com companions companions would be bo changed into a blinding maze of brilliant lights |