Show H milKO Oa or all W and bood Iro april 20 to many ot those ft lio are thronging now york in the of alie celebration alie greatest feature of all lathe grand cen dennial hall which took place at the metropolitan opera lionzo lo alt that money could ilo to carry out the scheme that was to diio a night of pleasure to six thousand people was lone and alie result van carriages began to roll up to hie entrance soon after oc look alie outer walli of the auditorium and the sides of the double staircases formed three sides of a garden and ed alues slues and flowering added to the natural effect while fruit trees were bet about in so natural a manner as challenged one to dispute the fact that one had just come in from outdoors out dors there aery apple trees iii bloxom and pear treed in bul beadi with strong of and cherry trees with every evidence except the hatchet elk ling in the base plural decorations included prunes and grapes even while lillies and hie balustrades and brudd 1111 a continuous panorama of ibcal venduro where aver you to go in afe corners of the corridors rarer i lauta and on each staid landing was a ini nature groe of beauty around tho thirty eighth street side was knottier garden but more artificial in appearance than eliat at the broaca ay entrance iru mediate entrances to ilie ground dancing floor were kept clear for ob v loaia reasons but when alie bight met the eo when once within abere is no word that better describes alie arst sensation one on en entering abo vast auditorium to ninlin than to ray eliat it was dialing diz ling from the center of the doino long streamers radiated to the side nails and all around alio tiers of bodei and balconies as well and lacre nas a wealth of decoration such as lias never before been attempted in new york little cnota of colors and trimmings of red white and blue arranged that tug advent of pretty costumes not only eulian ced the general eject but the continues themselves wore bene fitted thereby the fronts of alie lower tiers of boxes were drained with red a background of tho costumes of those dancing and were festooned festoon ed with wreaths and lowers while great piles of fluet the front rails of most of on the abapo atapo arose a huge architectural niada of illers and plant their co ar as to demand ad mi ration atiat prow as it wag studied more closely ahia structure airoso apparently to half alin height of ali proscenium arceli alie base occupied several yards of alie and alio llio loss of was atoned for in the gain to the spectacle it airoso in several terraced terr acea of dill ereal colored flowers the presidential box was in the center of one of the double tiers erected at lie back of the the trout was almost iov ored with palms a larno eala in the center surmounted by alie words washington 1789 and 1883 in colored electric lights ibe front of both tiers were curtained with silk 11 and decorated with groups of and great tn aises of flowers lo 10 parties began to coine in long the mayor hid arrived and by the timo word went around that the presidential party was coming elierd were very few vacancies among alie families represented in tins great concourse of expectant people were those ot william antor jodeit declet william f hamilton chauncey il depew I 1 1 l brido T gerry fisli kobert 0 S II ewitt hamilton fisli clan A siward henry cleba william il astor I evl I 1 morion stephen 11 liking aaran stevens vens ward was conspicuously absent during the earlier pait of the night but was been in his box alien dancing biad begun tuo orchestras were in position ach coiner was handed the dancing order at the entrance having twenty four numbers num beri alio supper room is one of great proportions beginning at broad H ay the end of thu temporary structure erected la threet it runs all alie way through to avenue and up to fortieth street forming two sides of a triangle it makes a supper room 45 feet wide and feet bolg with for at one time the aldei of altia stricture ture is lined willi colored bunting and is as decorated as any oilier pait of the opera hoac hundreds of baskets of blossoms blos Boms were mada uso of and only ono kind of flow era was allowed in each basket tho table blood at seventh avenue and thirty ninth corner his party could look boalt ways down the lines of the gnp per table just opposite tho table was a raised platform on w liichi w ere the m ans on the presidents table was a wreath 0 scarlet tulips white tulips and zaliah za liaa and hyacinths arranged upon a plateau of trailing arbutus the floral decoration resting upon a great oval mirror BIS ket wide and ten feet long completely tilling the centre of a great oval table tha tables in the supper room presented a most beautiful apara nuo before he work of devastation begin waa all an epicurean epic urian could wish to choose from mayor grant arrived at 10 itwara half past 10 when alie president came chero then nt n t room to move on tho flair and it ia a labor tj take three stepa in ti mr riders finally a detachment ut ilie second artillery Ai tillery signal corps managed torce a through the crowd from alio main enterante ent rante to the at exactly 1045 alie hilare of sou aud may or gran t offering ofle ring ilia arm to the began to walk lic tween of artilleryman artillerymen artillery men next came vice president morion and mrs harrisod Harri sou upon his arm and they were followed by governor hill and mra morion then come I 1 ho oilier members of tho presidential party aa they all between abo walls of humanity that pressed low on either side cheer after cheer went up and almost drown ed the tibiae of the trumpets arrived it bodeson tho biage the turned and was formally presented to alo members of ibe committee the strains of hail to tho chief and the reception was at an end the president ushered mrs imarri eon into abo box act apart fur ilcin vice morion and mrs morton also a boicos did mr and mrs Ilir the rest of the purly disposed in other bobea and all was then in beadi jeaa for the great quadrille at 11 tho struck ii alio star shingled I Sanner anil tho danco began it was nut n rapid dance it was sedate in the extreme senator smiled on liin partner but oth erwiM mat as enli solemnity about the a rural if it laid been I 1 lie most M Imil new on alia carlli alie president busied liin relf looking at alio llio brillient brilli int mono iu alio boxes and paid but little attention lu lie dancers As alio presidential pirty made ft circuit ut the ballroom mrs hani attracted much attention she looked well and happy her decea was a hovy gros gram cut with a princess train alio waist was trimmed with a pearl m silver corsage being filled with gnile held in place by ostrich teal liera as wai w the skirt tho front embroidery of the skirt was in the grecian key pattern matted in silver and pearls meeting panels of silver brocade and feathers and a shower of silver ornaments tell from the alio most notable in lie quadrille was mrs levi P morion her costume was of heavy white brocade bilk alie design acing ery ancient clusters of pink and wild strawberries hen half behind festoons fes of lilac fringed with belloir interwoven in the material the empire coat front baa of lilac silk falling over alio princ ebS front of ft lute erfia ile liw tha corsage was of brocade rimmed with lilac broad basli ends of lilac bilk being fastened to the back next to sirs morion noro more attention than mra wm and it was probably alio value an i brilliancy 0 her diamonds that formed the basis cf attraction among the throng were mr and JK ennedy 11 mrs km the being granddaughter of francis lewis one of alie signers of alie declaration of independence nn eral lloyd king col thomas 1 0 and congressman aneil cf pennsylvania ahe crowd on the floor was BO great at alio conclusion of the quadrille that at once it cas seen eliat it would bo useless to try to get on v etli alio dancing so ilni played promenade music and people moved about as icat they could at midnight the presidential party led the way to alie supper rooms and alie onslaught then beagan this exodus made a little room on alio 11 wr and dancing then began at was room for but a few couples but tho number creaked and by thealma alie president biad left the table wan in full swing and he slipped away quietly to ret pan of a nights rest the dancers if they go through tho whole order of dancing ull be tripping it long after daylight Cri tish altri NEW YORK april yi A number of militia men from alio this morning were nt trac ted ast were natt along north street by j large alaa floating fro ti a shop hindoy above american digs of smaller dimensions lets lake it down ir make do it said one soon a crowd was and they 5 oiled and at hie nig and demanded it bo ti en down atie sergeant in comman lof the soldiers requested the proprietor to lemoie alie nag or at least to place it below the stara aid ai d aliis tho proprietor seemed w ailing to do n hen lie ba the IA was obnoxious to ins neighbors but his wilo refused to the hig the soldiers alien drew their knives and soon biad alio iodia ig on alie w it bout alio resistance being oll erod when alio hag camo down alio llio crowd cheered further doivo the street faa hii above an american flag placed there by a airm who were ahng lili As jooa ais alia sul dierx requested that the flag be taken down aliey complied gratefully A member of the airm elated they had ms tho lag to alie breeze as a decoration and bad no idea it lio to any one As alio passed on toward broad way and dai appealed from sight they were roundly cheered tilt fr april 29 tha diioli A n to will publish for tho kirbt time an additional to alio hymn my country of thee the author of the 81 smith lias written a new stanza fur the dauta acu in lionor of alio national celebrated tomorrow to morrow he calls it lie lente st anasA and hopes to have it swa befaro it is a day old at a number of and mass meetings liero to morrow the lines are as follows our joyful lioi ts today to day their grateful tribute pay happy and free after our tolla anil fears after our blood and learn barong ith our bundred years 0 lord to thee crushed his skull on saturday evening about choa little boy of mr heath nian at alie depot residing on franklin between third and fourth climbed up into D accles lumber null in crawl nii around in lua ho tell through an opening in the floor a distance of twelve feet on a pil of brickbats brick bats he ft 11 on ills licad and crushed liis s ull dr II 11 J howera was at once summoned and he called dr perkins of the union iacino hospital to his as at 10 p m alio litile ono was placed under tho of ether and dr pel kins performed alio operation assisted by dr several large froia tho skull they had been 1 crushed in and were oil the membrane of tho brain fully ot an tho operation occupied un hour after removing the bone the wound was up and yesterday morning the little one was con and resting comfortably it is but a fen months ago that an older boy of mr heath was chught I 1 under a falling lumber puo and had hiis tiis thigh brolie ii ha ha however rocQ vered frum alie injuries and IB daini well hajy DI dince the lynno sunday will nive a ball in alie liann evening may afir for the purpose of means willi which to new boots fr alie school one of the ity banda mil furnish the iho ct alio hallway company the motor cira will aita and return at he close of tho dance liaina members alia members 0 tho oden city braith band will aleaga meet at the city hall this at in wu EMMET leader |