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Show i BACHELORS' AND BENEDICTS' BALL WAS A UNIQUE AFFAIR. Chicago. Jan. 16. Chicago -society eclipsed itself last night and early today to-day at the Bachelors' and Benedicts' ball. The affair, taking the place, as it did. of the mid-winter cotillon, the big dance of the closing season, was the weirdest and most fantastic social event ever held in the city. "The electrical favor" had Its com-mg com-mg out party In fantastic lighting and j scenic displays on which thousands of dollars were spent. The apparatus I alc;no cost $4,000 and ten men were necessary o work the big spot and ! novelty iights which cast their weird reflections about the great hall. The. "stunts" and there .were more than twenty of them, were the most i fantastic and novel ever Introduced by society in Chicago. Weird, monstrous i snakes crept about the great ball room j floor while lightning crashed and j thunder roared. Whirling, seething j curtains with snake-like motions wouli i fall from the celling, draping the dan-; dan-; (trs In their mesh coils, while vaii-j vaii-j colored kaleidoscopic lights threw j fantastic light on tho scene. Long j Italian gondolas, lit by tiny incandes-j incandes-j cents swept across the floor, while . Venetian singers, standing in their ln-' ln-' tcrior. sang love ballade. Then the j t-cenc would change, and the sumptu-! sumptu-! ounly dressed women and their com-i com-i panions would he changed into a ; binding maze of brilliant varicolored J lights. |