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THE NINETY-EIGHT PROM
It was a Good One—The Quality of
Visitors, Supper and Decorations
—Names of Several Hundred
of the Guests of Yale.
The Junior Prom of Ninety-Eight,
which was brought to a close yester-
day morning in the 2d Regiment Ar-
mory at 4 o'clock, practically ended
the festivities of the social week at
Yale. The affair, like most of its
predecessors, was a complete success,
and great credit is given by all com-
petent critics in attendance, including
the “oldest living graduates’ present,
to the Ninety-Eight Committee, whose
plans were laid so well. The members
of this committee were as follows:
William E. S. Griswold, Chairman,
of Erie, Pennsylvania; Frederick H.
Brooke, Floor Manager, of Birdsboro,
Pa.; Henry T. Bowles of Springfield,
Mass.; Harold €. Cheney, of ‘New
Haven; James M. Magee, of Pittsburg,
Pa.; Carroll F. Sweet, of Grand Rapids,
Mich.; Alfred G. Vanderbilt, of New
York City;-Charles H. Welles, Jr., of .
Scranton, Pa.; William F. Whitehouse,
of New York City.
A departure was made this year in
the decoration of the Armory which
was very striking in effect. Instead of
the more delicate shades of color in use
in past years, a shade of dark red was
used alternately with white, running
from floor to eaves, on the walls. In
the middle of each bar of red was a
Japanese panel of black and_ gold
draped with white; the ceiling was
hung with a light blue, while from the
galleries draperies of white over red
were suspended, the latter edged with
a heavy gold-brocaded border. The
iron girders were wreathed with smilax.
Banks of palms and potted flowers were
used to decorate the entrance and
numerous boxes.
Maresi of New York catered and
Lander’s orchestra and band furnished
the music, the former generally play-
ing the dances and the latter the inter-
missions. At times both were com-
bined in a tremendous volume of tone
with inspiring effect. ie
The supper invoked less maledictions
than usual. Some went hungry away,
using gutturals, but most who had
a modicum of patience got something
to eat and all of it was quite edible.
Often the coffee was warm. The stag
room sent forth its usual steady roar,
but the football practice there was not
over severe or too long sustained.
The surplus after paying all expenses
for this years’ Prom will fall considera- .
bly lower than for several past, being
estimated at something near $800 com-
pared with $1300 in 1897. This is due
partially to the lack of generous sub-
scriptions, this source of revenue yield-
ing several hundred dollars less than
the lowest noted for many years.
The personal equation of critics
enters so largely into any judgment
comparing the personal appearance of
the visitors with those seen at other
Proms that a judgment on this point
is to be given with caution. One re-
cent graduate, of finely trained powers
of observation and exquisite taste, gave
it as his judgment that the number
of fair visitors present, who might
be classed as beautiful, was not as
large as last year and some other
years, but that there were sundry
young women in attendance of ex-
traordinarily attractive appearance. An-
other good judge said that it was
perfectly evident that such a galaxy of
beauty was never beheld at any Uni-
versity function. One of these two
statements, or something between them,
is unquestionably the correct judgment
on this point, and would need only a
few modifications. You ought to have
been there, to see for yourself.
Incidentally it might be said that
- livery bills were kept down a good deal
by the weather, which was so beauti-
fully fair on both Monday and Tues-
day, barring only the snow storm on
the night of the Prom itself, when
carriages are always necessary.
SENIOR GERMAN.
Immediately after the Promenade
Concert about fifty members of the
Senior Class with their partners went
to Lenox Hall, where the Senior ger-
man was held. The dancing com-
menced shortly before eleven o’clock.
The cotillon was led by Messrs. Frank
Hunter Simmons and Horace Wilder
Wilcox.
The hall was tastefully hung with
ropes of smilax and decorated with
palms. >
Supper was served at 12.30, aiter
which the dancing was resumed and
continued until four o’clock.
In all there were five favor figures,
two of which were souvenir, as follows:
Boutonniers for men, aigrettes for
girls; ash receivers for men, vinai-
greties for girls;
favors for which were presented by
Mrs. F. H. Betts, Japanese tobacco
pouches for men, feathered fans for
girls; second souvenir figure, for which
Mrs. R. G. Dun presented as favors
silver-mounted shaving brushes for
men and cut glass bonbon boxes with
silver covers; and cordial bottles for
men, leghorn hats for girls.
The couples danced together as fol-
lows:
Grenville Parker with Miss Daisy
Greer of New York; James Otis Rod-
gers with Miss Mary Brooks of Cleve-
land; Isaac Newton Swift with Miss
Stockton of Chicago; Hayes Quincy
Trowbridge with Miss ‘Charlotte Lowe
of Plainfield; Lewis Mason Williams
with Miss Julia Cobb of Cleveland;
Julian Starkweather Mason with Miss
Theodora Cheney of South Manches-
ter; George Gebner Schreiber with
Miss Eunice Terry of New York;
Archibald Cary Harrison with Miss
Perkins of New York; Edward Clark
Streeter with Miss Plummer of N. Y.
Thomas Allen, 3d, with Miss Harriet
Brown of Baltimore; William Lock-
wood Barnett with Miss Edith Barnett |
of New Haven; Ashbel Hinman Bar-
ney with Miss Susan McCook of New
York; Wyllys Rosseter Betts with
Miss Ada Godfrey of New York;
Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., with Miss
Elizabeth J. Burlingame of
Wilson Kelley Chisholm with Miss
Cora Hale of Cleveland; William Fran-
cis Dominick with Miss Alice Dom-
inick of New York; ‘Robert Graham
Dun Douglass with Miss Lucy James
of New York; Adelbert Stone Hay
with Miss Edith Hyde of Plainfield;
Robert Reynolds Hitt with Miss Ger-
trude Sard of Albany; Frederic Ker-
nochan with Miss Anne Potter of New
York; Theodore Alexander McGraw
with Miss Estelle Barbour of Detroit;
Jay Chandler McLauchlan with . Miss
Harriet Bigelow of Brooklyn; Orlando
Paul Metcalf with Miss Christine Met-
calf. of Pittsburg; Seth Minot Milliken
with Miss Margaret Wilder of Elmira;
Arthur Douglas Baldwin with Mrs.
Alfred Hartwell of Boston; Clifford
Dudley Cheney with Miss Hubbard
of Cambridge, Mass.; Gilbert Sedg-
wick Cowan with Miss Carolyn Hook-
er of New Britain; Raymond Moreau
Crosby with Miss Helen Crosby of
Grand Rapids; Marshall Jewell Dodge
with Miss Pierson of Hartford; Morris
Upham Ely with Miss Virginia Toler
souvenir figure, the:
Albany; -
of Brooklyn; Herbert Draper Gallau-
det with Miss Marion Gallaudet of
Washington; Alexander Ingersoll Lew-
is with Miss Madeline Evans of Morris-
town; Francis Sherwood Male with
Miss Florence Lounsberry of New
York; William Stevens Ray with Miss
Harriet Evans of Morristown; Julien
Ashton Ripley with Miss Susan Ken-
nedy of Brooklyn; Frederick Theodore
vanBeuren, Jr., with Miss vanBeuren
of New York; John Welles with Miss
Georgianna Welles of Wethersfield;
Henry Burt Wright with Miss Alice
Wright of New Haven; Albert Francis
Judd, Jr., with Miss Madeline Hart-
well of Boston; Luther Guy Billings
with Miss Else Ely of Brooklyn; Rich-
ard Nicholls Barnum with Miss Char-
lotte Barnum of Lime Rock, Conn.
The stags were Messrs. Byers, Hitch-
cock, Butler, Meigs and Winthrop.
THE JUNIOR GERMAN.
The Junior german was held in
Alumni Hall closely following the
Prom Concert, and was danced by
nearly a hundred coples. The hall
was decorated with palms, ferns and
other potted plants, massed on the plat-
form and at the corners and windows,
and. the ceiling and girders were draped
with smilax.
The german was led by F. H.
Brooke, ’99, and W. E. S. Griswold, ’99.
Twe favor figures and three dances
were danced before supper, which was
served by Maresi of New York. After
supper there were three favor figures
and, two dances, lasting until about 4
A.M. The souvenir favors were silver
match boxes engraved with the class
~ numerals for the gentlemen, and silver
pin trays engraved in the same way for
the ladies. The prettiest of the fancy
favors were the Yale calendar frames
for the ladies. The music for the ger-
man was furnished by Louis Weil of
New Haven. Following is a list of
those who danced: C. W. Abbott, ’99,
with Miss Alice Houghton; M. T.
Adams, ’99, with Miss Katharine R.
Wood; A. K. Alford, ’98 S., with Miss
Katharine Rising; S. D. Ames, ’g9,
with Miss Mary C. Greer; L. D. Arm-
strong, 99, with Miss Elizabeth Brown;
W. A. Barstow, ’99, with Miss Flor-
ence Day; C. G. Bartlett, Jr., ’99, with
Miss Emma Grant; C. A. Belin, ’99,
with Miss Anna Barker; W. F. B.
Berger, ’99, with Miss Daisy Smith;
H. M. Bissell, ’99, with Miss Ethel
Smull; H. T. Bowles, ’99, with Miss
Georgiana W. Adams; D. M. Boyd,
799, with Miss Margaret Putnam; C. A.
Brayton, ’99, with Miss Julia Cobb; S.
M. Buckingham, ’99, with Miss Olive
Young; J. E. Bulkley, ’99, with Miss
Marion Fish; C. H. Burtis, ’99, with
Miss Nellie C, Tait; E. P. Campbell,
798. S., with Miss Violet Lithgow; B.
C. Chamberlin, ’97 S., with Miss Char-
lotte Barnum; G. S. Chappell, ’o9, with
Miss Feitner; F. V. Chappell, ’o8S.,
with Miss Mary Chapin; G. S. Chaun-
cey, ’08S., with Miss Florence Lee and
Miss Adelaide Chauncey; H. C. Che-
ney, ’90, with Miss Alice Cheney; W.
F. Cochran, Jr., 98 S., with Miss Mabel
Cawning; C. E. Coffin, ’99, with Miss
Mabel Ritzinger; L. Coggswell, Jr.,
’99, with Miss Cornelia Coggswell; C.
H. Conner, Jr., ’99, with Miss Julia
Lawrence; ..B. Conner, ’99, with
Mrs. J. Verner Scaife; R. Darling, ’99,
with Miss Julia Ensign; C. P. Dodge,
’99, with Miss Lucy Pierson; G. W.
Dulany, Jr., ’98S., with Miss Celia
Main Hayden; M. D. Eames, ’99, with
Miss Olive Eames; J. L. Evans, ’90,
with Miss Mary Weston; C. M. Fair,
’99, with Miss Alice Walton; G. A.
Farley, ’99, with Miss Louise Allen;
L.. Fitch, ’98S., with Miss Henrietta
Erling; R. E. Forrest, ’99, with Miss
Marie Louise Register; F. T. Gause,
. Stone,
798 S., with Miss Florence Ingraham;
G. C. Greenway, Jr., ’08S., with Miss
Sarah Greenway; W. F. Gibson, ’08 S.,
with Miss Edla Gibson; S. M. Hawley,
99, with Miss Daisy Smith; J. P. Hen-
ry, 99, with Miss Annie Henry; C. J.
Herrick, ’99, with Miss Helen Herrick;
W. O. Hickok, 4th, with Miss Marion
Watts; E. F. Hinkle, ’99, with Miss
May Denton; R. Hooker, ’99, with
Miss Carol King; F. Hotze, ’99, with
Miss Rosa C. Vincent; R. R. Howard,
798 S., with Miss Gertrude E. Howard;
fh. RS I[neraham, ’o8'S., with “Wiss
Leontine Thomson; W. S. Johnson,
799, with Miss Ethel Reynolds; P. R.
King, Jr., ’98S., with Miss Bessie
Brown; E. F. Leeds, ’98S., with Miss
Mabel Platt; E. H. Lewis, ’99, with
Miss Ela Clark: ©. B; Wessig; -’og,
with Miss Margaret: Burtis; R.’ P.
Loomis, ’99, with Miss L. S. Welles;
J. M. Magee, ’99, with Miss Bessie C.
Donnelly; E. T. Noble, ’99, with Miss
Rogers; G. S. Oliver, ’99, with Miss
Maud Watrous; H. L. O’Fallon, ’99,
with Miss Marion Watts; H. Park-
hurst, ’98S., with Miss Harmonie
Twichell; W. S. Peck, ’99, with Miss
Anna W. Gilmore; E. S. Pickett, ’99,
with Miss May Burtis; H. Platt, ’99,
with Miss Margaret Buck; R. Platt,
98 S., with Miss Ethel Carney; J. S.
Porter, ’99, with Miss Agnes Van
Ostand; E. D. Pouch, ’98 S., with Miss
Susan Ward; C. A. Powers, ’99, with
Miss Ada Powers; Ord Preston, ’99,
with Miss Helen Bulkeley; John Reid,
’99, with Miss Mabel Canning; L.
. Rogers, ’99, with Miss
Condé; C. B. Spitzer, ’99, with Miss
Clara Hotze; L. E. Stoddard, ’99, with
Miss Rebecca Darlington; S. Stod-
dard, ’99, with Miss Johnson; R. E.
798 S., with Miss. Elizabeth
Parker; W. K. Sturges, ’98S., with
Miss Frederica Chamberlain; J. L.
Thomson, ’98S., with Miss Elizabeth
Hyde; H. H. Tomkins, Jr., ’99, with
Miss Nellie Reid; E. Q. Trowbridge,
Jt.,
H
-’99, with Miss Gertrude Harrison; F.
J. Tytus, ’98S., with Miss Helen Ham-
lin; A. G. Vanderbilt, ’99, with Miss
French; C. H. Walker, ’99, with Miss
Smith; H. B. Wallace, ’90, with Miss
Florence Abbott; E. Warner, Jr., ’99,
with Miss Ethel Warner; M. A. Wat-
terson, ’99, with Mrs. C. M. Bushnell;
E. Watrous, ’99, with Miss Sarah Whit-
ney; A. F. Way, ’99, with Miss Louise
Warren: C. H. Welles, Jr., ’99, with
Miss Frances Winton; W. Weston,
799, with Miss Helen Warren; R._S.
White, 2d, ’00, with Miss White; W.
L. Worrall, ’08S., with Miss Elizabeth
Parker; W. M. Wheeler, ’99, with Miss
May Allen.
SOPHOMORE GERMAN.
The Sophomore german was held, as
in previous years in Warner Hall.
The oars of last year’s Freshman crew
and several class banners were hung on
the walls, while the stage and stairways
were banked with palms. The favors
were arranged about the fireplace,
where the patronesses were seated,
Mrs. William Rockefeller and Mrs.
C. T. Barney of New York City,
and Mrs. H. L. Hotchkiss and Mrs. W.
W. Farnam of New Haven. The
favors were made by Mrs. Collins of
New York City and consisted of
wreaths of violets with tinsel aigrettes,
silk banners with the class numerals
etched in gold, large spiders of differ-
ent colors, and parrots with variegated
plumage mounted on gilded sticks for
the ladies; and boutonnieres, whistles
and bells, small spiders and rosettes
to correspond for the gentlemen. The
souvenirs were cut glass ink-wells with
silver tops, on which the Yale seal was
raised and the numerals engraved, for
the ladies; and silver key rings wit
small Yale seal for clasps for the gentle-
men. The cotillon was danced by
Mae.