Fat Man’s Association Annual Ball: 1st

“GRAND MARCH OF THE FAT MEN AT 11 ½.”

"The Terpsichorean fat men disport themselves on the heavy fantastic toe to-night at Irving Hall. The spring floor that has yielded to so many an airy tread will be tested to its utmost by the weighty infliction, but will doubtless bear up cheerfully under it. At 11:30 P. M. the stout parties’ quickstep will be struck up by Grafulla’s famous Seventh Regiment Band, and the members of ‘The Fat Man’s Association,’ in heavy marching order, will enter the hall, in swallow-tail costume ‘with good capon lined,’ and make the circuit of the salon, treading as gingerly as possible. Many of the lean and hungry kind will, of course, assemble to see these huge human begins amble, and to take part in the festivities, but all such will vie in vain with the men of mighty paunches in seeking to carry off the honors of the occasion. They of large corporations will carry all before them and say to their lesser brethren, virtually, ‘He that has no stomach for this fight, let him depart.’ None but the fat will deserve the fair, and the lady who secures the partner of the greatest gravity will feel that she has the best right to smile.”

Several cards on the same page.

“The long-talked of ball of the Fat Men’s Association will take place at Irving Hall this evening.”

A note from the secretary of the Fat Men’s Association, thanking the New York Sun and other press for publishing “frequent and positive notices of the Association,” and expressing gratitude to “Mr. Wm. M. Doty, for his admirable management of the floor at our first annual ball; and to the Messrs. Funk, of Irving Hall, for the splendid supper provided on that occasion.”