“The Annual Ball of the Melo-Chorean Society takes place at Irving Hall on Easter Monday, the 17th April. This year it will be purely an invitation ball, and those who attend it must be in fancy dress or mask and domino. The Melo-Chorean Society is composed of critics, literary people, and artists—musical and dramatic—and the congregation that will be present on Easter Monday will astonish the natives. The arrangements are on the most liberal scale, and there is no doubt that the ball will be the most brilliant of the season.”
“The Melo-Chorean ball was to have taken place on Monday next, but the committee have postponed it until Monday, May 1.”
“In view of the melancholy affliction of the whole Nation by the death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, the above Ball is postponed until Monday Evening, May 1. By order of the Committee.”