Light Guard Ball

     “[T]wo mammoth bands.”

     “The somewhat eagerly looked for ‘Tiger’ Ball takes place this evening at the Academy of Music.”

     “The music was of the first-class, the list of dances comprised the favorite [illeg.] of the giddy [illeg.]”

     “The long-anticipated and much talked-of Light Guard ball came off last night at the Academy of Music, and the affair was, as usual, a grand success. The decorations were superb in their character and novel in their design, the music was charming and the company select and brilliant. In fact, it was the Light Guard ball, and as such was in every way a delightful and magnificent féte.

     For thirty years the Light Guard have each Winter given one of their unique military and civic reunions, and have each successive season added to their already great reputation for the magnificence and completeness of their balls. . . .

     The floor was thrown open for promenade precisely at 10 o’clock, and the first set of the evening was formed half an hour later. The house was at that hour rapidly filling up, and by midnight the crush and cram was almost too great for comfort. The assemblage of beauty and fashion was both select and charming, and the superb toilettes present gave the room an appearance of gaity [sic] and beauty rarely found in a ball-room."

     “The order of dances comprised twenty-four selections, interspersed with as many promenade pieces.”