I'm looking through the archives. It was a newspaper clipping. Dr. Bowen and his wife were there too.
However, I did find this in the archives. I had never seen this before. Are we 100% sure it is OUR
. "Lizzie Goes To A Military Ball"
Posted by Kat on Sep-9th-02 at 3:43 AM
Newspaper Clippings
Date: January 15, 1890
Source: Fall River Daily Herald
Transcription provided by Bruce Laurie, Department of History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Military Ball
A Notable Gathering of Society People
Costumes of the Ladies --- Persons in Attendance
Much that has been said about the success of the social events under the auspices of Company M must be said over again. Tuesday night the annual military ball was held in Music hall and it was a very gay affair. The committee of arrangements had done everything to make the occasion of the high standard attained by previous events of a like kind, and it succeeded very well. The committee consisted of Capt. S.L. Braley, Lieut. J.D. Munroe, Lieut. David Fuller, Sgt. W.F. Borden, Corp. Durfee, Privs. Abbott, Davol, Harrison, McCoy and Sanford. The platform was decorated with palms and other tropicals, and festoons of similar hung over the windows.
At 8 o'clock the guests began to gather, and soon after that hour the members of Dyer & Hathaway's orchestra tuned up their instruments and rendered a concert programme of five selections, with a solo number for the clarionet played very acceptably by J.W. McKenney. The orchestra did unusually good work both in the concert and for the dance music which followed. All the time the music was going on, the guests were assembling and were received at the door by Lieut. Fuller, Sgt. Kelley, Sgt. Robbins, Corp. Hollins, Corp. Durfee, Priv. Hathaway, Priestly, Thurston, Buckley, Booth and McAdams. Among the military gentlemen present not members of the company were Col. A.M. Jackson of Gov. Brackett's staff, Quartermaster C.B. Woodman, ex-Lieut. Merrill of Co. E. Ninth regiment.
At 8:30 a squad of 26 then formed on the floor and Capt. Braley put them through the evolutions of an exhibition drill. The young men bore themselves as if each one of them was aware that the eyes of his best girl was centered upon his own sweet self, and if he made a mistake, the drill would be a failure. When the command was dismissed, the soldier boys began to look up their partners for the dancing. The members of the company who took part in the drill were as follows: Capt. Braley, Lieuts. Munroe and Fuller; Sgts. Borden, Robbins, Winter, Kelley; Corps. Durfee, Hollins, Potter, Harrison; Priv. Airle, Abbott, Booth, Bussette, Buckely, Dillon, Burt, Holt, A.W. Hathway, Haskell, J.H. Horan. Lee, McGraw, McAdams, Mitchell, Olding, Priestly, Pitt, Sanford, J.H. Sanford, Smethurst, Healy, Hall, Smith and Wood.
At 9:30 the orchestra began to play a march designated on the programme as the "March of the 92nd regt." Lieut. Munroe and Miss Mary E. Bowers took the place at the head of the marchers. Col. A.M. Jackson and Mrs. Jackson followed. Then came Capt. and Mrs. S.L. Braley, Lieut. Woodman and Miss Annie Spencer, Lieut. and Mrs. David Fuller ad the other military gentlemen and the company's guests in a long line. There were 54 couples in the march, and the brightly glittering gold braid of the officers and the spick and span uniforms of the soldiers contrasted very beautifully with the lighter stuffs worn by the ladies, and made a spectacle from the gallery very pleasing. Not one half of the dancers present took part in the march, as there were probably 125 couples on the floor at one time or another during the evening. the programme, a very recently printed folder from the press of J.D. Munroe, contained 16 numbers in all as follows: march, waltz, quadrille, polka, quadrille, military schottische, Saratoga lanciers, medley quadrille, gilde polka, waltz, quadrille, lanciers, waltz quadrille, polka, waltz and medley quadrille. Besides these, there were several encores and extras which kept up the dancing until considerably after midnight.
The members of the committee who looks after the forming of sets and had an eye open for partners for the unfortunate who were not supplied were Lieut. Munroe, Sgts. Winters and Borden, Corps. Harrison and Potter, Privs. Abbott, Doran, Airlie, Pitt, Olding, Hathaway, Thomas, Negus, and Brissett. They certainly did their work well, for the time taken in getting the square dances a-going was unusually short, and the musicians had scarcely time to get their breath between numbers in the first half. The dancers enjoyed it so much the more. At intermission Sokoll was on hand with a collation, which was served in the banquet hall two flights up.
All the ladies present were tastefully dressed, but there were not a dozen who were in full evening dress. Possibly the most noticable costume was one of baby blue tulle worn by Miss Hattie Jackson of Boston who, with Miss Kittie Abbott of Boston, was under the chaperonage of Mrs. Dr. J.H. Abbott. Miss Jackson's dress was cut dancing length, with sleeveless corsage, decollette, with a garniture of pink roses. She wore a sash of pink surah; pearl necklace and aigret of pink roses.
Miss Kittie Abbott wore a becoming black lace gown.
Mrs. J. Bruck, black satin, sleeveless and decollette corsage, surah and sash and corsage bouquet of red roses.
Mrs. David Fuller, black satin, black lace overdress, sleeveless corsage cut with square neck.
Mrs. Hughes, pink cashmere trimmed with swan's down.
Miss Annie Giblin, garnet plush, square neck corsage.
Miss Lillie Carter, pink silk, black lace overdress.
Miss Ella Wood, light blue plush corsage, figured challie skirt.
Miss Booth, black tulle, satin ribbons.
Miss Lena Kelley, black tulle overdress, low cut neck, steel silk skirt.
Among the people present not previously mentioned were Dr. C.C. Terry and wife, A.B. Bruneau, Nathan Davol, Miss Annie Luther, Miss McKenney, C.S. Merrill, John Ainsworth, Miss M. Freeborn, Charles Campbell, Miss Ida Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. William Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Whitehead, William Crossley, Miss Crossley, Miss Hattie Harrision, Miss Ella Smith, James McKeop, James McDermott, Miss Annie Horsfield, James Bruck, John Hughes, the Misses McLeod, Walter Burgess, John Booth, Laura McQuitty, Miss L. Stevenson, Thomas Pitt, Miss Mamie Nicholson, Will Nicholson, Miss Bella Connell, Miss Nellie Collins, John F. Allen, Miss M. O'Mears, Mrs. N.O. Adams, Charles Anderson, Mrs. J. Colemen, Mrs. S. Munroe, John Gormely and wife, R.E. McGuire, Miss M. O'Gara, James Smith, Miss Lizzie Borden, and W.H. Hargrave.
From the position of her name in the article, Lizzie seems to have ranked fairly low in the social hierarchy, unless she was somehow involved in the planning (then, it is modesty).
Do you know if Sgt. W. F. Borden was a relative?
