sur] their colleagues, the Engineers, at It would be hard to say that the Mariners
certainly did as well, and their entertaitither all on Thursday night (th), but they ment was crowned with as thorough a success. As before, everything possible was done for the conifort of the guests from the moment of their leaving their carriages or jinricsha; it is not so very long since every Indy, and many of the gentlemen, came to balls in a chair, and now this mode. of being carried is almost unknown to foreigners in Shanghai, The steps leading up from the street were covered over with niatting, lined with red and white stut carpeted and lighted. In the hall an end: less supply of stewards with the silver anchor on the lapels of their coats, waited to take up the ladies, and when the large hall itself was reached, an entirely fresh set of decorations burst upon the eye. At one end was the great life-buoy-of the s.s, Cosmopolitan, at the other a brightly polished steering wheel, while fictitious bin-naeles on the dais recalled the working hours of the hosts, and numerous anchors, with a few screw-propellers, decked the ralls, with house-flags and national flag Again M, Vela and his band flooded the hill with' music from the gallery, playing in excellent taste and time the following well-chosen programme Quadrille Schottische Bid me Good-bye. "La Mascotte, Cloister.
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