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The annual Jockey Club ball always takes place, as has been stated, 

 on Friday evening of the race week. The ball ! the ball ! yes, the ball, 

 par excellence, of all balls ! 



" The halls — the halls of dazzling- light" — 



the' chalked floors, the superb dresses of the company, the furbelows, 

 the flounces, the bouquets of fresb-rdfeeblids and camelias, the exhilarat- 

 ing music, the ceaseless whirl of muslin and of broadcloth in the centre 

 of the hall, the handsome mirrors that decorate the walls of the gay 

 saloon, reflecting graceful figures " on the light fantastic^'' as if in some 

 fairy region, lending enchantment to the brilliant scene ! 



OFFICERS OF THE CLUB, 1856, 



JAMES ROSE, President; 

 WADE HAMPTON, Vice-President; 

 E. P. MILLffiEN, Secretary; 

 J. C. COCHRAN, Treasurer; 

 HENRY C. KING, Solicitor. 



Steioards 



Frank Hampton, 

 Thos. F. Porcher, 

 J. M. Howell, 

 W. St. J. Mazyck. 



A. M. Manigault, ResdH. 

 Chr. Fitzsimons, 

 Chr. Gaillard, 

 L. D. DeSaussure, 

 Thos. M. Wagner, 



Executive Committee. — James Rose, John S. Ashe, Henry Gour- 

 din, Wm. Ravenel, W. C. Murray. 



Finance Committee. — Henry Gourdin, W. C. Murray, Edward 



MOTTET. 



Farm Committee. — Chr. Fitzsimons, Thomas L. Wragg, P. C, 

 Gaillard. 



Managers of the Ball. — William H. Huger, John McPherson 

 Creighton, Sedgwick Simons, Wm. R. Mathewes, Elias N. Ball. 



