PAGE 46: 6 events from Christmas Menu to Dance Card,1875-1886

As noted previously, this blog is for the purpose of inventorying my maternal great-grandfather's SOUVENIR ALBUM, from 1840 to roughly 1900.

Today's post is Page 46 is another hodge-podge of events which Grove TERWILLIGER carefully saved. I see a  few fascinating items - the Dance Card filled out in different hands [inside], and the out-of-this-world Christmas Menu from Weddell House restaurant in Cleveland Ohio. There are other events which indicate a relationship, perhaps friendship or associates. Most of these items open up, so the images below will be the open image.

Top left: July 4th holiday

Berkshire Hills / MANSION HOUSE /  Williamstown, Mass. / Sunday, July 4th, 1875 / A. G. Bailey, Proprietor  This is a fairly simple menu with 9 options of a meat/fish dish, everything with a sauce!  I'm hungry looking at these choices.  It's interesting that Grove was  in Williamstown - it's a few years before his marriage to Clara Augusta GRAVES. Perhaps Grove went with his parents, as his father was active in politics. There are lovely buildings in Williamstown, but I could not find "Mansion House."

Bottom left:  Union Boat Club / Sixth Annual Ball / Metropolitan Opera House / Tuesday, February 9th 1886.   I wonder who was a member of the Union Boat Club. The only information I could find is that the UBC [as it was termed] was centred in Boston MA. Searching through newspapers of the times, it is noted that they chose the Metropolitan Opera House this year. "There will be in attendance representatives of the principal boat clubs in the United States and the Musical Programme includes 100 instruments." [Rochester Democrat And Chronicle, Saturday, February 6, 1886; accessed through OldFultonNewspapers]

Top middle: [inside]  WEDDELL HOUSE / Cleveland, Ohio / Geo. W. Wesley & Son. / Inside: Christmas Dinner Dec. 25, 1875.

From Oysters to French Coffee or English Tea - this two page menu is absolutely filled with food choices. Too many to type out, unless you email me with a request!  It would take pages of this blog to list all the entrees, from 5 different ways to have Oysters on the shell, to any/every kind of meat, inluding Rocky Mountain Antelope with Cranberry Jelly, Cold Dishes, Boiled items, Vegetables, Sauces of all kinds,  Pastries, Jellies and Creams, Fruits and Desserts, and Confections. The variety is absolutely amazing. Grove TERWILLIGER would be 19 years of age this Christmas.
 Bottom middle: [inside] WILLIAMS CHAPTER / Alpha Delta Phi / The Fortyfifth  Annual Convention / with the /Williams Chapter. / Your presence is requested at the / Public Exercises / in / The Congregational Church . / Thursday evening May 24th 1877. / President, Hon. John Jay. / Orator, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D. / Poet, Prof. Henry L. Chapman
The Williams Chapter is in Williams College, Williamstown MA. Alpha Delta Phi chapter in Williams College was active from 1851-1969. Grove TERWILLIGER attended Williams College in 1873, but did not continue.
Top right: Syracuse Graduating Exercises, / of the Class of '76, /  Syracuse High School, / Friday, June 30, 1876, / 2 1-2 o'clock, P.M.  [inside] The Programme lists various solos, speeches, Valedictory, Music, and more, as the graduating pupils received their Diplomas. The motto on the right side is in Latin: Suscipere et Finire - roughly, accept and limit [end]. I'd love a better approximation, since it seems rather passive as a motto!  Feel free to help me out with this translation. Six young men and fourteen young women graduated this year. I'm assuming some in this group may be friends of 20 year old Grove, or children of his parents' friends.

Finally we come to the bottom right which is a very small Dance Card, only 4.5" x 3.125". I've uploaded both the cover as well as the full card [inside]. 
Bottom right: Dance Card  Closing Hop, / Mrs. J.P. Goettel's / Monday Evening Class, / Empire Hall, / March Thirty First, 1884.  And inside 18 listed dances - Quadrille, Waltz, Lanciers, Galop, in various orders, with 6 waltzes.  CEH Hubbell had 3 dances plus the Dinner,  and HEC Clapper had two dances. Whoever the woman was with this dance card, Hubbell must have been a strong interest, fiancé, or husband. At this point, it's hard to know without more research. Fascinating to me.

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