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FRED'S HOUSE-WARMING ^[[4]]
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Magnificent Ball at the New Vanderbilt Cottage at Newport.
Special to The Morning Journal.
NEWPORT. August 23.-Fred W. Vanderbilt's house-warming to-night was intended to eclipse every event in society circles this season, and would undoubtedly have done so had the weather been at all favorable. 
Throughout the day large forces of men have worked hard erecting a huge pavilion on the eastern lawn, which was to have been lit with one thousand colored lights. Here the supper was to be laid and calcium lights from New York were set in position to enliven the scene. But the outdoor part was a fizzle, owing to a tremendous rain-storm, accompanied by vivid lightning and thunder, which began at 7 o'clock, with no signs near midnight of letting up. 
Just $5,000 were soaked by the iniquitous elements, which all the wealth of the Vanderbilts could not control. 
The grand hall was used for dancing, and was decorated in truly royal style, entirely with roses. From the dome lovely festoons hung to the sides and corners, while the base of the upper hall rail was completely hidden with roses and lilies. Along the four sides were draped garlands of the same flowers. 
The billiard-room and Cliffside piazzas were hastily converted into supper-rooms. An octave of pretty tables glistened with quaint cut-glass and silver. Each table had a background of orange trees heavy with fruit, the corners being filled in with ferns and palms. 
The unfurnished rooms on the north were fixed up as conservatories, and under the circumstances seemed the most comfortable parts of the house. 
For the supper a rare old Dresden china service was used. 
The german, which commenced at midnight, was led by Mr. Tom Howard. The favors were pink and blue covered satin boxes, each containing a valuable jewelled souvenir as a memento of the occasion. 
Upstairs the whole of the rooms were thrown open, and the staircases and hallways beautiful in themselves, were further adorned by priceless exotics, Persian rugs and rich tapestries. 
The costumes were simply magnificent, and there were diamonds in profusion. Mrs. Vanderbilt's costume was of white silk cut decollete, and she wore a regal coronet of gleaming diamonds. 

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