If you find yourself in NYC on March 26, 1883, you might want to get a good seat to watch the stream of high-society guests for the ball at Willie K. Vanterbilt’s new mansion on Fifth and 52nd.
The house of Mr. and Mrs William K. Vanderbilt, at the northwest corner of Fifth-ave. and Fifty-second-st., was thronged with a brilliant company last evening, at the first fashionable fancy-dress ball which has been given in New-York for a number of years. The ball probably equalledd, if it did not excel, in beauty and general attractiveness any similar entertainement ever given in this city. Any dreams of splendor by a passer-by would have been more than realized could he have caught a glimpse of the rooms inside, where beautiful women and distinguished men promenaded through the halls, formed groups in the various rooms, made charming pictures on the stairway or mingled in the waltz, quadrille or minuet. Louist Quinze and Mary Queen of Scots might almost have felt at home in the company, unless they happened to run across too correct copies of themselves.
Read all about it in the New-York Daily Tribune.