Governor and Mrs.Morgan, the historian Bancroft and Mrs.Bancroft, Colonel and Mrs.Abraham Van Buren, with others were to dance in it.

The rush was so great that the floor gave way, and in tumbled the whole centre of the stage.
Carpenters set feverishly to work to floor over the chasm.
"I well remember," said McAllister, "the enormous form of old Isaac Brown, sexton of Grace Church, rushing around and encouraging the workmen." In the course of the evening the Prince danced with Miss Fish, Miss Mason, Miss Fannie Butler, and others, and was conceded to have danced well.

The supper was served at a horseshoe table.

At one end of the room was a raised dais, where the royal party supped.

At each stage door a prominent citizen stood guard; the moment the supper room was full, no one else was admitted.