…J. L. Riker Post, No. 62, held its twelfth annual dance and masquerade ball at the Concordia Assembly Rooms on Monday evening, and it was unfortunate for the post that a larger hall had not been provided, for the crush was very great. A very large number were in mask. The opening march was led by the Floor Committee, dressed in Charles II costumes, followed by the Anderson Zouaves, Garibaldi Veteran Association, and Sedgewick and Riker Posts. Among those present were delegations from nearly all the New-York and Brooklyn posts, also of the Sons of Veterans of New-York and Hoboken. Comrades Urback and Bender, proprietors of the rooms, apparently ransacked kitchen and cellar for the benefit of the guests, and that a thoroughly enjoyable affair was had is attested by the fact that the last dance was called at 7:30 o’clock on Tuesday morning. The arrangements were almost entirely in the hands of Comrade Henry S. Trass.