A SILVER MILE-STONE - There was a surprise party, and a happy one too, at the rooms of the Chicago Medical College yesterday. The good people who compose the faculty of that prospering institution remembered that the genial President of the college, Colonel Florence Ziegfeld, was a married man and that his felicity as such had measured just a quarter of a century. It was a surprise to many that Colonel Ziegfeld overlooked the customary invitations to friends to come and make merry, but his friends at the college knew what a modest man he was, and forgave him. They also remembered that the Colonel was so engrossed with the affairs of the Second Regiment that he possibly overlooked his own happiness in that of the military organization whose interests he has helped so greatly to advance. So the faculty summoned both Colonel and Mrs. Ziegfeld to the college rooms yesterday noon on some apparently important pretense. When they arrived Mr. Louis Falk made an appropriate speech and presented a handsome silver tea service to Colonel and Mrs. Ziegfeld. Both recipients were taken with that surprise that melts away in tenderaces and gratitude and then the gallant Colonel made one of his characteristic short but clever speeches that betokened full appreciation and sincere gratitude. The liquids will be passed around later. [The Inter Ocean, May 17, 1890 - submitted by Source #72]

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