seven o'clock
The skating rink was swept and garnished and decorated with bunting and flags , and wreaths of immortelles rented from the undertaker . Extra chairs were also furnished by that accommodating person . The caterer from Louisville came in a truck , bringing with him stylish negro waiters and many freezers and hampers . The musicians arrived on the seven o'clock trolley , almost filling one car with their great drums and saxophones and bass fiddles . The women who were either supported by , or supported , the ten old men were kept busy by their aged relatives hunting shirt studs and collar buttons , pressing broadcloth trousers , letting out waistcoats or taking them up , sewing on buttons and laundering white ties . The barber had to call in extra help , because of the trimming of beards and shaving of chins and cutting of hair that the party entailed . Judge Middleton was chosen to make the speech naming the guest of honor for whom the debut party was given .