The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-09-02
THE GERMAN FESTIVAL.


7 Tic Turner Society Of Ottawa,
J TIE Ottawa I.ieder Taie
Tie German Benevolent Society Of Peru,
The Gerl IAN Turner Society Of Peru,
Tie German Singing Society, OF Peru,
The German Benevolent Society of Men
dota.
The German Band. Of Somonauk,
The German Singing Society, o. Somonauk.
! All these different societies came stream
ing into the city on Monday morning, in long
professions, reminding one Of some grea
| political gathering, such as we had year a 90.
II add to this iHas;on the houses and bust
and Of many Americans were decorated with
| flags, streamers, &c, and in many places
/ flags were stretched across the streets. We
noticed as particularly worthy of commenda-
ton tie elaborate and tasteful decoration of
the new building of Mcssrs. Alschuler & Co..
iutermingling the German, French, and
| American colors; and thar of the Exchange
! Bank, nearly opposite, where a beautiful
J
motto; d" Sell ans yegues=t." The process
sion gave three cheers on each occasion of
passing these places.
All the various societies gathered IN the
vicinity Of Skaters Hail, in the western part
! ofrhe CITY. aud at about ten O'Clock were
organized into 4 procession, under the direc-
ton Of a full corps of ,narshas. Headed by
Dei,hard's Ottawa and the Somonauk Band,
the procession, with inumerahIe flags and ban
Eers and streamers flying, marched through
the principal streets, and then across the
Illinois rlYer bridge (Which was made free
for the day) to the beautiful grove Of Mr..
Hoes on the bank of the river oPpostethe city.
Here a large stand Lad been erected for the
accommodation Of the speakers, and numer-
Gus seats, tables, booths, &C. for he conven-
ance and comfort Of the crowd, and for the
dispensation of refreshments, dc.
The exercises at the Grove we're as follows:
l. Reception Song-By the Ottawa Lieder
Tafe.
Lu:her's grand ol3 hymn-.'Brueeler,
ysic,iI die H,Rd zUm Bunde,' by the whole
company, and We doubt whether, this sile OF
Germany. this majestic hymn is often more
impressively given than it was on this &C.
casion.
3 Adlress Of Greeting-By Rev. Mr.. Cans,
Of Mend t.-shogt, neat, a ID tasteful.
f. Music-By Somonauk band.
s. Grafton of tie day-By II. Silver, o.
Ottawa. The unanimous agreement was
that this was 'magnifcently done
.. Singing for the prizes. Four contcs
tants entered the list: The Peru Singing
Club: the somonauk Singing Club; the OF
,ara Ircder T'a.cl and the Ottawa Turner
Sipgin. Club. Tie contest lasted about an
hour, and the singing certainly eyi-ced as
torisIing Irefc;onoy q 4 g art ofah.
:. Tanning for Prizes. Quite a large mum,
Der Of hale, athletic. and airey men entered
the list, and for an boar tie scene resembled
the ey,naa site exercises we often see in a
circus Many really astonishing fsa.s were
performed, AMI we felt fo- the committee that
must pick ont two or three, where so many
did we'll, to award to them tie prizes.
s. Turning by Boys Tor Prz-s. Here tie
contestants were again quite numerous, and
the !ea,s Of many Of the little fellows quite
surqii-;rs
WI tic tu-n 2 ccacla,lel the exercises
Of lie 1@y, except The distribution Of The
ptzes; previous to which, however, oar old
friead CuAs. BrEHr, Of Somonauk, was called
OF, AID made beautiful little cxtemp5ra>
Deons speech.
The prizes were ,ii-trib1.ed as follows:
.S'aDHg-ls; prize, to Ottawa Liedcr
TafeI-a beautiful solid silves cup; ID prize,
to Ottawa Turner Singing Cuba beautiful
solid silver cup; 81 prize, t, Peru Singing
Club beautiful silver plated pitcher. \
discretionary prize was also awarded to the
s;omonauk Singing Club, who, it was agreed.
would have taken a higher prize but for the
paucity Of their nun ber,-but fragment Of
the club being present
Trrnins-1he first rr.ze vas awarded to
Mr.. Gaul, Of Ottawa I'd. to Mr.. Walter, Of
Peru; Sd, to y. H. Strobel, of OFT W..
Buys TinHirs-lst prize to Master Sam
u.l Behrerd, of Peru; Cd, to Mast tr --
Erion, OF Ottawa; Sd 40 Master -- Con
dJlf. Of Ottawa,
The prizes tJr turning were about the same
as those awarded for singing. The whole
were purchased by the voluntary contribution
Of citizens of Ottawa, TO whom The German
Benevolent Society wish to acknowledge
their gratitude for enabling tEom to add so
interesting feature to their festival
Tie exercises of TIE day at tie grove
being thus concluded, the various societies
were re-organized into a procession, and
marched hack TO SLnG,r's Hall, where they
were disbarded
Gu, account, Lowercr, Of tie days pro-
ceediDgs wou,d be very imperfect, if we left
the impression that the immense concourse
al the grove had 10 o.Lcr cnjoyments but
hearing speeches ard singing, and witness
ing the turning. Your German, Gil such oc-
casons Is TIE nest gallant, rs well as gay
and festive Of beings. aid not only wives
and swoetEeaIts, | Ut 81! the bal; ones were
there, ard Won Lad better believe they had
abundant 10 cat aid 6r;r k. In iefcrcnce %
the latter, however, il Is due TO shy that tie
only drink stronger tlan water tolerated on
the ground was the favorite national beyer-
a-c-Iggey, on which, it is well Known, no
German ever gets intoxicated. (unless We
except our friend George, Who, thought,
as he walked in the procession, vas just
little tangled ccged- doubtless, 10 the
fact that be was very tired, and no. drinking