The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-05-30
TIE MAE-FEST.
A Gala Day ut the Fair Grounds.

A Gala Day ut the Fair Grounds.
The sky in its toilet of blue, the air
athlill with the melody Of BIRDS aud
that Niagara oflight, the san: flooding
all with brightness and glow, may
hap somewhat too g"ac'o.2, constitu'
ted Sunday as the very polk OF days:
in the maiu, for the Tu"n Nere'u ce' t.
brat.on, which took place Mt the fair
grounds on that gayest and mosj bill
| liant of SabbaUhs.
THE PROCESSION AND Mach.
At O'Clock, in the p.e2ence of n
large crowd who had assembled to wit
ness the formation Of The procession,
the members of the different societies
who were to participate in the celebra-
ton formed in line in Fl ont of The Tur-
ner hail, where they had met TO pre-
pare for the festivities in the follow !og
order: r.; st CO ne the iie co npauy,
consisting of fl teen members; follow
ing it was the Dallas brass ja0d. which
discussed beautiful aud spirited a..s
during the march; then came The Tu,-
ner society, commanded by Captain
Fred. Foster. with membership Of
sixty; after the Turner's was
the Swiss Glee club, with MI.
Heny Schmidt in command,
the rich and elegant banner recently
presented to this club floating above it,
like bright vision upon snowy wings
of satin, forming an ecstaticly admired
feature of this part of the procession.
Next, and constituting the last division
of the line, was the Swiss Benevolent
association, numbering thii.y mem
bers. The entire procession was under
command of Jacob Grossmann, as first
marshal; John Schadal, rs second
marshal, and Frank Hannah, as third
marshal, whose uniform, with that of
all those in line, were very neat and
tasteful, giving to the procession an
extremely picturesque appearance.
AT THE FAIR GROUND.
On reaching the fait ground which was
previously arranged for the .fete, with
an immense beer stall in the centec of
the enclosure, where the love of Gambri-
nus was ready to flow laughing as the
falls of Minnehaha, and copious as the
Nile, and where all the appointments
for physical exercise were distributed,
the festivities opened by the singing of
several airs i'll The Swiss, German aud
French language, after which Pro-
fessor Beekman addressed the assembly
which, with alarge addition ofvisitors,
had swelled to a concourse Of fully q
thousand or fifteen hundred people.
The speech OF the professor was made
in German and was in the naidre of q
welcome to all, with brief history of
the organization of the Turn Verein,
and was received with hearty dem
ons a.ions. MajorJohn Eeu,y Brown,
OF this paper, followed Profe sor Beeg-
man in speech in English, which
was applaudel throughout. ACer The
speaking every DIVERSION The fancy
could dictate was INDUCED n. Az
was relaxation and iru. The mos
delicious beer was CONSUMED in vas5
libations + ON the Oldest 10 the very
youngest. The 3 aceiul aud athletic
symnasts waited upon the 9'ound o.
syrated upon the bar.
The performance Of those celeb 'ated
professionals, the Davenport l. otheis,
who CHANGED to be on the ground, De-
ing exceedingly brilliant. To this
variegated scene was then added,
the sack race, the first prize being
awarded to Master Charles Reineckc,
and the second prize.to Master Herman
BOhny. Both prizes were handsome
pocket books. Then came the climb
ing of a CREASED pole, on the apex of
which was "a silver hunting case. This
was won by Master Charles Reinecke I;
another prize was a Mexican half-dol-
lar; the third prize was meeischaum
pipe, which was won by Mr.. Saunders;
the fourth prize was won by MIR. Dyre,
and the fifth, a silk pocket handker-
chief, by Mr.. Newmann.
The race for beautiful boquet was
participated in by large number of
, ladies. 1t was won by one of the num-
Der whose name we could not learn.
Under the barrel upon which the boz
quet was placed, was his poultry maj
esty, Sir Chanticleer, who, as soon as
the barrel was capsized 10y the impetu-
Gus racers for the floral prize, became
Gathering, cackling, crowing-in-
broken.measure, flying fugitive, pur-
sued by a mob of boys, the one who
caught him being the owner,
The "hiyh Jumping" was won by
the Davenport brothers, box of els.
airs being the p,ize. The "runnine
Jump" was won by our friend Captain
Counor, of the g IN of MeseFs. Conuo'
: & Walker, who is now cJenat:ng hi:
; fame by incipeiating bis prize "a boz
= of ciga's.
Dancing was then taken up, at thu
, conclusion of which the reveleIs de
parted 70 their respective homes. ate
having spent hours of glorious pleas
ure.