The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-25
THE sCHJFTzENFEST.

Any one who might have let the train on the
Northern New Jersey Railroad which stopped at
Homestead station would have beheld scattered
taverns alongside Of the track and liberty pole
rom which was dying very ragged and scraggy-
looking American Dag. To the left the eye could
range over the valley OF the Hackensack, with the
blue coned hills beyond and the smooth river,
meandering In and out OF the broad salt meadows
and to the left was the old manor or demesne OF
the Wright family once the home OF princely and
hospitaple proprietor; and now the strains OF q
waltz came whispering through the trees, lndicat-
ing that this bower OF refinement has been turned
INTO lager beer garden. Here King schuetzeniest
holds high command, and here to-day the Platt
Deutsch Is spoken with peculiar zest and richness.
Through the green foliage the music breaks into
mild rythm on the ear and the white drapery OF
the women, who 60 whirling around, is seen
dtiully at times from the main platform. There
are groves and Dosky des and little sheets OF
water, upon which noat small boats, bearing Ger
man and American nags, and there are long
graperies and arbors. under the cooling shades OF
which may be seen happy couples, eating ice
cream, drinking lager beer and eating clam
chowder; and this is German clam chowder,
which mas taste brittle as broken glass and saw.
dust. Two hundred yards or are to be seen the
rlfemen, all burly, large headed men, In green
stun bouses and wearing wager hats, which are
surm0unted with cocks feathers The gold stars on
the shoulders OF some OF these people would
denote That they held the rank OF MAJOR general,
at least but this IL only an Illusion created to de-
ceive the groundLngs.
Here, on the open green sward, are nifty or sixty
young girls, all dressed In white with wreaths on
their Iair heads or light hair There two little
ladies who are TO crown the SchuetZen King, who
is TO hold ONCE among his peers for one year. A
small platform mas been built, and Is draped WITH
the American and German 1ags, and very adj
pose German holds forth In choice Hanoverian
from this PLATFORM and tells OF the beauties OF the
Freischutz, winding up with few solemn jokes
that are laughed az heartily among the bystanders.
Crowds OF rlfemen and their friends stand
among the alc0veS from which they have been
shooting all day, and then converse about their
marKmansnip and drink beer II IS almost in
credible to believe the amount OF beer which Is
poured down these manly and lusty German
throats. Now q loud huzza rises to the sky
as young lady, Miss Emma Gerats, or
HOb0ken, advances and raises the green
oakeaved crown and places 1t on the head of
Peter d. VOlck mann, who has done the best shoot
ing at the Eagle. He receives the crown with be-
coming mOdesty, and this act OF reception marks
the close OF the seventeenth annual Schuetzenfesr.
Besides the crown he also gets medals ana money
TO the value OF $3.50, and there are twenty other
prizes delivered to the ri1emen who are named In
the following order, the lowest prize or number
(2l) being valued at $40. The other prizes are in
dicated by the numbers: "a. Luerrssen, q; Her
mann Landwehr, 8; George F. Luerssenn, Il G.
Doeble, s; p. d. Vockmann g.; g. Menken, Z;
John Stelling, IL; J. H. Ficken II; D. hedenkamp,
Is; John Rem, "A; l. M0rrisse, Is; O. Mahnken,
10; henry Hunken, II; Henry KnebeL Is; A.
BrOsny, 10; II. L. Meyer, 20; II. D. Rottmann, 81.
The festivities did not close at the Schuetzen Park
until late hour last night