Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-05
THE TURNER'S.
Meeting of the North American Turner
bund at st. Louisa Grand T0rch-Light
Procession and Brilliant Summer Night


| Festival.
ST. LOUIS, June 4.-Turners to attend the ma
tional festival, which opens here tonight
have been arriving from all directions this
morning and in great numbers. The largest
delegation is from Milwaukee, numbering
about 500. Then comes Chicago with 800.
| Other societies have arrived from Kansas City
and st. Joseph, Mo-, Peoria, Quincy, Daven
port, Moline, Muscatine, and other points in
Illinois and Iowa, and Cincinnati, Louisville,
New Albany, Wheeling, Rochester, New York
city, Brooklyn, Newark, N. J., and other
places in the East. All these societies and
delegations were met at the Union depot by
proper committees and escorted to headquar-
ters at Central Turner's hall, Walnut and
Market streets, where they were assigned
quarters and otherwise attended to. A still
greater number of Turner'S, accompanied by
their friends, will arrive by this evenings and
tomorrow mornings trains, and when all are
here they Will swell the crowd to several thou
sand. Accommodations will be furnished for
+ all. The streets present very gay appearance,
for besides the arches which have been erected
at various places, large number of down
town business houses are handsomely and
some profusely decorated, and hundreds of
private residences are literally covered with
flags, evergreens, flowers and notices. The
ceremonies will open tonight with grand
torchlight procession, which will escort the
visiting Turner's to Schneiders Garden, IN the
southwestern part of the city, where COM
plimentary concert will be given, speeches of
welcome made, and q grand good time gener-,
ally be indulged in.
The Procession and Festival Last Night.
ST. LOUIS, June 4.-The opening of the
twenty-third Federal Turner festival of the
North American Turner's Confederates, took
place tonight with Summer nights festival
at Schneider's garden, near Lafayette park.
The visiting and home Turner's formed in pro-
cession at Locust market square about 9
O'Clock with torches to the number of 5000,
and marched through the streets to Choteau
avenue and thence to the
grounds. Members of the various local
committees on horseback occupied places in
the procession and ladies and prominent Off
GERS and members of the bund were conveyed
in carriages. The streets were packed with
spectators, and the brilliant torches, the
thousands. OF men, Chinese lanterns and
pyrotecnic displays at brief intervals along
the march, lighting up the decorations which
were everywhere fine and profnse,
beauty and almost of enchantment
On arriving at the garden the chairman called
the great crowd to order, and in speech in
troduced Mayor Ewing, who welcomed the
Turner's to st. Louis, and rendered them the
hospitalities OF her citizens, IN an appropriate
address: DR.. Sporkleof, president of the
North-American Turnerbund, then delivered an
oration in German, and Miss Steele, daughter
of G. A. Steele, presented to the confederation
most beautiful and costly silk banner, made
by number of young ladies of St. Louis,
which was accepted on behalf of the bund in
an eloquent speech by C. Meyer, of Bellevue,
Ill. To the banner was hung beautiful
wreath of silver leaves, presented by the wives
and daughters of members of the New Or
leans Turner'S, as recognition of kindness
rendered by ladies of st. Louis during the pre-
valance of yellow fever in the former city.
These cermonies over, the crowd scattered
over the spacious and brilliantly lighted
grounds, and at midnight were in the full tide
of social enjoyment.