Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-31


age. It has ever since drawn excellently.
At first it was thought that the location
was little out of the way, but results have
demonstrated the wisdom of Col Woods
judgment. There has been a constant
round of sensational melodrama, presented
by good artists, with occasional variety
specialties to season the evenings enjoy
ment- The house has been crowded night
ly, and Col. Wood has determined to en-
large the theater at the close of the spring
season, to nearly double its present capac-
ity, and to keep it open constantly. There
is no doubt but the enterprise will prove a
continued success.
D1s GeseGtschnftItcA Mmsihnlische
Observation-Disclosures
He was one OF, :; their own nationality, a
trifle ironical no doubt, or mayhap, differ
ent from his class, somewhat dyspeptical
or socialistically sour. At any rate it was
9 Teutonic author who first said that where
two Germans meet or congregate there will
be foundthree different opinions but certain
" one society or association, and though
We consider part of this assertion SANDER
GUS, the latter portion of it is literally true,
as the history of st. Paul will amply testi-
fly. Keeping regular and even step
with the growth and prosperity of our
city from the earliest times of it's mod
est village infancy to its present metropol-
itan proportions and municipal pride, has
haor, tho 6ouo1nar,nn% of T., -
ment, so-called, comprising fully third
of our total population, faithfully contrib
uting its full and honest share of toll and
muscle, brain and energy, and Intellectual
and physical labor towards our present
prosperity.No small share of this has been
done directly and indirectly by and through
the various social organizations established
and maintained in almost every portion
of the city by our German American fell
low-cltizens. Hardly a week passes, bat
an entertainment of some social nature
takes place under the auspices of some
one of these societies, and to their credit
be it said, good order and decorum always
prevail, whether the entertainment con-
sists of a State Saengerfest continuing
for four or five consecutive days.
or a brilliant masquerade with all
its incentives to boisterous joviality,a con-
cert, ball, or only a summer garden pic
mic. This much by the way, and now for
classified enumeration of the organiza-
tions coming under our caption, with a
brief review of each, taking them in the
order of seniority (which brings us first and
foremost to
THE GERMAN SOCIETY.
This is the Oldest German society in the
city and state. 1t was organized in the
winter of 1S52-1S53 as a reading club
by several pioneer Germans under the
name of the German Reading society, of
st. Paul, and as such was incorporated by
the territorial legislature of 1854. The
first officers of the society were: John Pc
ters, president; F. Greiner, (now register
of deeds of Carver county, treasurer;
John Karger. secretary of the original
members; Mr.. F. A. REM, our ex-city
treasurer; Mr.. Paul Faber and Chas. Hoff
man, Esq, are still on the roll and
as active as could reasonably
be expected. The first house, a
little frame structure eighteen by eighteen
feet, belonging to the society, still remains
standing as sort of squatter in what is
now Bernheimer and Arnold's addition
near the southern terminus of Forbes
street, having been removed in 1876, to
make room for the addition to the origi.
nal Athen@um, built in 1859. In 1865. the
war and hard times having taxed the en-
ergy of the remaining and surviving mem
bers to the utmost, new blood
was infused by combining the reading so.
ciety with the singing society then Just re-
organized under the name of "Iieder.
kranZ," and which consisted of the post.
bellum members of the Freie Maennerchor
prof. Rohr) the Germania (Proe. Conrad
Zenzius) and the more recent Concordia
prof. Papa Esch) and in 1870 this flour
ishing combination was re-incorporated
under the name by which this article is
captioned. The objects of the German So
ciety are mental and physical improve
ment, which it aims to accomplish by GUS
tanning a library, lectures, the culture OF
song and music and the dramatical. The
members of the society, numbering abou,
one hundred and fifty, are divided into
three divisions, viz: the Mennerchor O,
musical division, consisting of nearly
thirty male and twenty-fOur female voices
under the baton of Prof. Richard Stempf
the dramatical division, with a member
ship of about thirty lady and gentleman
ameteurs, and the passive members. The
society at large is in most
fourishing condition, being prac.
tically : without liabilities and
owning real estate and personal prop
erty of the value of probably $4,000. The
divisions are given great liberty of action
and are but under nominal restraint.
amounting to gentle, parental supervis-
ion by the society at large. They are not
hindered in their desires or actions by any
cumbrous or irksome red-tapeism or par
Humanitarian machinery, and hence the
activity especially of the dramatic divis-
ion is something great and the results
correspondingly happy. Grand operas,
operattas, melodrama, and the drama gen
orally in all of its variegateo forms, find a
home and assiduous opponents within the
walls of the Athenaum, and
regular practice is had by both
divisions, the M@nnerchor meeting
every Wednesday and Saturday and the
dramatic division, subject to the call of
the stage manager. The present officers
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