Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-02
GERMANS, FESTIVAL DAY.

One of the Finest Parades Ever Seen In This Cfty-Gorgeous Dis- plays-Characteristtc Exhibitions Picnic At Schuetzen Park. The Germans of this city turned out en masse yesterday on the occasion of the first union summer festival of the various Ger held that were participated in by a large majority of the German-speaking people of this city. Hessians, Bavarians, Wurtem- burgers, Prussians, Schwabens, Plattdeutch and othersIjoined in creating distinctively German celebration in which all types were merged. The parade was exceedingly fine, and was the best that has ever been given by the Germans in New Haven. Many called it more picturesque than the centennial parade of the Fourth of July The line started from the Green about 10:30. Colonel George A. Basserman was the chief marshal of the pro cession. His aids were Town Clerk Hugo, Nicholas Weller, Henry Buchter and Ernest Klenke. The line proceeded through the following streets:
 Elm street to Church, to Chapel, to College, to George, to Church, to Chapel to State to Grand to Franklin, to State to the park The composition of the line was as follows:
 Five narshal's aids
 Wallingford band q pieces. Local Turner's drum corps, pieces.
 West Haven Turner's, 60 men.
 West Haven band.
 German American club of Orange horse Decorated wagon belonging to the Lion Brew
 cry.
 Decorated wagon representing Orange products. Decorated wagon with miniature beer garden and
 card table.
 Decorated wagons representing the trades. Decorated wagon with saiboat representing the
 shpbunding of Germany. Half a dozen carriages containing members of
 Plattdeutcher Verein
 Mounted men representing ancient German dukes
 Schwaben verein in two decorated wagons
 Another miniature beer garden on wheels
 and Misses Grace and Ann 'THS MngS rspressnt spr e
 ing Bavaria and Columbia re- Decorated wagon with twenty young ladies typ
 lcal or the the &twe1tyetwo m cantons 1Ii of Switzer-
 land Queeen, ersnddI Miss Annie Four carriages containing members of Bavarian Decorated wagon with members of Hessian society
 repres9nting nt -Wsteh 6tt1o on the Rhine also
 Citizens in carriages.
 The streets through which the procession passed were crowded with people, The sight was brilliant. The various decorated wagons were gotten up with much credit to those who devised them. All the emblematic de- signs were gotten up without regard to cost and were in fact very impressive. The cars on which stood Miss Bavaria and Colum bia and the Watch on the Rhine received great applause as they passed through the center of the city. Most of the German residences and stores along the line of march were handsomely decorated with German and American flags. Many of the wagons were worth long description
 At 12 o'clock the procession reached Schuetzen Park, ond in the afternoon great crowd of picnickers appeared. The Germans and their families rode out in every variety of vehicles. The State street horse cars carried fully 1,5O0 people. There were noticed at the park, besides those in line, delegations from the Meriden Turner's, the Swiss and Elk clubs of Ansonia, the Norwich S@ngerbund, the Hartford Sing ing society and the New Britain and Bridge port Germans. The exercises at the park consisted of the ordinary picnic festivities and some prize games in which either only the children or only the Turner's were permit ted to compete. Philip Hugo delivered an address on the desirability of these national reunions, their objects and possib ilities The committee of arrangements consisted of Philip Hugo, Nicholas Weller, John ODer- kehr, William Englehardt, Frank Hugo, George A. Basserman, William Knoth, M Hessler, William Spiittler, John B. Frey singer, William Sutorious, John Holzer, Jacob Scheifie, Nicholas Apt, Joseph Mann, Henry Buchter, George Eek, Anton Ochsner, Henry Lienbacher, Henry Hillman, D. Boschen and c. Schneider