Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-15
Philadelphia Items

Philadelphia Items
PHILADELPHIA Sept. Is. 1875 -Th
bright, warm sun shone down upo,
schuetzen Park yesterday, bathing th
woodland festival scene in. the full
glory OF Midsummer. The CAp n stat
Volksfest Verein was celebrak led from
ear ly morning until midnight, anC
with the advent of another day the fes
tival closed. There was very little in
dication ofa large attendance at l o'clocl
but the unusual preparations made By
the numerous beer and lunch stand
oetokened swarm OF hungry ant
thirsty pleasure seekers, who arrivet
between that hour and sunset.
Shortly after O'Clock Q bragg band al
the er.kraut reservatis1 opened
with "Dream Faces" and khs follow
ed shortly by "See- saw" from the
depths of lungs and horns Within the
concert pavilion. By 2 O'Clock every
musical joint was working &moothly
and the festival celebration wis crowd.
ing on more steam each mohent. A
long line Of white-aproneds walters,
carrying mallets and beer glasses, and
preceded by stalwart Germans bearing
kegs, marched around the grounds,
cheering each shrine of the Beer X ling
and singing drinking choruses with a
gusto that savored of malt acquaintanc @
While their songs were still ringing,
n noisy bell near the fruit column
Changed with tire.alarm fury and cal led
attention to large automatic see saw
presided over by ruddy-faced genius
hold ing fiagons of beer in each hand
with two eager figures astride the
plank, like Tantalus, could not reach,
though they came alternately within
an inch of success. The fruit upon the
festal column, despite two weeks ex.
posure 10 all kinds OF weather, was
fresh and appetizing in the scorchine
heat OF the September sun. Some of
The purple clusters of grapes Lad turned
70 raisins, and an occasional plum did
duty in the architectural ornamentation
as q prune.
AT O'Clock twenty bare headed fat
men In shirt sleeves, waddled to the
turf running course in nondescript
time to qnickstep. Ten of them, at
ihe count "ein, zwei, drei," elevated
heir fat chins, crooked their flsshy
elbows over their stomachs ami went
off at leg stretching gait. Two of the
avoirdupois sprinters came to e.ief on
The first quarter, and struck the ground
With such force that they bounded up
ike huge footballs. The other ten fol-
owed, but wiry two hundred pounds,
who had stood upon the qualifying
'caies with twenty pounds of metal
'ecreted about him, jumped away from
ais regulation weight opponents, and
would have won had not slayer
him upon the finishing
tretch. aid breasted the tape just a
ahead
Tub races between dozen muscular
German women, who had hurried down
he stretch with tubs of water upon
heir heads, made the crowd uproarious,
a the evening q display of fireworks
IN the rifle range lit up the som bre
hade of the trees and hill tops Al
light shower preceded the exhibition
md many of the set pieces fzzled.
Following these grand illu mi nation
# the fruit column by many colored
lights made picture Of unsurp assing
'eauty and Eastern splendor. Nearly
., 200 people passed through the gates
n the five days celebration. Twelve
kegs of beer, 150, 900 pretzels,
70 900 plates of sauer.kraut and ten
niles of Frankfurter saussges were
The 1900 kegs Of beer
yero handed around in 150,0 glass
3.
Edward L. Mintzer, OF 1885 South
fifth street, jumped from the train
rom Long Branch due at the Broad
treet station at 8. Is o'clock last even.
ng. MIR. Mintzer had been in i'll
ealth for some time, and his r1ind was
lightly affected. He was sent by his
octor to the seaside, where the air and
seemed to soothe him.
,esterday he started with his wife to
eturn to Philadelphia. He was ap-
arently in cheerful state of mind.
When the train was in the vicinity ofl
however, Mr.. MiDtzer left
be seat occupied by his wife and
laced himself near an open window,
'uddenly heput his feet ON the cushion,
nd before any one could intefere, he i
ook flying leap through the window.
The train was stopped and backed, and
search made for the body. 1t was
ound on the line terribly mutilated. |
ieanwhile, the Long Bran ch train had
Proceeded, and the body was sent on
later one to this city and removed toI
ffected by his horrible death.
Eliza Lindell," called out Magis- |
rate Thompson at the Central Station
esterday morning.
You mean Eliza Lsndto," suggest |
d counsel for the woman accused of |
ausing the death by malpractice OIL
ulia Wilmot, of Haddontield, New Jer.
ey.
Where do you live ?" asked the
,ourt.
At CABS Vine street." answered
pecial othcer Watermyer, who re-.
lied instead Of the abused prisoner. The
tficer detailed the circumstances con-I
ected with the arrest, and DetectiveI
Nelley asked that the woman be held
or hearing on Monday next, In accor-
ance with the request of District-attor.
ey Graham, as the witnesses living in
lew Jersey cannot be produced until
hen. Counsel for the defense asked
nat bail be fixed, but tho Magistrate
ecided to commit the accused toI
rison.
William X. Jacoby, Wistar street,
ear Main, Germantown, WAS yester
ay held in $500 bail by Magistrate
durham on the charge of having de-
srted his wife. The latter testified
lat while she was in Atlantic City last
lonth he gave the household goods
nd horse and carriage to another
oman, and that she had not seen him
ntil yesterday.