Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-22
YESTERDAYS EVENTS.
The Greatest Day Old Milwaukee Has W

The Greatest Day Old Milwaukee Has Yet
Seen.
MILWAUKEE,, WIS, July 2l.-Delight-
ful weather marks the opening day of the
twcnty-tomth fest of the North American
STngcrbund The city is full OF! strangers
and trains are arriving hourly with large
additions. 1t is estimated that between
Chicago and st. Louis before evening. The
hotels are crowded, and tonight cots with
sleeping visitors will occupy all available
Spacc in the various hoStclries. Some
cntcrprising landlords have rented large
halls and empty stores III their nelghbor-
hoods and filled them with cots Boarding
house keepers haze hired cots by the hun
drcd, and every available corner has been
utilized. In addition to extra accOmmOda-
tiOns to bc provided by regular boarding
and lodging houses, many private resi-
dences have arranged TO care for a large
number. The decorations are more general
and elaborate than have been seen in the
city ut any time since the peace jubilee eel
cbrating the close of the FrancO-PruSSian
war; with, perhaps, the exception of the
Soldiers Reunion in lS~O. Many residences
are handsomely decorated with Chinese
lanterns, arbOrVitT wreath and designs and
the flags OfVariUuS nations.
THE PRINCIPAL DECORATIONS
are on business streets, where every me-
chant and shop owner yics with his neigh
Dor in making his store attractive Many
of the salOonistS have built rustic arches
from their doors 10 the outer edge of the
sidewalk. At the brewerieS the dccorl-
tiOns are notably elaborate The Chamber
of Commerce. the POStOtlice and other pub,
lie buildings are more or less adorned.
From every llag staff in the city flags flies,
many foreign standards being displayed,
Us well as the stars and stripes, thus CAV
! ing the city cosmopolitan aspect. \
| conspicuous feature of the festival dcCOra'
tions are the arches erected by the Saeng,
erlcSt Committee The general verdict is
| that the largest of these, the CumbrOuS
aud expensive structure on Market Square,
with its insignificant final statue, is .
failure hut the light and graceful archcs
of greenery, set of with cOlored strcamcrS
and placardCd mOttOcs-such aS the arch
on Wisconsin street, near the club house
and that on Reed street, n short distance
south of the Union Depot, are very pretty
tasteful and appropriate.
AN ARMY OF CHORUS SINGERS.
OF the chOrHs representation, the follow
inc were reported nj noon rs having ar
rived: St. Louis, Coz: Chicago, 49,: But
falo, 2l3; Cincinnati, 2lO; Cleveland, 1872
Louisville, %; New York, 80; Wheeling
w. Va. -; Philadelphia, 100; Erie, Pa
g.; Allegheny, PA, -; Columbus, o., 40
DAYTON, O., 81; Indianapolis, p, Madison
Wis, Sc; Detroit, IL; Lake View. H., "a
Aurora, ILL.,, %; Minneapolis, 20; Bloom
ington, ILL.,, Il; Covington, KY. 2l; JET;
fersonville, Ind, Il; Elmira, \. Y, IL
Tiffin, O., II. Ii is calculated that 81, OO
people will be attracted to the city durin!
the fest Seats for 1900 people have beer
provided in the Exposition building, anC
rs an attendance of G,GOO is expected a
each concert of the series there will not b
a vacant chair after the 1900 singers hav
been placed. The decorations of the inte
rior are quiet but effective. The platform
is hidden with a mass Ofevergreeus. palm
and tropical plants, four wagon loads bein
used to ill in the front of the pOdiun
alone.
THE RECEPTION CONCERT.
The fest will be be formally opened TIN
evening with q reception concert, whlc
will be given To the visiting singers by
mixed chorus of one thousand voices, com
posed of the singing societies of the city
the AriOns and Cecilians, and in whic
: Iill Lehman, Carrie GOldsticker, Mar
anne Brandt, Joseph Won Witt, Max Helm
rich and other sOlOiSts from abroad vii
participate. The principal evening cor
certs will take place tomorrow and Frlda
evenings. The Germania Club, of Chicago
has engaged Schlitz Park from IL o'elOc
Thursday night until Friday morning
and will entertain several of the crack 81
cieties from other parts in princely styl'
On Friday night the prize composition
Columbus, " by Carl Joseph Brambaeh, (
Germany, will he produced. This comp
sition is the result of the $1,000 pri7
offered by John PlankingtOn, the cOnte:
being international.
A BIG THING FOR MILWAUKEE.
The work of preparing for the Saenge
) fest that has been in progress since the La
gathering in Buffalo, in 1888. The eN
penses will exceed $4,000 The gurantC
2 fund amounts to Sis, 600, but in all prOl
ability not more than five or ten per cent
if ANYTHING, will be called for. The fest
d a big thing for Milwaukee, as it is expecte
to bring in a total of $3.50, 600 as the T