The Portland daily press., 1889-04-10
THE WAY THE TEUTONS CAME OVER
To Be Illustrated In the Big Parade
at the Centennial.
German Industry and Art to Be EIab-
orateIy Represented.
Beer and Wines Of the FatherIand
Given Places of Honor.

New YORK, April 9.-The German dis
play in the parade at the approaching CEN
tennial will be striking feature Of the great
event. 1t will cost $4,000 and will began
with Illustrations Of the first German immi-
grafton to this country. The illustrations
will be great tableaux mounted upon
wheeled floats The first float will display
an old-fashioned German ship drawn up TO
the shores Of the new land. Peasant immi-
grants will be represented leaping over its
sides with agricultural implements and bun
dies of clothing. The next will represent a
party Of German squatters travelling West
to settle new tract. 1t will be a genuine
immigrants wagon drawn by mules, and
piled with axes and ploughs. A drove Of
cows and domestic animals will follow.
Later on will come float depicting the
immigration which followed the revolution
of 1S4S, and the arts and culture it brought
with it. A special float will be devoted to
the Germans in the Revolution. A guard Of
German-American soldiery will surround
1t.
The second division will be devoted to the
arts. On one float little old hand press
will be worked by sturdy Germans In the
dress Of long ago, and old-fashioned pro-
grammes Of the parade will be struck off and
thrown among the the spectators. The next
float will carry out modern printing press,
which will rattle off thousands Of pro-
grammes Of modern and beautiful typo
grahy, to be scattered as souvenirs along the
route. Flower and vegetable gardening
and the manufacture Of wine will be Illus
trated. What Is expected TO be telling and
beautiful group will be a float full Of wom-
en-. each personating a different kind of
wine.
Last of the wine groups will .come
great figure of old Bacchus, crowned, with
Bacchantes dancing around him.
Then will come beer and here the Ger
mans VIII spread themselves. The first float
will show the old process of making beer. 1t
will be followed by other floats carrying the
latest apparatus. The series will close with
a group clustered about King Gambrinus.
Piano making, shoemaking and the making
of sausages win be features Of the manufac-
lures floats. The kindergarten system will
have float, the central figure Of which will
be a family around Christmas tree.
After these floats will come the singing so-
cieties, led by the Liederkranz, the Arion.
the Beethoven, and the Eichenkranz; the
sharpshooters' companies. led by William
Tell, and many other societies, among which
will be the Plattdeutschers, the Swiss, and
the Bavarians; King Carnival, with his ret
inue; Humboldt, the explorer, and illustra-
tions Of his deeds, and the engineering de-
partment will reach climax in a represent
ation Of the Brooklyn bridge.
There will also be floats typical of paint
ing, sculpture and architecture. Music will
have a department. The float Of sacred
music will be surrounded by 200 surpliced
boys, marching and singing. Another float
will group the standards Of the various Ger
man Catholic societies. Wagnerian opera
will have a float, on which piece the Rhine
daughters will be grouped around bust OF
Wagner and. ideal figures Of Tannhauser,
Siegfried, the Walkure, Elsa and Lohengrin.
Another float viii typify German opera in
general. Some Of the figures will be Mozart,
Beethoven, Weber and Meyerbeer.
Columbia and Germania joining hands win
be the subject and central figures Of the float
following. Around them will be grouped
figures representing the different types OF
Germany. The display will be closed by
long lines OF Turner's, with floats showing
their system Of education.
A plan has been adopted for a medical and
surgical relief department during the eele-
Il going It Is proposed to have SIX
stretchers and physician at each Of a mum.
Der Of stations near Broadway, and consid-
erable force Of aids. The chief surgeon OF
the police department will be asked to take
charge, and the physicians will also prob
ably come from the department. They viii be
asked TO have their entire ambulance force
ready for constant service all day.
There will probably be ten men Of war In
the naval parade, including the Boston, the
Chicago, the Yorktown and the Vesuvius.
There will be ten miles or less of steamboats,
probably 400 in number, under command of
Capt Woolsey. Foreign steamships in port
at the time will be asked to Join. The Pres
ident will float his flag over the Despatch. 1t
is of dark blue, with the coat of arms Of the
United States in white and thirteen stars
over the eagle. The President will not
breakfast with Gov. Green at Elizabethport,
He will breakfast on the train, and he and
Gov. Green will lunch on the Despatch. The
President will stay at Vice President
Morton's house while in the city.