The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-28
THE D!G FUNNIEST.
II Opens To.day-Lurgr Crowds Expected.
The Arrangements Complete and n
Grand Success Assured.

he Pittsbur2h district, opens here 10.
lay. Several thousand people from
broad will visit the city in the four
lays the fest continues, aud tho city
'ught to DO caily decorated, and the
trangcrs made welcome In d way that
yill mako them glad they came 10 the
and eager 10 como back.
The General Committee OF Arrange.
nents In charge OF the funniest met in
hall yesterday afternoon and
completed the arrangements for the
Tho details Ia all the depart.
nents werc found to DO well In hand,
and the prospects for n very successful
meeting are first clMs. Some OF the
committees reported their work CON.
and those the nature OF whose
will keep them active till the fest
Is over, reported good progress.
Tho committee on quarters was busy
all afternoon assigning the members OF
tho various visiting uocietics to the
homes OF the different members md
who will entertain them. The
hna about provided all those
whom they expect with places to stay,
aud those who are not provided ior will
be, without Inconvenience.
AT yesterdays meeting
TIN LADIES SECTION
OF the society presented II with an ole.
CANT new American flag to be iloated
from the staff n. tho top OF the Turner
building. Mrs. John NJ. Schenck pre.
sented the flag and Mayor Seabright re-.
thanka on bshali OF the society.
Three cheers forthe ladies' section aud
the flag were proposed and given with
a vim that almos: raised the roof. Prcsi.
dent Jacob Nunge then made a abort
address, in which he commended the
action, aud expressed the sincere
thanks OF the aociety. The parade com.
mittee reported that 1t has nearly every.
thing in Its department in shape, aud
will complete its labors tonight at A
meeting to DO held in the city gas Office.
It was decided that the awarding com.
mittee, which will award tho prlzss in
tGe contest, Prot. Krogh and three out.
side teachsrs, the veterans OF the Wheel.
Ing Turn rS.cie y, the executive ilc lrs
OF the district, the members OF the
press, both at homo and from abroad,
and the speakers shall ride in carriages,
and carriages were ordered for them, :
On Tuesday evening, DR.. A. F. Stifei
Will deliver M address in German at the
Opera House on tho importance Of phy.
steal culture, its growth as u science, etc /,
and on Wednesday evening Capt. b, B..
Dovcner will deliver IN address in r..
g.ish to the Turner's and their friends at
tho same place.
The societies aside from the different
Turner organizations which will take
part in the parade are the Teutonia,
Drulds, Pioneer. Mnnnerchor, Ger.
mania, Beethoven, Arion aud Mozart.
ln the parade will be 4 beautifully deco.
rated wagon, gotten up for the occasion
by MIR. Anton Reymann, and carving
tho young ladies Of the Ladies' Physical
Training class.
The gymnasium on the State Fair
grounds has been completed and ia now
ready Tor use. During the three DAYS OF
the Test, three hundred active Turner's
will eat, sleep and remain on the
grounds. A great effort will be made by
several OF the Wheeling Turner's to carry
ol the prizes offered by the Bezirk.
There is a strong probability that both
the class and individual prizes may be
kept at home.
THE SOCIETIES
from outside the CITY, which will take
part IN the active work Of the fest, are
those otLsw'enceyille Allegheny, joint
town, Altoona, Manchester, three from
Birmingham, Beaver Falls
and Alckeesport, all OF Pennsylvania,
and the East Liverpool and Steubenyille,
Ohio, societies, which, with the two
societies Of Wheeling, make fifteen or.
CARNATIONS. These will average 100 per-
cons each in the city, though Of course
the active Turner'S class from each is
much smaller.
The visitors will begin 10 arrive to-
day: BY tonight most 81 them will bein,
The exercises to-day will consist
OF the reception OF delegates.
IN wednesday the big parade takes
place. The line vii! be made up as fol.
FIRST DIVISION. :.
Chief o: Police Delbrugge and sixteen
o%iiicers; the American flag, borne on
horseback; Chief Marshall 4. A. Franz.
lelm and stali-Leo Riester, chief: John
Koch, adjutant; Opera House Band,
active Turner's and scholars, 800 in all !;
Wheeling Turnverein and scholars;
central Turnvereiu, Of Pittsburgh; AL.
vereiu; South Side verein, OF
Pittsburgh; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; Birm-
,nctam yerein; Allentown verein;
v%ereinj #cEeesport
Germania, Of Stem.
9enville; East Liverpool; Beaver Falls.
south Side vercin, Wheeling; decorated
wagon With young ladies' class.
SEeokn DIVISION.
Officers Of Pittsburgh Turn Bezirk:
Committee Of the Fest; Vet.
'ran Turner's Of Wheeling; orators and
members of the press; Wheeling Pioneer
in carriages.
THIRD DIVISION.
Mckeesport Union Uornet band:
'assive Turner'S and Singing Societies Of
lckecspors, Pal Wheeling Singing So.
ieties In the following order: Mozart.
laennerchor, Germania, Beethoven
'%entouia, Arion.
The line OF march will DO as follows:
The parade will form on Market
treet. at the Turner hail, and march IN
larket street to Seventh, down Seventh
0 Main, on Main south to Twenty.
ourth, on Twenty-iourth to Chapline,
p Chapiine to Twen,y.second, on
,wenty'second to Market, on Market to
,en1h, ana acfo1s the snspension bridge,
by way OF South Front street to the
tate Fair ground.
THE MINT uJf, .r