Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-20

ELECTED the applause of all those around the
| tables, including two or three score Of ladies
who graced the board by their presence. The
ss ksssn 0y sSns y Them ns M W
proposed the toast THE President Of the
United States" which was drunk standing.
| THE FATHERLAND.
Mr.. Wolf once more obtained the floor and
said that he would be obliged to transpose one
| OF the toasts in order to accommodate the
| speaker. who had to leave early. He then in
troduced Mr.. Anton Eberly. who responded to
| the toast The Fatherland." He spoke in Ger
man. dwelling upon the dear memories which
the cause of their adopted country, have for
| the land Of their birth. He also mentioned
| the great military strength of Germany
| especially as it was developed during the
Franco-Prussian war.
Mr.. VOLTS ADDRESS.
Mr.. Wolf responded himself to the toast
''The day We celebrate" Not only in unity
lies strength. he said. but in temperance and
sobriety lies the true conduct of the American
citizen, and the Schuetzen Verein was organ
| lied to promote these elements. He went back
into the history of the society, and showed its
development from a local to q national and
even an international importance. He re-
minded his hearers that one by one the old
landmarks OF Washington are disappearing
and he felt that calamity was about to
fall upon the society in tho loss of
its park. He feared that from lack
OF cooperation and interest the members
might some day read of the sale OF the
beautiful property to some real estate syndicate
This was greeted by storm OF misses and cries
of mo! mol" and half ID hundred Tcutons drank
Rhine wine together to the long life of the
Schuetzcn Park. Mr.. Wolf continued that it
ought to be easy to keep up the society and its
landmarks in such a city rs Washington, with
nearly three hundred thousand people.
OUR ADOPTED CITIZENS.
Fifth Auditor Habercomb responded to the
toast "Our adopted citizens" He said that
adopted citizens, and especially Germans, were
necessary to a country like this, in every walk
of life.
Gen. Sherman was to have responded to
1.-The German-American a soldier" but he
had been called away to New York and Mr.
Wolf made his apologies. The general who
he said. had taken all his war paint home with
him, could not have said more than everybody
present knew, that when the German fights he
fights all over, and that his blood lies OH many
an American battlefield, shed for the cause of
the Union.
THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS
''The Decentralization as citizen of the
District of Columbia was the theme given to
Commissioner Douglass. He made an in
teresting and entertaining response. Com
missioner Hines name, uttered by Mr.. Wolf
was greeted with tremendous applause. He
said that he had consented to come upon the
condition that he should have no toast to re-
spond to. but he had found a subject in the
prophesy Of Mr.. Wolf about the park He
knew that it should fail 10 come true, for he
was sure there no such thing as failure
ahead of the ScheutZen Verein. 1t would be q
sacrilege and disgrace to allow the park to
be sold.
FROM NEWSPAPER POINT OF VIEW
Mr.. Beriah wilkins, in speaking on the SUBJ
ject Of the German-American from a news
paper standpoint, created Il laugh by dropping
into a little cOlloquial German here and there
He asserted that the German-American from
this standpoint ia good citizen, loyal and
patriotic. He referred to that German idler of
older days. VINO once Whitfield out the first
types and said that the newspapers reyered
his memory.
OTHER SPEECHES.
Representatives Neidringhaus and Lehlbach
spoke on the subject of the German-A American
in politics and Mr.. Burkhart gave his views of
the German-American in Office Rev. Mr. e.
terlch made combination speech in German
and English about the German in his domestic
relations and then Mr. Wolf apologized for Col.
NJ. II. Parker. who was to have spoken to the
toast ''The ladies'" Additional speeches were,
at the call of the chairman, made bv Mr. Paul
Schultz and Mr.. Theo. w. Noyes. The former
spoke in German.
1t was after IL o'clock when the banquet
party left the hall and went home under the
clouds.
The WARD" EXCURSION goes May 20, $50