The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-06
DEUrSCHE %GEDESKTAG.
German Memorial Day 10 DO Celebrated In
an Imposing Manner to-day.

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German Memorial Day to DO Celebrated In
nj Imposing Manner to-day.
II the weather is favorable the cele.
bration by the German-American citi.
zens Of Wheeling to-day Of the anniver.
sary OF the first settlement In this coun.
try by Germans will DO ono Of tho most
imposing and memorable demonstra.
tons Of the kind tina! Wheeling ever
cav.
Business will be generally suspended,
the mills shut down and the schools
shut up, and everybody who does not
assist In making the celebration a great
one will turn out to see It.
The decorations will DO general, not
confined to German.A americans eslab.
lishnents or horses, and by the hour SGT
for tho parade, the streets on or adjacent
TO the line OF march ought to be a solid
mass Of decorations.
The parade will form ut nine o'clock
this morning, the various divisions being
assigned to tho following streets: First
Division on Chapline street, right rest.
ing on Sixteenth; Second Division on
the eaat side OF Chapliue street, right
resting on Twelfth; Third Division on
Fourteenth street, riehtresiiDg on Chap.
line; Fourth Division on Fifteenth
street, right resting Oh Chapline; Filth
Division on Chapllne street, south Of
Sixteenth, extending around onto
Eighteenth Btreet.
The route OF procession will DO as fol.
lows: East on Sixteenth street to Main,
to Seventh, to Market, to Twentieth, to
Main, to Twenty.fourth, 10 Chapline, to
Twenty.cighth, to Eoif, to Thirtieth, to
Chapiine, thirty.iifth, to EoG to Thirty.
ninth, to jacob, to ~Ttirty.third, to Eoff,
to Twenty.seventh, 10 Chrpline, 10
Twenty.second, to Market, to Tenth,
over Suspenslon bridge and down South
Front street to the Fair grounds.
1t Is desired to move promptly at $3.50,
and all marshals and organizations
should be in the places assigned them
by 0 sharp. The gentleman who havo
been invited to ride in carriages will
meeLin Clerk Hooks Office, at the Pub.
lie Building, about $50 n. In. The pas.
sive members OF the Arion Society who
are to participate in the parade, are to
assemble at Arion Hall at S q. m.
All Of the day force OF the city police
will be in the esCorting squad but the
two officers on the Market street beats.
Chief OF Police Delbrugge yesterday
issued an order that all wagons, cal.
riages and other vehicles keep Off the
streets covered by the line OF march
from $3.50 this morning until the parade
has passed. Any vehicle trespassing
upon the route will be compelled to
move OF.
After the parade there will be a picnic
and celebration on the State Fair
grounds. Addresses will DO made by
Rev. William Ulfert, Hon. A. W. Camp.
bell and others. In the evening will be
given a grand finale 10 the whole in the
o shape Of handsome display Of fire
works.
II it should be q rainy day the Ex,
cursion Committee has arranged to have
speaking in the Opera House in the
morning and dancing at Mozart, Arion,
Beethoven and Turner Halls this even
ing.
Saturday evenings Bellaire Independ.
ent says: About 100 OF the German citi.
zens Of Bellaire will participate in the
German Day celebration at Wheeling
Monday. The parade takes place in the
forenoon, while the afternoon will be
given up 10 speech.making. All Turn.
ers and Germans who intend to partici.
pate in the celebration Of German Day
at Wheeling on Monday will meet at
the Turner Hall on Monday morning at
1880 o'clock. The steamer Phillips will
leave the wharf at S o'clock sharp. The
Bellaire city band will accompany the
delegates from hero.
At midnight last night the work oil
erecting the triumphal arches on Mar.
ket street was begun, and 4 good deal Of
other decorating was under way soon
after. The first decoration put out was
by the Maennerchor society, which had
out an American and a German flag
| yesteriay.