San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-08
GERMAN DAY,
EVE OF THE GREAT CELE,
BRATION.
ALL APPOINTMENTS READY AND
ARRANGEMENTS COM.
PLETED.
List of those in the Pageant-Street
Car and Railway Time Tables
Schools Closed-Streets
Cleared, ETC., Etc.

Tonight Will be the beginning OF the
German Day celebration in San Antonio.
The bicycle lantern parade opens the
ball. Carl Beck's grand twelfth concert
on Government hill while being the end
ing of the series of summer concerts, will
also be a musical prelude to the grand
day, beginning tomorrow.
The celebration is intended as
a commemoration of the landing of the
first Germans in the United States. The
day is fixed one in the calendar of San
Antonio and is beginning to be recognized
all over the country where German beer
is brewed and TeutOnia has planted her
foot A fitting tribute is also paid Column
bia, the adopted country of the Germans
living with us and the parade,
or street pageant, is arranged to repre-
sent the ancient literature or foundation
of literature. tradition and history, found
first in the minStrelsy of all nations. The
alegorical floats will thus explain these.
and the whole forms really the story of
the beginning and outward press of the
Germanic race, interSperSnd with other
traditions, selected for their beauty in
pc"-rv. SnPctaclP and song.
The allegorical parade, beginning. oOmOr-
TO" prUmpUIy at O'Clock in the after
noon, is composed of lG floats. The ladies
and gentlemen who will perSOnate the
mythical characters, are given below
First FlOat-MisS Hulda RummeI, Ger
mania: Mrs. II. GrieSenbeck. Columbia
Second FlOat-.IOhn Beckmann.
Third Float-H. Bernau.
Fourth FlOat-Nat. Nilareal. prince:
Ed. Marks. Joe TruaX, warriors: Mrs.
Meissncr, Misses Ce!inc Moritz. Wild. Vii
lanueva. TruaX, Cardenas, GuitereZ
Fifth Float August Muegge King)
Albert Dittmar; carl SOmmerShausen,
L. Herbstled, Eugen Ines, VIM. Mainz,
evil spirits.
Sixth Float-Peters, Herman Schaetz-
Ter, Hugo Lick, Ed Schroeder. Chr.
Wildestein. CHI. Heitgen. Ferd Thesis.
Her. Muenzcnberg, Gessner, warriors on
guard.
Seventh Float-Geo. Heitgen. Rechen-
tin, Delmann, guard Of warriors
Fritsch, Rechentin, Jr.. Max Schaetzler,
Jul. Corning. Paul COnrlRg nymphS.
Eighth FIOat-Gilbert Schramm. SiCg-
fried; Ed. GOldbeck, Rob. Goldbeck,
AdOlph GOldbeck
Ninth Float-Miss Guenther Brun-
hide; Miss A. Guenther. Miss A. Beck
mann, Miss Hewitt. Miss A. Simering.
Brunhilde'S associates. Mr.. Paul Wag-
Heuermann. +. w. Fromberg, Alex Basse.
Warriors.
Tenth Float-Milton Schramm. Hagen.
Eleventh FlOat-MiSS Thckla Steiner
ing, Gudrun: Miss Irma KIaUpenbach.
PLAYMATE of Gudrun.
Twelfth FlUat-MOritZ kalteyer, w. c.
Katever, Ernst Muenzpnbcrg. il. Schucb-
ard, willy Kypfer. Miss Mary DuiInfg.
Miss Ida Dullnig, Miss lilly Dullnig, Miss
NaleSka Schramm, Miss Guynemere,
kings and queens.
Eighth Float-C. A. Goath. Tam
hauser: Misses Misses Maria Rummel,
Lille Hugo, Viola Hugo. Heuerman. Rose
%Orrey, Ida GrOeSbeck, Louisa Sauer.
Nincth Float Mr.. Lucien Lacoste,
Siterel; Mr.. b. EngeIke. ParcifaI: Ed.
Dreiss, AdOIph DreisS, Ed. EImendorf. E.
Guenther, warriors; Misses Clara GroOS.
Helena ElmendOrf. Ola Siren, angels:
Miss Mamie Barbeck. Princess
Fifteenth Float-Miss Whitman, Rezia
Mr.. O'Blian, HueOn; Mr.. O. w. Seelig-
son. CaIiph of Bagdad: Mr.. Winstead.
Grand yizier; Mr.. Tobin. Vizier: Messrs.
Fitzgerald, Emirs: MeSSrs. Waeldcr and
Mcdowell, guards.
Sixteenth Float-McsSrs Tom Tengg.
Peters, Jr., BarthOlomaie, Eddy Degner.
walter Jenull and George Wurzbach,
nymphs.
The representations which are this year
placed on the tableauX floats in the pro-
cesSion OF the GPrman-American Day
Association are taken from the legends
and heroic epOchS of the oldest period OF
Germanic literature.
1.-THE first float represents "Germania
and Columbia, ''Germania. she, from
whose bosom Sprang the mightiest nation
that now rule the globe. in fair union
with Columbia
'Beowulf'' gives US today the most
vivid picture of old Germanic hero life
II is supposed this hero was meant tC
personify the old Morse deity, Douar, OF
Thor. The plot is this: Rudgar, King 0.
the Danes. was tronblcd h. :hc ou'rar ns
of terrible monster, Grimdel, the son u
the moor-woman. Huglcich. Prince u
the Giants. sends the valiant RcowTif r.
slay him. The combat of BeOwulf auc
G,iudel is represented on the second float
~ Stays the monster and IS pursued by
his still more terrible mother, whom n,
ia tuin follows to her SubterraneaI