Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-23
GERMANS HAVE A BIG DAY AT
THE FAIR
THOUSANDS VISIT THE PARADE
IN CHICAGO.
After a Splendid Pageant the Thou
sands Take Possession Of Jackson
Park and Enjoy the Day-Never Be
fore Was the Crowd So Large-Pro-
gram of Exercises.

CHICAGO, June l5.-There mast be |
nearly 50 100 Germans here aud If
they did Lot all get into Michigan
Avenue lh.s morning it was because
Michla an Avenue between Park row
anu Monroe Street won't hold that
many people. There is nothing meek
and lowly about these 5000 either.
When they once wrenched day from
the week for their own uses they made
all Chicago recognize 1t whether it
up their own shops and factories,
the courts and the public Offices in
dulged them in many cases md finally
they turned the downtown st1 Gets
into writing tangle in which ordi-
nary traffic was trampl 81 like fly in
spi .er's web. There was no
getting about anywhere within
Eve blocks of the line OF
march. AS for Michigan Avenue,
where the fun conferred, the Germans
had got fixed as firmly as logs in
lam before 10 o'clock, and unless you
wanted to duck under the hcofs Of the
horses YOU had no business trying to
make your way up that street.
The police had to use their clubs all
the time to keep the crowd from burst
ing over the curb and tangling UP the
professionals who were hurrylng
along to get into the park before the
line should start.
1t was a merrymaking crowd AMID a
bolster GUS one that formed the pro-
cession. First the marshals came
through wearing plug hats and riding
boots and smoking cigars. Livery body
in line smoked and it was startling to
see a crusader sitting on top Of a.
wooden horse in beer wagon pulling
AWAY at hong black cigar.
Then the turner's, as tine a
looking regiment of broad 'chestea
yoang fellows as ever gets
Ss.4 in Chicago swung through at a
company front with their little walk
Tag sticks on their shoulders. Inc
German veterans followed in Grand
Army blue and-b brass. Some OF the old
fellows were mixed up in that '4S
affair which sent Carl Schurz across
the border and made Judge Brentano's
! father EMBARK for this ountTy. They
were cheered as they went up to get IN
| line and DIS they came back marching
| behind, the carriages.
| Then there was lot of floats.
! Young fellows in masquerade clothes
| rode in caravelS and talked German to
| CHRISTOPHER Cclun bus, fat man with
a beard which tell off four times on
| the way to lark row A pyramid OF
! pretty GIRLS with yellow hair OF their
! ownan.t gauze wings of the costumers
| stool at the 1eet of a buNom Germanla
! guarding her against all Toes
| and holding on to her so shs
| wouldn't be jolted off the wagon. 4
Bayarian windmill led by man will
! a bag of meal across his saddle wa
! cheered by all the Bavarians, AM
when tie Emperor William the OLE
kaiser) went by sitting on a throne an'
surrounded by Unser Fritz, Bismarck
Won Moltke and the rest of. hi
staff, the united Germans alonl
the street roared unanimously
The Emperor seemed to, en-
ioy the applause. Strange t.
say he recognized many people IN tn
crowd and bowed to them. At Han
rison Street he leaned out and sal
affabl1, "How-de do, Lena" to,a gin
| in front row. Nearly all the peopl
who rode in open carriages with tn
! flags of America and Germany on tn
horses heads and pink and green rose
on the doors sang songs, and the SHARP
shooters and canary bird raiser
stopped long GnOuSl w eSlSAduS I1i
Bavarian windmill.
Itlwas great parade. Many said
suraled the civic demonstration las
October in honor of the dedication {
the Exposition. Headed by a squad {
, Central detail policemen, under tn
command of Lieut.. Rehm, Chief Ma
snail Frank Wenter, with his hume
ovs staff rode proudly in thevan of til
:, winding procession. The brass band (
t the Guard du Corps, looking stunnin
O ia. their white uniforms and da
7linu helmets, burst into storm
music when the column got fairly
l motion and continued toplay until tt
$ Auditorium was passed. There was
e .,horus of EXPLANATIONS from the a
v miring multitudes when Direct'
} Herold's musicians passed, and n
IS egea the sight of Gen. Lieb on hors
r.. back at the head of the fir
- division could displace the il
= ! PRESTON they imprinted on the spe
IL tators A cheer went up all along tt
N line at the next detachment. 1t w
lie the veterans of the Twenty-fourth 81
at Eighty-second Illinois Volunteer
+ they were old men, most Of them be
,g with toll as well as years, b
-. they waved their canes in glad ,
l. sponse to the hearty recognition. Z
tween theirranks walked three won
Or abreast, wearing badges of t
/ Wonan's Relief Corps.