The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-29
RECEIVING RUSSIANS.
Mirth and Music Rule at the
Arions' Carnival.

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The Arion Club of Jersey City Heights
held its ninth annual carnival Saturday
night at Kessler,s Hall. The hall was hand-
somely decorated in American, German,
French and Irish flags, and streamers Of
bunting of all .colors were arranged in an
artistic manner from floor to ceiling. The
galleries were ornamented with the coats Of
arms of all nations, at intervals of every five
feet. On the left of the stage was a rostrum
in the shape of a stove pipe hat of an an
tique style. The programme opened with
the arrival of Uncle Sam (Mr. Breha) and
Columbia" (Mr. Buchmacher).
Gas the French entertained the Rus
Sam" to Columbia" as he pointed to a
large ship in the scene at the back of the
stage, representing the entrances to the har-
Dor and the Statue of Liberty, $50 we will
entertain our Russians"
Immediately ten solid looking Teutons,
dressed i'll Irish peasant costumes, appeared
upon the stage as if coming from the ship.
They were received with great applause.
Uncle Sam welcomed them to the country,
and in reply to his questions, one of them
(Mr. Walter Wirths) stepped forward and
in choice Teutonic announced himselft hus:
.Ich bin, Dennis Mclaughlin, der Konig."
Then he introduced his companions as ssBob"
Davis Mr. William Kaestner), "P. H
ONeiT Mr. John G.. Hepding), sPat
Burke" Ex-President Philip Pattberg), "Mc-
Closkey' John Doherr), Flanagan (G.
'Allan McDermott' Oh. C. Reese,
'sO'Flaherty" Ct. D~ieffenbach), and eth
multy'' QMr. F. Kuehne).
bob" WANTS IT ALL.
After the introduction "Bob Davis had
the audacity to dance with Columbia, and
when dennis Mclaughlin n ALLAN Nc
Dermott" wanted to dance with her. ssBobo
kicked, as he wanted her all to himself.
''Uncle SAM then invited the visitors to
take seats at the table on the stage. "Colum-
bia" suggested that they ought to nave a
good German to sit with them, and she and
'Uncle Sam" escorted Philip Kreutzig, the
President of the carnival, to the stage and
seated him in the seat of honor.
Mr.. Kreutzig Immediately took charge and
kept Uncle Sam" n Columbia" busy for
some time escorting distinguished guests to
places around the table. MI. Schumandt
stopped at the high hat to make a little
speech, in which he cast unwarranted slurs
at the eminent politicians at the table.
A delegation from the -E%ichenkranz
Society of Eighty-sixth street, New York,
was next escorted to the table, and Mr.. KEEL,
their leader, presented one of the caps their
society word to MI. Krentzig. The Quartette
Club of Hoboken was next, and their cap
was presented by Mr.. S. Reinach. The Ho-
boken Lyra followed, and Mr.. Bicher pre-
sented their cap to the master of the feast.
The delegation from the Union Hill Lieder-
tafel followed. Mr.. George Fuchs presented
the cap. The cap of the Pomnochelspopp
of New York was next brought up by
"Uncle Sam" and Columbus The society
had been invited to attend, but not being
able to do so, sent their cap. SDennis Ne
Laughlin" then favored the audience with
one of his celebrated baritone solos, which
was received with round upon round of APP
plause. Mr.. Osterhaus, a New York news
paper man, next made a short address, and
the audience sang a song composed by B.
Roede especially for the occasion in memory
of the late Stephen Kessler, who presided
over last years carnival.
MR.. KASTNER PICTURES.
w. Kastner next entered the hat and pro-
duced several comical pen sketches of mem
bers of the club, which he displayed with
humorous comments. This was followed by
a song written for the occasion by Mr.. Kast-
ner. Alexander Schlessinger made an adj
dress, and "The Kingdom of Fools" a song
composed by A. Gesell, was sung by the
audience.
Other addresses were made by ex-As-
semblyman Ditmar, Director Schenck of the
Arion Singing Society, Hilarious Pattberg,
l.. w. Frankenback and Bandmaster New
kirk, who brought the entertainment to a
close.
During the evening several songs were
sung which were composed specially for the
occasion by F. D.. Dieffenbach, ST., Philip
Kreutzig, A Gesell, B. Roede, W. Kaestner,
H. Buhle, Hilarious Pattberg, Walter Wirths
tertainment dancing was INDUCED in, and a
collation. was served in the DINING room