The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-01
sEDAN's Anniversary.
Large Crowds Expected To-day 10
Take Part I'm the celebration.

rake IuEf IN AMe htlfnFuAl0Ms
To-day marks the twenty-dfth anniver-
sary Of the battle OF sedan. when Won
Moltke and Bismarck conquered the
French and put an end 10 the second
French empire. Tomorrow is the ami
versary Of the surrender Of the Third Ma
poleon. Celebrations OF battles and events
OF the war have been going on for some
time in Germany.
In this country the battle OF Sedan only
VIII be celebrated by the German ciu-
zens as the climax OF the great war. Cele-
brations viii De held i'm New York. Chica-
go Milwaukee. 81. Louis and Savannah.
There are several German veterans Of the
war of 1870 in Savannah. and large num-
Der OF German citizens, many OF whom
were children iu The fatherlanl when the
great events which marked the war were
Transporting. savannah has the credit Of
being the only city iu the south 10 cele-
Drate the anniversary and this being the
case Il is expected that there Will be a
large number of German visitors from
other cities during the three days cele-
bration-
The celebration opens to-day. Large
crowds are expected on the morning
trains, especially from Charleston and
Augusta, from which points special eN-
cursions viii be run by the Plant system
The visitors Will be met al the trains by
committees appointed FOR the purpose and
viii be taken out to Tlyou Park which
VIII be the headquarters Of the celeDra-
tiou. The German Guards Of Augusta are
expected to bring down large crowd
The Guards will be the only visiting mill
tary company The Guards will be es-
cOrted to the armory of the First regi-
ment, where they VIII stack their arms in
the room Of the German Volunteers. The
Fourth brigade band of Charleston will
furnish music for the celebration. In the
afternoon there viii be general gather
ing of citizens and visitors at the Tivoh
Park, where a concert viii be given by
the band. Tonight "A series Of tableauX
viii be given, representing characters and
incidents of the campaign.
Tomorrow will be the big day Of the
celebration, the chief feature being the
parade Of German military and civic So
cieties. 1t is expected that there viii
be several hundred in line.
A feature Of the parade will be the
presence I'm line of several veterans OF
the FraEcO-German war. They Will pa
rade with the German-American Krieger-
bund which is an organization composed
Of German veterans and those who have
served their time in the German army
The kriegerbund was organized at the
Turner hall Friday night Mr.. Robert
Schneider, who has shown great zeal in
bringing the veterans together In order
to have them take part I'm the celebra-
ton, was unanimously elected captain
Mr.. Emil Otto of Beaufort was elected
first lieutenant and Mr. o. w. Nell or
Savannah second lieutenant. The follow
ing members We're enrolled:
August Gamart, John Ditman. John II.
Schmiedeberg, Robert Schneider, j. c.
Mahn, A. Winter. c. f. Keller Henry
Toehl, s. J. Morrison, S. Perlinsky, O. w
Schiller, C. Langle. George WHITE. Emil
Otto, Martin Haar. Carl Heinrich, Dan
Barron, George Dransack, Albert Tisch-
bein, Henry Moellering Dick Grotheer.
William Troschier O. w. Nell, Paul VIII
kens, II. Il. c. Feus, julius Kaufman,
Christ Hahn and John Miller.
After the parade the crowd will ad-
journ to Thunderbolt, where Hon. w. d.
Harden will deliver the address Of well
come and will introduce the orator of
the day. Mr.. H. A. Geiseler. The Grafton
will be delivered in German. The re-
mainder of the programme will consist
of vocal ana instrumental music, with Sc
lections by the singing societies.
At night the living pictures will be
given again with an illumination of the
park, fireworks and dancing. The next
day will be a general picnic day at the
park, with games of all descriptions.
The official programme which appeared
yesterday, contains a brief. but clear and
impartial account of the Franco-German
war. The programme is printed in Eng
fish, but two of the German national
songs Die WGcht am Rhein," and
Deutschland" are printed in German.
Several of the advertisements are also
printed in German.