The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-08
THE CONVENTION.
.Bayarian society%C Committee Holds
/, n Meeting.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
,Withths Exception Of a Few Minor De-
tails One Thousand Pit..burgh,r, will
Appear In the Parade Daring the Con.
vention' : Delegate. Coming from all.
Over the Coantry-liavarian Coiors TO
he In Eyiheurs. q l9}HlS tNs

Tho committee OF tho local Bavarian
society having In charge the arrange.
ments for the national convention OF the
Hawaiian Society of North America.
which Ia to be held here August II. is, 10,
20 and q. met again last night and com.
plcted the arrangement OF further de.
tails concerning the programme OF
tecSents mapped out for the ,cntertaln-
ment OF the visitors.
Every member OF the committee was
present and Chairman Colmar presided,
Secretary Frederick read the minutes OF
the previous meeting, which were ap.
proved.
The. arrangements as far. as they have
2 completed were gone over cnre2
fally and all the subcommittee mp
pointed reported that everything was
ready and nothing would be- lacking
when the time comes to make the con-
fYention q memorable one both to the
Visitors and To the hOtue folk, a great
many OF whom do not realize the magnl-
tude OF the affair. There will hea-d1le-
gates here from almost every city In the
Y country and a number OF Bavarlans
@ cities In the immediate vicinity,
VIII come to participate in the big par
which gives fair premise Of being
2 otAthes largest seen here for years.
Pittsburgh alone promises to send down
LOCO men and other cities within 200
miles Will do as well proportionatcly.
The trade display will be mnde 4 feat
Sure OF the parade and almost every mer-
chant hos agreed to have II more
wagons neatly trimmed In American
n BaSarian colors In joiu In the
parade. aiH5a
The arrangements committee has or
Sdered thousands OF Bavarian flags,
which VIII arrive here next Friday and
Will be placed on sale ut f. Strlf's on
Eleventh street. The flags will be In
two sizes and will be sold at lust what
they cost. The twenty-thtre inch flag
will be sold for 81 u. per dozen and the
eighteen-inch nag at"~Sl per dozen. Tho
SBararian colors consist OF light blue and
white and every business house Is re-
quested to display them with the Amer!-
al colors during the convention.
The }proSrlmms Of events as they will
occur has been printed In the In~tcllIgen-
Ger. and will consist OF n summer
nachtsfest at Mozart park Tuesday. Au-
gust is. An afternoon outing Mt, Wheel
Ing park the following day and the biz
paTaue anu picnic thursday, August 20.
the picnic to take place at the fair
grounds. The committee has ARRANGED
Tor n number OF races mt the last named
place and the amusements will continue
until midnight.
Mr.. Philip Kochcrt was appointed a
committee OF one to arrange with a local
photographer for the taking OF II picture
OF the delegates to the convention. Mr..
Louis Colmar. of the Stats Zeitung. was
authorized to advertise the convention
in the papers in all towns within 100
miles OF the city.
The railroad committee reported hav-
Ing secured a half fare rate on all the
railroads running into the city and this
arrangement alone should attract thou
sands.
The committee will hold one more
meeting before the convention at which
all the details will be perfected.