Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-07

The twenty-e eighth National Saenger-
fest OF the United States will be form
ally opened Tuesday at Pittsburg.
Elaborate preparations have beer made
by the Fest committee as well as the
city committee Of the city of Pittsburg.
This Saengeriest which will last the
| entire week, promises to be the grandest
affair in the history of the Saengerbund
A grand chorus OF $500 voices will be
heard at the concerts, which represents
over one hundred sociis es from the
various parts Of the country. Three
thousand school children have been Sc
cured by the committee to sing in
chorus. The seating capacity of the
concert hall will be taxed to its utmost,
as thousands OF seats have bean sold.
The Saengerfest will be opened by Pres
ident Cleveland touching at electric
button at the White House, Tue sGay,
when tbs first concert takes place.
Governor MacCorkle Will be present
during the week.
The mus ical artists which will ap-
pear are considered the best in the
country the most prominent being MIA
Lohse-Klafskey Lillian Blaufelt, Ger
trude May Stein, Emil Fisher. Conrad
BehrenS Richard Arnold, Emil Saen-
ger and Carl Naeser.
The various hotels will all be occu-
pied. as $500 singers have registered
in advance. The Pittsiburg committee
is attending to the quarters of all the
visiting societies. twenty-five thous-
and dollars have been subscribed as a
guarantee fund, Of which amount $751;
geo has been paid TO the treasurer of the
Fest committee Thursday has been
set aside for the grand street parade,
which will be witnessed by half mil
lion people Five thousand members OF
the Turner's will participate in uniform.
Chief of Police O'Meara has secured
large number of detectives from the
various larger cities to watch over the
strangers during their stay in Pitts
burg.
The local societies. the Arion, Bee
thoven and Mozart, will leave tomorrow
afternoon al Las over the Panhandle
route. A joint committee of these soci-
cites will decorate the cars tomorrow
morning at the depot. About seventy
five singers OF these three societies will
take part, while the Martins Ferry
Maennerchor will send fifteen men over
the C. & P. route tomorrow at lbs p.
m. Several hundred citizens will take
advantage of the Panhandle and B. &
o. excursions and attend the festivi-
ties.
Upon arrival at Pittsburg these soci-
cites can be found by their Wheeling
friends at the following quarters: Arion
at Central Hotel on Smithfield street;
Mozart, at Nos Sc and SO Boggs avenue,
NJ. Washington; Beethoven, at Rose
meyers Hotel, on Ohio street, Allie
gheny, and the Martins Ferry Maen-
nerchor at Amos Blum's, No. 165 Ohio
street, Allegheny.
The Wheeling societies will be repre-
scented at the session of the delegates
to decide on the next city for the Saen-
gerfest and various other matters
as follows: Arion, l.. C. Stifel and
Fidelio Riester; Mozart, Charles Zulauf
and Valentine Theby; Beethoven, Her
mann Kreutzer and John NJ. Schenk;
Martins Ferry Maennerchor, f. H.
Eick and julius Blumenberg. The
proposition to march to the depot with
the Opera House band at the head of
the societies has been abandoned.
From present indications the next
Saengerfest will be held at Cincinnati
in 1899 The local societies look upon
this proposition favorably. as it is the
nearest adjacent city to suit Wheeling
societies. Cincinnati is said to be one
of the best cities for such festivity.