The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-03

grand jollihcation just before the Len
ten sackcloth and ashes are taken on.
Last nights event was one of the
most successful that the Liederkranz
has conducted in many years, both in
point of attendance and the excellence
of the entertainment purVeyed by the
Kleine Rath, by which title the com
mttee of arrangements is designated
The hall was one mass of bunting, flags,
and banners and everybody wore some
gaudy badge of the festiVal-the men
Il mild CUlured fools cap, with bells,
and the ladies, a fancy rOsette and rib
bOns
The Klene Rath sat at "A long table
on the stage with the president of the
carnival in the center The president
wore evening dress, with the inevitable
fools cap, but all the rest We're in
fancy costume representing various
characters now foremost in the mind
of the public
SOCIETIES THAT ATTENDED,.
The other jewellers sat at six tables
extending the entire length of the
room about which skipped a merry
corps of walters who saw to it that
no one would go away saying it had
been dry evening. The Schlaratia,
Saengerrunde, Arion, Gruttli Nerein
and Turner's of Scranton, and the Lied
erkranz, of Honesdale, occupied one or
the other of the tables.
The programme opened with the en-
trance of the first detachment of the
Kleine Rath dressed to represent Span
ish officers, General Weyler leading the
way on a pranCing hobby horse. To
the air of an old German polka, they
mounted the stage and proceeded to
tell how they would do dire things to
the Cubans, General Weyler, of course,
doing all the talking. In the midst Of
their Dragging in comes the second por-
ton of the Kleine Rath, attired as Gu
ban insurgents and under the leader
ship of General Gomez attack the
Spanish forces. While the turmoil of
battle is at it's height, the president of
the carvinal, Frank HUMMER, comes
| in and reminds them that this Is the
| night Of the Liederkran2 carnival,
| They cease their strife at once, don
! FOOLS caps and proceed to make merry.
Then comes the nonsense. Topical
songs written for the occasion contain
! ing timely hits on local happenings and
! on the members of the society are sung
! in concert. The testers, Charles Wen
! zel and Herman Landau, are dis
! patched to bring the various perform
! ers to the stage and escort them back
to their seats when they have finished
their little say, everybody standing
| and clapping hands while the perform
er is being marched about the hall.
T.. Moses read the minutes of the last
carnival and a sketch of the happenings
in the interim. Fritz Hummler repre-
sents a servant girl in the Allen house,
Honesdale, and told some of the go
iugs on there when the LiederkranH
Went to the Maple City last summer.
| He made a big hit when he came out ON
the canopy y-Coycred balcony from which
the speaking was done and in surprised
| tones said. as he looked about at the
members sitting with their wives, You
all told me you were single, when you
were over in HOnesdale.
SURPRISE OF THE EVENING.
The big surprise of the evening was
the appearance of Herr Friedrich, the
| Liederkranz's popular wit and we'll
| known either player. He left here about
| two years ago for Johannesburg, Africa,
| but took sick and became stranded. A
purse was gotten up among the mem
bers to bring him home, the members
|
terral charity and the desire to have
back with them once again their be-
loved jester Friederich arrived here a
| few days ago but his home coming was
known only to the members of the
I[leine Rath and they kent it pro-
found secret in order to give the car
niyal a grand and pleasant surprise.
At 1915 President HUMMER read. a
telegram from Herr Friedrich an
| nuuncing that he had arrived ON the
Lucanna and would be with them al
quarter past ten, "Ah here he is now
exclaimed the president and at the
same instant the testers entered from
the rear Of the hall escortirs man
that looked very much like Friedrich
but which however was not he. No
body, not in the secret, expected to sec
the real Friederich, so no one was dis
appointed.
When the pseudo Friedrich however