New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-09-22
After Their Long Ride they are Publicly
Received and Entertained at Turner
Hall. ss.= z.sir
They are Here from All Parts Of the Union
and Will Stay all Week.
Mayor Weschcke and Grand Presidenr
Haesecke Welcome Them With Be-
utting Speeches. .
The City is Profusely Decorated ant
Everybodyis is Trying to Make Every
one Else Feel at Home.
The Business Sessions of the Lodge Be
gan Yesterday. List Of Officers and
Delegates.

New Ulm for this week belongs to the
Sons of Hermann. Nearly every home
has been opened to the city's guests and
ali the principal business houses and
dwellings have been profusely decorated
in their honor. Flags flaunt from every
building, the national guard colors hav-
ing been loaned for the occasion, and a
magnificent arch of welcome spans the
street leading to the monument. With
half our citizens the week will be one
long holiday.
Delegates to the twenty first session
of the National Chant Lodge have been
coming IN since Saturday, those from
Montana being: the first to arrive. Mon
day afternoon the national and state
grand lodge officers arrived in a special
car over the the Northwestern road from
Chicago. There were forty officers in
all, besides a large number of delegates.
In the party were:
National Grand President Gebhard of
Connecticut; 1st Grand Vice President
Joseph Santa of Chicago; 2nd Grand
Vice President Alb. Paegel of Minneap-
oils; Grand Secretary Richard Schaefer
of New Briton, Conn.,; Grand Treasurer
Con. Walther of Chicago; Grand Guide
Helfricht of Hartford, Conn.,, John F.
Engel of New York City, who was ma
tional grand president in 1885; and the
former grand president, FIR. Dickroeger
of st. Louis. 3.. Fl.
The officers of the Minnesota lodge
are Paul Haesecke, president; VIM. Foel-
sen of St. Paul, vice-president; Herman
Girkler, secretary; and E. F. Lemke of
St. Paul, treasurer.
Twenty state lodges are represented
and as many isolated lodges in states
where no grand lodge exists.
The delegates were met by a host of
citizens, including the mayor and coun-
cll, the local lodge of Hermann Sons and
the Great Western Band. They were
escorted up Centre Street to Turner Hall
where luncheon was served and the
guests assigned to quarters.
Monday evening they were publicly
received at Turner Hall, after the arrival
of additional delegates, and addresses
we're made by Mayor Weschcke, Paul
Haesecke and Paul Gebhard.
Mayor Weschcke, in welcoming the
city's guests, said in part, speaking of
course in German:
You have come here from near and
fa,, many of you from the most distant
portions of our great country, to witness
an event of unusual importance-the
dedication of a monument to Hermann.
1t becomes my duty to welcome you,
and do so with unfeigned pleasure.
You are here today among people who
honor your ways and language; among
people with whom fairness, honesty and
hospitality are not unmeaning terms;
among people who are not ashamed of
their antecedents, but proud of the fact
that they come from that mighty nation
which stands we'll at the head of all.
The first settlers of New Ulm, my
friends, were Germans of sterling char
acter and strong determination. Thirty
five years ago their homes suffered from
the ravages Of an Indian war and twenty
years later the. town was torn by the
fury of a cyclone. But with that deter
mination, Characteristic of their race,
PEOPLE lived their troubles down and
efected the town anew. Today New Ulm
stands model of the old German cities
inhabited by peaceful and happy peo-
pie, small Fatherland in the free and
independent land Of our adoption.
These people will do everything in
their power to make your stay in their
midst pleasant one and long to be re-
membered, SO that when you return to