Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-07

IQo CllIZeuS OIL
Wheeling will hold elaborate and in
teresting festivities tomorrow in
honor of the settling of the
first German colony on Amer
lean soil, and hundreds of visi-
tors are expected in the city. All the
banks and many other places of BUSH
ness will close at noon, and in COM
pliance with a special request from the
general committee there will be dec
orations all along the route of the big
parade. Arion. Mozart, Turner and
Beethoven halls will be thrown open
for the entertainment of the resident
and visiting organizations and genuine
hospitality will be shown by those in
charge.
The monster street procession, con-
sisting of seven divisions. will start at
Sixteenth and Market streets promptly
at 100 o'clock, and proceed up Market
to Seventh, to Main, to Twenty-seventh,
to Chapline, to Thirty-third, to Eoff, to
Thirty-ninth, to Jacob, to Thirty-third,
to Eoff, to Twenty-seventh, to Chapline,
to Twenty-second. to Market, to Six
tenth, to Chapline and then to Fiji
tenth, where other special features
will be carried out. The first division
will form on Chapline and Sixteenth
streets, the second on Chapline and
Fifteenth. the third and fourth on
Chapline and Fourteenth, and the fifth.
sixth and seventh on Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets. According to the
order of parade, as heretofore chroni-
cled, there will be a number of German
organizations and plenty of music in
each of the second, third. fourth and
fifth divisions. In the sixth division
will be seen a string of carriages and
wagons from Elm Grove, Triadelphia,
Fulton and other places east of the
city, and the last division will consist
entirely of attractive displays OF various
branches of industry.
A series of novel and picturesque
floats, representing the more important
scenes and incidents in the histories of
Germany and America. will also form
one of the features. One float in the
shape of a boat will portray the landing
of Pastorius, the first German settler
on American soil, and Wit founded
Germantown, which Is -5w a part of
Philadelphia. Pa. A Christmas scene
will also be in line. showing the custom
of observing the holiday with Santa
Claus, which was introduced in this
country by the Germans. The series
will also include displays of the tin and
iron industry, sheep raising, sheep
shearing and weaving of wool.
The large platform at Chapline and
Fifteenth streets, where music and adj
dresses will be given after the parade,
has been tastefully, decorated in pine.
1t has a seating capacity of ver three
hundred and is advantageously located.
The programme will consist of an adj
dress of welcome by Mayor A. T.
Sweeney, an address in German by C.
w. Bente, of Bellaire, an address in
English by Rev. Paul G. w. Metzen-
thin, of Benwood, a German Grafton
by Rev. William Ulfert, of st. Johns
church. Other numbers will be an
overture by four or five bands COM
bined, and the selections, Star Span
gled Banner" die Watcht Am Rhine
the song of Teutonic victory over the
Romans, a German song, and MY
Country, 'Tis of Thee" by a chorus Of
yer one hundred voices, representing
various German singing societies of
Wheeling and other cities.
The general committee announces
that in the event of rain marring the
success of the open-air festivities, the
halls OF the -four local German singing
societies will be opened early in the af-
ternoon instead of at : o'clock in the
evening. 1t is expected that each hall
will be crowded and various social fea-
lures will be provided. Bachmann's or
chestra will play at Turner hall, Meis-
ter's orchestra at Beethoven, Mayors
orchestra at Arion and Summers or
chestra at Mozart. The finance COM
mittee has instructed the committee at
each hall to pay its expenses from the
receipts and turn over the balance II
the general committee.
The work Of decorating the street
arches with pine was commenced yes
terday afternoon, and will be COM
pleted with all possible haste. The
arches were lighted last night for the
first time in honor of the occasion and