Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30
BIRTH Of THE NEW century |
WILL BE GREETED WITH ELAB0R-
ATE RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR
OBsERvANCES.
NOISE PRODUCING SERVICES
VIII he Used at Midnight To-Morrow.
Religious Exercises VIII Be Con-
Quoted at the Same Hour, and
There VIII Be Social Entertain
nerts in Halls and Homes
throughout the City and Vicinity.


nents in Halls and Homes
throughout the City and Vicinity.
! With a ringing Of bells, a footing OF
whistles, the discharge of fireworks,
cheers from human throats, and with
, every conceivable noice producing de-
vice-the Mayor says everything goes
"a GLAD welcome will be extended to
the new century by the people OF
wheeling tomorrow night. 1t will be
noisy night if all the preparations 80
far made are carried out. To add to
the general din, several volleys will
be fred by cannon on the summit OF
Wheeling and Chapline hills, and from
the public landing. The entire popu-
lation will be awake, and there Will be
more watch meetings than Wheel
ing has known in a hundred years.
, Elaborate preparations have been
made for noise This feature will take
care of itself 1t is not difficult under
any circumstances to get people to
make a noise, even in the dead OF
night, and with all restraint removed,
a general din may be expected.
There win be midnight masses in
the Catholic churches, and watch
meetings" in several Protestant
churches. There will be several en-
tertainments in all parts of the city.
The most elaborate new century eel
ebration, perhaps, will be given by
The AriOn.
The club house will be decorated as
it never has been before. The mem
bers and their wives and lady friends
will assemble early in the evening, and
will participate in the splendid pro-
gramme prepared for their enjoyment
Te.ere will be an electrical illumina-
ton of transparencies upon the stage,
which will not be revealed until the
clock strikes the hour of midnight.
This is very ingenious arrangement,
and the effect is expected to be strik-
ingly handsome During the evening
the following programme will be
given:
l. Festival Overture. ....................
................O Opera House Orchestra
?. Address of Welcome.
........F. R!ester Pres Sing. Section
3. Chorus-'I Greet Thee ........... .Arion
+. Soprano "Seguedillo' from Car
men" by Bizet. Observation-Disclosures.
;;.;;...... ,..,;, Mrs Flora Williams
.. Address-"The Song .....TheO. Roller
Choru5-"The German Song" by
AdlllNO0da Observation-Disclosures. RrlOn
Z. Sweet Wild Birds" by F,
Misses Nellie Schmidt and Helena
Schwertfeger.
3. Address-Literature ..................
..................D DR. Hermann thinner
! .. Bundeslied of the North American
10 soprano-Riag out, Wild Bells, by nf'0ii
II Ad GGpnod; ian Mrs 9d Flora Williams
r. Farewell by IL jd DER Sc F. Ulrioh
% ;.;;.......:.a;;,. .Arion Double Quartette
...................Dr. q. A. Aschmann
II. Sailors Chorus, by r. Wagner.
Al midnight, beginning Of the new cen
| Chorus-"The Chapel" by Kreutzer..
.;..:..:;.......;...:...... ........Arion
Choral-"Nun dankct allie tt"....-
1ne dancing will continue until the
new year is at least two or three hours
old. Between the hours of eleven and
one o'clock supper will be served in
the dining hall, In connection with
this celebration, souvenir printed his
torical sketches of the Arion in book
form, will be distributed: The front
I ispiece is an excellent cut of the club
! house. The publication contains the
names of deceased members, business
direction Of the members, the pro-
gramTS6 for the nights festivities. the
officers and committees of the society,
and a full list of the active and passive
members. Following are the commit
| tees in charge of the New Years cele-
bration:
! General COMMITTEE. A Hess chair
man, j. L. Stroehlein. Theo. Roller. H.
Bieberson, E. w. Stifel, j. G. Hoff-
man, Sr., Christ. Hess, C. A. Schafer,
C. w. Appenzeller. F. C. H. Schwert-
! feger, H. F. Behrens, Sr., f. Reister,
! F.. c. Driehorst, F. II. Lange, H. f.
! Behrens, Jr., Prof H. NJ. Schockey,
VIM. F. Stifel.
Arrangements-Fred Dittrich chair
man, H. c. Heyer, Martin Kuhn, C. A.
| Schafer, Jacques Front.
Press-J. c. Jung chairman, C. A
! Schafer. F. Reister, Theo Roller, Frank
! ROuscher.
Decorations-Franz Thurm chair
! man, Conrad Miller, VIM. LOeffleT, Har-
| ry Ritter, F. c. H. Schwertfeger.
/ Dance-Wm. Loeffier chairman, Har-
ry Ritter, Louis Laue, Victor Weiss
/ Jacques Front Franz Thurm, Karl
| Lang, Conrad Miller
The TcbIet.
The placing in position of the me-
mortal tablet will take place with APP
propriate exercises at two o'clock in
the afternoon. A workman yesterday
cut out Of the stone in the wall under
/ the gas Office. a hole of suitable size
! for the insertion of the tablet. 1t will
! be appropriately inscribed. The pre-
sentation speech will be made by John
Warehouse. and it will be accepted By
Mayor Sweeney.
| ST. NFCry's Church.