The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-06
ST. PAUL TEUToNS CELEBRATE
ACHIEVEMENTS OF RACE
FOR AMERICA
FESTIVITIES MARK 220TH
ANNIVERSARY OF SETTLEMENT
Speeches and Play Comprise Notable
Programme at Mozart Hall Under
Auspices of German American Cen
trail Bund-Throngs Attend and Pa
= triotic Features Predominant.

The rendition by the orchestra of
"reminiscences of the Fatherland," a
potpouri of old country songs, winding
up with the stirring ''Wacht am Rhine"
put the audience at Mozart hall last
evening quickly in touch with the SEN
tlment OF the occasion.
An audience which tested the capac-
lty of the hall gathered to celebrate the
22Oth anniversary of the first German
settlement in America. Under decora-
tons which consisted principally of
flags belonging to the German societies
and "Old Glory the German American
residents Of st. Paul listened to eulo-
giles of the men who in the past 200
years had done SO much for their
adopted land.
The celebration of German Day.
was under the auspices of the German
American Central bund and an inter-
estlng and varied programme was pre-
scented.
Transition to Americans.
Fl. ]. Nienstedt, president of the
bund, delivered the address of well
come, in which he pointed out the
readiness with which the Germans had
become a part of the citizenship of
America. They came to America with
the intention of becoming citizens of
the land of the free and the part they
took, not only in the Revolutionary war
but in the Civil war, gave evidence that
they made firSt-claSs citizens. This was
due, he said, mainly to the training
they received in the old country and
their desire for freedom.
Otto Kueffner, vice president of the
bund, who delivered the principal adj
dress of the evening, recited briefly the
history of the German people, and then
took up the history of the Germans in
this country He touched on the ac-
tive part taken by Nuremberg, De Kalb
Won Steuben and other generals in
the Revolutionary war, and also to the
rank and file of COMMUNICATIONS
who fought for the flag in the Civil
war. The War of the Rebellion, he
said, cost those of German descent as
many lives as did the Franco German
war. This indicated that there was
love of country among those of Ger
man parentage which should not be
forgotten by the Americans.
Just the same as the heart had two
chambers, so did the German Amer
leans have love for America and also
love for Germany. Referring to the
dual love of the German American for
his own and adopted country, he said
a boy who did not love his mother
would not be apt to love his bride. The
mission Of the German-Americans was
to keep up the good relations between
Germany and America and see that
Uncle Jonathan" and "Germania"
joined hands.
Governor Fails to Attend.
Gov. Van SAINT, who was down on
the programme for an address, sent a
letter stating that he was unavoidably
called out of the city. He sent, how
ever, for exhibition the picture of
Prince Henry of Prussia, recently pre-
sented to him, who, he said, he priced
most highly. He alluded in his letter
to the fact that he was an old soldier,
and to the fact that 100000 German
Americans had fought under the old
flag.
Senator Moses E. .Clapp, in "a brief
talk, alluded to the part TAKEN by the
Germans and German Americans in
the War of the Revolution, and how,
When the country was threatened
with treason, the German Americans
shadow of the flag they had learned
to love.
Play Is Presented.
The one-act farce comedy, CLANS
Wishes to Marry" was presented I'M.
der the dictatorship of F. Neitmann,
with the following cast:
Bermel farmer. Henry Koenig
Crete, his wife. Miss Anna NachtSheim
Rose, his daughter. -. Miss Adele Imgrund
Hans Schwartz, a young farmer. -.
I1duSSCDliQ
Schweni1e, a teacher. ...........O Bley
Mother Martens. Miss Martha Werner
Line, her daughter. Miss Clara Assmann
Frieda, peasant girl. .............
...................M Miss Katherine Becker
Hanne, a peasant girl. ...............
..................M Miss Bertha Reimers
Rieke, a peasant girl. .........
.................M Miss Barbara Freund
A class of twelve young men from the
st. Paul TurnVerein gave a pleasing eX-
hibtion on the horizontal bars
The Concordia Singing society," repre-
scented by twenty male voices, was heard
in several selections under the leadership
Of Prof. Harmsen. The programme clos
ed with a tableau representing "Germania
and Columbia"