Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-04
MISSED THE FEAST.
German Aerarians Failed to Arrive In
Time For the Banquet In Their

Time For the Banquet In Their
Honor.
| New York, May 4.--The German far
mers who came on the Pretoria We're
stranded just outside the harbor Friday.
! The Arion Society who had prepared q
special dinner in their honor. however,
lcelebrated their arrival without any OF
/ them being present. Mayor Low and
| President Fornes and other guests of
honor invited by the society, arrived
promptly and during the evening the
mayor made a felicitous speech III
which he expressed sympathy for the
guests, who, by the inclemency of the
weather, We're forced to spend another
night on the stormy waves instead of
in the midst of their German American
| friends and the celebration proceeded
exactly as prepared, but everyone
knew that there was a case of the play
of Hamlet with Hamlet left out.
Finally, at 8 O'Clock Saturday morn
! ing, the steamer arrived at her Hobo
ken dock. and the forty three members
OF the Deutschland ran down the gang
plank loudly expressing their joy over
| finally having arrived in the land Of
unlimited possibilities. Everywhere in
the crowds that had assembled to meet
them, expressions of surprise were
heard because these German farmers
| looked no more Hike the popular idea
OF German agriculturists than an up
| to date American looks like the accept
| ed picture of Uncle Sam.
| These farmers had among themselves
| chosen Il committee consisting of Land
rath Erich Won Flugge, counsellor of
state, +. Brettreich and Baron Wad-
sack, who We're all able to speak Eng
| lish fluently, TO meet the reporters of
the press and answer all questions.
Counsellor of State Brettereich eN.
pressed his admiration of New Yorks
magnificent harbor, and said that no
| more imposing gateway to the new
world could he imagined than the one
opened TO the people of all nations un
der the protecting wing of the goddess
of liberty. OF course, ne said, they had
heard of the enormous skyscrappers,
but none of them had ever supposed
that they could be as imposing rs they
really We're. a large committee of rep
resentative COMMUNICATIONS met
their countrymen at the dock. after a
lenient inspection by Uncle Sans GUS
tom inspectors they We're carried off
to substantial lunch at a Hoboken
hotel. The full list of the German far
mers who have been sent to this coun-
try to study American methods of
farming is given below.
DIR. Victoren Banner Macmillan
Beuther. f. Ber,nann, Ulrch Boehm,
DR.. Brettereich, DR.. Alfred Dietrich.
konrad Eberhardt. b. Eyssenhardt. r.
Friedrich. Ferber, Otto Mar Fuerstin,
DR.. F.. III. F'leicken. Erich Won Flugge.
Theodore Fuhrmann, Kurt Gaebler, Ar
mand Gain, Enriqui Gildemeister, Ber-
hard Contard, Karl Hannisch. x. kloe-
vekorn. Lieutenant Victor Won Laffert,
Hans Lampe, Z. Lemck, DR.. Felix Lin
demann, Baron Y. Moeller, Haron c.
Reichholz, Inspector Walter Richter
Fritz Ruffer, Baron Bernhard Sachse,
Student Jacob Chloesser, Baron e.
Schnepat, Count Won Schiefrein. Ernest
Schencl Won Stauffenberg, Anton
Tfiep +. Vieihauer, A. Wadsack.
After a very animated luncheon, the
party Illdue All SACuiSloil " tAlS =" Gin
er-Gordon laboratory Company, at
Plainsboro. N. j., where they inspected
the large MODEL dairy under the guild
ance of special reception committee
appointed by the United States govern
ment. They We're very tired lot whea
they returned here and boarded train
for Washington.
1t is the purpose of the delegation to
make thorough inspection of Amer
lean farming methods. They will visit
the corn fields of Ohio, Indiana, Hi.
nois, and Kansas: the wheat farms OF
the northwest, the dairy farms of the
west, and the cotton plantations of
Texas and the southern states. the to-
bacco and stock farms of Kentucky and
Tennessee, and, in fact they will make
q complete tour of agricultural Amer
lea, and expect to gain much Informal
ton which will prove of great value to
their fellow countrymen.