New-York tribune., 1903-06-16
GERMAN SONG FESTIVAL.
President Roosevelt attends the
Concert an Baltimore.

L OHCCFB 1U OUtttUJOIt.
Baltimore. June IA great assenblage pres
in Armory Hall tonight to listen to the concert
OF the Northeastern Sangerbund. Every one OF the
nine thousand Geats in the auditorium was occu-
pied. six thousand singers the stage ana
standing at premium.
President Roosevelt occupied a box. and his ap-
pearance the signal for prolonged applause.
On being introduced he spoke as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: Let me in the first place
congratulate the city of Baltimore upon what she
then let welcome the members of the Sanger
fest Association and all the guests OF Baltimore
history many different races entered to make up
the composite American, and to each we owe some
thing special for what il has contributed to US as
people.
1t is almost exactly two hundred and twenty
years ago that the first marked immigration from
western Hemisphere began. AS is inevitable with
any pioneers, these pioneers of the German race race
heir webeing in sfTanee lands must inevitably
pendture of all that there is in them to overcome
later that the great tide OF German immigration
t times IN 9s Sa t. GT e fonnder @
of family which has contributed to military and
history from the first.
1t is meet and fitting to recall that here in m TINS
this western continent saw government nodettgd to
Grafton which we now regard as the birthright Of
American citizens, Applausel .,o CO..
man Immigration to this country, went, steadily
their and grandsons, played an ever increasing
part in the history of our people-a part that cu-
Union bear in mind what was done in this
by he ok * Of n GERMAN birth or origin who
served Loyalty the flag that was theirs by IN
And here in this city would be unwilling to let
an occasion like this pass without TeGans m the the
members of the Turnverein Of Baltimore in saving
iib4 IN efGS t6e at @ civil War in congrafulating the
MOI, ,pf Rail- tir1nrp I'M in
the lead of Sigel Rapp and Bumennerg IN playing Sd
of Abraham Lincoln, I congratulate them thrice
over because It was given to tn them to agn{ & III
V 6 the aGd to thu US oya oS f6 the hight a to
each it was given to see the right shared alike by
the men who the blue and the men VINO wore
fas T Tes rf eed5 fhoasR GS f That contest
paid for Itself infinitely over and GseT prtsS asah and py
above all the right Americans to feel within
fo tho those W who Know that their fathers and fore
fathers have in the ltise M entirely % Sh4wn f,T them
In speaking word on the occasion & Of & this na great
that only hope it may be given to me to listen
long TO 04 for TO- renn me me NEE to SPEAK at
all. I feel that the men of this association ard
h1n1s fund Of peasure but doing
missionary work of needed kind when they hold
1 wish that everywhere in our country we could
see clubs and aSsocaloRs lheIuoins CT al oIr n The
society which has furnished the reason & for tie e
greater contribution 10 American social life coud
no5sigy be for sde taaa oy inS'a so No
greater good can come to our people than to en-
shall discriminate sharply between what is vicious
and what vi d has ess 1 9r IN ey ii aa
than by force of example no less than by precept
their cultivation of music. vocal and instrumental
give great lift to the artistic side the aesthetic @
when we remember that n man is gooing ping to, 70 60
he can take his wife with him to enjoy it. Gap
plause) So you see gentienien han yoh as nI ms
standpoint
congratuate you upon the success and the spirit
with which You have carried out the details of
he dnrns tReee daTs m and to the
h To sS9 ba as President en- Of the people wish
this time CHEERS and applauseo
The President then resumed his seat and spent
nearly an hour listening TO the music After hear
ing some of the best choruses he quietly left the
building in time to catch the train for Washing
ton at 9:45.
Besides the President the guests included Gov
ernor John Walter Smith and his staff. Admiral
H. c. Taylor. the Prussian Minister of Finance
Baron Rheinhaben. and his suite of four: Baron
Won Sternburg, the German Minister; Mayor Robert
NJ McI1ane and naval officers from the cruiser
Prairie and the gunboat Topeka, now in Baltimore
Harbor
The programme follows:
''asermarsch ;,-ct::r. wagner
orchestra
Address Theodore Roosevelt President Of the United
States.
German Arranged by n,,ns Melsmst
ls...
Chorus capella.
Prelude. Tristan und Isolde wagner
Death wagner
Soprano solo, Louise B. Vognt
Andante, Fifth Symphony beethoven
'The Rose Chrst prize7 spieer
Farewell the Forest" 'Ment<sisSoiA
Home" Folk Song.
Massed chorus. a capella.
and orchestra
Voight
HAL Columbia by the audience
In the afternoon the first prize singing concert
took place, the following societies contesting:
BY individual societies in Glass III
Evening by Leu. Elntracht Union Hill
N J.. Fairmount Ledertafel, Philadelphia; FTonsln
N. Orpheus Lieder<ranZ Newark,
n I Kreuznacher Philadelphia; SaXonla