Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-02
"REICHSTAG OF FOOLS"
FEATURES IN
TERSPERsFD WITH ADDRESSES.
Speakers at Washington Saengerbund
Carnival Denounce the Closing
of Bars on Sunday.

There was a vast deal of merrymaking at
the carnival of the Washington Saenger-
bund held last evening and the occasion
was one of great interest to the many pres
ent. During the course of the evening there
were several addresses. the theme being the
recent act of the Commissioners of the DIS
trict on the Sunday closing hours for all
bars in the private club houses of the city
This regulation came in for considerable
denunciation. 1t DEGREES that all bars shall
be closed Sundays between the hours or 10
and / o'clock, and the Saengerbunders, who
have the record of constituting a peaceable
and respectable element of the District S
population, vigorously objected to their beer
kegs being sealed for any part of the day,
which, to Germans. is the great holiday Of
the week. a day on which, 1t is claimed.
they and their families meet and thorough
~ enjoy themselves in a quiet, orderly and
intelligent manner.
The speakers, among whom were simon
Wolf, A. Levy and Frank Claudy, the lat
ter president of the Saengerbund spoke in
sarcastic vein of the regulation, declaring
it to be more than foolish because 1t was
not in the spirit of fairness. 1t might just
as we'll have been enacted by the Commits
sioners they declared. that Saturday be OBJ
served by the closing of all bars for the
sake of the feelings of the Jews, whose
Sabbath that day was, or Friday for the
Chinese who celebrated that day as sacred
according to the faith of Confucius
Create Liars and Hypocrites.
.'These enactments" said Mr.. Wolf.
make liars and hypocrites of us all whose
natural inclination is to be ladies and gen
tlemen. The regulation is absurd and
should be abolished. No law is worthy of
respect that is not generally respected by
the people and this one does not receive the
approval of the class of our citizenship
which Is most devoted to the strict observ-
ance of all the sensible laws of the District
in which we live. 1t would be g)91 lesson
for the blue-coated refOrmers who seek to
enforce the regulation to have them pay
visit to hall of this character IN order that
they might see the ladies anG gentlemen
who gather here and note their behavi' IT.
Here they would see intellectually. Guilt
walton and high character and Tie lesson
would tell them whether or not their mar
row views of life were right or whether we
were
Mr. Levy made a highly humorous speech
on the law, drawing fancied comparts oEs
with other laws that might just as well De
enacted by the Commissioners. and rece1V-
ed the applause of the gathering for the
witty manner in which he painted the pic
ture of non-exsting laws that were paral-
lels of the bar-closing regulation
Reichstag Of the Fools.
1.-THE Reichstag of the Fools" as the oc-
casion was called. was presided over by
Frank Claudy, president of the Saenger-
bund, who introduced the speakers after
telling his audience that for the time being
they were all fools. The carnival queen,
who opened the carnival session. was rep
resented by Mrs Carl Gundlach. who
made her entrance on a golden chariot at
tended by pages in handsome court COS
TUNES. The pages were Henry Nolder and
Ernst Seifert. Following the entrance or
the queen Mr.. Claudy made an address In
German.