The San Francisco call., 1905-05-08

Despite the downpour of yesterday
morning over thousand German
Americans braved the inclement wealth
er to pay tribute to the memory of one
Of the greatest of Germany's poets.
Johann Christoph Friedrich Won Schil-
Ter. More than a thousand sons of the
Fatherland gathered to take part in
the parade and musical ceremony and
to lay floral tributes at the base of the
Schiller monument in Golden Gate
Park
The weather undoubtedly served to
keep thousands away, but it did not
dampen the ardor of those who came
Societies from every part of the city,
vereins and schuetzen vereins joined
with the large chorus in singing the
poets praise and formed in solid
masses around the band stand to listen
to the orators eulogies of Teutonia's
beloved son.
The ceremonies showed the result of
loving preparation, their impressive
ness being augmented by their simplic-
ity. The morning programme began
with a parade of more than fifty local
lodges. headed by well-known German
American citizens. At the band stand
addresses were made by Governor Par
dee and German orators. The male
chorus varied the programme with
music appropriate to the occasion Fol-
lowing the speechmaking and singing
the floral tributes were disposed about
the Schiller-Goethe monument and the
ceremonies were over.
The parade formed at Fell and Stan
yan streets at 1920 O'Clock under the
command Of Grand Marshal Colonel
Robert Wieneke. Following the mar
shal, and on horseback, came his aids,
Auditor Harry Paehr, Fred Lass,
George Braun, L. H. Coecken, Theodor
Pinther and Fred Gessler. After them
came the band, under the leadership of
Paul Steindorff
Next came the various lodges, with
banners and insignia, all the rif1emen
in uniform and marching with the
well-drilled regularity of veterans. The
societies and vereins made UP a great
er part of the picturesque column, that
stretched more than half mile
GIRLS IN THE PARADE.
A feature of the parade was the di-
vision of young girls, all dressed in
white, each representing a Teutonic
lodge and each carrying a beautiful
wreath OF bay leaves tied with rib
bon bearing the name of the lodge.
Many of the young ladies were in car
riages. The paths leading through the
park were lined with relatives and
friends of the marchers, who followed
the line of march to the band stand
At the stand Governor Pardee and
many of the young ladies, under the
direction of Supervisor Fred Eggers,
were gathered. The column swung into
place before the band stand, while the
band entered the structure. Back of
the lodges were the friends and rela-
tives, who stood beneath umbrellas to
hear the tributes to Schiller.
The ceremonies at the stand were
opened with Gaune's March of Tri-
umph." followed by the chorus in
Kreutzer's "Schafers Sonntagslied,
under the direction of Joseph r. Rieg-
ger. A short speech of introduction by
E. A. Denicke followed. He spoke of
the glorious career of the poet they
were gathered TO honor. and briefly
compared him with the American poet
William Cullen Bryant, whom he most
resembles. He touched briefly on the
and Schiller, and said that in honoring
one the ceremony would be incomplete
without honoring the other. He then
introduced the guest of the morning,
Governor George c. Pardee.
Governor Pardee's remarks were fire.
quently punctuated by applause. He
spoke as follows:
Twenty odd years ago / wandered on a
bright spring day through the budding verdure
Of Leipzigs famous Rosenthal Drinking IN
the sunshine that doubly welcome after
the cold and cloudy days of a German winter
came at last to the little dorf called Gohlis
And there saw upon the wall OF an ancient
dwellins-house a tablet announcing that in
this house the poet Schiller had once lived.
Again, while tracing out the mazes of the al
leys piercing. from street TO street the al
most medieval houses sooty Leipzig. l
found the Schiller Gasse. and the house where
the master lived and made the spot historic
And then fell 10 musing. in the murky
shadows OF the narrow way, whose stones had
oft resounded TO the quickening footsteps
OF the great German poet, on the touch that
makes the whole world kin the genius that
makes a Schiller and a Goethe like Milton
and Shakespeare, Homer and an Aris-
tophanes, citizens OF the world at large hon
kind.
GENIUS OF SCHILLER.
For who can read '.Das Lied Won der