New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-07-04
PLAN THEATRE DECORATION
Turnverein Takes up Matter OF
Finishing Theatre.
Plans of Heller & Gag Include Ella.
bOrate Decorations.
Public Will be Asked to Assist in
Paying For its Cost.

FINAL steps were taken IN the matter
of deciding whether or not the Turn
verein would proceed with the decora-
ton and finishing of the inside of the
theatre, at a meeting held Thursday
evening and it was decided to go ahead
with the work
Heller & Gag had made partial plans
for the decoration and submitted a
design showing the arch way over the
stage as it would look when decorated,
and the matter was gone into thor
oughly, embracing the cost for the
work and in manner the character of
| the decoration.
1t was found that the work would
cost considerably more than thou
| sand dollars and members of the Turn
verein subscribed about eight hundred
of this, some contributing a large
amount, and it was concluded that a
| committee of the members should take
! a list of the contributions to different
people in the city regardless of wheth-
| er they are members of the society or
not and see if the necessary amount
could not be raised by popular sub
scription.
1t was mentioned that the theatre is
a semi-public place and is matter of
pride to the city at large, and has been
more or less of an expense to the
| society which is responsible for it's ap-
pearance and support and it was be-
lieved that the public interest would be
great enough to induce many people
to contribute to its decoration.
The condition of the walls of the
building has been called to the atten-
ton OF the people of the city very fre-
quently by those who have visited the
theatre from abroad, and the people
OF the city have been anxious for the
time when it would be completed.
AS the institution has not been what
can be termed a money making lnsti-
tuition and the patronage of it comes
as much from those who are not mem
bers OF the Turnverein as from those
who are, there is reason to believe
that the people of the city will be
pleased to contribute to the beautify-
ing of the place.
The plan of decoration is complete
and includes not only the main part OF
the theatre but the entire building up
stairs and down. Over the stage will
be large panel of raised figures in
harmony with the character of the
place and the walls will have other
beautiful paintings, in fact it is de-
signed by Heller & Gag to be one OF
their master pieces in the line of decor
alton and something that the people OF
this city will be able to point to with
pride when they have occasion to at
tend attractions at the theatre, in fact
according to the artists there will be
nothing finer in the line of decoration
in any of the theatres in the state, and
when they make statement of that
kind it is believed that they know what
they are talking about.
| Volunteers who served in the Span
sh-American war are besieged from
time to time with the opportunities of
the pension attorney, one of the para
sites that ever since the civil war has
fed on the cupidity Of the government.
1t it was not for these attorneys and
their everlasting attempts to get those
who have served in the army to apply
for pensions, the pension bill of the
government would be materially less
ened. The chief aim of many of the
volunteers in the Spanish-American
war seems to have been to place them