New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-03-14
MAKE PROGRESS
Large Glass Preparing to Enter
Saengerfest. .
Five Thousand Singers Expected
at Meeting in July.
Local Organization Has, History
Extending over Many Years.

New Ulm Maennerchor has been
awakened to an activity that is some
thing wonderful considering the time
/ it takes from the members and the con
slant attendan upon the meetings of
of the organizat but this interest is
stimulated by the ambition the mem
bers have to excel in the great Saen-
gerfest that is to be held in St. Paul in
July, when it is expected that there
will be present some five thousand sin
gers from all over the northwest.
Advance preparations for this event
have gone so far by the local singers
that they have engaged rooms for
twenty-four at the Ryan so as not to
be euchered out Of a place to sleep as
1t IS expected that the city will be
crowded at that time. The history of
the organization in this city dates back
to 1878, when by combination of two
singing societies the Maennerchoir was
formed with b. G. PAIL, president:
Jos. A. Eckstein, secretary: John Neu-
mann, treasurer and G. Stohlmann,
custodian. r. P. A. Nix was director
Of the class and under his instruction
it made rapid advancement, when Geo.
Jacobs was placed at the head as direc-
tor and held the place forsixteen years.
going out of Office in 1898, when Vim.
Pfaender succeeded him and remained
with the class until it went to sleep in
1899.
In November of last year there
seemed to be an opportunity to revive
the interest in the class and the origi-
nal members got together and re-orga-
nized, placing M. A. Endres in as di-
rector and since that time the interest
has increased until at the meeting last
week there were thirtyfour present.
They are divided as follows:
1st Bass-John G. Hofmeister, Frank
Burg Jr., Ed. Bosky, VIM. j. Win
kelmann, Adolf Alvin, A. A. Henle,
w. G. Alvin, Ant. Cchs, W. L. Eek
stein, A. J. Alvin.
I'd Bass Henry Rudolph, Henry
Petry, Arthur Dengler, Jos. A. Eek
stein, Archie Alvin, Frank Smasal.
1st. Tenor-Carl Moerbitz, Ernst
Pfeitfer, Ernst Taudien, Richard Geb-
hardt Frank Kosek, Chas. Lindemann,
Otto Meyer, Frank Sietzel, T, w.
Eibner.
I'd Tenor-Armand Petry, Jos. G.
Lindmeyer, Geo. Puchner, Chas. Stoll,
Jos. G. Hofmeister, Gust. Goetsch,
Mich Schuster, L. A. Fritsche.
The St. Paul end of the Saengerfest.
having the matter in charge, met in a
body last week and decided onthe bad
ges that are to be worn. It is proba-
bic that one general design will be
adopted for all and the badges of each
particular office or society provided
with some distinguishing characteris-
tic. The general design suggested by
the committee of ST. Paul is that Of
cross bar, on the back of which the pin
will be attached, a ribbon body and
medallion hanging from the ribbon.
The cross bar will bear the words ;'St.
Paul. in large letters. The medallion
will contain a characteristic fest de-
sign, the goddess of music with aharp
probably, and on the back Of the me-
dalton will be the words "Twenty-
second Saengerfest the Saengerbund
of the Northwest, st. Paul, July 1921
1929, 1906"
There Will be 1000 badges for the
chorus members. The ribbons of these
probably will contain no words. The
ribbons will be in four colors, pink
for the first tenors, light blue for the
second tenors, brown for the baritones
and scarlet for the bassos. These are
the colors universally recognized at
the saengerfests.
The l,5O0 badges for the children S
chorus will be much simpler in design
than those of the bundles chorus They
will be simple buttons with red, white
and blue ribbons spreading out below.
iiO wv IOSCpulo1 EOOlllul1lUGc ,.DduSSS
will be red, white and blue differing
only from the children's badges in the
lettering on the buttons and the size of
the ribbons.
Each of the seventeen committees
will be distinguished by the lettering
on the ribbon body OF the badges
These ribbons will be considerably
larger than those of the bundles chorus
and will be in accepted committee
colors. The seventeen chairmen Of
these committees will have emblems
similar to that of their committee men.
except that they will be somewhat lar
ger in design and have the word
Chairman in large letters across
the face. The fifteen stage controllers
will be distinguished by emblems with
appropriate lettering.
Badges similar in general character
to the others but much more elaborate
in design will be provided for the Bun