The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-19
Low DUTCH HAVE AHTGH TINE
MICH 10Y MARRIED ONLY BI 4
VOC Va CEL7'S VICTORIES.

Irish Lad Butts ln Nc the P~iastdutsc1,e ' oIks-
1eat-S Green st schutzen Park aRd
Wins the Pie Eating CONTESTS rs .ODO
There to Help Their Hospitals.
."Trinke mer noch a ~Troeppche" was
chorused by many IA Plattdutsche yester-
day over in the big Union Hill Sch1tzen
Park. IA one drop" md then another was
tossed of to the health Of the Low Dutsche"
between deep throated. rousirg German
songs and genial good fellowship. And
still other drops" will be drunk to-day,
inc Wednesday and then next
Sunday. For the Plattd1tsche OF New
York and New Jersey are in the
thirty-third annual volksfest Of the
Plsttdutsche Volksfest-V ereen, and the
thirty-tbree acres OF their own Schdtzen
Park will be well filed each day with nearly
5000 Of the good folk, come to make merry,
to drink their beer, rollick in the quaint
German stunts set out for them as we'll as
the regular merry-go-rounds and side shows
Of a Coney Island and to shoot and dance
and sing.
There were grocers. brewery men. large
and beaming; bakers. all kinds Of prosperous
merchants to enjoy themselves in a big
gathering OF their people and spend gene
rously-for the receipts Of the whole 90 to
the German hospitals OF New York and
New Jersey and the Fritz Reuter- Home for
old people at SchGtzen Park.
About 1000 trooped to Union Hill yes
terday. Sixteen carriages containing the
high lights of the Vereen. each with a fine
purple badge, started on the march from
So Sixth avenue. the headquarters, early in
the morning AT the word from Bernard
Meyborg. the secretary. But what is this
hussarlike brigade. a dozen or more on
Gathering steeds' Surely the rotundity
Of some figures tells that they are the Ho-
boken Riding Club with ex-Mayor tanker
ing of Hobokcn among them.
The Plattdeutsche were there IN family.
The comfortable. fat, long haired and fet-
locked steed that runs the grocery wagon
through the week. hitched up 10 the Sunday
drive wagon. with everybody. including
little Ham and Willem and the ak other
children crowded in. pulled in from Ho-
boken. Weehawken and other Jersey parts
for the day Of joy, Water would deposit
the family around a big table. soon to make
his way to the shooting gallery and sho W
de lungs" of his sc~hdtDenvereen. a thing
or two in cracking out some bullseyes
" '"t N@pr uOBill'b VI DuNC CuI-
diestick. Big bruder Adolf and the girls
were of to the dance halls, while de kinder"
tried CREASED pole climbing. huckleberry
pie eating and sausage devouring contests.
But there il talk Of a peasant wedding in
costume. a sure enough wedding where
young Otto Hanson is to be yoked TO
Caecelia Hartsten, right out on the open
air stage IN the valley OF the park where
oil tho Ana hQar narHopa - and tha nj
ship n the sausage stands. IL comes
off on Tuesday, but Chris krohn, whose
German professor like appearance is just a
deceit for a humorist. member Of the
Pomuchelskopp organization OF enter
tainers and Jolly good fellows. will tell you
all about il.
Here first come the two Hochzeitsbitter,
riding from little village TO village, shaking
their ribboned stick at all the peasants
and inviting them to the wedding. Then
the pastor and the frowning Kuster, organ
ist and schoolmaster, with the dozen kinder
dancing and scattering flowers before the
flaxen haired brautiRam and his lusty, ROSY
braut. Here in the Bauernvogt, the village
Mayor. pompous, deliberate, and the
Gemeinderath, the stovepiped Alderman.
All the men have the red vests. the velvet
knee breaches, and white stockings of the
peasant class Of 200 years ago, with gay
buckles N buttons scattered over their
coats, and the madchen in short skirts and
CTlbCT Df5Seu CDTtdkt. Inc DtdSHDtS CuTTY
the spades and implements Of the field
n crowd in the procession. All! But see
now what come. A great stork, very dig
nified, carrying under each wing a rosy
baby"
And while the prime mover OF the we'd
ding ceremony is talking up in the head
quarters stand, where Chris Martens,
president Of the vereen. a baker from Jer-
sey City, and the officers are clinKing cham
payne glasses and slowing away two dozen
or more empty bottles, Mrs. Gustav Null
Ter and four other women. but not 80 hefty,
are saving wood for a prize, surrounded
by several thousand cheering Germans in
the quadrangular valley of amusements.
Four saws buckled, kicked and stuck, but
Mrs. Muller's, backed by 100 pounds OF
heft, sawed straight through without a
murmur three minutes before the rest.
Who is that red headed. freckled faced.
wiry, barefooted urchin. with the face
black through eating. away a monster
huckleberry pie, who has been gathering
in all the prizes hung at the top Of the
creased pole?
dis here sausage eatin's n cinch." he
as he gathered in "A couple o.
bsseballs al prizes for eating sausage roll
II was stephen Cash, 10
had left the German kids far behind.
There were q balloon ascension. high !
wire walking, band concerts and vaude-
vile. Capt. Thomas s. Baldwin. who says |
he has taught many famous ~aeronauts
their jobs. gave ar exhibition. circling
over the park and finally lacking back
the wind. Secretary Meyborg says
the Captain has promised to sail 10 New
York at ) o'clock tonight. circle around
the secretary's house and r%eturn-if the
winds easy enough. !
And the good German citizens and their
good wives and small children, having seen !
all the side shows and free exhibitions. !
laughed and sung and exchanged
memories with their countrymen, having
drunk enough beer and eaten enough
aal. moked eel. a low Dutch deli
cacy, for one day. travelled home at night
fall. while the lungs and madchen strolled
through twilight walks or danced until
midnight. Last year the profits were
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