The sun., 1907-08-19
Low DUTCH have AHIGH TINE
MICH JOI MARRIED ONLY ~ 4
YOI Va CELT'S VICTORIES.
Irish Lad Butts ln st the Pisttsitt sche Nolks-
6e~t-terecn st schutyon Park and
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There to Help Their Hospitals

Se~t-terecn st scbutzen Park and
Wins the Pie Eating Contests -zk, ,OOO
There to Help Their Hospitals.
-Trinke mer noch Troeppche" was
! chorised by many a Plattdutsche ycster-
day over in the big Union Hill Sch0tzen
Park, IA one drop" and then another wss
tossed on to the health Of the Low Dntsche"
between deep throated rousirg German
songs and genial good fellowship. And
still other drops" will be drunk to-day,
tomorrow and Wednesday and then next
sunday For the Plattdntsche Of New
I York and New Jersey are in the
thirty-third annual volksfest Of the
Plattddtsche Volksfest-ver and the
thirty-three acres Of their own SchLitzen
Park will be well filed each day with nearly
$1,000 Of the good folk, come to make merry,
to drink their beer. rollick in the quaint
German stunts set out for them az we'll as
the regular merry -go-rounds and side shows
Of 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 big
gathering Of their people and spend gene
rously--for the receipts of the whole 20 to
the German hospitals OF New York and
New Jersey and the Fritz Reuter- Home for
old people at Schutzen Park.
About 25.O0O trooped to Union Hill yes-
terday. Sixteen carriages containing the
high lights of the Vereen. each with 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 dozen or more on
Gathering steeds9 Surely the rotundity
OF some figures tells that they are the Ho-
boken Riding Club with ex-Mayor Ianker-
ing of Hoboken 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 70 the Sunday
drive wagon. with everybody. including
little Hans and Willem and the six other
children crowded in. pulled in from Ho-
boken, WeehawkeD and other Jersey parts
for the day Of JOY. Water would deposit
the family around big table. soon to make
his way to the shooting gallery and sho
de Jungs" of his schutzenvereen. a thing
or two in cracking out Some bullseyes
for those tall vase trophies OF a silver can
dlestick. Big bruder Adolf and the girls
were on to the dance halls while de kinder"
tried creased pole climbing. huckleberry
pie eating and sausage devouring contests.
But there il talk Of peasant wedding in
costume, sure enough wedding where
young Otto Hanson is to be yoked to
Caecelia Hart sten. right out on the open
AR stage IN the valley OF the park where
all the fine beer gardens are and the air
ship and the sausage stands II comes
off on Tuesday, but Chris krohn. whose
Ela ,a
deceit for a humorist, member Of the
POmuchelskopp organization Of enter
tainers and Jolly good fellows. will tell you
all about it,
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
faxen haired briiutigam 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 breeches, and white stockings of the
peasant class of 200 years ago, with gay
buckles and buttons scattered over their
coats, and the madchen in short skirts and
criscrossed corsage. The peasants carry
the spades and implements Of the field
and crowd in the procession. All! But see
now what come. 4 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, baker from Jer-
sey City, and the officers are clinKng cham
payne glasses and slowing away two dozen
or more empty bottles, Mrs. Gustav MuI-
Ter and four other women. bur not 80 hefty,
are saving wood for a prize, surrounded
by several thousand cheering Germans in
the quadrangular valley of amusemen,s.
Four saws buckled, kicked and stuck, but
Mrs Muller's. backed by 100 pounds OF
heft, sawed straight through without n
murmur three minutes before che rest.
Who is that red headed, freckled faced |
wiry, barefooted urchin. with the face
huckleberry pie, who has been gathering
in all the prizes hung at the top Of the |
creased polep
dis here sausage eatins q cinch.- he !
remarked as he gathered in a couple o: /
bsseballs as prizes for eating sausage roll |
sandwiches. II was stephen Cash. 10 !
years old and a fighting lrshman. He !
had left the German kids far behind.
There were balloon ascension, high !
wire walking, band concerts and vsude- |
vile. Capt. Thomas s. Baldwin. who says |
he has taught many famous aeronauts !
their jobs. gave an exhibition. circlng |
over the park and finally tacking back ,
against 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 returnif 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.
having laughed and sung and exchanged !
memories with their countrymen, having |
drunk enough beer and eaten enough |
smut aal. smoked eel, 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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