Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-17
LOCAL SINGERS WIN
Concordia and Lyrs Took Prlxe
 in Their Classes.

1 The closing events of the saenger* fest in Meriden were the fine parade Tuesday morning and the grand pie nic at Lyra park in the afternoon and evening. Early in the evening the feature for which all the societies. had been waiting anxiously, namely the awarding of prizes, took place, The judges were three prominent musicians who were entirely unac~s 1 quainted with any of the societies.. Herren Gus Strube of New York; | Casch of St Louis and Kaltenborn of Boston. They heard the prize sing ing at the theater Monday afternoon sitting in different parts of the house and sealed their markings of the vari- ous societies until they got together Tuesday afternoon to make the final judgment by comparing their papers.
 The first grand prize went to the Hartford Saengerbund This prize was very handsome silver and gold shield appropriately inscribed and mounted on a very fine wood base. The Hartford society is in the first SAooS0 uiu "oD SiNCh OhC VI thC iiA6 A- est marks ever won in this class, 113. The second prize went to the Concor- dia society of Waterbury, which had mark of 10Sh. All the prizes ex- cept the shield were handsome silver cups. The other society in this class was the Hartford Maennerchor, which got mark of 9S.
 The members of the Concordias were as follows:
 First tenor-Charles Doescher, Charles Dreher, F. Faeth, V. Hahn, P. Johnson, Charles Kirschbaum, j.. Lennartz, St Montello, Charles Mors gan, E. Niedmann, F. Niedmann, w. Ringenberg, J. Schell, A. Sido, A. Waldheim, E. Wuest, O. Wende~ hack.
 Second tenor-E. Beerbaum, E. Bob, M. Book, L. Buchmiller, D. Dunn, H. Eichmann, J. Eichmann, H, Franck Ed Franck, I. J. Karow, A. Kirschbaum, A. Lampe, ST, William Link, P. Rudolph, J. Stadler, H. Steinmetz, Charles Schmidt, E. Stops, L. Werzinger, A. Zweibel, o. Zweibel.
 First bass-T. B. Clark, R. Ding well, Theodore Dreher. A. Birzele, J. Faiz, c. Groetzbach, J. Her. mann, o. Kleinert, A. Lamp. Jr, E. Frank, H. Christian Laun, E. Theo- dore Muckle, P. Ogrisek, A. Pfief- fer. P Sachs, William Schafer, O. Schell, E. Schlag, J. Stuhlmann, F. Schnal, H. Strumpf, William Tei- chert, H. Wendenhack, J. Wersinger, J. Ziegler.
 Second bass-R. Dow. H. Eber- lein, k. Hassler, H. Hapke, o. Hess, J. Kirschbaum, I. J. Kirsch baum, IT. J. Kirschbaum IT, Joseph Kirsch- baum, M. J. McEvoy, M. Parsons, o. Reichenbach, F. Reed, A. Schoen- rock, G. Schwenk, F. Schmidt, A. Schuerer, H. Stout, M. Trommler, G. Futile, B. Wehrmann.
 There were three prizes in the second class. The first prize went to the Concordia society of Seymour with a mark of 101. The Arions of Bridgeport were second with mark of 991s and the Lyra society of Wa terbury, was third with a mark of 96.
 The Lyras members were as fol- lows:
 First tenor: ]. Baer, c. Damn. F. Engling, C. Klinzmann, F.. Lange, C.. Lange. P. Pellntz.
 Second tenor: F. Hook, q. Lange, R. Lange. F. Lampert, C. Schneider. !. Steinmetz, H. Wiehn. C. Werner.
 First bass: F. Becker, C. Resen- bruch, A. Bretthaner. F. Doll, O. Brock. J. Isly, r. nechenberg, c. Rohrbacher.
 Second bass: F. Alarie. o. Herx, y kipp, NJ. Kriedel. T.. Kruesi, c. s44t- son, w. Tuerk, Ph. Reihl.
 The third class had only two prizes. The Liederkranz of Thomaston won first with mark of 103ih and the second was awarded to the Schwae- bischer Maennerchor of Bridgeport. whose mark was 96.
 In the third class only two prizes were offered. The first was awarded to the Liederkranz of Thomasion and the second to the Schwaebescher Maennerchcr of Bridgeport.
 In the fourth class there were also three prizes. The first went to the Gesand Nerein Oesteroelch of New Britain. whose mark was %. The sec- ond prize was awarded to the Lleder- tafel of Rockville. Their mark was 97. The third prize went to the Lied ertafel of Stamford with a mark of S6.
 Late in the afternoon the judges on the parade announced their decision. There were two prizes given for the best appearing companies in line. The first went to the Hartford saeneer- bund
 The second prize was awarded to the Gesang ocstereich of New Brit ain.
 The judges made honorable mention of the Hartford Maennerchor and the Lyra society of Waterbury.