The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-12
MlSSouLA WILL THROW OPEN
ITS GATES TO THE GER
MAN SOCIETIES.
"W|LLkOMMEA SAfNGER''
Open This Afternoon With Five
Hundred Visitors, the Representa-
tives of Five Different Societies, in
Attendance, Guests Of Maennerchor.

At noon today Missouia viii throw
open its gates to 500 German visitors
and five German singing societies, and
the first Montana saengerfest will be-
gin. For months the committee from
the Missoula Maennerchor has been
making ready for the event and not
detail nor an item which will in
any way make the stay of the city's
guests more enjoyable has been over
looked in the preparation for the three
days meeting. This morning the dec
Grafton of the city will be complete.
the coIors of Germany and of the
United States will fly from every flag
pole on the business streets in honor
of the saenger.
The First Fest.
Missoula has been the chief factor
in this new movement and to it's eff
forts alone is due the fact that the
organization has been effected and the
Germans of the state united. In view
of this. ii is but proper that the first
meeting should be held in Missoula
and, If the plans of the society here
are carried out. this first meeting will
give the movement an impetus which
viii make 1t permanent.
Sunday Program.
At o'clock the Missoula Maenner-
Choir viii meet its guests at the depot
where an informal reception viii be
held. II Is known positively that
= there will be 500 people present, and
the committee has prepared for a much
larger crowd. Helena win send over
so sacngers under the name of the
Germania Singverein. The Butte Leid-
erkantz will send over Il big delega-
tion, the Anaconda Harmonic will be
here in force, and representatives are
expected from kalispell and Great
Falls. kalispell Is expected to send
a delegation which will be one of the
best at the meeting. While the So
ciety in that city is not IA member of
the Saengerbund. 1t belongs to the
Pacific German association. and last
year won first prize in that organlza-
tion from San Francisco. Los Angeles,
Seattle and other important coast cit
les in a saenGerfest held in Everett.
The state association hopes to enlist
the Kaiispell people this year and a
strong effort will be made in this line
at the coming meeting.
This evening at o'clock a reception
will be held on Paul Gerber's lawn
for the visitors. which promises to be
one of the big features of the three
days meeting. The lawn has been
decorated with electric lights and, If
the weather man is good, the reeep-
tion cannot fail to be success. The
Missoula band will play special pro-
gram at this time.
Monday Morning.
At 10 o'clock Monday morning the
saengerfest proper viii open with
meeting i'm Eagles hall. Here the
business of the year will be discussed
and the plans for the coming season
taken up.
At 3 o'clock all the societies will
hold rehearsal in the opera house
in preparation for the big concert in
the evening.
The Concert.
At S: 80 o'clock the concert viii be-
gin. A chorus of $50 voices will be
heard here and an orchestra of Is
pieces viii furnish the accompani-
ment. The program for the evening
is as follows:
Part |.
Overture. Lohengrin-- Wagner
America Full Chorus
Marguerite" "a. Hawley) -.-.--........-.....
Adami Quartet
Aud der Wacht" &c. kuntz1 --..
Butte Maennerchor
''Gruss an Die Heimath" tCarl Kro-
nerl Helena Maennerchor
THE Fairies Lullaby" tSherwoodl