New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-31
PIONEER MAENNERGHOROF YOUNG
AMERICA CELEBRATES GOLDEN
JUBILEE MIDST ENTHUSIASTIC
TnRONG.
Weather Ideal and Arrangements
Perfect!

More than 1000 people thronged
Young Americas city park last Sun
day afternoon, doing everything with
in their power to make the golden
jubilee Of the Pioneer Maennerchor of
that place most successful event and
in that they more than succeeded.
The visitors came by team, by auto,
by regular and special train and from
the way they started in to amuse
themselves it was apparent from the
outset that they had attended German
Volksfests before and would manage
somehow to have good time. The
village was beautifully decorated and
the spirit of hospitality was in the air
and everybody felt perfectly at home in
short time. -r
New Uim's contingent left by special
train at s O'Clock and arrived at their
destination shortly before ten, and
headed by the Second Regiment Band
proceeded to the Saengerhalle where
A. J. Alvin in a few we'll chosen
words presented to the jubilar on be-
half of the New Ulm Maennerchor a
beautiful bow of red. black and gold
with appropriate inscriptions.
At one o'clock the festivities we're
officially opened by a parade which
started from the hall and proceeded to
the park through the principal bust
ness streets of the village. Arrived
at the park every one Immediately
proceeded to enjoy themselves. The
younger people enjoyed themselves
dancing in the dancing pavilion and
the others listened intently to the ex-
cellent music furnished by the Second
Regiment Band and the singing by
the various singing societies.
About O'Clock, August Ackermann
introduced Albert Steinhauser, the.
speaker of the day. In the course
Of his remarks, the speaker paid the
German pioneer high compliment,
referred to the fact that in spite Of the
privations and hardships he had to
undergo, he found time and delight in
organizing and maintaining singing
societies, in furthering the cause Of
freedom, in maintaining the German
customs and the love for the mother
sopgue. He referred in glowing terms
to that small band of liberals who so
years ago organized the Pioneer
Maennerchor and who through their
united efforts, through self-sacrifice
and self-lessness kept the organization
alive, built home Of which they
could we'll be proud and who by
adhering to the old German customs
proved conclusively to the American
public that celebrations Of all kinds
could be carried to a successful con-
clusion without disturbances Of any
kind.
Speaker maintained that the idea
shat so many have that humanity can
be bettered by law and force is an
erroneous one and that the more liber-
by is accorded to the people the less
they would be apt to abuse that pri-
yilege and that the only guarantee
we have for the moral and ethical
development of the human being is
for the individual to build up and
develop his own character, that he
must do that from within himself and
that all outside agencies are of no
avail. He referred also to the grow
ing class consciousness among the
proletariat and hoped that the time
was not far distant when the laboring
man would consider himself the equal
of every other man and that with the
advent of this condition the desire to
accumulate wealth would diminish,
iealousies of all kinds and the spirit
of condemnation would disappear and
love, and love only would be the
moving force in all our actions.
The ladies' chorus under the able
leadership of A. j. Alvin certainly
won laurels for themselves. When
ever and wherever they sang they were
surrounded and attentiyely listened to
by enthusiastic admirers. 1t was GER
tainly praiseworthy and just the thing
TO do when they serenaded the old
guard, the old timers of the Pioneer
Maennerchor and in short time all
the singers had assembled there and
all joined in that beautiful, soul
stirring song "Das ist der Tag des
Herrn.'
But Of all the numbers of the pro-
gram that appealed to the vast null
titnde were the calisthenic exercises
by the Ladies class OF the New Ulm
Turnverein under direction Of Profess
sor Herman Helm. Twenty Winsome