The sun., 1916-08-21
'PLATTDEUTSCHEJ JOY
SWAPS YOLKSFBST
Twenty Thousand Low Ger
mans Open 42d Celebra-
ton at Union Hill.
FREAKS Guido CONEY
Parade and Speeches Add to
the Entertainment-PrO-
ceeds for Charity.

Mamm Schultz. who lives a few
doors from Terrace Garden, was up be-
fore sunlight yesterday morning. h
dressed the kinder" helped Papa
Schultz get into his stiff high collar and
his tight patent leather shoes. got little
Fritz's certificate Of health from the
bottom bureau drawer and just after
noon she bundled the whole family on
the West ~Forty-second street ferry
bound for Schuetzen Park. For the
P~lattdeutsche volksfest verein Won New
York, New Jersey und Cmgegend-
umgegend in this case meaning every
where-started It's forty-second volksfest
yesterday and the Schultzes were going,
Perhaps nowhere In or near New York
at any time can there be found such a
congregation as gathers for the annual
festival that the o hold at
the Union Hill resort every year. II
is a nugget Of pure Teutonism in the
melting pot. Twenty thousand went
there yesterday. and the attendance was
small. Infantile paralysis kept hun
dreds Of Riddles away-not that they
had the disease. but they couldn't cross
tIc IutCistdtc ilc uuucE thC Htditit
regulations. m Of course that kept the
whole family away. But those who
could go went. They went by automo-
bile and street car. hanging on by their
very eyelids to fender. trolley pole and
steps. They harnessed up the sleek
old horse that delivers groceries or
mea. during the week n they drove
there In state. They even walked. But
they got there.
Proceeds for Charity.
And once there they spent the day in
true German style, not hilariously or
obstreperously. but with placid content
ment, bearing In mind always the fact
that all the proceeds of the volksfest
VIII 60, as In past years, 10 the FRITZ
Reuter- Altenheim. where good Plat,-
d%eutschers spend their old age when they
drop out OF harness. or to the score Of
German orphan societies and similar in
stitutions.
The day opened at . A. NJ. officially.
when President William J. Ruesch and
John c. Hulser. the oldest honorary
president, gathered the vere!n officers.
committeeman n delegates in the New
York headquarters at IS Sixth avenue
There were speeches and then everybody
donned his badge OF office, as big as "A
small pieplate n twice as ornamental.
and everybody piled into twenty deco
rated automobiles II drove to the
park. At the Castle-everybody knows
where the Castle is at Schuetzen Park
they had dinner and more speeches. and
then lined up for the big pai~de to the
Hauptquartier. which means headquar-
tiers. There the socicty's flag wac SOL
emmy raised while the band played the
star Spangled Banner first and then
Die Wacht am Rhein,' and President
Ruesch declared celebrations In order,
standing under a big German flag as he
spoke.
That was about 2 o'clock. and things
started with a bang Immediately, There
were more freak shows and games of
chance than Coney Island ever saw, and
there was "A big open air theatre with a
continuous vaude Vile show going on
calvert. the worlds greatest novelty
high wire artist az the programme
| called him without the capitals. was
dong "A cakewalk on n tghtwire nifty
| feet above the ground and pretending &c
he awfully drunk aud in danger Of fall
ing.
wild MOOPs There, Too.
A troupe Of Wild Moors were whirlins
dcrvishly and building pyramids and
two clowns were slinstlckirg each othcl
all over the stage "Nervo, the Human
Comet" was diving head first frour {
high platform. landing m his chcs i
an Incline below II looked as though
he'd break his neck until one saw h
wore n padded suit a foot thick. DIV
Underwood Blondin, the queen Of tn
clouds" was going up n thousand fee
In a hot air balloon and then droppint
earthward demurely In a red. white an,
blue parachute.
All these things weren't happening n
once. but they anne In such quick sue
cession that II seemed as though tho,
did. And in the meantime young Mastel
Fritz Schultz and his Tx were clinbinl
n lofty creased pole In front OF tn
Uauptuuartier. %perspiring upward toward
a ring OF toys from which they coult
pick one for their own II they didD'
tumble before they got there, Mann.
Schultz was entered in the wood Saving
contest, and would have won II mi,
her hucksaw hadn't stuck In a knot an'
refused to come loose. Adolph. ~
will cast his first vote next November
had discovered that Frcda with tn
golden hair from newt door to where tn,
Schultzes live was among those presen,
and he was pantingly trying to knocl
four stuffed cats from a bench witt
three baseballs in order to win O lii
size doll for his lady fair.
The Bremen was there. Navigator