New Ulm review., 1922-08-23
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CELEBRATION SIDELIGHTs.

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According to the Brown Co. Journal
of last week, Sunday was to be the
biggest day Of the celebration provided
Jupiter Pluvius was on the job and
furnished good weather. AS Jup
Pluv's speciality is thunder-storms
we'll say Jup was on the job all right
but the brand of weather he provided
could hardly be credited with adding
much to the success of the occasion
The Journal scribe would have done
better to request ]. P. to lay down on
his job until the celebration was over
because receipts were materially de-
creased by the heavy rain that fell
Just before the evening doings began
| 1T is worthy of remark that not q
single serious accident marred the cele-
bration from beginning to end. One
or two cars suffered slight damages and
a number were more or less put out OF
commission by the heavy roads follow
ing Sundays rain, but at this writing
we have heard of no real accident OF
any magnitude and no person that we
know Of was injured even slightly.
While it is almost impossible tc
estimate with any degree of accuracy
the size of Sundays crowd, it is safe
to say at least three thousand cars
were parked on the streets of the city.
As far as the eye could see on every
street where parking was permitted,
cars stood, one after the other, with
no vacant space between and there was
no end to them until one neared the
city limits in all directions.
A baby fell thru the grand stand
near the top at Turner Park Sunday
afternoon but set up lusty howl to
prove it still had some breath left.
No bones were broken we believe.
"Poor Lo" was one of those who got
more fire water than was quite proper
Sunday but the city police did not
take him into custody. In fact,
there was very little, if any, offensive
drunkenness seen during the celebration.
A number of gay dogs, of course,
thought it necessary to take on a super
cargo, but there were no brawls and
nothing amounting to open disorderli-
ness.
eve clean 'em up" the New Ulm
Baseball teams slogan, was made
absolutely good during their ce,ebra-
tion series-six games and not miss.
They sure were hitting on all six
cylinders. ~
1t is said that every farmhouse be-
tween New Ulm and Mankato enter
tanned celebration guests Sunday night
who we're stalled on their way home
Even churches and schoolhouses were
made stopping places for parties who
lacked chains and couldn't make the
grade.
1t was a funny thing to see the
sudden disappearance of the throngs
that crowded Minnesota street Satur-
day afternoon just before the first
rain drops fell. The streets were
jammed with people who had gathered
to witness the Zuhrah Temple Shriners
exhibition drill. Down came sprinkle
of rain and gust of wind and every
man, woman and child disappeared as
tho swallowed up in the earth. And
when the sun shone, out of every
possible place of shelter they poured
again and the fun went on.
Two baby buggies were stalled for
several minutes in jam in front of the
Dakota House last Saturday evening.
The crowd completely filled the side
walk and the baby carriages going in
opposite directions net in the jam
which made traffic stand still. All
pushee and no pullee made matters
worse for a while, but after few
minutes, the edge of the crowd raveled,
allowing the rest to move.
Many New Ulmites have never had
occasion to see the large festivals and
parades common to larger cities. They
are therefore not in a position to make
comparisons and when the parades on
Saturday and Sunday moved thru the
streets, they were pleased that the
parades looked so we'll, that there were
so many pretty and original floats.
They were satisfied that New Ulm had
delivered the goods so widely adver-
tised. 1t was left to former New
Ulmites who have seen parades else
where in the larger cities to tell us how
really magnificent our parades were.
A. j. Alvin, and Mrs. K. E. Mo of
Minneapolis stated that they had seen
many displays in Minneapolis, but
none OF them compared to New Ulm's
in the originality of ideas. Mrs.