Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1934, Page 93

THE SUNDI}}! STAI_?. W._&SH!NGTQNL D. C, DECEMBER 9, 1934. active members, 24 of the honorary class and 1,731 passive members, The first plece rehearsed by the chorus was *Auf ihl Bruder, lasst uns Wallen.” In 1869 the body went to Philadelphia, and there earned a most important victory. A triennial festival was in progress, it is said, and as the Saengerbund needed a new piano, it went in and sang with such good effect that the judges awarded them the first prize, which turned out to be just what they wanted—a $1,000 piano. Paul Richter was then the direc- tor. The leader in 1878 was Frederick Kley; the president, Louis Brodhag; Ferdinand Rocker, corresponding secretary; Paul Haverstein, secre- tary: Mr. Mueller, recording secretary; H. Schmidtman, treasurer, and E. Holer, archivist. Carl Richter was the leader in 1879; E. Holer, corresponding secretary; A. Hart, record- ing secretary, and John Sax, archivist. By the following year the leader was J. Max Mueller; H. H. Bergmann was financial secretary, Otto L. Wolfsteiner, recording secretary; S. Hart- brecht, treasurer; William Hagemann, archivist, and collector, Mr. Bergmann. In 1883 Paul Schulze, of the well-known firm of architects, Cluss & Schulze, was president. Jacob Kerr was vice president; A. Heinrichs, financial secretary; F. Friedrich, recording sec- retary; Anto Pischer, treasurer; W. Hagomann, librarian; E. Holer, director; Louis Waldecker, F. Knoop, E. Schmid and W. Veerhoff, leaders of music; Paul Haverstein, Theodore E. Kirby, Simon Wolf, Charles Xander, J. A. Griesbauer, Edward Abner and A. Lippert, Committee on Music, while the Auditing Committee was com- posed of Paul Havenstein, W. Spangler and Martin Altschuh. Paul Schulze was also president in 1884 and 1885, and had assisting him the former year W. F. Lutz, vice president; A. Behrend, finan- cial secretary; F. Carl, recording secretary, and others. In 1885 we find among the officers the name of W. Von Brandis. Fourteen years later we find Frank Claudy serving as president; John Waldman, vice president; Louis Kimmel, financial and ocorresponding secretary; Fred Carl, recording secretary; Louis Faber, treas- urer; William Hageman, librarian, and Henry Xander, musical director. HE fortieth anniversary of the organisation at the Academy of Music, before referred to, was & very fine affair, and included In its program the following numbers: (1) overture, “Stradella” (Flotow), orchestra: (2) “Hail Co- lumbia™” (Lachner), Saengerbund and orchestra (with tableau); (3) piano solo, “Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 9" (Lisst), Richard Burmeister from Baltimore; (4) soprano solo, “Aria From Linda di Chamounix” (Donizette), Miss Alice Williams from New York; (5) “Pruehlings Zauber” (Weinzierl), Saengerbund and orches- tra; (6) violin solo, “Fantasia Apassionata™ (Vieuxtemps), Anton Kaspar; (7) soprano solo (a), “To Sevilla”; (b), “Ungeduld” (Schubert), Miss Alice Williams; (8) piano solo (s), “Pre- lude and Song” (Chopin); (b), “Soirees de Vienne No. 8" (Schubert-Liszt), Richard Bur- meister; (9), “Traeumerei”’ (Schumann), string orchestra; (10), “Die Neiderwaldfahrt” (Pache), Saengerbund and orchestra (with tableau). This was in 1891, when Paul Schulze was president; John Waldman, vice president; F, Altrup, corresponding secretary; Louis Faber, treasurer, and A. Lepper, financial secretary, and those taking part in the chorus were as follows: PFirst tenor—J. Colignon, H. Klinge, A. Plitt, I. Viedt, A. Weinhold, L. Door, F, Knoop, I. Steinem, J. Waldmann and G. Wetzel. Second tenor—G. Ackmann, W. Berens, V. Conrad, S. Holmes, J. Karr, G. Ritter, E. Schmid, A. Behrend, P. Clandy, P. Haverstein, A. Joerss, E. Nachtgall, S. Sawtell and Charles Xander. First bass—P. Bachschmidt, W. Hagemann, I. Hutch, A. Lepper, I. Mattern, O. Schilling, H. G. Weber, F. Escherich, S. Hartbrecht, H. Kaiser, W. F. Lutz, J. Michaelson, M. Snell and H. Wolf. Second base—F. Altrup, F. Carl, C. Herbert, E. Kuebel, H. Scheuermann, H. Schminke, B. Schneider, M. Altschuh, L. Faber, E. Holer, J. E. Ruebsam, J. Schlueter, H. Schmidtman and W. Spangler. The Star parised the concert in its issue of April 20, 1891, saying: THE SAENGERBUND'S CONCERT. “The Washington Saengerbund gave a sacred concert last night at the Academy of Music, in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the organization. It was highly successful and well attended. The music, produced under the direction of Mr. William Waldecker, was of a high order and seemed thoroughly ape preciated by the audience. One of the numbers was quite picturesque, being descriptive, under the title of ‘Niederwaldfahrt, or a trip to the Neiderwald, near Bingen, where is a monument dedicated to the unification of Germany. The varied arrangement, including nearly every known form of vocalism, was heightened in its effect by the appearance of Miss Lutz as Ger- mania in the act of crowning the monument. ‘Hail Columbia’ was rendered in somewhat the same style, with Miss Annie Muehleisen as America, Mr. Richard Burmeister of Baltimore was the piano soloist, Miss Alice Williams of New York and Mr. J. H. Kaiser the vocalists and Mr. Anton Kaspar the violin virtuoso.” Prof. Willlam Waldecker, who directed the music upon this occasion, was a Washingtonian by birth, and will best be remembered as the organist of St. Matthew's Church. He began his musical education under Julian Enders and received further training under the care and guidance of Carl Richter and George Felix Benkert, both able instructors of pianoforte pupils. In 1875 he went to Leipzig and achieved the highest honors for piano, organ and har mony. He was one of Washington’s most cele- brated musicians. The early days of the Saengerbund were not Slways pleasant ones, and sometimes their Picnic parties were broken up by rowdies, but seldom without a pretly stiff fight, which was Members of the Washington Saengerbund in 1901. First row, left to right—A. Eberly, Otto Borcharding, Mr. Steinem, W. Hagemann, F. Altros, S. Sawtel, Mr. Nagtigal, Mr. Spangler, P. Havenstein. Second row—R. Brauner, A. Lepper, J. Karr, Simon Wolf, W. Waldecker, leader; P. Schulze, president; J. W aldman, Judge Walther, L. Faber, E. Schmidt, F. Claudy. Third row—George Mithaeh?. M. Altschu, George Scheuerman, unidentified, H. Scheuerman, George Ritter, W. Lutz, Mr. Eschserich, . Kl A. Pliee, J. L. Dorr, H nge, F. Knoop, Charles Dismer, Mr. Engsler, H. Julius Mattern. Fourth roww—Mr. Colignon, E. Kuebel, George Ackman, unidentified, Karl Xander, F. Carl, C. Herbert, S. Hartbrecht, unidentified, H. Schminke, J. Viedt, A. Joerss, Rudolph Schneider, O. Schilling. not soon forgotten by the hoodlums, as was evidently the case in the affair spoken of in The Star of July 29, 1854, which follows: “Outrageous Proceedings.—A number of row- dies yesterday took a marauding notion and carried-out their purpose by a gross and violent demonstration on the German ‘Saengerbund Association,” who were pleasantly spending the day at Arlington Springs. We are told that the rowdies attacked the unoffending Germans, beating them, and committed various outrages. From all we hear it was a beastly emuete, and ane which should be visited upon the offenders’ heads with the severest penalties of the laws. “The parties injured are Jacob Koebel, se- riously bruised about the head and side, and now in the infirmary; August and Prederick Sellhausen, brothers, severely but not danger- ously bealen; August Megner, injured on the head, arm and rib supposed to be broken. Mr. Huebner was shockingly cut in the head and Mr. Schalk unmercifully beaten. Others were more or less injured. “The weapons used were the boots of the freebooters, filled with stones, clubs and such other missiles as came to hand. They helped themselves, at will, from the table of the ex- cursion party, and then attacked them in the manner we have authority for describing. “William Street is reported to have set on the attack, in which Hillery Hutchinson is named as another spirit in the affray, but the latter, we understand, got well punished in the melee. “The whole proceedings of the rowdies was disgraceful in the extreme. Warrants are out for some of them, who will be dealt with ac- cording to law. Why cannot a civil party, like 22,000,000 T'rees Supplied Through U. S. HE success of the Clarke-McNary forestry law is weil demonstrated by the figures for last year's tree planting for shelter belt and forestry purposes. During the year nearly 22,000,000 trees were distributed at a small cost, the trees being supplied largely from State nurseries in co-operation with the Federal Government. The total number of trees distributed for farm planting was only slightly less than in 1932, but planting on State-owned lands and on large timber holdings declined sharply, and the total distribution of trees from State nurs- eries decreased from 88,000,000 to 59,000,000, Twenty-five million trees were distributed for planting on State-owned lands. To private timeberlands other than farm forests or wood- lands, 12,466,443 trees were distributed for planting. New York led with 25,000,000 trees distributed from State nurseries. Pennsylvania distributed 7.886,767. Wisconsin distributed more than 5,000,000; Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and Ohio more than 2,000,000 each, and New Jersey and Indiana just under 2,000,000. Of New York's total, 16,000,000 were planted on State lands. Peansylvania led in distribution of trees for farm planting, with 4,596,799 trees, closely fol- lowed by New York. Puerto Rico exceeded 2,000,000 trees distributed for farm planting, and Ohio exceeded 1,000,000. Tennessee, Indiana and Nebraska each passed the 800,000 mark. Trees were planted on farms in the East and South chiefly for timber and pulpwood produc- tion. Plantings in the Middle West and the Plains and Western States were primarily for shelter belts and wind breaks. ‘The favorite timber tree, to judge by Clarke- McNary distribution records for the year, was the red pine, with a total of 4,045,000 distributed for planting, This was followed by the Norway spruce with approximately 3,200,000 seedlings, the white pine with 2,600,000, the black locust with 1,475,000, Scotch pine with 1,206,000, and slash pine with 1,168,000. Practically all these except the black locust were planted principally for timber or pulpwood production, turpentine or other wood products. The black locust trees distributed under the Clarke-McNary act do not include the millions planted last Fall by the Civilian Conservation Corps for erosion con- trol purposes. When the World Is Ouver BY LORD DUNSANY, (4 W ho will there be when the world is over, When her streams are frozen and numb, When cinders lie where is now the clover And the last of the birds is dumb; When the air stales and the sea hardens And the four seasons die, Who will there be to tell of our gardens And the glint of our evening sky?, In other planets will love and laughter Ring in another ear; But who in the years that are coming after Will tell that we knew them here? Who to the planets that are our neighbors Or that swing ‘round some other sun Will tell the tale of our hopes and labors? Ah, me. Not one. So let us rejoice in all beauty Of shape, color and song; Knowing that Earth, released from duty, May rest before very long. these well-behaved Germans, have a simple pleasure excursion without such vandal inter< ruptions?” Just what brand of justice was dealt out in this case did not appear in subsequent issues of the paper. As it ogcurred in Virginia, # was a matter for the courts of that State, and possibly the Alexandria papers might tell more about it. There were several incidents of this nature, which occurred at an early date, in which the Foggy Bottom and Georgetown boys played & part, and some of the residents of Swampoodie were not always peaceful citizens, which one might surmise from the item taken from The Star of October 12, 1859, which says: “BUTTER ROW IN COMMOTION." “Yesterday afternoon Officer Yeatman ar- rested Morris Rady. Daniel Rady, Margaret Rady, John Cronin, Ellen Kane, Honora Kane, Gerret: Fitsgerald and Margaret Fitsgerald for kicking up a general muss in that well- known locality on G street, between English Hill and Swampoodle, sometimes designated ‘Butter Row." The parties were quick to com- plain, one against the other, and the burden of the evidence was that Capt. Whisky was to blame for the whole of the fuss. The squire ordered Margaret Rady, John Cronin, Gerreté Pitzgerald and Margaret Pitzgerald to pay $3.15 fine and costs each, and the others % give security to keep the peace.” But out of all of this has come a very flne people, one must admit. 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