The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1901, Page 13

2 3 * i $ i i : Pages 13 10 22 Pages 1310 22¢ OHPAP XS X PHOAOAOX S X SHIHOXPXOXONOD PROAOHOHD X L Doxeroroxons! PO PRGN ON4 SRS RSO S i $ 3 3 ¢ L3 $ VOLUME XC—-NO. 44. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1901_THIRTY-TWO PAGES. : PRICE FIVE CENTS. WITH TORCHLIGHT, RED FIRE AND MUSIC THE THIRD NATIONAL BUNDES FESTIVAL IS FORMALLY OPENE \ AND VISITING MARKSMEN ARE WARMLY WELCOMED P BOHR . Los AVGELES ” W\ H.7T oL CoLORADS . PRIZE COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL BUNDES AND PROMINENT EASTERN SHO - / il o 7. ” . GEIVEL, AIALIACHUS ETES o T BUSFIELD . AASSACHISET TS With Ceremonious Customs Festival Will Open. ve come and are still coming—the men who strain eye and nerve g the small central spot of the target. The third National Bundes Shooting Festival, talked and written was inaugurated in this city last and for the next mine days the celebration will continue unremit- except for sleeping hours. Riflemen wigh medals that find the chests 0o small for a resting place and with reputations for ady nerves are pouring into San Francisco. To-day the scene ng activities will be Shell Mound Park. With formal, cere- sch as are prescribed in National Bundes shooting festivals, the r of its kind will be ushered in and for more than a week the peppering I go on. Medals and prizes of costly value will be won, decorations ted, old chieftains of the rifle will give way to new andl a general be in store. Last night's demonstration was but a prelude. The real gelebration will be- -day with a procession that will bring out every enthusiast and sympathizer undes institution in this city. German hospitality, especially the planted variety, is known the world over. It will be shown this an introductory weicome to those marksmen who have crossed the ttend the festival. There will be more of it from day to day as the Preparations of days, weeks and months will ind a culmina- nt daily materialization of fraternity and good fellowship. When resident F. A. Kuhls fires the three symbolic shots at Shell Mound to-day—one for the adopted country, one for the old fatherland and tie third’for the common weal of the National Shooting Bund—there will be installed a shooting sym- posium such as America has never seen before. . about for six” months and more, night Torchlight Procession Introduces a Nine Days’ General Celebration. GRAND tattoo—the zapfenstreich—a torchlight procession, the burning of red fire alorg the line of march, . the shooting of rockets, afterward a gathering at Californfa’Hall and an address of welcome by Mayor Phelan. and the great third Natlonal :Bundes Shooting Festival was introduced last night in preluded fashion to the people of San Francisco. Nothing more than an introduction was intended. ~The real fun, in other words the busi- ness of the festival, will begin to-day. But this same introduction has set the ball in mation. and has whetted the appetite for more. .The first sparks of enthusiasm have kindled into a fire that will burn without nursing for the next. nine days. The red fire, the music, fhe play of the piccolos, the beat of the drums jas the vanguard of the festival followed its line of march from California Hall along the chief thoroughfares of San Franeisco were but an an- nouncement of what is on the way. . Sharp upon the set hour the procession formed in front of California Hall last night and at 8:30 o'clock was on ths march. Grand Marshal Wieneke and his aids in the van, a military band, a corps of piccolos, a drum corps and delega- tions from the following societies made up the procession: San Francisco Schuetzen Verein, San. Francisco Turner Schuet- zen, San Francisco Eintracht Schuetzen, Rothmaenner Schuetzen, Independent Rifles, Deutscher Krieger Verein, Califor- nia Schuetzen Club, Germania Schuetzen Club, Swiss Rifle Club, Norddeutscher Schuetzen Club, Gruetli Shootifg Section, Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club, Columbla Pistol and Rifle Club. f i Down Bush street from Powell to, Grant avenue they marched, then to O’Farrell street, red light and rockets playing a steady accompaniment. Up O'Farrell to Stockton the procession made its way and /then fo Eilis street. The sidewarks were well lined with people and rousing cheers kept pace with the marchers. At Ellis and Powell a turn was -made. On _Market street the torch-lit band proceeded to- Sixth street and then countermarched. - Moving eastward at a_steady pace the first stop was made at The Call bufiding. ‘The rhythmic béat of the zapfenstreich was then changed into our own na- tional air and cheer upon cheer rose upward. All three daily newspapers were serenaded in turn. With, this part of the march accomplished the ordergwas glven to move up Kearny street. Back to the place from which the start was made shooters and musicians footed and then joined with their brothers in biddfng a hearty welcome to the guests, the men who have traveled thousands of miles to get honor, glory and handsome prizes as testimonials of their unerring marks- wanship. ¢ i tendered, was fittingly. decorated for the occasion. OTERS WHO ARE EXPECTED TO WIN LAURELS AND PRIZES. ' Visitors Formally Welcomed by layor Phelan. ITH both hands full of gifts, the Schuetzen sccieties of San Fran- cisco extended last night a_California welcome to the members of the National Shooting Bund now In this ¢ity to attend the third national shoot of the society. California Hall, on Bush street, whers the formal welcome was Bunting in the 3 colors of the Bund, on a, background of white with golden bars, was stretched around the galleries, and from the ceiling was pendent a vellow star from which a long net hung low down, tricked out with red roses. The stage was a mass of flags and bunting, American flags and the colors of the Bund. The parade, in which the uniformed shooting societies of San Franeisco took part, ended at the doors of California Hall and here were stationed the members of the reception committee to greet and weicome the visitors. Léng before the procession arrived the commodious hall was filled with the invited guests of the societies. Mayor Phelan Introduced. Upon its arrival Captain F. A. Kuhls, president of the National Shooting Bund, led Mayor Phelan to the stage. The audience, men and women, rose and cheered and the air was full of many hats and fluttering flags and handkerchiefs. The president was followed by Henry M. Wreden, treasurer of the prize coim- mittee of the Bund; Louis Haake, secretary of the National Shooting Bund; Joe -Straub, chalrman of the press committee; Carl Gut, grand trustee of the Bund, and George R. Hauser of the shooting committee. Then Captain Kuhls stepped \ Continued on Page Fourteen.