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Ideruiffinn-tbcthePo-forSat*thoookthatoneandlostimc'earer’ei ereRe-hadud-twolic-indler-eatled vas 1 aicythei a oat )ne ind to ter shat his tryhothat,'iitofofwors.•asUSheiatir-ireWal-enccoe.s-masa-UOWLH tvjLUK. aaiuLUMiuci UivtiBeen mander” was drunk, until this waB too bIou work and then lager was drank without any “salamander” at all. There was little likeINTOXICATIONat the Park, which fact would puzzle the man, in New York who still insists that there is “drunk” in lager. What- there was in tho staggering line was outBide of the Turners and their friends, and would satisfy most any one that a Yankee, oraD Irishman, or an Englishman, or ’A 'Welshman, or any other xnan, has no business whatever to enter into a lager beer mutch with a Turner, especially if that Turner has been educated in Chicago.Tim ATTENDANCE %at the Park during the ufternoon of yesterday' was to speak within hounds, initnousc. All the German portion of the city, as well as a considerable American and Irish part were tliero to see and listen.A II AIN SQUALL.At one time during the aflemoou, aheavy storm came rip. The only place for shelter was the single building on the summit of the bill. Ab the large rain drops began to patter down tho crowd—men, women and children broke for this single roof. Men jostled and crowded the women and they in turn jostled and crowded the children. It was ono huge, grand, iudis-cribablfr “rush,” ludicrous as it was laughable. Trains and hoops suffered—dresses suffered—everything suffered. The building was packed full. The inmates dovetailed in like sardines, but not one tenth of them could obtain shelter. This tenth was happy — nine-tenths outside in the rain were unhappy. The wet takon in in the shape of lager did not counteract the wet coming down iu the shape of water. The outsiders looked iit the contented insiders, grumbled loud and dcop and then pushed on towards the building as if such a “6quozen” mass could be compressed any closer. It was as solid there as a mass of iron, and as unyielding as a bar of lead. Then the insiders, their “store clothes’1 protected from the rain if not from the “jam,” laughed aloud and jested and taunted the perplexity and anxiety of the outsiders. Aud all ihe time the great rain drops came down from above—pattered on the trees about, and made the outsiders cling closer to each other and try the harder to get into tho building. Fortunately the rain was only the surplus discharge of a single cloud—it was no set affair, and in a few moments the sun shone out brightly again—the great rain drops “dried up,” and all was merry again. The crowd about tte building spread out to dry, and the crowd inside wended their way out. Thenthere was a time, getting things into fihape again. The rush was a lesson or foretaste of what WA6 to come when the garden emptied itself and everybody sought to get hack to town by the very first car. srMrTOJis or a now.About 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon there were etrong symptoms of a disturbance at the Park. Accompanying the Chicago Turners were a few hard case* who will always force their way into company wherethey are not wanted, and a few of tho same sort froiu this city, filled np with beer. They looked fight and they began seriously to talk fight, when three were arrested. Two were from Chicago, and one from this city. They were locked up to cool their tempers. We Bhould add that they were not in any way connected with tho Turners.EOSrEWAIU) BOUND.A portion of the Chicago guests went home by train last night, but many of them remained to attend a ball given them at the park laBt night, and left to-duy. All seem to he well pleased at their treatment here, and say they will come again. -THOSE OX BOHNS.Attached to each party or society of Tamers ope plight nqtice a number of men earning immense ox honpj. Those horns havo a prominent plape in the history of the Turners, and it ia a great privilege to be allowed lo drink out of them. Horns never circulate until the party has drank lngcr enough to feci “well.’*A great many years ago, before Turners were known, in one of the small German a fates, a party of young fnen organised as gymnasts. One day they went out on a target excursion. Tho purveyor had provided keg after keg of the foaming lager, but by a strange oversight had neglected to furnish seidlcs. Thcro was not a glass or cup to be found. Tho young men were notto bo beaten in this way, however, and knocking the bottoms out of their home they used thorn as glasses. A lady of rank noticing the strange drinking cups, remarked to her liege.“How easily those young men hcr^up the bottoms of their horns.1*“Good,” exclaimed one of the party, tl,f\(mcrs they shall be, and the ox horn fiholl be their good goniuB,From that day t)io organization was known as Turners, and spreading all over tho world as they have, they have carried the name with them and have reverenced the ox horn, U6ing and drinking out of it onlv on gala occasions.C-rtt-esasicK‘10ie•dn-11to(t
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Semi Weekly Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jun 16, 1869
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