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FESTIVALrenth Deutsche Bundesschiessen tobe Held in Berlin NextMonth.rhe Occaaion to be a Gala Seasonfor the German Marksmen.American CIuIn That Will be Rfprwutfd — Mr, Jacoby, of (all fornia, andHid Great Kecorcl.The tenth Deutsche Bundesschiessen, or fterman shooting festival, will be held at Berlin in .Inly, nnd promises to be the great-i st meeting of riflemen and members of shooting clubs ever seen. A central committee of all the Schuetzen corps of Germany and Austria arranges such a meeting once in three years, and this year the invitations sent to German riflemen all over the world have been ho generally accepted that the committee estimates that no ltss than sixty thousand men will take part in the contests. Unlike the English and American*. who devote themselves exclusively tomaking scores when they go to shooting matches, the Germans introduce the element of sociability into their 8ports, take their wives and children to the ritle range, have parades and banquets, and get a great deal of all-round enjoyment out of their meetings.A meat many German-American shooting societies will oe represented at Berlin, and most of the members wlio go to the meeting will be accompanied by their fannlns. nnd make their trip a holiday excursion tlt;► fatherland. The steamship NVieland chartered by the Now Vork Independ-Schuetzen corps, to sail for Europe on llth of June, with several hundred shooters and their families as passengers.Thirty-live members of the New York Central Schuetzen corps and the representatives of the New-Yorker and New \ ork City corps went bv the regular line steamships at an earlier date. All will meet in Hanover on .Inly lid, and proceed directly to Berlin, where they will tmd all arrangements made for them by »lt;n advance committee consisting of Messrs. William V. Weber, Alexander Stein and (ius Ximmermann.Matches will be shot in Bremen nnd Hamburg before the grund festival, and some ofthe American representatives will take partin them. When the corps go to Berlin they will enter the I nter den Linden by the Brandenburg Thor, march to the palace, with American. German and corps flags flying, and listen to u s|H*ech of welcome from the emperor. Afterward they will march to the city hali. where thev will be receivedmf r ■'7' - -by the tunyor.I be Independent corps Will give a banquet at tin* Kaiserhof on the evening of thethewasenttheV•urtli of July. They will entertain 1lt;* guests of honor, and they expect the emperor to attend, although that point is not dtfiniUly settled. Minister Phelps will be present, and will respond to a patriotic American toast. Mr. William V. Weber, the Festpraesident, will preside at the banquet.On the r»th of July there will be a grand parade in Berlin of all the Schuet/.eii corps, and the Americans will have a great open-air reception in Kroll's Garden, near the Thieruarten. The shooting will begin at five o'clock 111 the afternoon of Sunday, .lulv t'»th, and continue until the Kith.1 he programme of the festival frhovsthat the Jschuetzen cornu take little or no interest in long-range shooting. All their matches will be shot off-hand at ranges of 17r» and 1S00 metres, equivalent to 1300 and Ml'* yards. There will be 112 targets for the use of tlie ritltmen,divided equally between the two ranges, and nearly #1(10,000 worth of prizes will be distributed anions the contestants at tin* end of the festival. The target at the .‘*-metre range is oblong in shape,!*) centimetres high, and 4/ reilti-inetreH wide. The black centre is ;*7 centimetre* high and ll# centimetres wide. A shot in the black counts two joints. and in the outer part of the oblong it counts one point. The lT.Vmetre target has a round bull** eve centimetre* in diameter, with an inner ring of lf centimetres. Mom of the tine sharp-shooting will be at the shorter range. A great variety of *iecial targets uill be us» d also, such as the running deer, at nit tr tht jumping hare, at metres: and disappearing targets, to test quickness of night, etc.lt; )n 1 uesdav, July *th, the sharpsnooters who ha\e entered their naiiifts wituin a prescribed time will content for supremacy in rapidity nnd accuracy of tire. Ihe manu Ini 11:: i L * si tl»' rimnl»*r lt;* f hull*Iand Homrighausen are all excellent marksmen.The team selected to represent the Ger-man-American societies will shoot a match at Bingen, after the festival, with the best team of any German clufc, The last contest of all will be at Nenftndt, where a daywill be spent in individual prize and team shooting.The (’alifornians who will compote in Berlin for honors and prizes are Philo Jacoby, John Utchig, Capt. F. A. Kuhls, Jacob Haff, Fritz Boeckmann, F. Plager-man and F. Gercken, all members of the California Schuetzen club and expert marksmen. Mr. Jacoby is president of the club, aad one of the best shots in the country with either the German target ritle or the military weapon. He was born in Prussia, and has been a citizen of San Francisco for thirty years. He is the editor of a weekly paper called The Hebrew, and is prominent in all athletic affairs, being one of the founders and ex-director of the famous California Athletic club. Mr. Jacoby's record as a rifleman isas follows: look first prizes at the greatI nited States shooting festival in Jones' Wood, New York, in 18t‘8; first prize in Germany in and received there aneedle-gun from the war department of Prussia: took lirst prize at Cincinnati, 1870; Shooting King at Washington, 1). (’., 1870; Shooting King in Zurich, Switzerland, 1*7:1: tirst prize in Vienna shooting festival at World's Fair in l*7:t; took tirst goblet and became Shooting King in German shooting festival at Dusseldorf, 1873; commanded California Schuetzen club team in the centennial shooting match at Philadelphia, 1*7*1, when the team took the champion cup, and Jacoby received a gold medal for the highest score of the team. Mr. Jacoby possesses twenty-four silver goblets, many medals and a championship belt. In the Berlin shooting he will use a plain Winchester single-loader. The Californians expect to do some good work in the matches with the open-night rifles. In a match with the famous Nevada military team twenty men of ttie California Schuetzen club made the unprecedented average of 87 |er cent.The prize contributed by the Californians consists of a large vellum sheet, upon w hich, in the shape of a live-pointed star, are gold and stiver coins of the United states, each point containing a #10. andgold piece. The German and American colors are combined in the star. The New York Independent Schuetzen corps also contributes a handsome prize, consisting of the corps monogram in red, white and blue velvet, ornamented with gold pieces to the value of #t00. The trophy is three feet Square.The Californians will carry in the parade in Berlin a silk flag, designed ly Jacoby, to combine the colors of the state and the United States. It has the regulation thirteen stri|»es. but in place of the blue lield is the griz/.lv bear of California.'1 he marksmen who arrive earlv in Europe will take part in the Bremen festival on June i:», and the Hanover festival on June '-2. After the great festival in Berlin some of them will tr** to Switzerland tocom-1ete in the Federal shooting festival at•'ratunfeld on lulv -U Harper's Weekly.Sunday Kxeurslon.The Northern Pacific Bailroad companywill make a Sundav excursion rate of one fare for the round trip to all (siints between Helena and Butte via Garrison; also to all points on the Helena, Boulder Valley and Butte, Helena and Jefferson County, and j Helena and Northern branches. Tickets to ;be sold on Kundavs onlv, good to return ! same day. A. 1). Edoak. Geu'l Agent. |l uion Purlffr Nylt;*t**inK*te«K“«t'irrt dOn June D all pasengers rates over the Union Pacific, loth local and through, will be restored to tariff.A. E. Vfazik, Pass. Agt.Ssn Francisco and Ixm Angeles ExcursionKates.The Union Pacific Kailvay company wil sell excursion tickets to San Francisoo andLos Angeles on June l'» nnd the same datemonthly thereafter at the following namedrates:To San Francisco, going via Ogden and return same, i$7f».To San Francisoo, going via Portland and return same, #75.To San Francisco, going via Ogden and return via Portlund, or vice versa, |*J0.To Los Angeles, going via Ogden and Sacramento and return same $1)0.To L a Angeles, going via Ogden and Sacramento and return via San Francisco and Ogden, or vic« versa, $1*4.To Los Angeles, going via Ogden and San Francisco and return same,To Los Angeles going via Portland nnd return via Sacramento and Ogden, or vice versH. ♦lOW.To ls Angeles going via Portlund and return same, f08.Passengers can have choice of two routes between Portland and San Francisco,either by the way of the all rail, the Mount Shasta route, or by steamer The above tickets are good going sixtydavs from date of sale; extreme limit sitI I II it I t Lfc. • i ifi.nVi I' l r 1 I l ' • «'* V, ?i I 11 lU « lt;I triilt.1’
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Helena Independent
Helena, Montana, US
Tue, Jun 17, 1890
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