Newark Evening Star And Newark Advertiser

DR. C. J. HEXAMER, PRESIDENT
OF NATIONAL GERMAN-AMERICAN
ALLIANCE, WHO
IS
HERE

GERMANS OF CITY
ARE CELEBRATING
AT ELECTRIC PARK
Services and Games Yesterday
Mark Opening of Two Hun-
dredth Anniversary.

"Hoch der Deutscher Tag!"
In other words, "Hail to German Day!" begun yesterday with an enormous attendance in Electric Park and to end there tonight, when a big pyrotechnic display will give the event a "send-off" long to be remembered.

Yesterday there were addresses and a general program of entertainment, and for today more addresses and various features of interest were scheduled.

Dr. C. J. Hexamer, of Philadelphia, the president of the National German-American Alliance, which represents about 2,000,000 Germans within Uncle Sam's broad domain, was the principal speaker yesterday afternoon, and his words, which were full of love for the fatherland and stirred his hearers with patriotic ardor for their new home, were applauded again and again.

As this annual German Day celebration also includes the anniversary of German immigration to this country, 200 years ago, Dr. Hexamer's address was devoted largely to a spirited review of the influence of that race upon the land of its adoption. While he held high the starry banner and urged his hearers to abide always by the laws of the land, he expressed the hope that "the spirit of liberty and American fair play will soon cause a reaction against the wave of fanaticism that is now spreading over our land, so that laws will no longer be enacted to crush the individual freedom of intelligent minorities."

He closed by saying that the characteristic qualities of the German-American are "industry, frugality, thrift, domesticity, conservatism, honesty in public and private life and a strong individualism."

An excellent concert by the United Singers of Newark was one of the delightful features of the afternoon, while children of the local German-American schools, under the direction of Johannes Frahm, were also heard in some of their best choruses. An exhibition of brawn and muscle was given by nearly a hundred active members of the Newark Turn Verein before the thousands in the park gave themselves up to the purely social pleasures of the gathering.

Major Carl Lentz, who is the head of the Northeastern Saengerbund, and Dr. Edmond A. Wasson, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, are to talk late this afternoon along lines suggested by the celebration, after Voss's orchestra has played promenade music.

Living pictures, a parade of the several societies that have made their headquarters in the park, prize bowling, shooting, etc., helped along the fun of the day. In the parade there were several floats, handsomely decorated, which depicted important events in the lives of the early German settlers in America.

Besides Voss's orchestra, Saengerhaft's band and Benzler's band enlivened things musically.

Noah Guter is the festival president, and as such yesterday received letters of regret over inability to attend from Congressman Richard Wayne Parker and United States Senator John Kean.