Foreign Language Press Service

Last Saturday the Chicago Poles held a massmeeting protesting the building of a monument of Frederick the Great, which was delivered to America as a present from Germany. The Poles ought to have more important matters on hand than to watch where President Roosevelt will place Frederick's monu

The Swedish-American Republican State League of Illinois held its seventh annual convention and banquet at the Coliseum, Peoria, Ill., on March 9. About six hundred delegates were present. Among the speakers noted were: Governor Charles S. Deneen; Speaker Edw. Shurtleff of the House of Repres

P.1--Yesterday's grave decorating celebration at the Bohemian National Cemetery was one of those events which touches the heart-strings of human feelings. For that reason there was not a single participant, who did not show signs of sadness, enthusiasm, indeed, even exultation. The speakers,

We are kindly informing you that at today's meeting, after regulating all our affairs, and after receiving the secretary's report, we announced shortly after the unveiling of the monument, in our newspapers, that we have concluded the final activities of the committee on the building of the K

In the preceding number of our newspaper we placed a proclamation of the committee on the building of Kosciuszko monument in Chicago, calling on the Polish population of our city to institute and observe an annual Kosciuszko holiday and proposed the observation of this holiday on so-called "F

p. 3, col. 1.. Those who complain about our indifference, such as is manifest in our public and social life, are mostly right. Just let us consider, how some years ago, when there were only about half as many Bohemians settled in Chicago as there are today, and they were not as well situated

p. 1, col. 7.. The representatives of the Bohemian National Cemetery held their regular meeting last night. They discussed several vital questions concerning the cemetery. Most important of these was the permit to build a public waiting room at the cemetery. Other questions concerned the surv

It was a melancholy, unfriendly day that greeted us yesterday morning while we made preparations to be on the way to our National Cemetery, there to perform the time-honored rite of decorating the place of rest of our dead. The morning, that had held out scant promise of fair weather, had mer

Mr. Harry Rubens, chairman of the Committee of the Schurz Memorial Service in Chicago has received the following letter from President Roosevelt:- "I wish I could take part in the service for the honor of Karl Schurz. As this, howeverm is not possible, I beg to express the high este

The services of Kosciuszko and Pulaski, rendered for this country, were so great that the government of the United States erects monuments to the glory of these heroes. The hands of our working people toil in excavating coal mines, in forests, steel mills, but still they are not avaricious, t

The offer of the Turner District Chicago to give to the School, that carries the name of the Turn-Father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, a bust or a painting of the founder of Turning (Gymnastics), was accepted. In the name of the Turner District, that includes 26 Clubs, Dr. Richard Bachhusen appeared

P.1, Col. 6--The directors of the Bohemian-National Cemetery held their regular monthly meeting, in the lower hall of the Bohemian-English School located on 18th St. in the midst of the Bohemian settlement. Due to inclement weather not all members were present. Mr. J. Pech the chair

The commission of Lincoln Park has given permission to the Schwaben and the Turner Clubs to remove the Schiller statue from its present position before the Greenhouse and to place it in front of the building of the Academy of Science at Clark and Center Street, near the entrance of the Park.

The National Carl Schurz Memorial Society, which was formed soon after the death of the famed German-American, and which has its main office in New York with branches in Chicago, St. Louis, Milwankee, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston has just given details of their plans.

The committee of erecting the monument of Kosciuszko in Washington signed a contract with the artist, Mr. W. Floryanski, a singer, to give a concert in order to raise funds for the monument. The concert will be performed in Orchestra Hall, April 21. We inform the public and lovers o

The Swedish Singing Union will celebrate the birthday of Carl Von Linne May 23 by singing at his statue in Lincoln Park. The Nordstjernan Society will give a May 28th festival at Turner Hall on the South Side, Saturday, May 4. The Orphei Singing Club will give a Spring con

According to a resolution prepared by the Suabian society, its president, Mr. Eugene Niederegger, appointed a committee consisting of members and other German gentlemen, to push forward the matter of erecting a Goethe monument, and the first meeting of the executive committee took place yeste

It was just two hundred years ago last Thursday that the most prominent Swede, the Flower King Carl von Linne, was born in Smoland, Sweden. The memory of this great man is not only celebrated in Sweden but also in America, especially among the Swedes of Chicago. Over one thousand persons gath

Carl Wolfsohn, the well-known Chicago musician, died last week. He was a native of Germany and studied under Aloys Schmitt of Frankfort, for many years. He came to Chicago 34 years ago as Director of the Beethoven Society, which he founded. This Society did much to shape the musical taste of

On August 18th, there was a great celebration in Kensington, the consecration of the corner stone of the Lithuanian Roman Catholic church, at 108th and Wabash Avenue, where the church is under construction. There was a large number of Roman sheep. The Rev. Skripka from Chicago said