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To be Erected in Union Hill (N. J.) Schuetzen Park.

PROJECT OF THE LOCAL LOW GERMANS

History of the Plattdeutsche Volksfest Verein—The Progress of the Memorial to the Great Dialect Poet.

The prevailing impression that the Plattdeutsche Volksfest Verein is an organization with purely social and jovial functions is erroneous. While this society has been brought into prominence mainly by the successful manner in which it manages the annual reunions of the Low Germans of New-York and vicinity, its chief object, nevertheless, is charity and benevolence.

The latest work of charity undertaken by this organization is the erection of a home for the aged and indigent, as a memorial to Fritz Reuter, the greatest dialect poet and humorist of Germany. Fritz Reuter died in 1874, after having accomplished more toward the perpetuation and elevation of the Plattdeutsche dialect than any littèrateur known in German history. No writer is William F. Grell