BREWERS GOLDEN WEDDING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 300, 13 May 1911, Page 10

BREWERS GOLDEN WEDDING.

GARGANTUAN CELEBRATIONS. Mr. Adolphus Busch, a wealthy American brewer, celebrated his golden wedding at Paradena, California, on a scale which compelled public attention. At break of day a battery of cannons announced that the celebration had commenced at Pasadena, where Mr. and Mrs. fin-cb live, and another- battery furnished a .-niiilar signal at St. l<ouis, where, for the first time in »ixty years, the famous Busch Brewery ceased producing rivers of lager beer. Pasadena stopped work for tftc day, and St. Louis, with IiOOO employees, followed suit. A proclamation was issued by Mr. Bttsch asking all his friends and employees to join in the festivities, and intimating that he would foot the bill. Right heartily did they respond, and the despatches received would indicate that in splendour and scope the Busch celebration outdid any of the famous banquets of Babylon or ancient Rome. After the guns had ceased to Arc the portly Mr. Busch. attended by his buxom and beaming partner, released 100 doves, which were despatched as emblems of peace. At the wedding feast at night at the brewer's mansion, Mrs. Busch was crowned and seated beside her husband on a j miniature throne. The presents received by the couple are valued at £IOO.OOO, and came from all parts of the States, more particularly from the Germanspeaking .sections of Pennsylvania. The most beautiful and costly of the presents was the diadem presented to Mrs. Busch by her husband. It is a crown of gold studded with diamonds and pearls, and valued at C 40.000. It was made at Frankfurt. The children presented their parents with a dozen full-sized dinner-plates made of solid gold, and valued at £5000; a solid gold llower-basket, rained at C.'tOOO. was received from the grandchildren ; and the solid gold vase from the branch managers employed by the Brewing Association co«t £40,000. There were gold loving-cups galore. One came from the Emperor William, and another from Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. President Taft sent a new gold coin, with an original design, fresh from the United States Mint, and worth about £4. FroHi all parts of the country came tributes of personal affection to the aged couple and admiration for the famous Busch beer. Both Mr. and Mrs. Busch trace their ancestry to celebrated maltsters originating in Germany, and bv selling good lager throughout the United States they claim to have done as much as the Church and State to foster temperance. At the Coliseum, St. Louis, at night, 1)000 employees of the brewerv and their families honored their chief, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Faust, in a box, reviewed the highest "rand march that St. Louis ever had seen. A band of 100 performers furnished music, and there were 100,000 bottles of beer to allay thirst, and thousands of sandwiches of various sorts to sat'sfv apnetites. A congratulatory telegram was received from the Bendi n Kiha Aid Society, a Jewish organisation, composed of 500 women, also from the Mayor and Corporation of St. LonU. and practically everv big house in the thriving city, all of whom recognise that Bnseh's beer has made the city famous and prosperous.