Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — A TWO-MILE PETITION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A TWO-MILE PETITION.

The German-Amerlcan Document Shipped to Albany. A Now York paper Buys: Tho petition of the German-American Citizens’ Union for a liberal Sunduy law was presented to the Legislature on Thursday. It is probably tho most formidable document which has ever been presented to that or auy other legislative body. The petition itself Is brief enongli, but tho signatures attached to it give it Its formidable character. Appended to it are about 200,000 names, and the slips pasted together make a roll of about two miles—lo,soo feet—long. To put this in shape for presentation to the Legislature baffled tho ingenuity of tho managers of the union, and outside talent was then called In. A. B. Smith, of tho Trow Directory Company, was appealed to, and he designed tho reel, which is shown by tho accompanying illustration. Tho reel is twenty-six inches in diameter, set In a tripod frame, mounted on two whocls. The reel and frame are made of black walnut, highly polished, while the wheels and trimmings are of hickeh Tho reel was made by a concern engaged in

A MONSTROUS PETITION.

the manufacture of fire apparatus. Tho strip more than fills the reel by two inches, and encroaches to that extent upon the space between the handles.