Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-04
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KO THE SgoEOEsTER DALEY EPE
The Boston Jubilee.
Another CrOwd-Lust Day but One
Compliment to Horace Greeley.

COLISEUM, BosToS, July 3-The last day
but one OF the great jubilee witnesses another
great audience. There were probably 10000
persons i'll the coliseum. The foreign bands
never played better, Strauss and Madame Lieut.
ner were unusually brilliant, and even the che
rus did fairly.
Gilmore opened the concert with the " We'd
ding March, which was well given by the or
chestra. When Horace Greeley came in there
was great excitement in the audience, every
body standing on his seat and many cheering.
The orchestra and cholIs gave the Star
Spangled Banner" as he was ushercd to his
seat as a distinguished guest.
The band playing was really splendid, the
Germans giving " Beethoven's Overture to Egg
mont" and closing fine performance with
the Star Spanglel Banner" The French band
was perfection itself. They gave Wagner's
andants and wedding marchfrom "Lohengrin "
and many other pieces, closing with the " Mar
cellaiSe.' The English band moved the audience
to the highest pitch of excitement by their per
formance of the silver trumpet's Professional
March as played at st. Peters at Easter. The
Irish band also played acceptably.
Strauss give his famous ''Wine, Women and
Song" waltz, and for the encore his stirring
'kreus-f del polka" PesChka. Leutner was
more brilliant than ever in her "Venzam
waltz" and on the imperative encore came
smilingly back and sang again. Mrs. II. III.
Smith of Boston appeared as a soloist to-day,
gaining an encore for her singing OF "Gratias
AgimuS Iibi' by Gugliehni, with clarinet ac-
compartment by Thomas Ryan.
The great feature of the day, not musical, was
the appearance of Horace Greeley, who previous
I'm txrt-s tod gl,..r.
was handsomely greeted, and finally spoke as
follows:
GREELEY's SPEECH
1t has fallen TO my lot recently, as you are
doubtless aware, TO be placed before the public
in somewhat conspicuous attitude. That is TO
say, we who work for the press, and live by the
press, work and live in the public sight
and under public criticism to greater
degree than most people, and yet, |
think my position is Il little more expos ed to
caYil and diSparagement than that of most of
you. 1t has been said of me- do
not deprecate - would not disarm
crticism-but it has been said of me,
and take as great testimonial and compliment
that while in the business that | have pursued
through life have showed myself very fairly
competent, very fairly diligent and successful:
yet if were, or should be, invited into another
line of life, into q different land ii you please
higher) responsibilities, should be found I'M
equal to them. Well, ladies and gentlemen, |
will say that | cannot well expect 10 have
anything better said OF me by my friends, much
less by my adyersarieS, than to say that | had
done well that which have had 10 do. 1t would
| seem II tOlerable safe deduction that one who
has been doing well all his life that which he
has tried TO do, may possibly, may reasonably
be expected to do well something else if he were
TO undertake it. Some of my critics observe
that, though for myself personally am toler
able honest aud respectable person, Yet my
associates are net very desirable - au un-
| worthy set am sorry for that; because
| my associates through life have been
mainly the gentlemen and ladies | see about
me, whose acquaintance | made while engaged
| in the matter of preparing information for the
public press; and if any associations were disa
| greeable, can hardly hope TO find better in the
| future lie than those have had. | trust that
this was not meant to say that such gentlemen
and ladies as | see before me have not, on the
| whole, performed their work and discharged
their responsibilities with reasonable fidelity,
| with human error, with human imperfectOns,
with human faults, doubtless; but still with
| fair, reasonable human fidelity, at all events.
| Ladies and gentlemen, with such as You my
| fortune has been associated through life; with
such as you it will be associated to the end; and
/ if the world shall say of me in the end: "He
was good printer, respectable publisher and
| an honest editor" all my ambition will be salts
| fed. Ladies and gentlemen, will tax your at
| tention no longer.
Mr., Greeley'S characteristic speech to his as
sociates of the press was received with much
laughter and applause He was then conducted
| to the reception room, where large num-
Der Of politicians and a few ladies
| sought an introduction. On entering the
vast auditorium, considerable enthusiasm was
manifested, the people in the parquette
| generally rising to greet him, and those in the
balconies waving their handkerchiefS in recog-
| milton. Cheers we've given by the more excita-
BILE, and a few minutes elapsed before the pro.
| gramme could he resumed.
The Gard Repubhcane band will celebrate
the fourth of July by dance at Dedham, on
the invitation of Lonce Seehea, French resi-
| dent. They will give six concerts in New
York, three in Philadelphia, and will possibly
visit Chicago before returning to Europe.