The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-30
A Glee Clubs Experience.

lie came to the Bulletin Office ard ask
cd Us it VIC wanted good item from
Manayunk. We said we did. lie said
he had one Then he told ua this story,
which we give for what It 10 worth;
Nobody knows precisely whose fault It
was but it has caused good deal Of un.
pleasant feeling. The club had just been
organized and it had met to have its Grst
rehearsal. 1t began by trying to sing the
"lalloluiah chorus" Now, know, Of
coursc, some Of the members couldn't sing
much, and when the crowd i,st started in
the chorus maybe they did make a kind
Of uproarous noise, but nobody will make
me believe that it sounded like tho sbrcls
and groans Of the dying However, that
was what tho people outside said, and it
happened just about the time that tho
club begcn to sing that Mrs. Dougherty,
who lives upon the frs: floor OF the blild.
ing, opened her window to let out the
smoke that was caused by tho chimney
not drawing. Several passors.by thought
tho house was on fire, and when the club
began to howl thoy let on that they
thought the family in the second story
was being burned limb from limb 10y the
cruel flames, and were emitting dandish
and hcart-ycnding yoll1 in iho midst Of
their cruel aufferngs. Anyway some.
body hallocd "Fire ~ aud then somebody
else staIfel the alarm boil, Gua ia a
couple Of minutes or 80 tho Ere company
came, tearing around the corner, wild
with anxiety to eztingUi.h the couhagr9
ton. And the club, all the time perfect
/ y unconscious Of the excitomeut, kept
right on up stairs there screeching ont
tho "ilallelujah Chorus" 81 that by the
time the time the frcmcn 90, The hose
screwed on the rlug thero were aboli
eight hundred people in front Of iho
house demanding to know why somebody
didn't get q ladder and rescue those
wretched victims from an awful death
and the foreman c. the company At last
/ got so perfectly frantic about the agon
izing screams Of these roasting people
that he smashed in the front door with
an axe, and, rushing in, carried Mrs
Doughcrty down the steps, she screaming
all the time, with the impression that ,h'
foreman was some kind of q robber who
had come to snatch her away from he
homo and fly with hor to some damI
cave in the mountain, so that no couC
marry ho7 And when the rrc.ilcn, o.
iho cluh came TO tho window t, son wha
wss 'he matter he had hardly pot h. uos
a1aiu-t tho glass before = fireman ur or
ladder smas she'd the sssh with q .rsnnc
an4 Ntuel in woineh stream. whi,i
Washed the president across The room au,
caused the other members to howl loudc
taan ever So for a while, it was might
exciting and at last, vixen tho member
came crowding down the stairs, we
through, but not bit acorohed, and ma,
as fury, the nows gradually spread throug
the crowd that there wasn't 2 fire afte
all Then after bit thcy -'ut Of s'cal
on 'r' engine and rolled NJ their lhing
and aent homo, all except the foreman
who lodged down tho alley and took ,
the open country. closely pufslel by Nh.
Doughorty with n club and bent as ah
, Informed the bystandois, upon killing tn
man who dragged her from her home m
huagci her while he carried her aovu "a
steps Philadelphia BuRetia.