The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-08-28
IdltOr Of the BULLETIN.


Ana so the old Cairo Brass Band IS to
be re-organized! Well, well the days
when that old band first organized seems
like a dream, they are 50 long ago. Old
gray-beards the boys are now, and
bat a handful lett OF the sturdy twelve
that startled the frogs and waited away
the friendly mosquetoes with every toot
of their horns-ia those early day. when
a brass horn was Il novelty and a band
only thought Of in connection with a
travelling show. Let's see: there arc
Fred" Bross, Bernard Smyth, Henry
GOssman, Nose HaFrell and Perry Pow
ers, are all, think, that are now here.
and where in the wide, wide world are
the balance; Some, | know, are gone 10
that land whore that oldes, of old horn
blowers, Gabriel. is their teacher: and
there too, are two Of their other teachers,
Hunter and klngslieid. Hunter, the
highly strung, nervous sensitive chap,
you all remember, you "oll fragment
Of 80 and go, know. And hard YOU
bowed and bowed till-no, and he well
some how, he dieI, poor fellow:
but maybe it wasn't your music killed
him, after all, though recollect thinking
1t might have done so, at the time, Ana
poor kingsiicld's wife died, whether ont
OF sympathy for her husbands
5lilcrlngs or not, DOME know. but one
thing do know, and that Is she escap-
ed something when she escaped hearing
her own dirgc. Do you recOlgct that
dirgc, you old "Remnants - How some
Of you got out Of time and some out Of
tune, and how one ambitious blower
bIowed wall more hcart-rending than
any funeral note. all by himooit. And
how some OF you heard some Of the
others OF you, and suffered as only rasped
nerves can suffer; and others Of you
didn't know much about it, and were
greatly affected by the music and
the sOlcmni!Y il added to the occasion I:
We have grown in grace since then, and
can make and know good music now.
Nor wa, it long Til you "boy," charmed
the ears and hearts Of We then rustic
people. 1t could not have been, il seems
to Inc now, bat a few month. after you
We're organized till you were called
upon to oiliciate as a band. ana surely
nothing ever was more swcctly olemn
than your rendering of Thou Ant Gone
From My Gaze not a dry eye IN lbat
crowd, tell you, and | think it was
more tribute 10 your performance than
of sorrow 10 the departed. DO you re-
member that funeral, "boys!' 1t was
over the remains of Mr.. Lut2, our first
jewclcr, on Ninth street; an
old citizen, and one whose
widow is his widow yet. I
think you will all be glad to know what
] learned, recently of her and her work.
She is now located in st. Louis, Is
physician of the eclectic
school of medicine, and stands high
among her fellow practitioners. IntelH.
gent, industrious and ambitions. She
has climbed the rugged highth unaided
and alone, and is, to-day, credit
10 the women OF our day and of our
city, andis a splendid specimen of what
can be made Of the material furnished
here, in the earlier days of our existance.
And to know Of what stuff were made
our Old-time men Of Cairo, we have but
to look upon the remnant of the old
time brass band, than whom you can
find no better hearts and fewer bigger
brains, Does the present day with all
the advance and improvement give
promise of anything better than we haye
in music, or in anything else?
Not even in morals, am afraid, rohgh
as we were want TO be considered. I
,LoE< NA,
CAIRO, August 18th, 1877.