Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-13
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In the wee sma' hours OF yester
morn company Of musicians connect
cd with one Of the popular city bands
were returning from serenade. They
had been we'll entertained and were in
happy frame of mind. As they
passed by jewelry store on east Balti-
more street they noticed smoke issu-
;no from n door. AT once their
lamentations were Mortified at the
Thought of terrible fate being
in store for some unsuspeeting
victims with no one nigh to aid but
Themselves AID their musical apparatus.
So they at once set to work with en-
tbusiasm and yigor. Some rushed to
the door and broke it open, while the
others made their instruments hum.
They played no particular piece, but
each one We'd with the other to prove
his respective instrument capable OF the
Ioudcst music, and this was more sue
cessful in arousing the neighborhood
and bringing the policemen and lire
men promptly than the most neatly
executed symphony could have been:
As soon as the door was opened
huge volume Of smoke rushed
from its confinement. Some OF the
daring musicians. nothing abashed,
shouted aloud through the binding
smoke, and aided these admomtlons
with instrumental variation. Very soon
crowds came trooping down the stairs
in great alarm and bewilderment, as
might naturally be expected from the
nature of their awakening. The musl-
clans claimed that there were twenty,
but their heated imagination probably
doubled the number. They had not ia
ken much time to dress. Some had
red Jackets, blue josies, and various other
manner ofapparel not generally worn by
American people. One OF the musicians,
as he saw them approach, declaredthey
were Indians his comrade, on the other
hand, claimed that they were China
men when they began to talk, how
ever. a third musician, who seemed to
be familiar with their lingo, explained
that they we're Poles. But the musi-
clans had just enough ice cream in them
to have no fear, be these people what
they might. They rushed through the
house, alarming all the inmates, and
finally found their way to room in the
rear of the house where the cause of the
fire was discovered. In the middle Of the
room was red-hot stove. which had set
fire to some tobacco which was lying
about. The inmates. it seems. were
cigar-makers. The fire was soon put
out, and the amateur iiremcn recon-
pensed themselves with the ready-madc
cigars which they found lying around.
Their work had made them thirsty, and
they wendell their way to the nearest
saloon. where they gently intimated to
the lady, whom they awoke with the
ard of their horns, that the house was
on fire. She at once let them in.
when they informed her that though
there was no more fire. but that their
threats were parched, and requested
her to furnish the wherewith to mOisten
them. She did so, and upon their
maintaining that they had saved her
house from destruction and herself from
terrible fate, allowed them to 90 scot
free from any charges for, or on account
of, the liquors they had drunk. The
damage by the fire was very slight.