San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-23
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 70 1889.
@. A. r. CONCERT.

The 'BOyS IN Blue TOT u ne DOyS
In Grey"
The concert at the opera house last
Saturday night for the benefit of the
Texas Confederate home, given by
the Ord post G. A. r. of this city was
greeted with an audience not at all
commensurate in numbers to the
occasion. The entertainment was a
very creditable one and should have
received a much better audience on
the score of merit, not to mention the
charitable nature of the entertain
ment.
The open air music by the band
drew q large crowd not all of whom
by any means entered the Opera
House doors.
The concert proper opened with
Reveille by six trumpeters OF the mill
itary post, followed by an appropriate
address by the general commanding
the department., Gen. d. S. Stanley.
His speech was replete with sem
sible statements and its closing
sentences are well worth repeating.
Quoting from Gen. Grants words as
he neared life's close Gen. Stanley
read Is follows: 1.-THE war has made
us a nation of great power and intel
ligence. We have but little to do to
preserve peace, happiness and pros
perity at home, and the respect Of
nations abroad. Our experience
ought to teach US the necessity Of
peace. Our power secures respect
abroad. 1 feel that we are on the eve of
a new era, when there is to be a great
harmony between the federal and
confederate. I cannot stay to be q
living witness of this prophecy, but l
feel within me it is to be SO. The uni
versal kindness expressed to me when
every day seemed to be my last
seemed the beginning to the answer
to Let us have Peace" Continu-
ing, the speaker said, ~ congratu-
late the members of E. o. G. Ord
Post, of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, of this City Of San Antonio,
under whose auspices this concert is
given tonight, that their action is in
the same vein Of patriotism as the
sentiments of the great man I have
Just read to you. And now, as COM
meneed by quoting scripture, l will
give YOU q few texts to carry home
with you. I think that probably this
is a good time to read texts from the
scriptures, because there are good
many members of the San Antonio
club here tonight, or there ought to
be, and they do not often 60 to church
to hear the scriptures read, and they
cannot read them at home, as they are
always in hurry to 60 to the club.
1t is said that they do sometimes
peruse book with scriptural name,
viz: The History of the Four Kings,
and they make copious extracts from
it, sometimes to their profit, oftener
to their loss. These texts, however,
are not taken from The History of the
Four Kings"
With the reading of several texts of
scripture the address concluded.
Solo violin Mrs. E. Rlsche, string
sixtette accompaniment; first violin,
Prof. Max Gipprich; second violin,
Prof. H. Miller; viola, Mr.. Eugene
Schoch: Miss Velasca Schramm, cello;
cello Gilbert Schramm; contra basso,
w. Muth. A very perfect and spirit
ed rendition of Bocheune's Minuet,
and Gillett's Lion du Bal.
The programme as published was
not fully carried out. Mrs. Bessie
Bell Brown was not in the city and
Mrs. McLeary, Mrs. Cadwallader and
Mrs. Weatherbe as vocalists did not
appear leaving the vocal honors to be
divided between Mrs. Workman and
Mr.. McMinn.
The choruses of the Beethoven,
and the San Antonio M8nnerchor So
cieties were we'll received. The min
strel sketch was well staged. The
leading features of the evening were
the violin solo by Mrs. Rische and a..
compartment of the sixtette club;
the violin duet and Mrs. Workman's
singing. These were marked by SUI
perior excellence and would have
attractad attention ON anY stage.