Connecticut western news., 1892-09-29
eANDMAsTER GILMoRE's DEATH.


 The Famous Musical Director Had Ao-
 quired an International Reputation.
 ST LOUIS, Sept. 26.-The body of Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, the famous musical di- rector and bandmaster, who died at his hotel in this city Saturday evening while his band was playing at the exposition, has been sent to New York by the Big Four route. The directors of the exposition and the band escorted the hearse to the station.
 It was only few hours before his death, which was caused by heart disease due to indigestion, that Mir. Gilmore learned that he had been appointed musical director of the Worlds fair.
 With Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore's death the prince of American bandmasters and & world famed musical conductor passes away. Every man, woman and child in this country knew of him by reputation, and thousands on both sides of the Allan tic have watched him as he drew with his baton the sweetest, grandest, and when oc- casion required it the most terrific strains from the hundreds of instruments which he controlled.
 Born in County Galway on Christmas day. 1899, Gilmore came to Boston when a lad.of sixteen. He had already become 8 brilliant performer on the cornet.
 He became the leader of band in 1851 and before the rebellion had, with his famous Boston brigade, Suffolk and Salem organizations, given no less than 1000 con certs He and his musicians were in great demand during the fifties at national events lnd played at the inaugurations of Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln.
 He Gave Them Yankee Doodle"
 It was at the famous Charleston conven- tion, which followed the outbreak of the civil war, that just after adjournment cries went up for a war hymn. "Give us The Marseillaiser" shouted man in sten- torian voice Gilmore's loyalty to the Stars and Stripes caused him to wave his baton and cry, "Give them Yankee Doodle, boysr Amid yells of derision from sym pathizers with the Confederate cause the band played the tune through. It was fol lowed by Hail Columbia" and ''The Star Spangled Banner" Gilmore was roundly denounced by members of the convention, but he got away from Charleston in safety, returned to Boston, and inducing every one of his musicians to go with him joined the Second Massachusetts volunteers.
 With that regiment Gilmore participated in the Burnside expedition to the Caro- inas. Later on General N. P. Banks placed him in charge of all the bands of music in the Department of the Gulf. On March 4 1864, at the inauguration of Michael Hahn as governor of Louisiana, Gilmore gave a grand national concert, in which he induced 10000 public school children whom he had trained in national airs to take part. At the close of the war Gilmore returned to Boston and resumed his musical voca tion there. He organized the mammoth peace jubilees of 1889 and 1872, in which over 10000 people and 2,OO0 musicians, to- gether with the best bands of Europe, par ticipated. To accommodate these stupen- dous festivals buildings holding 30,0o0 and 5000 people respectively were erected at an expense of nearly sl,000,000 MT Gil, more's services were rewarded by the com mittee and citizens of Boston with presents amounting to over s50,000.
 He Toured the World.
 In 1878 Gilmore went to New York and became bandmaster of the Twenty second | regiment. During the succeeding three | years he gave over 600 concerts in Gilmore's (now Madison Square) Garden. In 1875 GAlnnxv end his band Mure one Of ths ct