The San Francisco call., 1896-04-03
THREW A LOAF
IN THE TROMBA,
How Anarchists Prevented
the Band From Play
ing On.
WAS THE ROYAL MARCH.
And Gori's Followers Did Not
Relish Its Particular
Strain.
FAREWELL BANQUET TO GoRI.
Speeches Made and Toasts Drunk.
The Anarchist Leaves To-Day
for Los Angeles.

The anarchists of this City and the init
mate friends and admirers of Pietro Gori
gave grand farewell banquet to their
leader Yesterday evening at the new Tos-
cano Hotel ON Broadway. To-day he
leaves for Los Angeles, en- route for Cuba,
and the anarchists expect to feel, for
time at least. like sheep without shep-
herd.
There were over fifty persons at the pan
quet last night, about ten of them being
lady converts to the principles which Gori
expounds. There was no doubt about
those principles last night; they
were expressed a. brief intervals all
through the banquet, both in song
and speech. A brass band, stationed
in a room adjoining the banquet hall, be-
gan to play the "Marseillaise" about the
time the olives were being served, and the
keen edge of the guests appetites did not
prevent nine-tenths Of those present from
Joining Justify in the refrain "To Arms,
Citizens"
1t was not the "Marsellaise," however,
but the Royal March" of Italy that was
the sensation of the evening. The musicians
had found the "Marsellaise" and encores
to the "Marsellaise' such a complete sue
cess that they were embodened to try the
effect of the Royal March" No sooner
did the patriotic strains strike the ears of
the anarchists than there was a storm
of whistles and catcalls The band
played on, but before many seconds had
passed the players saw that the air was
dense with a shower of projectiles that
were thrown over the frail PARTITION sepa-
rating the bandroom from the banquet
ing-room. Bits of paper. bread, bananas
anything light and airy that came first to
hand was seized by the anarchists and
hurled amid shower of Kisses at the per-
formers, who had the audacity to play the
Royal March,"
The musicians escaped without any more
serious injury than the shock TO their
nerves, but a small. hard loaf entered the
mouth of the tromba and became so firmly
wedged there that the instrument was un-
fitted for further usefulness for the rest of
the evening. After the experience with
the Royal March" the tromba
band confined itself to the "Marselllaise"
and the ''Garibaidi Hymn for the end of
the evening, and as a reward there was
nothing but appreciation and applause.
The guests also sang a number OF Pietro
Gori's "Anarchici Rivoluzionari" songs,
particularly the Farewell u Lugano''
and al Primo Maggie" ('The First of
May").
Gori was. of course, the guest of honor,
and beside him sat G. b. Cevasco, proprie-
tor OF the newspaper La Voce del Popolo,
while A. Serafini, his friend ana disciple,
sat opposite, and G. Buzzoni, editor of
the Trump of Thought, sat close at hand.
The banquet was an excellent one, served
in thorough Italian style. Toward it's
close Signora A. Cafe, the lady orator of
the Italian colony, was called on for
speech The lady replied by alludlng to
what Gori had achieved during his two
months stay in this City She said he had
taught principles OF gentleness and peace,
the principles of the future Before his
coming there were many people who had
sciouslv yearning for those great princi-
pies, but Gori had shown them the way