Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-17
Some More Of thai Musical Hash.

Prof. r. 3. Hall of the Waterville
, Military Band, is beginning to regaro
he Portland incident" as anything
but n joke and feels that the matter
rad better be understood at once, AT
least as far as the Watervlle Band
boys are concerned. The article in the
Journal copied from the Portland
Argus, yesterday morning, did not at
al please the professor and to the
Journal man he has the following to
say:
In my Interview with the evening
paper ! did not say that we rested on
Bracket street. | said it was on Pine
near Bracket street: | think it is Pine
street that | mean, it was the street
that runs across Bracket anyway. The
Portland papers say that we did not
rest there only half an hour; that may
be, but | should be willing to bet that
ii was more than an hour and Il half
but that don't matter / did not see
one of our boys go into that bakery and
don't think one of them did, they all
tell me that they did not but / do know
this. that only four or five of the band
left their places in the ranks to go after
anything to eat or after anything else
"One of the boys went to the bakery
and looked in and when he saw that a
lot of the Portland firemen were in
there and apparently helping them
selves he went to u grocery store that
| should say was nearly opposite to
the bakery, and the rest OF our boys.
that had fallen out, went with him. In
this grocery store an elderly man was
tending out and | think he will re-
member that several of the band boys
went in there for turn-overs and cakes
and think one man had a piece of pie
have the impression that there was a
woman in the store also. | know that
not one of our boys got anything that
he did not pay for.
Il have written the deputy marshal
of Portland and stated our position in
the matter and asked him to see TO it,
If he would, that we are set right in
the matter. Not more than four or
five of our men, five at the outside
left the ranks during that rest.
This story from the Argus makes
me out liar and | don't like it, We
had no need to steal our food. We
could pay for what we wanted. We
"NiN w fIiih5 ~ pay ibt w nat we Ept.
That is all / have got to say about -. :"
Inquiry among other band bows
shows that all understand that there
We're but four or five of the men that
left the ranks during the rest spoken
of and those who did leave the ranks
say that they went to the grocery
store for what they got. The state
ment of the member of the band that
went to the bakery and looked in and
then went to the grocery store is
given below and is as follows:
Mrs A. S. Pinkham of Augusta. one
of the members of the Wateryille
band, when asked regarding the mat
ter by Journal reporter, Friday
said: II am very glad you came to me
on this matter. Having heard the
allegations against members Of the
Waterville band on the fourth of July
in Portland, | had in mind to publish
something, IL the opportunity pre-
scented itself, to exonorate them as
was in way to know that none Of the
members were in the Portland bakery
at the time Of the piliage, excepting
Mr.. Lowell of Richmond and myself
We had seen members of various
organizations--I don't recall which
ones they were-coming from the di-