The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-17
TWO OLD PROGRAMS.


and three floods, and yet had been pre-
served in a scrap book for these 81
years, my mind was filled with many
questions, and | could not help contrast
ing that time with the days of 1898.
The concert to which this program calls
attention was one given Dec. II, 1867,
for the benefit of the Congregational s.
s., in MOOdy's Hall. This building was
erected by VIM. G. Moody. who con-
Quoted brokerage and commission
business here, in the early eos, but was
no relative of the ex-governor of our
state. The hall stood on the property
directly east of the Columbia Hotel, and
was the gathering place for all enter
tainments at that time. Its career
closed at the time of the big fire of 1879,
which burned the Umatilla House.
The admission to this concert was 81,
an uhheard of price, for this end OF the
century for who would dare ask such
an amount at an amateur performance
now? Eeither the people of those days
had great cheek, or else had more
money, or else gave a much finer enter
tainment than we can give to-
day.
AS our old world has swung around
the sun, these many years, it has grown
into the habit of later hours. for what
performance commencing "promptly at
Z o'clock" would find more than few
boys in the front seat, at the first rising
of the curtain?
The orchestra for the occasion consist
ed of Messrs Dehm, ,Bettignen, Schultz and
Ross; three of whom have been called
to their long rest. A quartet faith,
hope and charity'' was sung by Mrs.
Hogue, now living in Portland, and the
mother of Harry A. Hogue, Miss Pent-
land, now Mrs. s. l.. Brooks, Messrs.
Brooks and Hand. 1t seems, in looking
over old programs, as if no concert were
complete without the voice of VIM. VI.
Hand, who was an editor of the Noun
taineer, before it was merged into The
Times, edited by John Michel, and be-
came the Times-Mountaineer of today.
Mr.. Hands ponderous, hearty, infect
i've laugh, will be remembered by the
writer, and by many always, though |
do not remember his singing. Tableau
No. = was of peculiar interest to me, III
that one of the actors was my sainted
brother ALLY" Wilson, whose drown
ing, near Mill Creek bridge, cast a gloom
over our little city. \ solo Then
You'll Remember Me- was sung 10y Mrs.
A. W. Buchanan, whose husband once
owned the house now occupied by Mrs.
Thomas Lang.
A tableau which will be remembered
for its beauty, and because the two par
ticipants are now cut down by the
Scythe of Time, was one in which Mr..
Il. NJ DOnnell, once member OF the
legislature, stood with long white
beard, representing the Old Year, hold
ing scythe, while the New Year was
personifed by that blue eyed, light
haired boy, his son Laurie, who entered
the scene on velocipede, a very new
invention at that time. Another
tableau which will be recalled by some
OF my readers, was one, where Gov.
Moody was powdered, and dressed to
represent "JOhn Anderson" while Miss
Annie Puck sang John Anderson my
10 John" in the sweet voice that will
long be remembered in The Dalles
Among the older names, | recognize
those of Mrs. Comfort, now living in
Arlington and J. d. Robb, then prin-
cipal of our public school, and now
teacher in the Reform school. near
Salem.
Preserved for l9 years, in a sewing
machine drawer, | found a program of
the first Old Folks concert ever given in
The Dalles, dated Jan. 81, 1879 The
program, which began, "To all We
peoples within We settlement OF Ye
Dalles, and all We country round about,
and We region beyond, greeting should
be reprinted, but l have space for only
few of the foot notes, which | believe
were largely written by Dell Hinderman,
then in the employ of the q A and