The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
WHAT A JAMI
Marshall Benefit Band Concert
a Pleasing Success.

Thirty extra street cars making
round trips as fast as possible, a string
of vehicles a block long waiting
chance to enter the carriage gate, the
seats all filed and hundreds standing.
round after round of applause. a veter-
an bandmaster happy over the unani-
nous vote of appreciation rendered
him; such is the story of the John Mar
shall benefit at Garfield park last night
The crowd at the park is estimated at
5000 people There may have been
more but the matter of numbers is not
important. The park was crowded. Us
ually there are perhaps thousand peo-
pie at the regular concerts There were
three, if not four times as many people
there last night than is usual and the
increase was due to the fact that the
people of Topeka were expected to
show their appreciation of the band
leader and they did. There was no ex-
ira attraction except the Modocs- No
balloon ascension or high dive, just the
name of Marshall so we'll known in To-
pelxa.
The sale of tickets will probably net
Marshall the next sum of $500. There
were zoos admission tickets sold at the
park and hundreds were sold in ad-
vance The amount of money received
by the beneficiary of the concert is but
a mere bagatelle compared with the tri-
butte and silent vote of appreciation
that was shown. Those who attended
the concert paid ten and twenty times
for carriages and other necessaries
what they paid for tickets They were
glad to pay ten times the price of the
admission tickets in order to be there
and aid in evidencing the esteem IN
which John Marshall is held by the
public.
The audience was enthusiastic, and
with reason, for the band stand was
filled with musicians, at least half a
hundred, and the famous warrior band
of Modocs were waiting in the shadow
to spell the band musicians awhile So
when Marshalls baton fell as the sig
nal for the opening notes of Olympia
written by himself, the crowd was
ready with applause Deserved aR-
plause, too, for when Marshall writes a
march he writes a good one or he
doesn't write it at all and Olympia
and his others, deserve to be popular.
Then the band played that old standby
that never grows old, the overture
William Tell and for an encore re-
sponded with La Paloma" which Ed
Howe claims is the greatest piece of
music ever manufactured A year ago
Ed Howe and Marshall and his band
gave a concert in Atchison and Howe
refused to let the band leave town un-
til they had played La Paloma" Is
times.
May Flowers, .'The Wedding of the
Winds" Tone Pictures Of the North
and SOulnr RUSSIAN Carnage song
Knoxville KooElets," and another of
MarshalPs compositions, t"The Topeka
Elks'' march, his latest, made up the
regular programme, but the band had
to play THE Burgomaster," "A Trip
to the Country and Descriptive Fan
tasia'' in addition before the audience
was satisfied.
The Modocs divided the programme.
They opened their part of the pro-
gramme with Priscilla and they
sang it with a dash and vim that
Then the old-time favorite, Whats
All This Noise About" solo by Harry
VanOrsda1, completed the singers
share of the entertainment, but the
crowd was not satisfied until NJ G.
Holman sang the solo to The Boys IL
Blue" and the band of braves behind
him Joined in the stirring chorus.
There were three very happy m en-
last night besides the bandmaster.
Russell, who worked early and late to
make the concert success, never
dreamed that it would be the ovation
it was At the close of the concert
John Marshall lighted a cigar and
smoked. He never says very much.
He is English, and does whole lot OF
thinking. He finished that cigar after
doing the imitation of q wood stove.
and started a new one That was half
smoked up when he looked at John
Sargent, who is the official bill poster
of the band John Sargent then looked
at John Marshall.
We'll, John?" enquired John Sar-
gent
There was a pause of a few minutes
Great crowd, wasn't it, John?' said
John Marshall; and then he smoked.