The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-08
Buffalo, October 4.

Editor of The Messenger:
One Of the most notable perform
ances at the Pan-American exposition
last week was the meeting of the Welsh
Eisteddfod. Several speeches were
made in Welsh. and prizes amounting
to s., 900 were given away to rival solo,
lists and choruses. This musical con-
test was witnessed in the Temple Of
Music by an immene audience. Four
o'clock in the afternoon after the first
contest had closed the presiding officer
arose and said: MY friends two weeks
ago in this building the president OF
the United States was hot by an assas-
sin. Since then the assassin's bullet
has proved fatal. 1 wish this audience
to rise and all who can do so to join
in singing h ancient Welsh requiem
for the dead"
In an instant the vast throng was on
it's feet n the wild, weird and marvel
ously beautiful coronach that has been
Ing in Wales for hundreds of years re-
echoed drought the building. To such
music / had before listened.
There was an accompaniment to the
rich. sweet voices of the thousands of
Welshmen and their descendants pres
tlll. 1IC NfClSI ldlSu dSS, WHICH nlS
the reputation of being exceedingly
harsh, sounded peculiarly soft as this
funeral dirge was sung in that tongue.
The minor chords succeeded each otn-
er in a wailing large movement which
charmed every one present and brought
tears TO every eye.
It is a peculiar fact that the people
up here are trying to take the credit
of warding off the third shot from the
nrnci6nnt Of tho TTnifn1 StntnC from
James B. Parker, Atlanta, Ga, who ac-
cording to all those present on the day
of the shooting and according to every
paper published in the city of Buffalo,
first seized Colgosz by the neck, struck
him on the nose and prevented the
third shot from entering the body Of
the president. Until the president died
and these political tricksters found out
that the president himself could no
longer be a witness, nobody disputed
the fact that James b. Parker was the
one man who had the presence of mind
to promptly interfere. MeSsrs. Ireland,
Gallagher, Foster and other secret SER
vice men, private O'Brien and several
uniformed green-horns are claiming the
entire credit of overpowering Czolgosz.
The contradicting testimony given in
CZolgoSZ'S trial is enough to con-
vince an astute lawyer of the sense
lessnesS of their claim. However, Parker
VINO is mOdeStly gong his own way ana
who has not missed a single day from
his duties at the restaurant a y he
does not intend to allow this state of
things to last. He will secure the sig
natures of several eye witnesses, who
are not known to the secret service MEN
nor to the various private guards" WHO
should ave been on the alert, but were
not according to all authentic testimo-
ny, and let the president and the coun-
try at large know hat it is true he
took the place that should have been
occupied on this notable occasion by
one of the many secret service men de-
tailed here to protect the president of
the United States. I am glad that the in
defatigable n incorruptible Theodore
Roosevelt is going to overhaul the Sc
cret service of the United States. It
certainly seems to be either thoroughly
corrupt or thoroughly inefficient.
Yesterday fighting General Joe
Wheeler and Captain Richmond Pear
son Hobson attended Bostock's Wild
Animal Show Inc the Indian Congress
at the Pan-American exposition. They
were delighted with both performances.
Old Chief Geronimo initiated them into
the Apache Indian tribe, made them
chiefs and gave them these names:
Among the Indians Genera Joe Wheel
er is Chief Much Dare Devil. Captain
Hobson is Chief Blows-them-up. The
Indian equivalent I cannot spell or pro-
nounce. CHAS. EDWARD LLOYD.