The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-10
War and Music in Albany.

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War and Music In Albany.
In the first week of October the An
Gent and Honorable Artillery Company
will be modified. It will move upon
Albany from Faneuil Hall in forage
wagons and buffet trains, with full
load of light and heavy artillery. At
the same time portion Of the forces will
proceed by water from this port. This
Hudson feet will consist Of first-class
bottle ships armored boozers and thirst
destroyers. The land division will &C.
cupy Fortress Ten Eyck. An assault
upon Fort Orange will be made by the
combined divisions. The defendants OF
the heroic garrison are braced to the
uttermost and ready to fight to their
last tank. Already the breeze brings to
our ears the heroic chant:
Though ye swear by the nose Of BAccHus.
Your lord Of the rosy light
Though ye bring the breath OF the liquid death.
And the serpents bitter bite
Yet VIC defy you. Boston.
And your BRLIONA's bunch
TT. you night with dynamite.
But not Fort Orange punch"
The engagement will be memorable,
but the issue cannot be doubtful. Pitied
by all the brave, Fort Orange must fall.
Another war than that engrosses the
minds Of military historians. The An
clients are to be accompanied or pre-
ceded by the Waltham Watch Band, Of
which only two players are union men.
A member Of the Albany Musicians
Union says
If the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com.
pany comes TO Albany with . non union band a
hot time may be expected. There Is bound to be
clash at Fortress Ten Eyck between the union and
non union musicians. II the Bostonians carry out
their program and bring the non union musicians
they will get cold reception In Albany
OF course a hotter than hot time may
be expected, music or no music, union
or no union. But can the union mu-
sicians afford to take an unsympathetic
position with reference to those Bay
State thunderbolts of war? The eyes
Of nations will stare at Albany next
October Foreign military and naval
attaches, sociologists and alcohologists
will be on the scene. Can Albany per-
nit even little speck upon that garnered
fruit Of war?
The Ancients need no music, to be sure.
Heroic memories sound all taps in
their bosoms. The conquerors of Lon
don, the stormers of the Bastile, the
men who have filled the world with their
glory and the ocean with their empties,
they need no Tyrtean strain, no Dorian
mood. AS Mr.. SwINBURNR has sung them
in his grand ode, Half Seas Over:
BY the breakfasts that heightened to iuloheons.
And the nect Of the cocktails anoat:
BY the tuns and the tubs and the puncheons.
That are spilled down your terrible throat
BY the steady and staring stern eyeballs,
Though the belt be nigh ready to burst.
wherewith yc hunt hot for the highballs.
sing you, stark sooners OF Thirst"
The great lyrist and their own music,
seething in them, are enough for those
prime and heady spirits. But it can do
no harm to make a respectful remon-
STRANGE to the authorities who have
directed the president of the Albany
Musicians Union to notify oil union
musicians in that region mot to be
identified in any manner with any public
or private function to be given by the
A. d H. A. Co." The offence Of the
Waltham watchmen seems to be essen
TALLY technical. All Of their band ex-
cept two have been suspended "for nom
payment Of the fine imposed for violating
the rules Of the national organization
at Boston some months ago. Just as
soon as the Ancients get their indemnity
from the Fort Orangemen that fine will
be paid. The Ancients are themselves q
union. For years they have done noble
work in pursuit Of their grand aim OF
shortening the supply and frightening
the price Of strong drink.
Will the Albany musicians try to
hamper or injure this great, this un-
rivaled temperance union?