The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-10-07
SENATORS ARRANGE FOR
TOUR OF MARINE BAND
SENATOR CULBERSON AND
OTHERS SECURE PERMISSION
FROM THE PRESIDENT.
Bob TaylH of Tennessee Acted as
Spokesman for the Senatorial
DcIegation.-Per
Details for Trip.

One hot July morning when the |
thermometer in the Kiosk down on |
tine avenue" was dancing around |
100 in the shade, ten southern senar /
tors, all of them, of course, demo-
Gratis, entered the executive offices |
and asked to see the president. 1t |
was just as the great fight on re |
ciprocity" was drawing to close |
and the newspaper correspondents |
in the outer office began sharpening |
| their pencils for big story as the |
visitors were ushered into the presi- |
dents private office They we're
senators Taylor of Tennessee, Mar
| tin of Virginia, Simmons and Over
man of North Carolina, Smith of
South Carolina, Bacon of Georgia,
| Johnston of Louisiana. Clarke o.
Arkansas and Culberson of Texas
! The spokesman was Senator Bob
| Taylor of Tennessee. who getting
down to business at once said, Mr..
| President, these gentlemen and my
self have come to see you this morn
F.! ing about reciprocity. Now you'll
remember. Mr., President whecl
| you came down south a few years
ago during your presidential cam
paign, our southern folks, democrats
and all. turned out by the thousands
! to hear you speak and hollered for
you and did about everything they
could-except vote for you Now
| the other day when | was leaving
the senate, the Marine Band was
playing out in front of the capitol
and as | stopped to listen I thought
10 myself if that great band should
ever happen to get down in Tonnes
see and start to playing Dixie"
wouldn't our folks just make Rome
howl" | don't know whether you
are OF it, Mr. President, but the
United States Marine Band, am
told, has repeatedly visited every
other section of the country, north,
east and west, and We are here to
ask you to grant permission for tbs
: band to make visit to the principa
cities of the south this fall Her
n is a letter signed by each OF US re
l. auesting this permisston
IA .Gentlemen." replied the pres
i, dent, y shall be glad TO comply wi
N your request, and will at once cor
81 municate with the secretary of I'll
navy recomme en- ding that leave
= absence be granted the band for a
extended tour OF the south. thin
4 / it is an excellent Idea to give thu
: people of the south an opportunit,
a to become familiar with the music
of the Marine Band"
A few moments later, the sena-
tors departed and before night the
Associated Press representatives lii
Washington had flashed the news
to every southern city. But much
yet remained to be done before the
| tour could become possibility
! The first thing the senators learned
! was that under no circumstances
would Uncle Sam foot the bill
for the tour of the band. Within a
| few hours cities even as far west as
| Texas were keeping the wires hot
| with requests for concerts. Sena
| tors and representatives We're call
I ing on the secretary of the navy,
| then on the commandant of the
Marine Corps, and finally on Lieu
| tenant Santelmann to ascertain how
arrangements could be made for the
| band to visit their principal cities.
| It was found that if all the poinIs
were visited where concerts
We're desired the expense for the
railroad fares, hotel bills and com
! pensation for the musicians would
! run up into thousands of dollars
| Finally il was suggested that an eX
| perienced manager must be secured
to look after all arrangements for
! the tour Such manager was
/ found in w l.. Radcliffe. from whose
office in the Star building, Wash
ington. y. c.. is directed the south
ern tours of many of the foremost
concert organizations of America
| Within thirty days all details for the
| six weeks tour had been completed
and satisfactory arrangements made
/ for the Marine Band to give total
of seventy-two concerts in fifty-four
southern cities extending all the
way from the Potomac to the Rio
| Grande.
| 1t will be the greatest musical
treat the south has ever had, for the
United States Marine Band is the
greatest military and concert band
in the world, and Lieut.. Santelmann.
its famous leader, has spent many
days in arranging programs which
! will appeal to the masses as well as
the cultured musicians,
There are many things which
have contributed toward making
the United States Marine Band the
greatest band in the world In the
first place there are but few changes
in the organization from twenty 10
thirty years. Fully one-half of its
membership has been retained with
out change for more than fifteen
years The full membership of the