The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-23
COMP ETING BIDS
FOR PARK MUSIC
Subcommittee Plans to Get Pos
sible Bargains by Inviting
Proposals.

Sealed proposals are to be received
Tor supplying Richmond with park
concerts the coming summer. If rec
concentration formulated by q subcom-
inittee last night is adopted by the
Gouncil Committee on Grounds and
c culiu az KS; II Is proposed to spend So
oeU or the appropriation OF $3,925 for
music proper. the balance 10 be rcscry-
Ed for bandstands. lights and other cx-
p ,,'t1;. me three competing bands
VII pc invited to submit proposals for
furnishings twenty-five musicians 70.
Sia concerts Of two hours each ncr
M W. u.s. the he, cost for ten weeks. more
~ was suggested that some band
might come across for twelve or If
i ,een weeks for the money rather than
Inc word professional" as applying
70 INC musicians was cut out it being
stated that there are not more than
q dozen men in ItichmIond who make
Their living by music as a profess
sion, and that while in a sense any one
VINO nc. played for money might be termed
ateur, yet the term might prove mis-
leading
Unlnn or Nom Union.
Director r. II. SinSrey OF the Blues
Band. was. the first applicant heard
flc claimed TO have the only organ
lied band in Richmond at present and
We're voters and taxpayers. while al:
talon.
Major Lawrence T. Price. Of tho First
Battalion First Regiment, who has
Deen largely responsible for getting
through the music approximation. ar
sucd for rcgimcntal band which he
claimed Director Kcssnich could get to-
Sether in twcnty-f four hours Ma ior
PRICE spoke Of the need of aiding the
r resi l1s AZ this line 70 tide i, eyer
said he saw no need 10 call for bids
that the city wanted ten weeks Of
concerts. and had much to spcnd,
and II had been agreed that there
should be tWentEtirc men in the band.
III of the men he proposed 10 en-
pioy, he said, belonged TO the union
and the scale Of pay was fixed
Chairman I3atkins presented the ap-
plicaion OF Professor stein. OF the
i3ilou Orchestra Who was not present,
but who proposes the organization OF
union band II he can secure the con-
tract; Letters were read from 81.
Johns Circle Of Kings Daughters,
Ccnfedcracy; J.. Mex Iudkins. vice
president Of the civic Improvement
League. and others. indorsin~ the
Blues Band. regarded non union. for
the Job y communication from the
Federation OF Labor took no sides as
between the Is cssnch and Stein forces,
only 10 union band. The ShclterinS
Arms Hospital Board and other organ
izations Endorsed the Blnes
The contracts for music in 1906. the
last summer III which the city pro-
Nidcd free concerts, provided a band
OF eighteen men for ten weeks. SIX
concerts Il week. for total OF $3.50.
THE price Of music has risen" com.
mentcd Chairman Batkins.
The resolution specifying the num-
Der Of men and concerts was rejected
in the Board OF Aldermen. so that all
the committee has before it is the
spending of the s3,9c5 fund provided
in the budget, at the expense TT paw
ing OF alleys. The committee suggest
ed that the concerts be in Chinboraao.
Jefferson. Candles Hill. Monroe WASH
ngton and William Byrd Parks Mr.,
[cssnich said that the silk stocking"
wards had objected TO having a "rab-
BILE in Candles Hill and Monroe
parks. and that those concerts might
b.: transferred elsewhere.