Arizona republican., 1915-09-12
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LIS FEATURED ON
 ADMISSION DAY
Farewell Concert Given Op- portunity for Presenta- tion of "Custer's Last Charge" with Aid of In dians and MiIitiamen.

Covered with glory and well earned laurels. the majority of the members of the Arizona First In- fantry band returned yesterday from two weeks engagement at the San Francisco exposition. Throughout the entire engagement they were given ovationS whenever they were on the concert program and thous- ands of people from every section of the globe were given an opportunity to listen to the excellent music of this superb organization. Arizona. incidentally, was given an untold amount of favorable publicity.
 The farewell concert of the band was given on Thursday afternoon from the Fillmore band stand. This was the feature concert of Califor- mia Admission day. The concert be- gan at 2:30 and continued for two hours, while over twenty thousand people sat or stood throughout the entire concert and dema nded encCae after encore.
 In featuring this concert, the ex- position management mentioned par ticularly the descriptive piece Gus ter's Last Charge" When the big organization played this piece, be- sides having the full strength of forty pieces, the band was aided in the battle scene by ten Indians dressed in war paint. feathers and elaborate white leather costumes. These Indians belonged to the Great Northern railroad exhibit and were of the Blackfoot tribe from Mon tana. They made a most spectacular appearance on the big stage in front of the band men, dancing their war steps in perfect unison with the In dian music of the Custer piece. The Pennsylvania regiment was at the fair at the time and took active part in supplying several squads of infantry with their Springfield guns. Some of these guns were loaned to the Indians.
 Director Francis H. RedewiI was the recipient of no end of compli- ments for the excellent work of the Arizona orga niza tion. All of the San Francisco papers were loud in their praise of the band. The Examiner in announcing the California Ad- mission day program had this to say:
 Arizona, through it's band. will
 
 sion Day tomorrow. The noted az gregation of musicians. which con sists of twenty-five Americans, ten Indians and Seven Mexicans, will present Clusters Last Charge from the Fillmore street bandstand as feature of its farewell to the eXposi- ton.
 This splendid hit of descriptive rouSic will be given added attraction with the aid of ten Great Northern Blackfoot Indians and a detachment of the battalion of National Guards men from Pennsylvania. The In dians will make their way through the audience and attack the militia after doing their war dances. There will be plenty of shooting. loud wells. and the last act in the historic Custer drama will be faithfully de- picted by both music and action. The concert will be given at 2:30 and the Custer piece will be played about an hour later
 Several of the members of the band including Director Redewill will spend q few days in Los Angeles before returning home Word from Dr. RedewilI last evening regarding the reason why the band did not play at the San Diego exposition was to the effect that the American Federation of Musicians issued an order forbid ding the hand to send its union mu- sicians there. Dr. Redewill says the hand was shown every courtesy was assigned to the best band stands and the bands program published in full daily.