The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-15
BANDMEN FAIL TO REPORT FOR
 MILITARY DUTY
Members of Olympic Band Subject to Military Arrest
 For Non-Appearance.

Because of their failure to report for duty at New Haven at o'clock this afternoon several members of the Olympic band of Bridgeport will prob ably be put under military arrest to- morrow. Some members Of the band enlisted in the Tenth Militia Field Ar tillery to join the mobilization Of the militia forces as mounted band. The band with a number of hired musi- clans went to New Haven yesterday afternoon and played for Battery c from Edwards hall at Yale college to the New Haven depot where they en- trained.
 This afternoon portion of the band Battery c, the remaining Yale battery. entrained for Tobyhanna, Pa., where they are to spend several months in training. The band was to have marched out of Bridgeport this fore- noon in time to catch the 12:1S train for New Haven. As the Olympic band is the only organization in Bridgeport ordered to join the militia mobfliza- ton, members of the Bridgeport Mu- sical Union felt proud of this fact and desired to give them fine send off.
 Other cities and towns in the state, all of which are much smaller than Bridgeport, have been sending away their citizen soldiers in a burst of glory and have been raising funds to care for their dependents while they are away.
 Bridgeport. Musical Union, when he learned, Thursday, that members of the Olympic band were to go with the opff reerfv~ kAI4 iv,rx and sending messages to other bands and at once began a plan to have a mammoth band of musicians escort the Olympic on their way to join the colors.
 Through failure to acquaint, MT. Ec- cles with the arrangements for the departure of the band, he was unable to make the proper arrangements. All Bridgeport bands had volunteered to act as escort. Musicians in all the theatre orchestras had also volun- teered. It was expected the band would receive an ovation but through mismanagem6nt nothing happened
 The bandmen paid their own rail- road fare to New Haven yesterday to take part in the parade although they understood that they were to be paid for the transportation and also at union rates. $4 each. for a parade out of town. Some of the members say they have since discovered that Col Danforth expected the band to parade without compensation.
 These members of the Olympic band left Bridgeport today for New Haven to join Battery c, the last re- maining unit of the Connecticut Mi- litia Field Artillery: John Aurio. bass: Lewis Standish, French horn; Mich- sae1 Parkieciwizi. and Harry c. Ed monds, trombones; Emil Lundine, Maurice B. Swanson, Frank Samnis and George Ratzenberger, clarionets; William ,Ratzenbergers baritone, and Frank Zeit, drums. A number of other musicians from the Olympic band who signed enlistment papers at New Haven deeided not to go. Theu probably Will be placed under military arrest and sent after the other musi- clans, unless they at once get in com-N mupication with Lieut.-Col. Danforth.
 A. s. Leo of Stamford, principal mu- dcian with the battery, has been chosen leader of the band and Will ant leader. Alfred Sykes, leader of
 
 manager of the band, will not enlist with them. There was much dis appointment because 1t was expected the band would parade to the rail- road station here under a big escort of musicians. t~ tu
 A number of the members of the Wheeler & Wilson and the Coast Ar tillery bands came to i, the Musical union rooms this noon prepared to- play for escort duty and were disap- pointed when they found the band not prepared to march to the rail- road station. The ~> bandmen who went to New Haven wore their regus lar band uniforms to be exchanged later for the military uniforms.
 The departure of this number of musicians means the disbanding of the Olympic band here with the loss to it's members of the park concerts a Ssi puod Inv tho pa rIx hoard sF.