Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1919 — WANTED HIS “MONEYS PACK” [ARTICLE]

WANTED HIS “MONEYS PACK”

German Drummer Balked When He Started to Croea Old Bridge at Troy, New York. Albany, N. Y.. has a historical museum that contains, among other treasure, a bass drum dating back to the great influx of German Immigrants which followed the revolution of 1848 In Germany, says Cartoons. This Instrument waa owned by the first of the wandering “hungry five” bands which appeared In this country after Marx and Engels, the Industrious collaborators, wrote the communist manifesto. The bass drummer was called “Thick Head” Schulte. According to a music teacher now living In Albany, who heard Schultx perform In the ’Bos, he Conld play In three different rhythms at once without making the band mad. At Troy, ten miles up the Hudson river from Albany, waa one of those long, old-fashioned Inclosed wooden bridges, unlighted within, like a tunnel. Looking through it, as one approached, one saw a tiny spot of light at the far end, as If gazing through a tflescope wrong end to. One day the hungry brass band start ed across the bridge to play at a barn raising along the road westward. Schultz had paid the nickel toll 9rhen he happened <to look through the tong black space ahead. Then he balked. “I vant my moneys pack,” he Insisted. "By tam, dere Is no use my tryln to dake die drum frough dot little hole,”