Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1919 — WANTED HIS "MONEYS PACK” [ARTICLE]

WANTED HIS "MONEYS PACK”

German Drummer Balked When He Started to Cross Old Bridge at Troy, New York, Albany, N. T., has a historical museum that contains, among other treasure, a bass drum dating back to the great influx of German 4 immigrants which Allowed the revolution of 1848 In Germany, says Cartoons. This Instrument was owned by the first of the wandering "hungry five” bands which appeared in this country after Marx and Enfcels, the industrious collaborators, the communist manifesto. The bass drummer was called "Thick Head” Schults. According to a music teacher now living in Albany, who heard Schults perform in the 'Bos, he could play in three different rhythms at once without making the band mad. At Troy, ten miles up the Hudson river from Albany, was one of those long, old-fashioned Inclosed wooden bridges, unlighted within, like a tunnel. Looking through IL as one approached, one saw a tiny spot of light at the far end, as if gazing through a telescope 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 when he happened to look through the long black space ahead. Then he balked. “I vant my moneys pack,” he insisted. “By tarn, dere is no use my try in’ to dake dis drum Vrough dot little hole.”