Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-08-09 | Page 2 | Famous Drum Corps Serenades Gus [Illegible]

FAMOUS DRUM CORPslB SERENADES GUS HOM The famous Cook drum corns i'ri9 command of MaJ. Hcarne which 'afrE on a special train with tho Pn.Jj G. A. It. delegation, Sunday nBI marched to the Knutsford hotek wl It serenaded-G. S. Holmes, pronrleto tho hotel. Mr. Holmes was thuB coiJ mented because ho Is an old frlcnl Gen. George W. Cook, founder of! great organisation of Jlfc3 and ds which hoars hie name. .' The shrill scream of the fifeis and"' Ing thunder or the snares sounded a battle rumble throughout tho I and corridors of the hotel, and an niensc crowd was attracted to tho c Tho George W. Cook drum corps l8v of the big hits of the encampmeat f A crowd of nearly 3000 peoplo fojlj the Cook drum corps through the etrj In the business section of the city. ' Denverltes serenaded the newspaper flees In turn, and won a storm of appl at each stop. Perhaps the most stir feature of their playing was the wai which they had the crowd cheering! yelling "Dixie" hysterically when drum corps and fifea broke out with! famous old southern war song. It was noticeable that the old R. warriors waved their hats In thai and cheered as vigorously as the youii generations when "Dixie" wag pu-showing pu-showing that they joined In and appr ated tho tribute delicately paid to t ancient enemies. a