Show DEATH BREAKS 49 YEAR 49 YEAR TRYST AT GRAVE READING Pa March 11 UP M Alvah O. O Schaeffer who played Irish melodies over the grave of an old friend each St. St Patricks Patrick's day at midnight since 1898 d died ed lost last night at 80 exactly 89 exactly one week before his tryst to the lonely Neversink Neversink Neversink Never- Never sink Mountain cemetery Schaeffer a former church faithfully kept his rendezvous rendezvous ren Ten at the grave of ot Tom Hannahoe so-called so Mayor of Irishtown to pla play the Irish air Lass o 0 Galway Hannahoe had made Schaeffer prom promise e 52 years ago that Youn play that tune Lass Lasa 0 o Galway Galway Galway Gal- Gal way over my grave you will In the last lat minutes of ot St. St Patrick's Patricks Patricks Patrick's Patricks Patrick's Pat Pat- ricks rick's day you'll play it and if it you beat me why me-why why Ill I'll keep your grave as green as Ireland Ireland- Schaeffer never missed the annual trek He played Hannahoe's Hannahoe's Han- Han nahoe's favorite tune personally until 1923 when rheumatism gnarled his fingers Since then other musicians played it In 1942 1912 an estimated persons witnessed the tryst |