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Show MONEY HEEDED FOR TIIE BARD CONCERTS Manager of HeldV Military Band Inaugurates Popular Subscription . for Summer Entertainments. . Held's Military band has begun ar- i rangements to give a series of semi-weekly semi-weekly open-air concerts at Liberty park from May 31st to September 1st Concerts will also be given on July 4th and 24th. To assist in paying the expenses which will be entailed by these concerts, con-certs, Manager A. S. Zimmerman has sent out an appeal to public-spirited citizens to contribute sums of 25 cents or more. . The cost of the concerts will be about $1800. The City Council has again granted the refreshment privileges ef the park to the band free of charge, but this will not begin to pay the expenses ex-penses of the concert, season. The band has erected a new band stand 25x65 feet in size Just east of the bowery, at its own expense, and has expended considerable money on other improvements. Manager Zimmerman hopes that the popular subscriptions will amount to a sum sufficient to at. least pay all the expenses of the season. The concerts were immensely popular last summer and drew great" crowds through the entire season. |