Show THE BAND BOYS honor their pleader pLea leader by making l him a beautiful present A very pleasant event occurred on monday oliday evening the members of the recently disorganized opera house band have been 1 putting their heads together to devise some means of testifying their choir esteem for their former leader a and nd showing their appreciation of the untiring 0 labor on his part that together with their own diligent application made the band arid famous as the best i in it lie territory few leaders have been able to keep in an unpaid musical organization together for as longa long a time tim cand and it at many times under unfavorable circumstance i as geo IV thatcher Thatch cr jr did the band was his own creation few if any an of the members bers understood music or could blow a note when they joined at the time the band was bisor disorganized I 1 anizel recently it consisted of sixteen trained musicians who were able to interpret the alie works of the best beat composers and play with apparent case such music as the overtures to the bohemian girl and william T tell el 1 11 the result of the deliberations of the band bo boys ys was the placing of an order with T B cardon for a very heavy ana handsome gold medal composed of solid fourteen carat gold iu in several different coloff the medal is suspended by two chains from a very handsome pin pill midway between the pin pill and medal is a cross bar on the pin is eng engraved ra t ved it to geo 11 V thatcher jr on the cross bir bar is esteemed organizer and leader and on one side of the medal itself is of the thatcher opera house band A handsome lyre occupies the centre of the modal medal on this side underneath which is a wreath these are of beautiful design and perfect finish in gold 0 old of d different ferent if colors tho the inscription is handsomely eli engraved graved and i is s inlaid with a beautiful blue enamel on oil the reverse side of the medal is inscribed from the boys and the initials of the donors monday evening the presentation occurred at the residence of G IV thatcher Thatch cr jr on oil the isla island lid mr J P smith was chosen spokesman for the occasion and made a very neat speech to say that the to ro cament aga ul he i recovered sufficiently t to 0 moke make an answering answering speech thanking the boys for the honor they had shown him while the young r leader must view with regret the disruption of the band with whom he has labored so BO long and faithful faithfully HV at a time when they biad reached a state of perfection that must have been pleasant to contemplate still it must be gratifying to know tb that at the boys appreciate his labors and entertain stron strong Z feelings 0 of personal friendship for him |