New Yorker Schützen-Corps Ball

Event Information

Venue(s):
Jones's Wood

Price: $.50 men; $.25 women; children free

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 April 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Sep 1868, Evening
16 Sep 1868, Evening
17 Sep 1868, Evening

Program Details

The New Yorker Schützen-Corps held a three-day shooting festival that ended each night with a ball. It is unclear if the price listed includes admission to the shooting, ball, or both. The ball started no earlier than 6 pm, as that is when the shooting activities ended each day. The advertisement lists that the shooting takes place in Jones Wood and the ball in the “Festhalle” – so the ball may not have actually been in Jones’s Wood.

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 11 September 1868, 6.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 14 September 1868, 6.
3)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 September 1868, 8.

Announces winners of Tuesday’s shooting competition. No review of music, only a mention that musical festivities concluded the day.