Serenade to Pauline Lucca

“Intelligence of what was to take place having got abroad, the street was lined and the space in front of the house filled with citizens anxious to get a peep at the prima donna. At half-past eleven the strains of martial music were heard on the damp air, and the band, followed by a company of the regiment and preceded by the drum corps, made its appearance. After countermarching they took up a position before the lady’s domicile and played a selection of appropriate airs, ending with ‘Die Wacht den Rhein.’ Mme. Lucca hereupon made her appearance at the balcony carefully muffled up, and bowed and waved her handkerchief amid loud and long-continued cheering. She chatted gaily with her friends on the balcony while the band repeated the German war song. The cheering again arose, and the lady, bowing, withdrew. She leaves for Philadelphia today.”