Caledonian Club Scottish Games: 17th
Event Information
Venue(s):
Jones's Wood
Event Type:
Band
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
29 December 2024
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
04 Sep 1873, All DayPerformers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
“…This annual festival is generally considered to be the most jovial and pleasurable gathering of the summer picnics, and is annually attended by from 15,000 to 20,000 persons of both sexes…”`
3)
“…With the San Francisco Cadets as guests, and to music alternately from the Seventy-ninth Regiment Band and a dozen bagpipers, the club marched down Broadway to the City Hall, whence they rode in street cars to Jones’s Wood.
…While the athletic sports were going on in the arena, dancing was steadily kept up in the pavilion.
At no time was the air free from the squeak of bagpipes—the pipers taking turns with unflagging regularity…”