Central Park Band Concert

Program.

“The attendance at the nineteenth Park concert, which took place yesterday afternoon, was greater than on any previous occasion this season. The pedestrians numbered over forty thousand, and [illeg] seven thousand carriages passed along the Drive. Much better order was maintained yesterday by the drivers of the handsome equipages than has heretofore been the case, and instead of the usual blocking up of the road, followed by quarrels and noise, everything went on as ‘merry as a marriage bell’ and in good order. If a vehicle was intended to be stopped, the driver did not pull up his horses in the middle of the Drive and stop every one else, but went quietly to the designated stopping places, which are certainly plentifully enough distributed about the grounds. The vehicles that moved at a walking pace kept near the edge of the Drive, leaving the centre thereof clear for carriages travelling the allowed ‘seven miles an hour.’ In fact, the occupants of vehicles, calling themselves ladies and gentlemen, for once ‘behaved as such,’ to the great enjoyment and pleasure of their neighbors.”

“The Central Park Music—The Commissioners of the Central Park announce that the musical entertainments which have been given weekly on the Park during the past season, are discontinued in consequence of the cool weather.”