Good Sisters of the German Hospital: Benefit Picnic

Event Information

Venue(s):
Jones's Wood

Event Type:
Band

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Aug 1865, 9:00 AM

Program Details

Dodworth’s Brass Band accompanied various German Roman Catholic Societies as they marched in procession from “the Roman Catholic school in Fourth street [to] the corner of Houston street and Second avenue, where cars were waiting to convey the excursionists to the festival ground.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 19 August 1865.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 22 August 1865, 5.

“[T]he German Roman Catholic Societies yesterday held a festival for the benefit of a new German hospital which recently has been established by the German Sisters of Charity in Fifth street, near avenue R.  Some ten thousand persons or more visited Jones’ Wood on this occasion. . . .

          [Various German Roman Catholic Societies marched in procession from] the Roman Catholic school in Fourth street [to] the corner of Houston street and Second avenue, where cars were waiting to convey the excursionists to the festival ground.  They were accompanied by Dodworth’s Brass Band, which on the festival grounds furnished the music for the dances, which were continued on both platforms until seven o’clock. . . .

          . . . A handsome amount was realized for the benefit.”