New York's Itinerant Bands

With the advent of warm weather come the little (jorman bands. These consist of frora two to twenty musicians, and go around the east ide dispensing music to the Germans, who, as they sit in a saloon with mugs of beer in front of thern, will often give from twentyfive to fifty cents to have one of the favorita tunes of their fatherland played over again. The leader of one of these bands said the other day that there were from fifty to a hundred of the bands in this city, and more coming from Germany every week. They used to make $3 and $4 a day, but since the Btreet musicians from the old country have begun to come the bands make only from ÍS to $3.50. "But," as one of the players remarked, "ve haf all ve vant to eat undtrink, und vat more does a man vant !"-