MUNICIPAL BAND CONCERTS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12461, 26 March 1906, Page 5

MUNICIPAL BAND CONCERTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF ''THE TRESS." Sir, —If you will bo good enough to allow mc space, I should like to ask a question, through.the medium of your widely-read paper. Why do the public go to the Sydenham Park on a Wednesday evening? Do they go to enjoy the music or to make n noise and follow the crowd? I think I can safely say, wiUiout exaggeration, that about one out of every titteen go for the former, and the remaining fourteen for the latter. I think tho existing state of affaire ifi a disgrace to the community. Some nights you can scarcely hear any music, or even yourself speaking. Tho place is thronged by all the larrikin clat's, who insult everybody by their abominable language (and some of the girls are not much better), and everybody can hear them, although there are generally two gentlemen of the law about, but they epem to make no difference. I think these latter are there irercly for ornament.

Then, again, thoro are innumerable ' cliildrc-n kicking up *a frightful row and. dodging about all over the place and* under your lags almost; most of them should have been in bed, I suppose, fhough it's because Iheir parents "arc following the crowd at the hand." It would do some of thise people good to attend the municipal band concerts at Home, -whore the people go to hear the music and not to insult others, and <??e the way thing* are conducted- there. 1 hope others will take up the subject, *a that we may expect a change from the present disgraceful state of affair:. —Youre, etc., YORKSHIRE.