A San Francisco editor, who has been to a Chinese theatre there, thus speaks of the quality of the music furnished: —" Imagine yourself in a boiler manufactory when 400 men are putting in rivets, a mammoth tinshop next door on one side, and a forty-stamp quartz mill on the other, with a drunken charivari party with 600 instruments in front, 4,000 enraged cats on the roof, and a faint idea will be conveyed of the performance of a first-rate Chinese band of music."
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 641, 5 April 1870, Page 2
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