The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . the services of the bands were solicited for Mr. Gil-more in a personal letter from U. S. Grant, thenpresident of the United States. A colosseum, with aseating capacity of 100,000,
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . the services of the bands were solicited for Mr. Gil-more in a personal letter from U. S. Grant, thenpresident of the United States. A colosseum, with aseating capacity of 100,000, was erected at «, cost ofhalf a million dollars, and on the 17th of June, 1872,the International peace jubilee was bands of the Grenadier guards, from London,of the Garde republicaine, from Paris, of the KaiserFranz regiment, from Berlin, and a band from Dub-lin, Ireland; with Johann Strauss, the waltz-king,Franz Abt, the Germau song-writer, and many fa-mous soloists, vocal and instrumental, were amongthe foreign attractions of the International jubileeprogrammes. The jubilee continued for eighteendays, and at its close Mr. Gilmore was presented bythe citizens of Boston with two gold medals and thesum of $50,000. In 1873 Mr. Gilmore accepted anoifer from the 23d regiment of New York to becomeits bandmaster, a position he continued to hold upto the time of his death. He reorganized his band,. Boifon Simmsn OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 293 increasing it to 100 members, and gave 600 concertsin Madison square garden, which, under the nameof Gilmores Garden, became the most popularresort in New York. On the 150th night of thisphenomenally successful season Mr. Gilmore wasgiven a benefit, and was presented, in the presence ofan audience numbering 10,000 persons, with a mag-nificent gold and diamond medal. On the 4th ofJuly, 1876, Mr. Gilmore gave a mammoth nationalconcert in Independence square, Philadelphia, fol-lowed by sixty concerts in the main exposition build-ing o
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