Musical performances continued to be popular as well with such groups as the "Chicago Marine Band", "the Mexican Troubadours", the "Boston Ladies Symphony Orchestra", and the very famous "Sousa Band" featuring John Philip Sousa, which performed twice in 1897 and in 1900.Gillespie, Apendix I, pg. 202, 204, 206, 216 One musician, whose performance was inconvenienced by the failed shipment of his luggage and noisy child in the audience stormed off the stage. The Weekly Courier noted, "He deliberately put his fiddle under his arm and left the stage like a crusty old curmudgeon."Weekly Courier, January 25, 1896, p. 1 1898 even featured an open-air concert from the Tibbits balcony, which was part of the original Tibbits façade.Gillespie, pg. 115
