BAND TOURNAMENT. 



The leading feature of the second day's Show will be a grand 

 "Band Tournament." Prizes amounting to Three Hundred dol- 

 lars will be offered, in two classes, to be divided into two purses. 

 The first prize will be large enough to induce our best professional 

 Bands to compete, several of which have already signified their 

 intention of coming. The second prize will be as large as usually 

 offered to our country or "non-professional" bands, and the out- 

 look is very promising for the largest number of bands in this class 

 that have ever met in tournament. The Society will use every ex- 

 ertion to make this entertainment the most successful affair of the 

 kind ever held in Massachusetts. This event will offer to all friends 

 of the Society an opportunity to see the best Bands of the day, and 

 listen to a musical entertainment which must be second to none, 

 (ientlemen of large experience, probably from New York, will 

 act as judges, and no occasion will be offered for any feeling to 

 arise concerning the awards. 



