Waterbury Democrat

132 SONGS IN 48 MINUTES.

Loveland Salvationists Make a Record for Fast Singing.

One hundred and thirty-two songs in forty-eight minutes is the record made by the Guard street Salvation Army corps.

The members are extremely proud of the record. It makes them the champions of the world; they sang more songs in a shorter period of time than any other Salvation Army corps was ever known to have sung. They went into the contest to carry off the honors, and they succeeded splendidly. No prize accompanies the accomplishment of this remarkable feat, except the honor of being the champions of the world.

The contest, which is known in the Salvation Army parlance as a battle of song, was a novel one, and never before tried in this city. Indeed, only three such battles are on record in this country. The highest mark reached was by a corps somewhere in Illinois, which sang sixty songs in forty-five minutes. A corps in Quincy, England, has held the championship, having sung 100 songs in forty-five minutes. Capt. De Garis of the Guard street barracks made up his mind that his corps could beat the record. He made out a list of 136 songs, which he thought could be sung in forty-five minutes, and members were furnished with copies of the list. After the contest was ended it was reported that two songs, which had not been on the programme, had been started inadvertently, and this raised the record to 132 songs in forty-eight minutes, or one song about every twenty-two seconds. Guard street corps is now awaiting other contests eagerly, in order to learn whether this record can be beaten.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.