Cardinal Gibbons was facetious when the Irish ladies' choir of Dublin
called on him. Turning suddenly, he asked:
"Which one of you is the oldest?"
None claimed the honor and all blushed. The talk drifted around to Gilmore
and his band, and Cardinal Gibbons told of how Gilmore, at Coney Island,
hearing that the cardinal was in the audience, played "Maryland, My
Maryland," and how it pleased him.
"Gilmore," said the cardinal, "was famous for his playing of Mozart's
'Twelfth Mass.' Once he played it in a North Carolina town and next day
the local paper announced that he rendered with great effect Mozart's
'Twelfth Massachusetts.'"
_Pittsburgh Dispatch._