Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-07-01
Mr.. Strassea's Concert. .Repoit OF Com.
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To the Ladies Soldiers Aid Society:
The undervignsd, having concluded their
investigssions. beg leave to report the result
to yonr Society.
After careful Inquiry, the committee have
arrived at the conclusion that the number Of
persons present At sir. Straeesr's concert has
been greatly oy.rrs.ed. both by Mr.. Hill and
yonr Society. Mr. Heller, who occupied the
hail several evenings stated while here, that
600 persons was the largest number i. would
conveniently seat. The hall was by 20 means
crowded on the evening Of the concert II
the number Of persons present v ill be placed
at 600. it will be found that tbis viii har-
monize with the number of tickets issued by
Sir. Slrssssr ard Mr.. Hill; and We prefer this
solution Cf the difficulty, as it renders it un-
necessary for the undersigned to inpeach the
veraci.y or integrity Of any man.
The committee, through one Of its mem.
bers, also addressed a Lote to biessrs. Devoe
d Crampton. Rock Island, and have received
the following reply, viz:
Rock IsLAsD, June 2Sth, 1882.
CHAs. E. PUiSAN. ESQ Dear Sir I'm re-
number Of tickets We sold tor Mr.. Strasssrs
concert. We would inform you hat. to the best
Of our recollection, we disposed Of thirty-two
(32) reserved seats, snd seven (7) single tickets
We are qnits certain that we paid Mr. Hill
seventeen 75.l0O (:i775) dollars.
Very tro]y yours.
DEvo. 4 CHAMPION.
1t will be seen that this differs from the &C
count rendered by Mr.. Hill. In his letter to
your Corresponding Secretary, Mr. Hill stated
tha. only 81 tickets were cold. and be has
since publicly repeated the statement. 1t ap.
pears now, from Devoe d Champions letter,
that 80 tickets >. sold. Mr.. Hill denies
that he received s7.75 as his share. II now
appears tnat be received 1878 BY the state
ment furnished by Devoe Il Champion, Mr.
Hill should have accounted to your Society
for 80 tickets, whereas he accounts FIR only
81 Ii Dir. Hills claim to the extra charge
for reserved seats is correct. then he was en-
titled 20 25 cents on the 80 tickets which
amounts to So 90; and your Society is, Of
course, entitled to the 25 cents for admission
on the whole 80 tickets, which amounts to
81 10. Deductipg from this amount the $500
pa aid the ferry, and it leaves $i75 TO be &C.
counted for, whereas Mr.. Hill has paid over
20 your Society only 81 70. The amount is
email bu, the principle 10 the same; ard as
n this particular Mr. Hill denies the correct.
ness Of our former report we deem it proper
to make this explanation.
rs Tue hfutteISGSO tbDuBut IL ptOhdUI6 tU1
a portion o: the proceeds received in Rock
Island had been paid ont for advertising there
inquiry was made of the editors Of the Argus,
and the following reply was received. VIZ:
OFFICE or THE DAILY AND WEEKLY ARGUS, J
Rock Island, H.. June 9th. 1862,
G. L. PUTNAM, ESQ Q-Dear SIR In answer
10 your inquiry, as 10 the amount charged by
US for advertisins the concert at metropolitan
~ \ 1,,fs I a, - G.i.
", we would say that We made no charge
whatever for advertising said concert.
We were requested " MIR r. Hill 10 send
the bill to him. bat w wrote him a note, sta.
ting that made no charge againss The La
dies Aid Society.
In reply to that note, Mr.. Hin wrote US that
"in behalf Of the Ladies' Aid Society. he ten.
dered Us their thanks for our hberaity in ad.
ver,ising tho concert free of charge"
Very respectfully your obedien' serV'ts,
DANFoRrH g. JONES.
Tie committee are informsds by.otlicers of
yonr Society. that no pOrtion of this CORES
pond nee was ever. submitted to you, and that
you we're not aware that such use WAS being
made Of your name. However that may be,
it now appears that nothing paid for ad-
vertsing 10 Rock Island; and hecce W de.
sire now to so far modify our former report a ,
to state that, out Of the proceeds of tickets sold
in Rock Island, your Society latter deductng
ferry charge,) has received 50 Is. and Mr.. Hill
50 Is. instead Of 81 Is as we before stated
rhe undersigned have as 'ertained that Mr.
Hill was requested by your Society to see that
the clergy aud editors received complimentary
,ickets, aud hence. the fact that he issued
these tickets in his own name instead of Civ.
ing out Mr.. Strasser's, does not materially
chaog. the question. and is a matter Of taste
with which the committee have nothing to do.
The undersigned have also ascer,ained that
Mr. Hal did say to al active member OF your
Society that he would pay the ferry charge
himself, aud that he was told that the S cle,y
would not permit him to DO it; but we are
assured that this statement was made to MIR
Hill with the understanding. on the part Of
the members who made it, that the entire pro
ceeds of the concert were going to your Suce
ty, and woui no. have been made, had the
truth been known.
1t is with extreme re}uctaace that tie TN
dersiened maze any reference to the card Of
Mr.. Hill, published in the papers OF Monday
morning. j is not their purpose to engage in
any controversy. Requested by the ladies Of
your Society to Investigate these nattere, We
did not feel at liberty to decline ; ard in the
VI Jul OutIts, we nave euue3VoT-
ed to avoid giving offence to any ooe Mr. Hill
is free with charges of misstatement aud false.
hood. We bave none such 10 make. We shall
let facts and figures decide who has spoken
truth, and who falsehcod.
We respectfully submit. that the statements
made in our report Of June Oath, not only
stand uncontradicted. but are fully corrobot.
rated. We stated that we had receiy ed letter
from Mr. Strasser, informing US that Mir. Hiii'e
charge Tor the hall was $40, without anything
being said about reserved seata, aud that Mr..
Hill had afterwards reduced this amount to
Sl6. without any reservation. Mr.. Hill hae not
controverted these statements. We stated that
MIR Sirasser had satisfactorily accounted for the
600 tickets issusd by him. Mr. Hill does not
dispute this. We stated, further. that Mr.
Siraseer had Issued but 4S complimentary
tickets, and that the M&nnerchor ed no
complimentary tickets. These statements are
not disputed. We said, further, that MIR. Hill,
without any authority from Mr.. Strasser or
your Society. had Issued in his own name q
number mot "a large number," as he reports
it, OF complimentary tickets He admits that
he did issue some. We stated further, that Mr..
Hill. on his own authority. had printed 100
additional tickets. He admits the tru of the
statement. We stated, further that we could
not say whether these tickets had been fully
accounted for or not and we now repeat the
s'atement. The balance of the tickets unseld
0md unusel uere never exhibited to u.s. We
stated that We thought Mr.. Hill was mistake
about the contract with Mr.. Strasser, or that
he failed to make himself understood. We have
ssen nothing to induce us to change our opin-
ion. We stated that. out Of the proceeds dc.
rived from the eale Of tickets in Rock leland,
your Society received $2.75.and Mr. Hill &7.76.
We submit that Mr.. Hill nss signall. failed in
controverting this statement, We further sta.
ted that the deficiency had occurred BY she