The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-15
The Sangerrest.
CINCINNATI, June -, 1870.


Editors Journal; 1
1t is usual atthis time of the year
for the more fashionable among US tC
quit the dust and hustle of the city
for the quiet of the rural districts, OF
for the more fashionable watering
places. Business becomes almost
stagnant; amusements subside, and
all attractions forsake US, except the
German beer gardens, and those less
fortunate of us, who cannot afford a
trip to Saratoga, or even to Yellow
Spring, and are obliged to swelter
through the Summer months, find
a never. ending source of pleasure in
these last named places of amuse-
ment, as night after night We wend
ourway to them to queneh our thirst
with the cool lager, smoke our Ha-
vana' g Tor Wheeling stcgas," as the
case-may be- and listen to the charm
ing music. But our usually mohoto-
nous Summer season is to be relieved
by new attraction, which promises
to be big thing. The Seventeenth
Annual National S9ngerfest is to be
held in our city, commencing on the
10Th inst. No adequate idea can be
formed of the immense preparations
which have been made for this great
event, unless one could see the i'm
mense edifice which has been erected
at the corner Of Elm and Fourteenth
Streets.
The building has been erected in less
than-two months by host of work
men. 1t is otquite finished as yet,
but little beside the decoration re-
mains to be done, and it will be COM
pleted in ample time. The building
is composed entirely of frame. and
was planned and erected under the
superintendenee of S. Kuntzky. ar
chiteet. The cost is estimated at $25,-
900, great part of which has been
raised by subscriptions lin the city.
The dimensions of the building are:
$50 feet long by ITO feet wide; the
audience room is 240 feet long by
sixty six feet wide, has III windows,
and is estimated to seat ten thous-
and persons. There is a plat
form at the end of the audience
room, capablss of holding thirteen
hundred singers and three hundred
instrumental performers. The cell
ing is seventy-four feet high. The
building is situated on a large lot,
which is enclosed by neat fence.
There are four. approaches to it, two
from Elm Street, one from Plum
Street, and one from Fourteenth
Street, which are being sodded and
adorned under the supervision of Mr..
Chas. +. Wilstach, Mr.. sStrauch, Mr..
Jacob Elsas, aud Mr.. r. B. Handy.
The building will be handsomely
painted, and decorated and adorned
by. flags OF all nations, and will remind
us somewhatsof descriptions VIC have
read Of the famous Paris Exposition.
The hustle and stir it has been creating
is not to be wondered at when we
consider thatthere are between sew.
enty-f five and one hundred singing So
cleties to be represented, including
about fifteen hundred members, TO
say nothing of the instrumental per
formeTs). and that the hall is capable
of seating ten thousand persons. The
exercises of the Ssengerfest will com
mence with a grand procession, which
will include all the societies which
are to take part In the singing festivi-
ties, besides the Police force, the
Zouave Battalion, the Fire Depart.
ment. City Officials, &c. will be
continuedip the evenings, with con-
certs at the Hall, excelled only by
the Peace Jubilee. On Sunday, June