Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-04
AN AMTI-JUBlLlST.


 course, poke all sorts of fun at the Boston Jubilee. We make the following extracts from the World correspondence:
 THE CHORUS s'PADDEDr'
 The ineomprehensible subsistence of the big chorus, whose puny efforts are out of all proportion to it's stupendous rise. in- duced me to make a closer examinatih of 1t. Viewed from the audience the vast array of performers presents no details. The birds-eye view is inspiring but de- captive. If you can imagine an acre of flowers closely planted you will have a picture of 1t as 1t appears from the ex- treme end of the Coliseum. The greater number of females with their vivid colors and fiuttering fans impart this texture to 1t, and the dark spaces where the tenors and basses are gathered seem like the un: planted spots. When a solo artist ap- pears, this magnificent garden suddenly blooms all over with white blossoms that futter and flash & moment and then dis appear. And these blossoms, you know. are handkerchiefs. So, one is held by the very beauty and strangeness of the pros pect. But to come down from the gallery and pick your way through the crowds past the doorkeepers into the mysterious but cavernous crypts under the enormous stage, and then up rear stairway and among the chorus itself, is like coming down from the mountain top into the lonely valley to find the ensemble gone and i'll it's place the bleakest and most tiresome details and repetitions. Once enguifed ln the chorus, and it's charm is gone. found myself in this experiment In a crowd of women, some of them sit ting and some of them standing: some were talking about Strauss, some were eating chunks of cake, and some were up on the seats overlooking the country, and, like Fatima's sister, reporting to the rest what was going on in. the next coun- try held by the tenors. felt as one standing ill mass-meeting. Something enormous was going on somewhere. I heard the believing noise of the organ and the vOlleys of voices. But the peo- pie around me were evidently not con- nected with the noise, or interested in it. Some of them were discussing the railroad trains and the duration of excursion tick cts. Now and then heard that sharp sibilant hiss, which in crowd means ''be quiet, and at intervals there was the keen gurgle of soprano laugh, as if chorus girl had been tickled under the arms. skirted round this section, and pushed my way through to another, where there were long rows of vacant-faced women holding red chorus-books, but emitting no sound. Finally I got upon seat, and looking down over their heads, what a sight I beheld. The chorus was at this moment singing the chorus from 'sThe Creation" Far down the peopled de- civity saw the conductor with arms out stretched, and behind him the vast plain of the audience-room, now flooded with it's sea of heads. The seat upon which I stood trembled as the organ pumped it's sub-bass upon the multitude; but the real singers seemed to he far down the hill side, somewhere in the vicinity of the con- ductor. This experience satisfied me that the 20, 900 was most ighomimously ''pad- 1 ded."
 THE REFREsHMENT ROOM.
 Coming down again into the great room under this stage, which must be called, suppose, the refreshment room. I en- countered the most astonishing spectacle of all. There is counter erected here don't know how many hundred feet long it is, my sense of size and numbers having been utterly confused of late-and on it are placed cakes and pies and can dies and other of the most impossible viands for the delectation of the chorus. l Behind 1t are arrayed the most typical Yankee girls, in curls and spectacles. l There must be fifty of them, arrayed like l the lilies of the field, and sitting there on high stools gazing down at the wealth ot luxuries that seem to groan because they are uneaten. Immediately opposite there | Is another counter, extemporized of boards, for the outpouring of beer, and between the two is congregated the Ger man, English, and French musicians, making a chorus that would shame the twenty thousand could they only put away their handkerchiefs long enough to come down and dispassionately listen to it. The curious contempt with which the Germans walk before the refreshment counter and the mortified curiosity with which they inspect from a safe distance the gingerbread and cream-cakes are Imaginable. I saw.a King William fellow buy one of those latter articles, evidently with the idea that.it might be cake oi pot cheese, and biting through it some thing gushed out into his mustache and beard, and he dropped it with frightened oath upon the floor, where it fell with its own peculiar sickly squash. sr .~.a3
 Two or three Of hlS companions put on their spectacles and bent over to investi- gate it, one of them touching it gingerly with his sword point. Then they attacked the innocent Yankee girl in force, and by means of an interpreter who came uI made her understand that her cakes were all dough inside, and the pert little bag gage, who wasn't bit afraid of them had to explain, of course, that that was the way they were made and that what he mis took for the dough was ''the works I STRAUSS. s<s
 While stood here Strauss and his vale came up. Both. of them are curiosities The master is little nervous Jew, ,physic ally and literally bundle of dance tunes He talks very much as snare drum does The man is gorgeous dunky in fowinl livery, who carries his masters violin bo continually. Strauss's ideas of Americ