, 1873-06-08

they did know. After that came some instru:
| mental music When that was over, both slider
Ind been heard from, musicians and singers, and
] then the comments begnn.
| It is hard to tell just what the great mass ex-
| pected- Probably they had no definite idea.
! They only anticipated something grand Just
60 girl fanciea great thinga Of her bosom
! friends brother, and when she sees him finds
him very ordinary creature. When our .e1-
pectations nre not strictly formulated, when VIC
do not know just what ne look for, ne are al.
ways disappointed Many Of the people, antici-
pated Niagara Of song, an outpourlng OF voice
did not sound any louder than that OF = large
church choir. Il is time that reflection might
have taught them that in 80 vast .
space such an ordinary choir would
have been Lost, but then they might
hare gone further. and queried whether it Was
well to pay dollar in order to get an effect
which they could have had elsewhere for nothing.
They had not come to see eeyen hundred singers,
but to hear them. So with the instruments.
They did not make all tho noise that waa e1~
A greater impression conld have been made by
holding an accordion to the ear, and dragging
music out Of it. OF course, the heat, the blind
ing sun, and the having to stand, had much to
md pleasant room, and an American audience
will listen to bad music or poor act
e9saibls: e9 i dess s!''ee not "sa sTsa 60 to
aleeP. IL sats, stoua, intent On getting lta
show, even it it cannot get itfor itself. But,
since this was not the case Thursday, one had to
listen. to such remarks Is "Well, have had
enough OF this" Let us go ; we can say ne have
de, anyhow; !" az can't hear anything, md I
believe will go out where it is cool" What
persons who were setting down thought, cannot
be said, for it was difficult to get at them.
Doubtless many Of them would have gone out, il
thsy could, but they we're so wedged IN that they
broak-up came. Now and then 3 lady tainted,
but she had to come to as she best could, for
the most devoted lover or husband could
not have dragged her through the compact mass.
therefore, the dlsgusted ones gathered together
baggage, worked their way slowly to the door,
and at last got out upon the sidewalk to breathe
fresher air and to run again the gauntlet Of the
eide-ehows and tho fruit~se1lerB.
were more pernona from the city who had been
unluckJ enough not to hear in tirne what the |
afternoon had been. There Was more inoon-
venience and no better singing. And with that |
concert for the great mass, the Jub1ee was over
There were excursions to parks and mannfao-
tories, Friday and Saturday, but they were for |
their betters, for those invited guesta who pay |
nothing, and yet who sit at the head OF tho table
and are helped first. The Senator and the !
Governor went to these side-shows of the Jubi-
lee, while those who elected them were left out
u the cold: For the great majority there, the
Jubilee consisted Of trip to Chicago at half the
usual rates, Of a visit to the concert, costing =
dollar, and OF an opportunity Of looking over
portion Of the city and seeing its fine buildings
md attractive shops. II those who coma we're
'atisded with their trip, and fonnd in what they
'aw enough to make amends. then the Jnbilee
sas well enough, 30 far ~ they are concerned,
nd wns to that extent praiseworthy. rattle il
good thing if it smuses child. But the re-
utns from the country districts are not yet in.
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