, 1874-03-22
BOSTON.
Musical and Dramatic Gossip
at Sc The Hub"
The Disastrous Pccuuiary Failure Of
tho "World's Peace
Jubilee"
Carl zerrahn's Lawsuit to Recover
$4,000 for" conductlEg.".
Proposed New Theatres and 0pera.nouse
-..Tricnnial Festival OF 1!1e HAN
del and Haydn Society.

LIVIUStU IEh 1Ntt1t1I IL .4tAA "feN 1-S-@H
..-Trie1nial Festival Of The Ham
del and Haydn Society,".
foyr..noade1,ce Of Tie Chicago Tribune
Uos1oS, March II, 1874.
17r WORLDS rEAcE-JuDILEE nEDIv1yuS.
Two yea,s ago, Boston indulged in ponder
ma musical rl1npus It was called tho World
PesceJubileo and world OF trouble it ha:
brought to tho ambitious tradesmen who aidet
and abetted the oyer-sangulne Gilmore, the in
sticator Of the disturbance. It was q musca
miscarriage and a financial 1zzle. Fcr peace
Offering. it resulted in remarkable amount ol
litigation. The losses were 60 extensive TINT tht
managers were ashamed to put their regulations
rs businessmen TT so low discount as to allow
the true results to be known. Tho losses
actually figured up 3 total of about tuo hun
dred and ninety thousand dollars! The
great singers, the foreign bands, Strauss and
!.bt, we're paid; but not everybody else. The
su.rantce-fund WAS called Tor, aud most Of il
was paid in.-all. in fact, except in one or two
instances, whore the subscribers contended that
certain conditions had not been, complied with.
In organ-buildiug firm were down for S5, 900,
and refused payment on the ground that it was
agreed that, In case advertisements we're allowed
On the programmes. their house should have
an opportunity to pay for como OF the space.
The programmes were paid for BY rival con-
ce1 represented on tho Executive Committee,
and no other house was permitted to advertise
It's w,rcs. An appeal to the courts will probably
be mado to settle the responsibility in this mat
Ter. The guarantee-fund fell far short Of tho
actual needs and the members Of the Commit
tee. or son1e Of them. have drawn their chec!-7
for large amounts. Still considerable amount
OF the demands against the Jubilee remain to-
settled. nnd legal gentleman who represents
the Committee hasR for nearly two years past,
been engaged in Strengthening out its crooked
affairs. The jewelers. who furnished the e,ficial
balgos-and never was any body OF mortAls go
completely badsed and badsered-were coni-
PEELED to bring suit for their pay; the arti1le-
ris:s we're obliged to appeal to legal tribunal to
ba remunerated for the powder they burned and
their time the provider of theJubilee soup-ket-
tie had to ask legal redross and the funniest
easeof allis that Of Carl Zerrahn. who sues to
corer $1,000, alleged to be due him for COIL
ducting some Of tho performances The Jubi
1ee-rnanngers contested payment IN these sey-
e1a cases, either from disbelief in their direct
liability, or from . sense OF the excessive
amount charged. The gunpowder buried in
"God Sa7c the Queen, ;" *'0 Old Hundred ETC,
together with the time of the battery engaged in
the services was alleged by Maj. Dexter E. Fol-
lett to hare figured up the Buul OF sS,00o- Some
Of the cases were tried in open court, bnt tho |
claims OF Fnllett and zerrahn were carried pei-
vate1v before referee.
Zerrnhu's case is still in fcaying,-Fol!ctt's |
case having been finished last week. Ex-Juago |
1bo1nas Russell is the referee aud ho has been |
able to eolace his gricfs since his compulsory |
A. Tr3fo 1f }1~n Dov- of
ard the elevation Of the ''roor Christian" Bill |
Simmons, to the vacated place, by lis
tenirg to the amusing testimony put in for |
or against the Zerrahn claim. Tho hear
ings have been protracted, and hs7o taken place t
Mt the Judges Office IN the Custom-House- |
Outsiders who know the circumstances hate no
faith whatever in Zerrafu's claim. Zerrahu |
probably made moro cut Of the Jubilee than any |
enc else, Eaying, pcrhaps, Strauss aud Madame |
peschka-Leutner. For couple Of months or |
q week, and frequently afternoons, in conducting
rehearsals Of the oratorio-music to be sung, End |
for this he WAS handsomely paid BY tho societies |
engaging him,-ueTcr less than S35 time. |
his good luck from first to last
in this Way, and the added fame he was deriving
from the Jubilee, he manifested most profound
for Gilrnore,-t1,e man to whom he |
oscd ali. aud declined to let him conduct q sit,-
Gle note Of ANYTHING. except tho slar1-bnng
music At the frat Jubi1de a::plot was discovered
which would have wrecked Gilmore as . con-
ductof and boosted up Ze1rahn at the word
$50" Gilmore deelred to open the first con-
cert with Luther's noble choral. e God is d
Castle snd Defense" as an acknowledgment to
Of the enterprise but Zorrahn's friends de-
ciined 10 let Nico!ais overture, Which had been
reheatEed, be used, as that part Of the pro-
gramme '' belonged " to Zerrann. The plan WAS
to compel Gilmore to use the version Of tho
choral generally sung, written in different key,
and the result would have been a thorough
breakdown on the part OF the choristera. After
Rards, Zcrrahn WIS to conduct the overture, and
II this would havo gone OF well enough, for
the singers had only to sing from
choral Plainly, tie result would have
been IN apparent failure for Gilmore and tri-
1mph for Zerrahn. L discovery of the plan led
to an adoption Of the overture arrangement OF |
the choral for Gilmoro's use, but Zerrahn pre-
fezred not to give up tho overture itself.
But this DEPRESSION is not exactly to the point,
for it had nothing to do with the last Jubilee.
Gilmore, like good-hea-tcd soul forgot all his ]
bnIetnes and, when he began lis arrangements !
[or his last grand affair, made most liberal |
greed that be should receive $1,000 for his !
eerviccs as conductor at the several concerts,
provided that sum Tas netted from the per- I
[ormsnces, his (Gilmore's) benefit included. {
furthermore, this contract was to bo consld- il
red as between Gilmore and Ze1rahn solely, | s
md was not to hold against the Jubilee t
5otnmitteo, All this VAS expressed in writ | t
ng- The Jubilee, as arendg explained, | y
sas disastrous failure, 5nt Zerrahn demanded
10 money all the same. Gilmore had a supple t
a:iEn By agreeing to pay $4,000 from the ro- d
e1pts. This WIS once agreed to, but Zerrahn e
included to demand the full sum Of 5000. r,
This Gilmore refused to gro, as be was likely L
. . involve himself perso:ally in debt by the il
lEed his enaenyors successfully in keeping ser- a.