The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-02
Festival Notes.

Miss A. w. Baggs and Grand Chorus.
Festival Notes.
| Tonight is the time.
The tout ensemble was oil that could be asked
last night
You all want to wear your best bib and tucker
to night
| Carriages should make their approach at the
| close of the concerts from the east
| 1t will be accepted as an evidence of good
sense for ladies to appear without hats or bon
nets.
| Thanks to the good sense of the Indianapolis
| ladies, there was q conspicuous absence Of high
| hats last night.
| There is ice-cream in the basement ana
| scream upstairs. The latter kind comes higher
| in double sense.
1t is the duty, as we'll as the high privilege, of
every right-minded man and woman to be in at
| tendance tonight.
| Wagner wrote music for just such occasions
as the present He must have had Indianapolis
| in his minds eye.
| The surprising number of elderly and fine
looking German gentlemen in the audience was
matter Of comment
| The ushers deserve all praise for their hand
/ ling of the first audience in the new hall They
made few if any errors.
The Cincinnati chorus should be brought up
to entertain the crowd outside. The main show
| is in the central pavilion
| John F. Ruckle Post, G.. A. R., No 165, will
meet at post hall at $3.50, to-day, to assist in es-
cort duty to General Sherman.
1t is demonstrated that indianapolis can do
some things as we'll as others. One of the things
| is to conduct musical festival.
/ Professor Barus has established his title as
father of musical festivals in the city of Indian
apolis. He is discriminating parent
The girls from out of town wore the largest
corsage bouquets, but the city bellies did not al
low them to take the lead in the matter of peaky
/ bonnets.
There1l be some chorus singing tonight not
down on the programme. The boys in blue
learned how long time ago, and have never
! forgotten.
Gems. A. P. Hovey Mt. Vernon, M. d. Man
son, Charlottesville, and William Gross New
! Castle, are at the Grand Hotel In attendance
| upon the reunion to-day.
| By the seating of the female members of the
chorus in profile to the audience, the dazzling
| effect of their personal beauty and their toilets
is, in measure, lost
There will be circus in about fifteen rings in
progress at the same time tonight. The man
who fails to go and take his wife will feel like
mobbng himself after it is all over.
II is the universal' verdict that Tominson
Hall is just what the city needed to make it a
perfect success. 1t not as large as some, but a
better one for the purpose will not be found
anywhere.
| windows IN the surrounding blocks were at q
| premium last night. 1t is the proper thing to
buy ticket, and thus attest the interest all
should feel in this commendable enterprise
Pass UP on the inside.
| An elderly gentleman from out of town, after
| gazing hxedly at the profile of Professor Beis-
| senherz, was heard to remark: "Gosh. [ never
knew before that Governor Porter was such a
boss fiddler. Amt the Governor accomplished,
thought
| There was smile OF intense satisfaction on
every face as the audience went down the broad
| starways. at the end of the entertainment, last
night Everybody was in humor to shake
hands with his neighbour anc few were inclined
| to shout
1t was serious mistake that only one OF the
| main doors was opened last night at the close of
the entertainment 1t delayed the exit of the
crowd fully one-half, and gave the impression
that the hall could not be speedily emptied. This
should be looked after tonight, on the occasion
of the great big crowd
! 1t will be found that seats in the main BODY of
the hall are as good rs the best The gallery has
all been taken up for tonight but many of the
best seats will be on Gale to-day. There is no
need Of being afraid to buy seats that are 'way
back" Every person In the audience can see
and hear all that's going on.
Colonel Blacks speech to Professor Barus
when making the presentation of the badge was
somewhat too long. He said not word that
was untrue in praise of the Professor, but IL is
| pure cruelty to keep man more than minute
and half in the uncomfortable position Of a
| recipient who has not got possession of the
! gift.
The last issue Of the Illustrated Graphic News
of Cincinnati CONTAINS an excellent illustration
| OF the new city hall, members Of the Indianapo-
lis militia organizations. and the proposed SOL
diers' monument Gen. John Coburn contributes
sketch. 1.-THE Battle of Wild Cat" that will be
read with great interest by ALL 1t is an Indian
apolis edition of the paper, and will NO doubt be
widely circulated.
| All the singers, with possibly the exception OF
those In the back seats, looked amiabe last night
Were appearances deceitful, and could it be pos
sible that smiling choristers in silk and broad
cloth were inwardly raging that they had not
been chosen as s0loists when it ought to be evil
dent to any but deaf and blind conductor that
they were the httesta This query is propounded
merely in general way, and no answer is ex-
pected.
! Independent, Of Saturday: The old relia-
BILE. John Jacob Townsend, and only
marcher from Atlanta to the sea, will DO
| be with us next week. and remain for one day
| only. A few weeks ago weak imitation Of the
march to the given by one j. Davis, an
| impostor. and the people down there applauded
| the feat The HOLSTERS next week. should give
the performer of this act big house-such
| blush.
Indiana County Superintendent.
The Indiana County Superintendents Associa-
ton will hold its first convention at Plymouth
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