Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-12-27
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL.
Our Chicago Letter.
CHICAGO, Dec. "a. 1s

tOhaOO WIZ eAoAO VIZ thC ATk III
building has created such a ft,rort
as the Auditorium lin factit is safe
to prophesy that such rhetorical ex
pressions as ''down the vista O
ages" ETC., will soon be supplantet
by one more agreeable to western
states,-"all the way from the Arb
to the Auditorium" western archi
lecture has made it's debut, ,-and |,
of course hardly expected to be idea
in its youth. 1t Is not even graceful
80 far as its outward appearance
goes,-has not even the gay adorn.
ments which youth so naturally
prizes. The Auditorium is massive
and gray and imposing; it stands fol
money and pluck and bold enter
prises and strong purpose, and more
than all else, happy compromise
between capital and labor. The
history of its being conceived by
capitalists, designed by artists and
executed by artisans, has not been
darkened by single halt or strike
1t has gone right on and up, and
popular enthusiasm helped to lubri-
cate the machinery. Cooperation
Is q wonderful lotion, and repeated
applications of the same would in
time become healing potion to the
great wound which has been so
much aggravated of late by labor
dissentions.
The 9th of December was soft,
warm spring day and gray mist
hung caressingly over our busy city
Monday ls often called blue day,
but on this occasion it was gala
day. There was no mad joy about
the occasion, but glad and quiet
jubilance. The president and his
party arrived and received military
and civic demonstrations, but there
was dignity pervading it all that
affected even the drum major. There
was a sufficiency of bunting about
the vicinity of the Auditorium, and
the shop-windows were all dressed
in their best business style. Espe-
cially were the millinery windows
ornamented with an infinite number
of opera dainties. Ladies hurried in
and out and with gauze bonnets and
corsage boquets, full dress gloves and
other varieties of illusions, while
their sterner escorts cut short their
business hours to fit about among
the furnishings suitable for the var
lous needs. We only mention this
detail because it is one of the essen
tials of every public demonstration
and is the realistic part of the per-
formance.
Patti appeared as was expected
and the anticipation of her coming
was testified to by the lines and
lines of patient purchasers who
bided many weary hours for an
opportunity to lay down their
wealth and secure
or sitting room. as the case
might be. The concert was not class
ical, but appropriate to the popular
event, and divided the attention of
the audience with the beauties of
the interior finishings of the hall.
The stage was beautiful with the
lowers of Chicago--the musical
cream of the West-a fitting orna-
to set off the Queen of
Song. Patti sang little and well-yes,
in spite of public expectations, she
sang without showing her age very
much. Her Paris costumes in no
wise affected her bird-llke "Home
Sweet Home" Everyone was full
Of good will and the enthusiasm OF
and would have encored
Patti they summoned
to the foot-lights a round dozen
of times. OF course she could not
sing so many times. even to please SO
pleased an audience-not that her
vocal powers were limited, but her
objected. Patti docs not
sing for charity or her country or
her fellow men,--who knows
she sings from her heart or
is even said to take
for her music, yet her tones
are as clear and soft and pure as
those of deep-wood bird. So many
good people are discussing the ethics
of music and morals. How would
they account for the touching tones
Of the world famed diva, whose
family history is grown on the pub
lie memory. There is nothing like
as she emphasized it,
brought the tears to the eyes of mil
liohaires and those who know no
homes other than pa,atial resi-
dence. What is the secret OF Pattfs
tender tones? She is fond OF dogs
and of ovations, but she has never
been known to sing on q ship board
where no engagement pressed ior
the benefit of sailors Berthei'