The record-union., 1892-06-21
ONLY ON WEEK DAYS.
There VIII Be But One Concert
Each Week,
And That VIII Not Be Given on sun
day-Reasons for the Com
mittee's Action.

ecutlVe COl1mlttee OF the Open-Alr Con-
cert Committee held meeting yesterday,
and after considering the matter decided
to discontinue the Sunday evening con-
certs.
The reasons given for this action are
that, in the first place, the fund is only
about half large enough to warrant the
giving of two concerts per week during
the season; and secondly that, inasmuch
as large portion of the community are
opposed to public concerts on the Sab
bath, 1t would be better to respect their
wishes than to keep up a constant turmoil
over the matter.
1t is true the committee had determined
on giving two concerts per week, but it
was understood that the season would
have to be much shorter than usual, and
that even then several hundred dollars
additional would have to be raised in
some way to meet the expense. After
considering the matter the committee
came TO the conclusion that it would be a
difficult matter TO raise the necessary
funds for two concerts per week. and
therefore decided upon the action re-
ferred to.
q Another consideration that governed
the committees action was this: The
people who go TO church regularly on
Sunday evenings are deprived of the
privilege of attending the concerts on
that evening, while everybody can enjoy
concerts on weekday evenings. All the
workshops and places of business close
early-the former at ) o'clock in the af-
ternoon and the latter at 6-and this
affords all an opportunity to have their
suppers and prepare to attend the con-
cerLS.
Owing to the action of the Executive
Committee-Messrs. }. q. MARITIME, J. +.
Mills and +. NJ. Woodson-E. J. Devlin,
a member of the Music Committee. has
rendered his resignation. He gives as his
reasons therefor that he favors SUNDAY
evening concerts; that he interested him
self in the matter because he believed the
public desired them, and for the addi-
tional reason that he was not notified OF
the meeting yesterday at which the ac-
ton referred to was taken.
The failure to notify Mr.. Devlin of the
meeting is explained by Chairman Mar
tine in statement made by him last
evening, IN which he saws that Mr.. Dew
lin is member of the Music Committee,
but not of the Executive Committee,
which latter body alone had authority to
act IN the premises. In the statement
mentioned Chairman MARITIME says:
CHAIRMAN Marines STATEMENT,
The whole matter in a nutshell is that
Mr.. Mills and myself have been bothered
a great deal as to how to make the small
sum Of money we had collected for this
season OF open-alr concerts carry us
through, and we decided upon giving two
concerts a week till the money should
run out, which date would be about the
lst OF August. We both agreed last week
! that it would be the better policy to re-
duce the concerts to one week, and in
this way we could run the season up to
the first day Of the State Fair
Il say we agreed upon this proposition,
and any fair minded person Wilt see that
1t would be the better plan to have one
concert per week than to shut them off
right when they, the people, most needed
them. Some may ask, why not have
another dance at the Pavilion to raise
money to continue them ?''
10 these people l will speak for J. E.
Mills and myself We have had all we
want OF getting up balls for concert pur-
poses. If any of these public-spirited
citizens care to undertake this lob thew
can have all they want of it.
! And now l wish to say to the public
! that Mr.. Mills and myself spent three
whole weeks of our time in taking llp
collections, and all we collected was
about 900, and as the expense OF each
concert is about So the people can see if
! our judgment was not about right in the
action we took yesterday. AS for our
taking snap judgment of the committee,
! went down twice to see Mr.. Devlin, but
JAILED TO find him. Still, care nothing
for this.
1--WE made no promises-at least I did
not-at the meeting at which was elected
! Chairman of the General COMMITTEES. to
! have Sunday concerts, and / will call
upon Messrs. Mills and Woodson to sus-
tam me IN this. l may have expressed
! myself IN favor OF them at other times
1 n n NO ~ hr,f . 7 l.: T
/ would not give q cent for man who, if
to-day he makes up his mind to do a
/ thing ana tomorrow he sees good rea-
/ sons for changing it, that he would no t
do it.
ITO sum the thing up, we talked over
TINS Sunday proposition on several occa-
sions, and when we decided upon one a
week we were at a loss to arrange the
/ programme. To give the one concert a
week only, and on Sunday, we knew
| would be too diStaSteful to many OF our
! people; so, to meet all classes, the middle
OF the week was fixed upon. As to the
committees = the Music Committee is
composed of j. 4. Mills, +. j. Devlin, e.
| Nj. Sheehan, +. NJ. Wooason and myself.
and the Executive Committee consists OF
the odlcers of the committee, who are j.
| Il. Mills, +. NJ. Woodson and mvselE-
the Secretary, Treasurer and President.
ana think we hau n perfect right to tx
the Gays Tor these concerts without con-
sultIng any OF the ether committee AS
for our collecting money from the people
of this city under the idea that there must
be Sunday concerts, all | viii say is that
any who subscribed TO the fund under
this impression may call at the office of
| Treasurer j. E. Mills, corner ofThird and
streets, and lie viii refund them their
money. trust this explanation will be
sufficient
FAvoRs SUNDAY CONCERTS.