Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-07
Respectfully yours, FRANCIS B. HUNN, President Board Commissioners, for the
A TREMENDOUS SALE.

Tickets for the "Messiah'' Almost All sold-Large Number of Out-of-Town Parties to be Here-Ben Davies, she Famous Tenor, to Arrive in This Country Saturday.
 The gale of seats for "The Messiah" be- gan at g o'clock yesterday morning at the Hyperion. At that hour there were about 200 people in line Of this number five had been in line since Saturday night, the others having lined up gradually since then. From the time the sale began up to 12 o'clock about l5O more took positions in line.
 The sale was conducted in the bsst pos sible manner. The doors of the lobby of
 the theater were kept closed and two off.
 cers were on duty to see that the forma- 1 tion of the line was preserved. Only one pu chaser was admitted to the lobby at 8 time, and thus all crowdipg about the box office was avoided.
 The house last evening was practically
 sold for the evening performance. there
 being few seats still left. The executive committee of the Gounod society wish to announce that for a concert of this sort every seat in the Hyperion is an available one. The tickets for the matines are Ro- ing fast and 1t Is only matter of e few days when the tickets for the afternoon performance will be just ss scarce as those for the evening Many people were willing to pay $9 and $10 for desirable eeat for
 the evenings performance.
 It was estimated last evening that yes- terday's sale had surpassed all previous Gounod sales. The out-of-town attend ance this year promises to be very large, and the orders already received far sur passes those of last year. Large parties Mertden, 8 whole carload from Waterbury, and still others from up the Naugatuck valley and as far away as Forestville. The management of the Gounod society yesterday morning received cableRram from Ben Davies, the English tenor, stat ing that he had sailed on the Umbria on Saturday last and would arrive in New York this week Saturday.
 The following criticism Is taken from
 the London Daily News of February 13:
 .On Saturday evening Ben Davies made his
 debut in Berlin, with Herr Johannes Wolff, the
 violinist and Herr Theodore Plowitz, the plan
 1st Our Berlin correSpon 'ent writes: sMr
 Davies achieved most brilliant SUCCESS The
 management was probably not quite familiar
 with the circumstances here, and the conse-
 quence was that the concert was not so well at
 tended as one would have expected. Besides
 this, the Germans are a little conceitsd with re- gard to music and meet foreigners with some
 distrust. All the more significant, therefore
 was the triumph which was achieved by Ben Davies.'''
 It is many years since a tenor has been heard
 here like hin The public was nearly beside it.
 self with enthusiasm, and there is no doubt that
 should he come again to Berlin he would receive
 hearty welcome. He sang "Waft Her Apgels''
 from .Jephtha, '' then the air Come, Margarits
 Come from Sullivan's Martyr of Antioch
 Songs of Araby," and finally ars from Massen-
 cts 'Manon' and Gounod's Faust" But the public would not leave their places till MT. Da-
 vies sang two songs more, one of them being
 Heine's "Du Bist Vie Fine Blume."