The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-03
SEC'Y JAMES RETURNS.
AFTER A TRIP TO DENVER, HE
TELLS OF 1T GLIBLY.
Making Arrangements for the Next
EisteddfOd at Denyer-Wined and
Dined and Treated Like n Prince.

General Secretary John James, of
the Cambrian association, and the
whilom assistant prosecutor and clerk
in the police court, returned from a
two weeks visit in Denver Sunday
evening, where he has been putting in
the foundation stakes for the great
Eisteddfod to be held in Colorado S
capital in 1896. From the newspaper
reports received ahead of his return
it would appear that Mr.. James was
much in evidence among Denver s
-Four Hundred" for>he was wined and
dined in both private and public, and
not the least among the honors be-
slowed upon the genial little gentle
man was the banquet rendered him
by the Arapahoe Press association, for
newspaper men as a rule know values
when they see them.
Mr.. James can't talk fast enough to
tell of his royal reception and univer-
sal hoSpitable treatment. On the 26th
ult. he met Colorado state committee
and conferred with them in maturing
plans for the musical event next year.
A committee to arrange the contests
and prizes was appointed. composed
CT John j. Jenkins, president; Lloyd
Jones, Rev. N. A. Ellis. Rev. Owen
T. Herbert, r. d. Reese, H. r.
Hughes, Josiah Hughes, r. J. Crit
fiths and John Sylvanus.
AN auditorium constructed of tile,
steel and glass, costing $500, 900, is to
be built and completed by next Aug
ust," said Mr.. James. I'm this the
Eisteddfod will be held. The chamber
of commerce is supplemented by a
committee of public-spirited business
men, who will allow nothing to check
the tide of success already secured
The site selected is central and of easy
access. The architectural plans will
be published within a week or So
showing the structure to be after the
style of our tabernacle, with seating
capacity for $4,000.
The programme of exercises will be
ready for publication and broadcast
circulation next week. Following this
there will be agents of the Cambrian
association who will go all over the
country and pave the way for choirs
and bands to prepare for the great
contest. Already they have notices OF
intended entry from Missouri, Iowa.
Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho
Wyoming and, of course, from Utah
and Colorado. Many other states will
be in line in plenty of time and the
outlook is flatteringly favorable for
the greatest musical event ever held
in the United States.
L would like to throw aside nv
modesty for a moment and paw tri.
butte at home for my treatment abroad
The Denver fire and police board made
Mr. L. F. Thomas, who accompanied
me on this trip, and myself their guests
at a banquet at the Windsor hotel. II
was smoker such as only Denver
up-to-date people know how to get ur
and enjoy. The Cambrian society, 600
strong, next extended their hospftabIe
feelings in a banquet at the paIatia-
residence of W. A. Brubaker, 1927 Sher-
man avenue. Another banquet was
given by the Arapafloe Press associa.
ton and we Were invited guests to tbs
private rehearsal of Professor Henry
Housley's opera, The Juggler.' with
the Bostonians as an audience. Mr.
Housley will be remembered here as
the leader of the Denver Choral So
ciety. AT all these places I was called
upon for remarks, which, of course
was very fiattering and did me, or
rather Utah, high honor. In brief /
found that Denver contained a. great
many of the kind of people that we
have in Utah-a people that make
nations proud