The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-22

rect the music. and Mr.. Haskell, Of
Brownie and Ladies Minstrel fame.
will be stage manager.

rect the music and Mr.. Haskell, of
Brownie and Ladies Minstrel fame.
will be stage manager.
Evan Stephens has been waiting to
learn the positive date of Inauguration
day before starting for San Fran
cisco. Now that the great event ii
finally set for Jan. s, MIR. Stephens
and Err Whitney will make their fly
ing trip to the coast in the interests
of the choir excursion at the end of
this week They will in all probability
start next Saturday and return with
in a week Mr.. Stephens viii crowd
the rehearsals for both the Inaugural
day ceremonies and the choir concerts
all this week. and the first of these
events will take place Immediately
after Governor Wells installation. II
is pleasant to note the enthusiasm
with which everyone is aiding Mr..
Stephens in his musical preparations
for Inaugural day. He says he would
like to have every choir in the city
Join in rendering America" '"The
Star Spaneled Banner" and utah,
We Love Thee" the new composition
he has written for the occasion.
AT the close of the tabernacle ser
vices today all the members of the
Amateurs chorus who won the Eistedd-
fod prize. will hold meeting and
definitely determine who can and
who cannot ioin the organization
formed to give concerts in aid of the
California excursion. and to make the
trip. Should amy of the $50 members
be. lacking. Mr.. Ensign says he has
more than fifty names of singers who
are anxious to take their places.
Every member. therefore. is expected
to report in person or by proxy at
today's meeting: 1T has been de-
cided to give three concerts in the
tabernacle at once in conjunction
with the Mutual Improvement league,
the receipts to be divided between the
two organizations. These will be fol-
lowed I'D by concerts in the various
wards of the city under the auspices
OF the ward Improvement associations
and IN these. too. the receipts will be
divided.
estly L am glad that the Press club
benefit at the Lyceum theatre Monday
night was a failure. 1t deserved to be
me cub has no business to appear be-
tore the public in the role of a mendi-
cant. In this city there are, perhaps
forty newspaper men eligible for mem
bership in the Press club. It's needs are
few and its opportunities for doing
among the poor Charitable societies
are dong everything to alleviate this
suffering, and yet the Press club, an
organization composed of well-paid
men, holds out the hat and asks aims
of a PUBLIC that is already taxed al
most beyond the patience limit. The
Press club made a mistake when it ac-
cepted the well-meant offer of the Ly-
ceum management.
1t took some courage to write that
paragraph, and the editor of the Argus
is to be commended for uttering it,
But he does not state the whole case.
The Press club benefit was i'll advised
for still another reason. and it is this
Newspaper men should be the last to
accept favors from any one whom it is
their business to criticise. 1t was per-
haps the thing farthest from the minds
of the youthful managers of the Ly-
ceum, that they might influence the
gentlemen of the press by rendering
them the entire proceeds of their open
ing night; equally distant, no doubt,
was it from the thoughts of the Press
club, that they might at some time re-
turn uuid pro quo for that courtesy.
But the fact that the benefit was &C
cepted, put both the club and the house
in a. light under which neither of them
would care TO stand before the public.
The newspaper man who gives any
manager the right to think he has
pull on his columns. makes an error
that will ever be returning to VeX MIN.
The Christmas number of the New
York Drama tic Mirror is % '78r-7
thfrtv-six artistic pages crowded with
holiday lore The editor set himself a
hard task when he went to work to
equal his Christmas number of last
year. but he has aCc0mn'' =
and in some respects excelled it. The
lft-hoora rherf cover is very dainty and
strikingly handsome; the portraits of
many brilliant lights of the profession
are found within, while the reading
roatter is lively. varied and bright;
last, but not least, the advertising
pages TEEN with announcements, show
ing the profession thoroughly appreci-
ates the value of its favorite organ as
a trade medium
All the churches are arranging the
usual special musical exercises for
Christmas. and in some of the Mormon
meeting houses this evening and tomor-
row evening (the nintieth anniversary
of the birth of Joseph SMITH there will
be. in addition to Christmas music,
songs commemorative of his life and
death. Several of the churches will
render their Christmas programme to-
day.
At the First Congregational church
today, the full choir will sing the ''Te
Deun," by Banks, and Mr.. Burley and
the choir will sing Nazareth
AT ST. Paurs the Christmas services
begin at midnight. with a choral cele-
bration of the Holy Eucharist. The
music ait this service will be Gounod' s
"St. Cecilia" with the ancient hymns
'Adeste F'ideles' and "Qui eX come
PATHS Natus" and the old English
carol. christians. Awake"
AIT II am the 'St. Cecilia" will be
sung again with later Christmas
hymns to modern settings.
The choir is at present under the
leadership of the priest in charge, the