The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-21
CAME BY THOUSANDS.
TREMENDOUS RUSH FOR TICK
ETs TO THE SACRED CONCERT.
rhe Observation-Disclosures "After-
noon" At the seattle Theater
Bound tn BE q Great Success
Thousands Of People In Line for
Hours for Reserved Seats, and of
Necessity, Some Were Disap-
pointed.

emusic hath charms" declared Shake
speare. and so reiterate the people Of this
city. In their desire to attend the sacred
concert to be given by the Post-Inteiii-
gencer at the Seattle theater Sunday after
noon the people have evinced an uncontrol-
liable desire 10 be influenced by the charms
that music alone is capable OF conveying
TO mortal man. The revival of the good
old songs that once issued from the old
westher-worn church, and influenced
many of as as we'll as those of the genera
tons that have gone before. seems TO
many notable event. and one not 10 be
missed. In the onward press Of today the
old of which there remains but the
pleasures of memory, has been supplanted
by the new. Many of these memories are
shrouded in the recollections of the sacred
music with which the crganist of some
modest little out-of-the-way structure
that served as a house OF worship once
filled the souls of the listeners. and which
are no longer heard today In the modern
ICED church. There are many. too. who
participated in these sacred songs OF the
past to whom ii seems a veritabie back
ward turn of the tide OF the years. with
the ultimate return also of the music OF
the apparently distant past.
BY all, old and young, the Post Intel.i-
gencer concert Is being hailed with delight.
and indications are that the Seattle theater
a
IL has never before experienced. The rnsia
for tickets for the concert has been tre-
mendous. and many. II is needless to state.
We're doomed to disappointment in their
efforts TO secure reserved seats. Long aft
er the last ticket had been given out there
were over a thousand applicants who felt
the disappointment keeniy.
The announcement in yesterdays Post
Inteiligencer that reserved tickets would
b. rrft- ont q ~ rSxf
ter brought out a large crowd before s:4s.
the time set for the opening of the box Of
flee. As early as $50 a. III. a number OF peo-
pie. eager TO secure tickets. had gathered
al the theafer. determined 10 be among the
first, In order that. by some unforeseen
hitch. they might not be tisapp ,intes and
when the ticket office was thrown open
there were several hundred in the
line. which rapidly increased until
there were at least two or threa thousand
waiting for tickets or course this number
could not be accc annotated, as the capacs-
~ Of the reserved seats is but thousand.
ard many felt an injury in being in
formed that The tickets had given out. The
isne OF patient WATERS did not diminish
with the distribution of tickets. instead it
kept increasing. until It's end centeres! on
Second avenue and Cherry street. All
morning did this crush OF humanity slow
~ and gradually make its way I'M the hill
as line OF country folk wind gradually
up TO the window of the country postofficc
on some auspicious mail day
The distribution OF tickets commenced at
SIS. and by 10 O'Clock every one OF the
thousand reserved seat tickets had been
given out. But fhe crowd kept steadily
surgins onward toward the window. ref,Is-
ing 20 take the word OF their predecessors
that all the tickets were gone az orrer
than a joke, for IL seemed to them after
spending 50 much time awaiting their IN
dfyiauai turn. an improbs hility thu. there
were no seats reserved for them But. ars.
come first served was the order OF the dav
and they who came early were the lucky
ones. though IL did saem hard that those
who rad rot anticipated an early rush
and who were on time. almost should have
had 20 wait patiently in line until they fin-
ally reached the box Office. only 20 learn
that they had come too hate Several Of
these took the disarposnt hard and
accused the man behind the window Of
displaying parriaiiiy. which. OF course was
not said in spirit Of conviction. bu. mere
~ from one Of irritation.
Though the reserved seats are All givaT,
out. there are yet some three hundred
seats in the gallery 10 be distributed To
many tire gallery seats are the choicest
from which 20 listen 20 musical rs~o-
gramnss. Wher one X IA the gallery fhp
echoes DO not concentrate as In the front
part % the house. and the listener though
ha n2y b. In the realm % the tnfr,ftshl@
cn1ntgTessnt gallery god 70 whom, the
high wings Of the she7ter are conceded as
srcclsi precincts. has ar excellent vantage
for hearing
TIE concert viii commences a. go
o'clock