The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-17
THEY WANT THE MEDAL
MEMBERS OF THE IA. OF p. BAND
ARE WARM.
The Souvenir which They Won Mt
Over to Some other Organization.

The members of the X of P. band
are indignant, and they have a right to
be.
AT a great expense, this splendid
organization went to Denver to con-
test in the recent Eisteddfod and swept
everything before them.
The number in which the band con-
tested was officially announced as fol-
lows:
"24 Military Band-'Three Dances,
from the music to Henry VIII, by Ed
ward German. All instruments Gus
tomarily used in military bands will
be allowable of not less than twenty
five nor more than thirty in number.
First prize, $500, $50 gold medal,
donated by the Montelius Piano COM
pany; second prize, 800 and silver
medal, donated by Wolfe Londoner."
The K. of p. band was awarded the
first prize, which was $500 and the gold
medal. Now the $500 did not begin to
pay the band for the trip, as anyone
can understand. and the Salt Lake
organization attached more value to
the gold medal, which would be a
permanent souvenir of the victory,
than the money. 1t was supposed that
the medal would reach them soon after
the return of the musicians to Salt
Lake. but il did not come, and
inquiries were made by letter. The in
formation was finally elected that the
medal which was formally and Of
ficially announced as a part of the
prize. had been given to some other
organization, and a letter was then
written to the firm that offered the
prize.
In response to this. the following
letter has been received, which Ger
tainly put those responsible for the
fraud in anything but an enviable
position:
Denver, Colo, Oct 9. 1896.
"Afr. A. S. Zimmerman, Mgr. K. of P.
band Salt Lake City, Utah
Dear Sir:-Your favor of the list
was duly received. On account of the
Mountain and Plain Festival here this
week, we have been very busy, and
were not able TO investigate the matter
until today.
We agreed to give the Eisteddfod
society gold medal for competition.
They were to award it to whom they
pleased We noticed in their pro-
gramme that this medal was to be
awarded TO the best band We have
acted in good faith in the matter. We
had very nice medal made and we
gave it TO them. Now they tell us
4 1t you do not deserve this medal;
that you got abundantly paid for win
ming the first prize, and that they
thought best to give the medal to a
singing society. We have done every
thing that we agreed to do, and we be-
lieve that you should have this medal.
They gave il to the other society with
out consulting us, and we probably
would never have heard of it if we
had not received your letter, which
caused US to investigate. Mr.. Vincent
Morgan has promised to come up and
see us about the matter, and we shall
assure you we will do what we can
TO have the medal go TO you if you
are entitled TO it. You understand
that we had no interest in the festival,
We simply subscribed gold medal like
a good many other merchants, and the
committee made the other arrange
ments. Yours respectfully,
THE MoNTELUS PIANO CO."
There the matter rests, for the mera-
bers OF the band no not intend to let it
drop until the facts have been fully
established.