The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07

eve went, we saw. we conquered,
and returned
This can with safety be asserted by
the men and the women, the boys and
the girls, who started for Denver a
week ago and returned yesterday af-
ternoon.
AS 1 have before stated in these
columns the Eisteddfod was great
success, both artistically and financial
ly, and it is a miracle that it was so
To start in with, Denver had no
suitable building in which to hold such
a festival, and it was necessary that
at least $4,000 be raised. But some of
the leading Welsh spirits of Denver
said:
Let it be raised
And it was raised.
That these enterprising men over
came obstacles that seemed almost in
sulmountabla, can be easily believed
by all who had tine good fortune to be
present during the week just closed.
That they seized hold of chaos and
out of it brought order, was most EVIL
dent, no matter which way one turned.
That they fulfilled their contract with
the Salt Lakers and did many things
in our favor besides, is also matter
of history. That the people of Denver
are among the mpst hoSp1table VINO
bear the honored name American, will
be testified to by all who broke bread
with them or were sheltered under
their roofs. The choir has made other
trips, but never such a one as this-lt
was unique and original in itself.
The excellence OF the Salt Lake mu-
sicians has been shown in the prizes
gained in a city where one might ma
turally expect some favoritism would
crop out, for Denverites, be it truly
said, take great pride in their city
and in the achievements of her citl-
zens.
Taken all in all, the results, as I
have stated,
WE'RE MARVELLOUS.
The lack of an organ was one great
drawback; and the average Salt Laker
viii be liable to have nervous prostra-
ton were he told that all the accom-
paniment to the massive choruses
was a ChickeI1ng piano The visit of
the choir to Denver and its success
there must be ranked among the no
table achievements of the year in the
west in a musical way, and an adver-
tisement more valuable, more far
reaching in it's effects, than all the
palace exhibition cars that could be
run out of the railway yards in this
city in a year. 1t was an appeal to
the souls of the people, not to their
cupidity; 1T was intended as an educa-
tipn not a mere mOney-getter; ii
represented much of that which is the
f nobleSt and the best in human nature;
it pointed out to the cultured and
other people of Denver what the mu-
sicahy-inclined men and women, boys
and girls-and, be it said, Denver has
many of tflem-wllat they may reason
ably hope to accomplish by the same
study and the same application, and
similar bending to that which our
choir has the advantage of here.
1t has, 1 verify believe, created a new
era in the musical world of our sister
city, which. while greater in many
ways-aye, far greater in those ways
than we can reasonably expect to DE
for years to come-yet
HAS MUCH TO LEARN
ere she can be placed alongside so far
as music is concerned, her humble and
lowly sister, Salt Lake. l say this with
the best of feelings towards Denver or
towards those men who ten days ago
were mere strangers to me, but whom
| now feel | have a right to class as
my friends. No one who was with the
choir knows better than l how heartily
they received into their households the
boys and girls and men and women
and gave these the freedom of the
house-even entrusting the keys OF
their doors to them. l laug-hfngly re-
marked to one good lady the other day,
when she told me that she had a couple
of the members of the choir with her,
and she had given them the keys OF
the house, only to return home and
find herself locked out:
That comes of entertaining strang-
ers; perhaps you will find the china
and the silveTware gone when you
finally break the door in"
My humor was apparently of the
concealed kind, for she fare6i ur
in an instant and said:
young man, you can believe what
you choose, but [ want to say to you
that | have had two members of the
choir in my house ever since they
/ came here l never saw them before
but their conduct has been such thai
| whenever l shall hereafter see taiber-
nacle badge 1 shall have the utmost
confidence in the wearer."
1 firmly believe that just such a sen
timent animates each and every resi-
/ dent of Denver who entertained any
! of the Salt LakerS who have just re-
/ turned home, flushed with victory, bul
/ a victory well earned, not only by hard
work during the Eisteddfod but also
] years before its occurrence.
IT'S EFFECT
The effect of the late musical car
nival on the people of Denver cannoi
but be for the good of that city. Fol
years the men who made and are max
ing Denver have realized that the!
sorely needed an auditorium of {
larger and different kind than has We
been built. They have opera houses
halls, and theatres galore, but not sucl
a building as is absolutely needed. TIL,
Eisteddfod and its results, I believe
has proved to them that action in thi:
respect must be taken at once. Their
Is much musical talent in Denver, bu
even if that city had ten times more i
can never be developed until suitable
building shall have been provided
THE MANAGEMENT
AS to the business management a
this end and at the other, it must b.
said in all candor that there were nu
merous sins of omission and commits
sion-there was much left undone tina
c,ht7H11d have bpoD done a nj Tn1lch don.