The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-19
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Bangor Paper Putu in Type What Lots of
People Have Been Thinking.
Bangor Commercial

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The managers of the Maine music fes-
rivals are still sucking their thumbs and
crying poverty in the corner.
They say that the recent concert tour
has been fiat financial failure, end that
it won't DE repeated unless the people
will guarantee certain sum to relieve
the treasury of the financial strain!
This business has natural sound to
those who were in Maine at the time OF
the festival. At that time although the
audiences had been immense. Director
Chapman cried poverty 50 loudly that
Manager Chase had to come around to
the newspapers and explain matters.
AS to the concert tour it was met by
tremendous audiences. No other con-
cert company has ever had such success
in Maine. When Thousand people turn
out to concert in small cities like Port
lam and Bangor, and halls in places like
Houlton are jammed to the doors, the
people have done their part. If there is
financial failure after that the leak must
be with the treasury.
On the whole Maine is sick of this pow
erty cry. She has had too much of it.
Director Chapman needs to have sea-
son OF getting onto himself.
Maine people read the newspapers.
They know that he has come to Maine
to make his business pay. They are
glad he has come and they like his work
so well that they want to have him con-
tinue. They are willing to do more for
him than has ever been done for any
other man of his trade, because he has
been working hard for them. They
know that the festival is a business ven
ture and that it must be made to pay.
That is why Bangor built the auditorium
and subscribed her hard cash. That is
why Portland and the whole state rallied
and gave Messrs. Chapman and Chase
the warmest reception and the biggest
pot of money ever collected by any
enterprise in these parts
Now, then, let Messrs. Chapman and
Chase run their risks. Mr.. Chase is a
business man. What if he tried to gel
a guarantee from every man who fought
fruit trees of him.
Let him run his music business as he
runs his other enterprises.
The trouble seems to be that the man.
ayers were looking for million an6
didn't get it. After all, too, it appears
as II MeSSrS. chapman ana Chase had
gotten more than their moneys worth
out of the festival. Mr.. Chapman never
got SO much advertising before. The
New York newspapers never paid him
the attention given him by those in
Maine, and his Maine festival has served
to do what had not been done before,
bring his name into actual prominence
in the great musical centres of the coun-
try. Musical people live on their repu-
tations to a certain extent. Maine has
given Mr.. Chapman reputation that
he never had before-for Mr.. Chairman is
not yet known in this country as a great
conductor, though he undoubtedly is one.
AS to Mr.. Chase, Mr.. Chase is in the
fruit tree business and needs advertising.
He has gotten it and heap of the very
best quality. His name is now known
from Eastport to Seattle simply through
the prominence given it by the Maine
newspapers, which have been glad to help
him.
On the whole, it seems that the thing
is about equal. Messrs. Chapman and
Chase have done we'll for Maine and
Maine has done no less for Messrs.
Chapman and Chase.
This is plain talk, but it is no palmer
than is intended.
The people of Maine, of Bangor, and
of Portland, and of all the other towna,