Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-10
IN SALT LAKE CITY.
National Live Stock Association to
Meet January Is.
CONCERT IN MORMON TABERNACLE.
Is One of the Grandest Features of
the Amusement Program That Will
Be Provided For the visitors-Del-
egates From Everywhere.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. T.
There will be no dry camp in Salt
Lake City during the annual session
OF the National Live Stock Associa-
ton This is the substance of an
edict just issued by the chairman of
the citizens committee on arrange
ments.
While the entertainments that will
be furnished for the pleasure of the
delegates and visitors will be varied as
well as pleasing, these diversions will
in no way be allowed to interfere
with the business to be transacted
by the convention. With the excep-
ton of number of receptions at pri-
vate residences, to which visiting :ad-
les only will be invited, there will be
no entertainments given during the
day.
No live stock congress in the his
tory of the country has had to dis
pose of as many matters of vital i'm
pOrtance as the one which convenes
on January Is will be called upon to
do. This is realized by all live stock
men, any they are coming here from
all sections OF the Union prepared to
transact business first and attend
public functions afterwards.
There are several bills now pend
ing before congress which were intro
duced at the request of the stockmen,
made thru the National association,
and upon which the prosperity and
advancement of the industry to a
large extent depends. Every pro-
gressive stockman wishes tie lend his
assistance in these aairs. and realizes
that no power will be more effective
than the actions of a congress of live
stock men representing two-thirds of
the industry in the United States.
From present indications the at
tendance will be the largest in the
history of the association, and the
committee on entertainment is max
ing preparations to care for $500 peo-
pc. The program agreed upon pro-
vides for a grand reception at the
Knutsford hotel on Tuesday evening,
January Is. Governor Wells will re-
ceive the guests and will invite to as
sist him the visiting governors, a
number of whom will be present, and
the representatives of the Canadian
government and the republics of Mex
leo and Venezuela, who have been in
vited to attend.
The second evening will be given
to grand concert in the Mormon
tabernacle. The choir that will give
the concert is composed of five hun.
bred voices, some of which rank with
any in the world. The great building
in which it will be, given has seating
capacity of thirteen thousand, and in
all the entertainment will be one
which stanger to Salt Lake City
has an opportunity to see but once in
lifetime.
Thursday night the theaters will
be thrown open to the visitors, and
on Friday night the Elks will give a
smoker. The lodge in this city is one
Of the largest and most prosperous in
the west; every member is interest
ed in making the affair the piece de
resistance of the week, therefore
any comment on the success OF the
entertainment is unnecessary.
Arrangements. are under way to
run special excursion train from
here to Pacific coast points after the
adjournment. AS soon as the route and
rate are agreed upon the proper an
rouncement will be made.
The exhibition of pure bred and
high grade cattle, horses, sheep and
swine will be another attraction OF
the week. Hon. John Sparks, OF
Reno, Nevada, and some of the prom
irent eastern breeders have signified
their intentions of bringing on their
| show herds. The exhibition will be
| followed by private sale of all stock
| except the herds owned solely for ex-
hibition purposes.
The Great Concert.
The music loving people of the coun-
try will he the best entertained, no
doubt, of any class to attend the con-
| yention, as they are all invited to at
tend a grand concert in the Mormon
| tabernacle, one of the most remark
able structures in the world, the even
ing of the 10th inst Those who are
to take part in the rendition of the
program are Mrs. Lizzie Thomas Ed
wards, soprano; Miss Arvilla Clark,
contradict; T. S. Ashworth, tenor; H.
| s. Ensign, baritone; w. G. Give,
violinist; j. c. McClelland, organist;
Evan Stevens, manager and conductor,
and ]. G. McClelland, accompanlst.
The Tabernacle.
To the stranger in Zion this taber-
nacle is constant source of wonder.
From the outside the immense build
ing with it's curved roof looks like a
giant sleeping turtle; within, cell
ing without visible support other than
| the walls, arches over seats enough to
| accommodate $4,000 people comfort
ably. 1t is marvel of engineering
and architecture and the idea was
evolved in the fertile brain of Brigham
Young. The acoustics of the struc-
ture are unequalled and no pilgrim in
this land of the Latter-Day Saints can
forget the experience of standing in
the gallery at one end Of the long
building and hearing the sound of a
dropping pin on the speakers table at
the other end.
In this fact lies the secret of the pow
err and beauty of tabernacle music.
Nowhere does melody sound so sweet;
nowhere does harmony reach it's full
ness and purity in the degree that it
does here. A quaver in single voice
or one false tone cannot escape detec-
ton. Therefore the tabernacle choir
must be near to perfection: In ten
years of lovable leadership Prof. Evan
| Stephens has brought his 500 or more