The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-09
TO BEGIN WORK TOMORROW
Matter of MusicIi Festival to be set
tied this - eek.


The soliciting committee on the musi-
cal festival for Wichita viii begin their
work tomorrow morning. The executive
committee who now have the entire mat
ter in charge, have decided that it viii
take $500 to make the project an abso-
lutte certainty Of success from a financial
standpoint. and the citizens of Wichita
are unanimous in their endorsement of
the project.
The plan for holding the festival IS to
secure the $500 in cash donations. which
VIII insure the success of the project
and then after it is held, TO return the
money to the donors II it pays out
which It intends it should. The contests
win be held with the main idea of hav-
ing the judging done absolutely fair in
every possible way 10 make it SO. All
too often very poor presentations have
been rated only a few per cent under a
fine production for reasons" but there
is nothing fair whatever in any contest
unless the judges are strictly impartial
and any attempt to influence them should
result in disqualification. No pains win
be spared to make this feature the most
important in the contests. II has been
thought best by q few to bar all Wichita
choruses, bands or soloists from con-
tests, but the matter has not been deci-
ded definitely as yet.
Some have thought that as the visitors
to the city would want 10 hear these
Wichita soloists and musical organize
tons, it would be unfair to the visitors.
This may be met by having Wichita peo-
pie appear in concerts only, but however
these matters Will be decided cannot be
told as yet, but the item of fairness VIII
be boldly opened for any just criticism
that viii tend to make it as fair as is
possible.
The concerts will occupy five consecu-
tive nights, and the price will be made
as moderate as possible. the idea being
to simply pay expenses and give the
citizens and visitors their moneys worth,
without the item of profit involved.
The committee viii begin the solieita-
ton tomorrow morning and hope TO COM
plete the task they thus voluntarily as
sumo by Wednesday evening Inasrnuch
as the money VIII in al likelihood be
returned to them. besides the extra bust
ness which VIII be done during the week.
the subscriptions viii be easily obtained.
Every other project which has been pre-
scented was for cash donations and the
donors try and make it back some other
way if they could. but the committee
proposes to return the cash 70 the do
nors in cash after the festival is held.
This feature alone is an almost absolute
certainty of the full success Of the pro-
ject. The committee is composed of the
the following: Chas. G. Cohn. Z Hig-
ginson. J. N. Allison. Albert Van Zandt,
J. F. Hooking. Chas. Lawrence DR.. ".
A. AInick. or. S. S. Noble. Bruce Grif-
fifth. I. ". Gill. Earl Blake. Elsberry
Martin, Ike Goldsmith and Frank Payne.
Ae soon as the subscriptions are com
pleted the music committee, consisting OF
Prof. f. c. Marshall. Miss Jessie Clark
and Mr.. Henry Huffman. viii be asked
to increase their number by each Of the
last two mentioned naming one which
will make the committee FIVE TO select
the contest numbers. and the work VIII
then be pushed hard until the festival Is
over