The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-04-30
SALE OF MAY FESTIVAL SEATS.
Something About the Conduct of the
Sale Taken from the Official Book Of

Something About the Conduct of the
Sale Taken from the Official Book Of
| Events.
| Reserved seats. Why they are sold
d) The audiences that attend concerts
of the May festival are larger than
those which attend any other musical
event of the season. Even in the case
Of an ordinary attendance, the necessi-
ty of having seats reserved is always
apparent, and becomes indispensable
when the house is to be filled. Without
reserved seats there would be dis
graceful scramble for the best seats.
Those most anxious for them would
crowd to the hall at an unreasonably
early hour and those who wished to go
at q suitable time would be left to put
up with the most undesirable seats Ex-
perience has shown that large major
ity of the patrons of the festival would
cease buying tickets if they could not
also procure reserved seats, and the
very few who now complain because
seats are reserved would supply only a
small percentage of the money required
to pay the expenses. In order to sell
the course tickets it is imperative to
provide reserved seats
(2) The entire income from the sale
of course tickets, after they are all sold,
can be but $4,000, while the cost of the
festival each year is nearly $4,000. 1t Is
at once apparent that the income from
the reserved seats is indispensable in
meeting the outlay, and that the aver
age price of 1914 cents for each concert
would be entirely inadequate.
80 With the addition to the cost Of
the course tickets of the payment for
reserved seats. the cost of the festival
to those who buy seat for every
concert to which seats are sold does not
exceed 49, and may be still less by buy
ing less expensive seats. This is less
than is charged at any other of the
festivals through the country, and yet
at this festival twelve concerts are
furnished, while the usual number of
other festivals is only Ave or six con-
certs.
"a 1t has been already stated that
there is always seat, somewhere in
the house, for every ticket holders pres
ent, but to those who have not secured
reserved seats few places will remain,
excepting in the family circle. All seats
on the first and second floors not sold
up to the time of the concert, will be
thrown open for that concert to those
who have not bought seats, but they
will be- as already stated, very few in
60 The prices for reserved seats have
been fixed as follows:
Monday evening, Soc Tuesday after
noon (seat check for both concerts),
Csc; Tuesday evening, soc; Wednesday
afternoon (seat check for both concerts)
Csc Wednesday evening, SOC, 75c, 81.
The reserved seats for the afternoon
cover both concerts, and the seats will
be held from the beginning of the first
until the close of the second, so
that persons holding checks for them
acn occupy them at any time they de- |
sire. They can also be used by one |
person at the first concert, and another |
q 1.-THE second concert,
(6) Seats noticed to be empty are not, |
as some have supposed. seats which |
have been saved for further sale, but |
are those which have been sold and are |
not for the time being occupied; or are |
parts of rows in which seats have al |
ready been sold.
Cd The sale OF reserved seats will |
take place at the Hyperion next Friday |
May 2, at o'clock. Persons |
not residing in New Haven can have |
seats selected for them by sending |
heir orders to Charles F. Fowler, New |
Haven, Conn. Persons residing in the
,ity cannot thus be accommodated, but |
must see to it that their seats are Sc
cctcd by themselves, or their Tn rep
'esentatives, al the time of sale.