Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-30

i III II "a ~, q declared that the Salt
l Il s,lye9 e,hoji. lid not receive the treat
| ment the singers should have arecefS-
l I'D. md thatsit has not been customary
ID charge an admission Tor &C m ptee lsl
I cliolt,ses: aa u &ss 81
| al in the pipers'' said N n. 4 hol1las,
i do think the comp TIM che rus y !
from Salt Lake City recei we'd lss far
t,entment, The suggestion that they
were afraid to5comp pete IS so me " : :
worthy of consid Grafton ana ot
worthy OF the Eistedd fod sco nnl III
The members OF the Sal La Ike chorus
We're. anxious to enter the contest,
we're confident of winning, and 4, be-
licye they would have Won If given
the&opportunity TO dc So I
III has always been tn g n Gust ON at
The Salt Lake Eisteddf ods to- furnish
the contestants with tickets. and ies-
pecially at the session q uring when fl1l;rsl
the contest took p lac 6 5s3 n, Is
Inhn James, another Der Of! the
executive committee on local Eli tecid-
fods. expressed tho opinion that ,the
incident was s.bad all around. M r.
James stated, 4 however. that the com :.
1nittee3at Seattle should not be crit
cjsed because of the red uctlon oI8 Inc
sulize from 81, 900 to $3.50, as that5Was
The rule where there was only one
messed the opinion that the sunplea-s
SAINT condition might have been ehrl5 pre- IRE :.
vented had the Seattle committee notl-5
fed the visitors what to expect.
..The regretable feature said N T.
E, James. "is that evidently there was
no one to attend to the matter.sSIlhe
Eisteddfod committee nlsn VI, nave
made satisfactory arrangements When
we gave the Iisteddfod here in 1893.
this question came up. Some We're ! OIL
the OPINION that an admission M. i :e'a
should be charged but the majority
were against it and we saw 70 ~ NAY lli,t
The visitors were furnished WITT Will
tickets"
& n. d. Davis, another member Of the
executive committee, was emphatic IN
his announcement of rhs treatment az
corded to the choir, AMI said that no
such action had eteI, been taken at an &
,t,isteddfod given here. Very sha pby,,''
Is the term used by Mr.. Davis IN re-
ferring to the incident.
.strhe competing choruses We're never
charged admission when ccgnpeting 8! IN
contests here" said Mr. Davis. " has has
always been customary to admit them
free. We We're always very liberal here
and competitors were admitted to all
sessions without charge think livery
shabby on the part Of the Eisted ~ u! .
committee to take the position 1t did
Il have a program here and it says Moth
ing at all about charging an admission ~
fee"
Evan Arthur, who has peen. pro'i11 rom.
nently Identified with IIisteddfods IN
Wales, Pennsylvania and IN ltah saids
that in Wales and in Pennsylvania the
rule was to charge a small entrance lee,
but that this rule did not obtain obtain II, IN
Utah He expressed the oniniolH that
the fee demanded at Seattle was in
excess of what it should have been
but despite that fact thinks the choir NOR
should have competed.
.'In view of the fact that the choir
$nractised so long and travelled so far TO
enter the competition, think It should
have contested for tha prize which, nc;
doubt, it would have won. think the
fee asked was too much but even u 1t
had been 81 a head I think the choir
should have paid 1t I'd entered The
contest. After the contest the matter
could have been taken UP with the
committee and then SETTLED.