The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05

might rehearse in the hall on Thursday
noon. The choir accordingly met IOI re-
hearsal at that hour, but the hall was
occupied by the conservation congress
We ave 0uF night concert successfully
without a rehearsal, but appointed d
meeting for $50 o'clock on the night on
the concert that we might at least FORM
and know our places upon the platform
10 ar-oid confusion in the contest Upon
our arrival all doors were locked ana we
had to stand upon the front sISP9 Iti
stead. We were there when the ulu-
matum was delivered ...,-,
put up to them, made quick RESPONSES
with emphatic negatives WheH a9 tIC
1 "Shall we enter or not Ihey WSlg -
advised to at once disperse, each 70 ~
y,-bera he nIeased for the remainder OF
the dav At this moment MT. w illi'eIli iS
rushed into the crowd and called tof ran
Diav. and asking that he be heaIu.
told him to speak treely-aIll ne - tbrae
He said we had been in the cty Ih t}5e
davs and had taken no interest III tlle
DraviOuS sessions; that we Were ~ u
irving to create trouble; tnaJ we tIlouSl lS
o1ir great success on Thursday night mao
made us so popular that we co4Iu Ie-
u7ard ANYTHING. and he added InaJ me
wanted ms to understand that we Were
/ i'm no sense needed-that they couIu pdch
the house without US, ETC. elC- ltd
The man was so vehement ana $500
that no salf-respecting ARTIST OF leduel
would care to have any IurLileI DuI 2lI.-
dealings with him. To cap LlLe Slllli a,
upon regaining the steps, ne call5u 20 20
the police to drive us from the steps %
/ far as I saw or learned no men lI llV
gray uniforms did nytnlng IloI5 49, 49,
{ to request several OF our IiieHus, w
were vehemently discussing tAe ND 49,
/ tn desiet. Not only the singers pu1 az
parently hundreds of GnloQkeIs Wlo -, - a
] come to enter the hail. dlSpeI7eu 5l"N
uaIIv to other points - .1,,+
/ 7 remained for about nan an Iloul - -.
] II
/ Who crowded near 10 shake hands WITH lle
I and to discuss in the mother tongue %
/ fore leaving, two members on IHg - -.
/ r0ittpa came to me ana expressed ueSp iN
/ erets at the turn affairs had ts'Aell, -
/ offered to pay the admissions PEI
/ if I would get the singers 10 come p-.-f- ~
was. of course. too late Inc SlHStyii
| had scattered all around among Ihe DlS
| snnreciatiOn of their kind words, ana m
/ tiraated that little of the same 7tI "
/ nent they were expressing, IT eAI5il'eD
/ To MS during the previous three uaE9 ~
the committee Woula nave plS liT ~
/ such scene. that nothing We coulu Ia :
! done to make the EisteddIOu SuooS9'
/ would have been omitted. IL. 49,,
/ Several times it was asSuTad-qulte uH'
necessarily the contest Wo4lt ia a. =
been a "walkaWay Tor us-Illat vi,
comneting chorus was not even IN Yui
class That proved more than ever uls
/ tasteful to me. If it was 10 Dt d III
test, at least let it be an interesting oiie
Perhaps we were the more sensluVe
about what seemed discOurteous treat
/ ment in the strange city 10 Wil-C" "
/ had iOurneyed for pleasure ana 10 ugLI
make the EiSteddtOd a success, yyl'' -
] we remembered the hearty WelcytIe W.
had received everywhere else. we re-
/ membered how. when we allehueu lu5
/ Fisteddfod in Denver, that Guy looh q.
] i'm heartily-opened arms and homes 10 uS
| for five days.
Perbaps we compared the reception We
] got in Seattle with the receptions acCuI VI
/ I'd to visiting cOntestlng bOdles from
/ distance by our Cambrian society Int
| TabernacIe choir and others, where III
/ Salt Lake we greeted them VIII! JANUS
] rarades receptions and enteftanmenIs
/ r., 5s1a the first Official greeting be, III
! yo7 don't nay. YOU don't sing, was
/ enough to freeze the songs in our throaIs
] None of us. however, worried many
I minutes about it. We We're too nappN
J over the ovauons we had pIe'iouslS
| ceived at each place we had appeared
/ and the climax at this very han only
| two nights before. The hearty assure hce
of the fair managers tnat we hdd eA-
/ celled all previous organizations IN pleas
/ ing the good people OF Seattle (dnQ Jnls
/ accOmDaDied with a handsome cash as
| surance). all of which mateTialiZed. end
! ing with a twenty-mlnuteS ovation
! cheers, applause and waving Oh hahdker-
chiefs-afteT that, l say, no one VINO was
] there would consider the ElsteddfOd cpl
! sode hardly worth retention i'm memory
Seattle and its people at large must
not be associated with this affair for a
] moment They will never be forgotten
bv us. I remembered with a thrill how
| twenty years ago. we were about to give
a mammoth concert i'm the big tabernacle
] for the benefit of the JohnstOwn flood
| sufferers. when the message came over
the wires: Seattle is in flames
Later to that message was added: AL
most totally destroyed We at once ar
ranged that a part of the proceeds be sent
/ to the stricken city I'm the northwest. The
big chorus of that night reConvened for
! a Gilmore festival. it crystalized into the
/ Choral society. and finally became the
/ Tabernacle choir which now, with per
I haps even a few Of the original mem
/ bers. were engaging one of the happissi
/ hours of their lives in pleasing the build
I ers of the newly risen city. Thirty thou
/ sand friendly. eager pairs of hands aD-