Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-24
Especial Correspondence.


- JEW YORK Sept ISIS any salt
IN Laker In this group? Runor
" says that most OF the leading
cities of the United states.
which boast any musical development
viii have one or more competitors In
the great $4,000 opera competition lust
closed. twenty-five bulky operatic
manuscripts reposc In the safe Of the
Metropolitan Opera House. tho CONNIE
tition for American composers an
nounced a year ago by the directors OF
the opera company having come 10 an
end on Thursday. There is a prize of
$4,000 awaiting the winner and "A per
formance of his work az the Mctropoli-
tan
II win be some time before the name
~ the successful musician is an
nounced. as the jury has not been Sc
lected to examine the scores In about
a fortnight the board OF directors of
the Metropolitan viii meet and then
the jury will be appointed II may find
that the great American opera" has
been written.
The familiar face OF Miss Solie Fish
err Is seen once more ON Broadway she
having come from her Maine home "a
week ago; so far nothing definite has
been arranged for her temperance,
as she Is not particularly In love with
'The Girl on the Train" the leading
part Of which she had partially accept
ed Chicago wants her badly. and feels
sort Of right of discovery claim on
her services. but she IS not so eager for
that city as for the applause Of Broad
way. In q few days Che question viii
be settled. and there or here her narno
will be associated again with a leading
attraction Mrs. Fisher viii remain at
Longo-I.ock. Me. until the end OF Oc-
tobcr, when the delightful summer
home win close until next April The
Wasatch' has been crowded with visi-
tors all summer. mostly friends and
relatives Of the Fisher family.
Mr. and Mrs. Espey Cannon of Salt
Lake arrived in the city last Tuesday.
and have taken apartments at PA West
one Hundred and Fifty-seventh street.
Mr. Cannon will enter the mining de-
partment Of Columbia university the
coming week. lie and his wife (nte
Alice Farnsworth) are welcome TO the
Utah colony.
The new music Harold Orlob is writ
ing for Singer Of the Princess theater.
Chicago. Is nearly completed: II is
hoped by manv that Sallie Fisher viii
be heard In the production; she has
sung several OF Orlobs pieces In dif-
ferent operas.
The family Of Mrs. Ford Of the North
West Virginia conference have moved
to Utah. coming 10 New York for few
days before going west. Mrs Ford has
long been Identified with the Church
and Is well known by an elders who
bnVa hapu assigned the NiTuluIa
fields
The Misses Louise ana Estelle Kerr.
who were 60 have left for salt Lake
some time ago. have only just been
able to finish their business satisfac-
torily 60 make the change, 4 trip 10
Kingston. ~ Y. with their lawyers,
Messrs Kohn & Conklin. was neces-
sary iu order "a settle mp a land ques-
tion this was taken, and Thursday last
saw them on their. way west
Tomorrow Elder Vivian Snow and
Older Wagstaff leave Tor New Hamp-
shire and Massachusetts, to take up their
work In those fields Elder Higgin-
bothan who was forced 20 leave his
work here on account OF Illness is back
again and again hard at work
The arrival Of A J. Hanson. instruc-
tor Of carpentry Of the 4. g, Logan,
and his missionary friend, Elder John
son. I'm the port OF Baltimore. last We'd
ncsday. was the occasion Of congratu-
lations an around So much trouble
Is experienced on the other side OF the
water I'm obtaining transportation TO
America. that every one who succeeds
these days is thought fortunate, Mr..
Hanson has visited the principal schools
Of mechanics in Berlin. Paris. London
and some In Sweden. Norway and Den
mark. making extensive notes on all
tho work done in the schools there and
now being well equipped for his VIM
er's work at the Agricultural college.
Melvin c. Merrill also Of the A. g.
who has made worlds round trip,
staying AT length i'm the Philippines,
china and Japan as director OF the
government experiment station in the
'urmer place arrived I'm the city last
week and left Saturday TO visit friends
n Washington. Mr.. Merrill will take
course at Cornell this winter in the