The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-22
BANDS SUCCESS OVER
IN SCOTLAND GREAT
ELIEI.Y'S BAND, WHICH is TO
APPEAR IN MITCHELL AT
CORN PALACE. MEETING
WITH SUCCESS.

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abroad he is keeping Mitchell peo-
pie posted ON the success OF his great
band, and incidentally giving an at
tractive description of the country
where the band is playing. Mr.. Ell
lery's band has ben engaged to play
at Mitchell's corn palace, Sept. % to
80, and it is a very unique and inter
esting way that Mr.. Ellery possesses
TO Keep up the interest in the COM
ing of his band to the great north
west. The following letter to Sec
rotary Ness of the corn palace COM
mittee, contains many things of in
%terest, and will serve to aceuaint the
public with the personality of Mr..
Illlery:
Glasgow, Scotland, June a, 1911.
My Dear Mr.. Ness:-I am afrand
you will have to enlarge your Corn
Palace to accommodate the swelled
heads of the Ellery Band outfit.
Nothing has ever been known in this
city or country to equal the musical
sensation which we are stirring up
here in Glasgow. We followed right
after E~ngland's. crack band, the ia
nous "Grenadier Guards" but pa
triotism has been flung to the winds
and the Yankee" band with no
Yankee in it save the manager) has
been taken right to the heart of the
whole population. Night after
night from ten to twelve thousand
people gather in the great Amphi-
theatre and applaud the Ellery Band
until the echoes fairly ring with it
all. Those desiring choice seats are
Obliged to be on the ground not less
than al hour before the opening
march is played and they sit devoted
ly until it is all over-some three
hours or so. The papers are TEEN
ing with stories about the great mu.
sic from the States" as you know
they call our country here. Carica-
lures OF the leader come out from
time to time and photographs Of the
crowd in an eagerly listening atti-
tude. Had arrangements not been
made with other foreign organizat.
lions, We might have stayed here un-
til October had it depended on this
will of the public and the manage
ment of the Exhibition. However,
as o we'll know, that would have
been quite out OK the question. any
way, as we are looking forward en-
Enthusiastically to the last week OF
September when we shall be paying
our first visit to Mitchell and our
second to the State of South Dakota
We shall close our engagement here
at the end OF the present week, but
it is moro than likely that we shall
return on June 10Th for an extra en-
gagement after an interval of a week
which we shall spend in beautiful
and romantic Edinburgh.
This is a city of enormous bust
ness interests and great wealth, most
of it being the fruits of the ship
building and mining industries. On
the Clyde are built those enormous
modern steamers in which the Amer.
lean millionaire delights to travel
to and from Europe each season,
These are the ships that typify up-
to-date luxury carried to its extreme
limit. Elevators they have and ten.
mis- courts and theatres and concert,
halls and golf links too'for all
Know. From our standpoint | can,
not understand how people whose
lives are spent in a perfect whirl oil
gayety and excitement, should want
to carry the same sort of thing with
them on ship-board. | love the sea
voyage because it carries me far from
the life to which am accustomed
the life OF hnrry-scurry, of feverish
excitement for which we Americans
are renowned and it is a blessing te
me not to be able to see any lurid
headlines in, the daily papers an.
%nouncing some new horror or the
latest divorce. 1t is a great and
glorious thing to be able to look gu,
from your house and see NOTHING
but sky and water-unless, indeed
it be an occasional whale or an ice.
berg. both of which came under GU,
observation on the way across.
The houses here are of the mos
substantial character. No sncl
thing as wood is even dreamed of IL.
a possible material for the construc.
tion OF a building, even of the poor
est kind. All are practically of {
single quality of grey stone; they i!
but little ornamentation connected
with them and the walls are any
where from two to three. feet il
thickness. All streets and roads arr
splendidly paved and cared for AM
the anne and numbers are plainl,