The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-11-11
LARGE CROWDS
GREETING CHOIR
UTAH PEOPLE ARE
RECEIVING GREAT PRAISE
Utah Singers Attracting More land
More Attention in the Metropolis
New York Herald Of Yesterday
Has interviews With Utshns.

| New YORK, NOV. 9-At last Elsns =
concert in the Madison Square ger.
den concert hall, Mrs. Gilbert Nc.
Clurg. wife of the manager of the Tho
American Land and Irrigation expos'
ton and the. composer of the "Irriga
ton Ode" to which Prof j. j. Nc
| Ciellan composed the music, was pre-
scented to the choir by Conductor
| Evan Stephens. II was brief adj
dress in which she thanked the cboir
and complmented II for the splendid
manner in which the ode was sung.
In her address she told of her visir,i
among the Latter-day Saints and said
that she had great admiration and re-
spect for President Joseph f. Smith,
Prest. Lund and the late Prest John
! Henry Smith. than whom, she said,
there were no better men east or
west. Mrs. McClurg told how, when
| watching the tillers of the soil along
the grand Wasatch valleys, she was
first inspired to write the ode which
has been set to music and is being
sung here as the feature of the choir's
concert programs. On concluding her
brief address, Mrs. McClug received
round of applause fom the choir.
Utah People interviewed.
The New York Herald this morning
devotes three columns to interviews
with Governor Spry, Senator Smoot,
ed Graham, whose photographs are
used in connection with the article,
and Evan Stephens, ID. s. Spencer
and Thomas Judd Other Utahns men
toned in the article are w. s. Nc
Cornick, Thomas X. utter, George j..
ryper, Heber J. Grant, Bishop David
\. Smith and dozen others Intro
ducing the arti.'a. The Herald says
THE Utah pioneers are assing
away, but scores o. the children and
n andchildren Of the men ana W. ea
Who founded mighty city in dcs.
oTt wilderness orl in New York today
sinPing the praises Of Salt Lake
City, the metropolis of the great IN
land empire of the west"
The article in its entirety is most
complimentary to Utah, its people
and the choir.
The presidents of the l.. ID. S. mis-
sions in the United States arrived
here yesterday for the sessions of the
annual conference OF mission presi-
dents.
Compliment for Organlsts.
The visiting mission presidents at
tended the choir concerts today. Pres
ident Calls said the people of Georgia
are expecting the choir to sing there
and in their behalf he promised a
cordial reception to the singers. II
will be impossible, however, to visit
The south, as the itinerary is all made
cut and present arrangements cannot
he disturbed
Organists J. j. Mcclellan and Ed.
ard p. Kimball have been invited to
play on the great organ in Aston
place by the Austin Organ company.
This organ is one Of the famous pipe
organs of the world, having greater
number of pipes than the tabernacle
organ in Salt Lake City, some Of them
extending through the art galleries.
The audiences continue to increase
in size and Manager Piper is expect,
ing good things of the tour before the
New York season ends:
Prof. Mcclellan has been invited to
play on the organ In Jewish syna.
gogue here, the invitation coming
from Jacob II, Schiff of New York.
Prof. Mcclellan has also received a
letter from Rabbi Charles Freund OF
Salt Lake urging him TO accept the
invitation.