The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-25
APRONS JUBILANT
 AT SHOWING IN STATE SAENGERFEST
Confident of Being Awarded Prize in Announcements
 to be Made Today
Ladies Go to New Haven in Big Auto uck-Men Parade to Railroad Station With
 w. & w. Band

Headed by the Wheeler & Wilson band and in high spirits at the out come of their efforts of yesterday. the. Arion Singing society paraded from Arion hall in Cannon street to the railroad station this forenoon to re-s turn to the second days program of, the saengerfest, confident that the awarding of prizes for excellence in the singing contests of yesterday would bring glory to the Arions i,
 The prizes are to be announced at Harugari park in New. Haven late this R. Spalding of the department of music at Harvard; Prof. Cornelius Rubner of the department of music at Columbia and Dr. N. J. Elsenheim- CT of New York city.
 Six. hundred male singers, assisted by the augmented Symphony orchestra of New Haven, with Prof. Harry B. JepsOn at the organ; Mime. Henrtette Wakefield, soprano so1oist; Prof. Fritz K. G. Weber of this city and Prof. Frank Fichtl of New Haven as con. ductors, presented memorable feast of singing at Woolsey. ball in New Haven yesterday.
 In the evening 1000 visited the grand ball at Music Hall.
 Governor Baldwin addressed the
 
 to the grand concert. He was intro- duced by Mayor Rice, who had been presented to the gathering by Presi@ dent Eisenbart.
 In the afternoon at 2 o'clock Wool, sey hall lent it's magnitudinous capac- ity to throngs who came to hear the prize singing contest. the rewards for which were splendid enough to make any liedertafel seek to excel, and the various contestants did excell. The judges were carefully screened from view of the singers In a large encio- sure built on tho balcony Every pre- caution was taken to secure unpreJu- diced judgment, and when the Judges. Prof. w. R. Spaldfng, professor Of music of Harvard university; Profes. sor Cornelius Rubner, Professor of music at Columbia, and pr Elsen- verdict this afternoon at five o'clock at Harugaria park there can be no i1mbrage taken at their decision on the ground of favoritism. In order further to secure unbiased judgment a special committee selected the judges or any. members npf the saengerbu9d. Y The competitors were Arranged in four classes, the fourth class singing first. Tn this class, which included societies from sixteen to twenty members. the three contestants drew lots to determine the order sof sing ing and the judges had only the nuns ber of tla society to identify the ssngerA August Eisenbardt, president or the Saengerbund, acted as cappel- socIafions' were directed by their re- spective leaders. The Liedertafel from Rockville, drew the allotment for first place, and Head by Herr Engewtt- \ ter, sang the opening selection. Max pessauer of New Haven directed the contestant for fourth class prize was the Turner Liedertafel of Stamford. with Leader Speck This last secured voluminons applause for It's contribu- ton. yer cups. ssssss ' {sss The third class contestants includ- ed ensembles of from twenty to twen- ty-fOur members, and the contestants were the Germania of Union City, leader Bob; c. V. osterreich. New Eran rl1aln ienne stor a.ssr sa,e Te,, tonia Maennerchor. New Britain, lead CT Leventhai: G. s. Turnverein, Hol- yoke, leader Wissell.
 Prizes In this class are three silver cups for the three excefling tafel.
 The second class contestant which drew first place was the Concordia of Seymour which had thirty-one mem bers in it's group, led by Fritz Weber of Bridgeport. Then followed the Arion. of Bridgeport, led again by Weber, the society which took the greatest share of the applause, and last the quartet club of New Britain led by Hans Sare. The prizes in this class are two silver cupk.
 For the first class prize, grand $450 piano and 3, cup, three societies averaging one hundred me-. each. competed, the ConcQrdia of Water bury, which sang first. and received ringing acclaim; the Saengerbund. of Hartford and the Maennerchor of Hartford These latter filled the great hall with their splendid rendition of the selection.
 The members of each class sang the same selection, the selections vary ing in difficulty from the fourth to the first, which was the most taxing.
 Among the interested listeners at the contest was Gustaf Harder, the president of the first singing contest held in this state in 1882. MT. Harder is hale and active in spite of his S2 years. and said he had never heard such uniformly good singing. The fact the same, was. said by every one who heard 1t. The opinion semeed to