El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
ARMY MUSICIANS
To SING CAROLS
Choir of 100 Soldiers to Sing
Christmas Eve; Military
Bands Will Play.

A Christmas choir of 100 army sing
ers. accompanied by an army band, will
Neve, if the plan which is now being
Made, is carried out Local soloists
WAlI sing with the army musicians.
Chaplain John A Randolph, of the
Sixth infantry, has consented to give
his sArvices for the Christmas festival
on thNnight of December "a and Will
bring together a chorus OF 100 voices
from volunteers among the enlisted
men. Lieut.. Col. E V. Smith Of the
Sixth. has not only agreed that the
men may sing but has also offered the
Sixth infantry band as fitting ae-
compartment
The opening Christmas air TO be sung
under the big tree in Pioneer plaza
will be the world wide Christmas hymn,
sung since the time of the Roman en-
pire the .'Adeste Fidelis." This choral
is under consideration by the choir
of the Immaculate Conception cathedral
and the Organizst and leader OF that
choir. Mrs. E. V. Berrien, viii state.
within a few days, whether or not
the church choir viii render this beau
tiful and impressive number.
Crowd to Sing.
The tentative program is to sing first
the 'Adeste Fidelis." then America
by the soldier chorus and the '-Star
SDangled Banner" Slips will be dis
tributed among the crowd with the
words Of such famous American airs
as "Old Kentucky Home and Dixie,
which the public is expected to join
in singing. to the accompaniment or
the military band.
Col William H Allaire. commanding
the 18th infantry, said that ne would
be glad TO furnish the band of the 10th
for the Christmas festival The special
programs by the band are to be worked
out by the band leaders and are to
consist OF airs fitting the occasion
A prominent soloist of FL PasO will
be asked 10 sing Holy Noel as
part of the program The singing OF
the wonderful Christmas program
which Nine. Tettrazini gave before a
crowd of $4,000 people in San Francisco
a few years ago
Big Tree Arrives.
The big tree. which business men
near Pioneer Plaza purchased for its
center. arrived today from ClOudcroft
and is being set up Strings Of lights
in various cOlOrs will be run from the
tree to various points in the plaza and
lights will also be strung between the
trees which have been put up around
the light poles on all sides of the
other sections of the city have COM
menced putting up their decorations
of green The Popular store put out
greens in front of its place Tuesday
afternoon and Everybody's will have
put up greens around that store in
shipped from Mountain Park
H A. Kezer has brought down sew
eraI carloads of greens and viii begin
placing them in front of the different
houses at once This afternoon Mr..
Kezer viii go out among the business
houses and take orders from all who
are willing to put up these green
decorations for Christmas The idea
is to decorate all the downtown sec
tions in Christmas greens and give the
city the real Christmas spirit and ap-
pearance-
Rev. Perry J. Rice. Of the First Chris
tian church, has donated the use Of the
church auditorium Thursday evening,
December %, for the rehearsal of the
soldier chorus for the Christmas eve
concert