Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE TALK J V OF T THINGS GS GRAVE GRAE AND GAY j. j THE BAND FESTIVAL It Its is satisfactory to learn from the lips Hips o of ot many public spirited citizens land land and through communications addressed to t the editor of or The Telegram that a great gI of interest is b being ing taken by bythe bythe bythe the the people of Salt Lake City in the forthcoming musical festival to be given by Held's Military Band in the Tabernacle on on Tuesday next May The object of the entertainment is to furnish the band with means with which to meet its necessary expenses at Liberty Park during dung the band season there which sh shortly will begin Probably ably it is well und understood that the only remuneration remune Director r Held and his his associates are to receive receive for their time e talents and labor expended in giving free open air concerts in the Park during the summer will wUl come from whatever they h y may make on the sale of refreshments on the ground The price of admission to the Tabernacle festival has been een placed at atthe atthe atthe the low figure of twenty five cents cens Leading people are showing their appreciation appreciation ap ap ap- of the excellent work th the band has done doIi through throughout t t the amusement amusement amuse amuse- ment season Just clos closed d or closing and of the boon to the fine open air concerts concepts by taking blocks focks of tickets tickets' tickets tickets' tick tick- ets' ets as the easiest way bi a deserving deserving deserving de de- de- de serving home institution From Prom present pres pres- ent exit indications the prediction tion seems to tobe tobe tobe be Justified that a huge hug audience will wUl greet our popular band when its directors director's directors director's tors tor's baton is raised on Tuesday evenIng evening evening even- even Ing in the historic edifice that possesses perhaps perhaps' the finest ac acoustic properties of any of the worlds eat auditoriums auditori auditor urns ids e l eTHE THE ORGAN 7 rl Another of Professor Profess McClellan's charming free organ organ recitals at the Tabel Tabernacle Tab Tab- el nacle will be given tomorrow Friday evening at five oclo when o'clock an Unusually unusually unusually un un- usually attractive mme will be be presented It Is agreeable to note the Increased public Interest Interest o of late in these thes functions There aie are aie not many other places in the United d States where the I public Is favored as is that of Salt Lake ity in the the possession of ofa a great and famous organ and organ and an organist of the same description descrIption both both at the service of the people peole twice a a week without money and without price A large and representative audience audience i is in in prospect i ifor for tomorrow SPANISH WAR CLAIMS CLAMS A question of great in interest erest to Americans Americans Amer Amer- scans having claims against the Government Gov Gor ern ent arising g from losses sustained or pi destroyed in Cuba on account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of t ti the rebellion in that island antecedent to to the Spanish war Emin Eminent Eminent Em in nt coun counsel el says says' the Brooklyn n Eagle aret arV ar flOW now arrayed for and and against the G Government in n an in argument as to whet whether or not a st state te of war existed exited on the island of ot Cuba between the years 1895 5 and nd 1898 The question is being eing th threshed out at Washington before the Court Court of Spanish Claims which is supposed to determine the justice justice Jus Jus- tice of the demands aggregating 60 made by bi American Am rI citizens ns who ar are allege alleged to have suffered r d toss Joss through gh the CUban Caban insurrection These claims were wele originally i I lodged against the Spanish goVernment government and responsibility for their their a adjustment j nent was wag as assumed assume by this country under the terms of the treaty of Paris In i I the argument before before Commissioner Chandl r. r rand and his associates associates asso asso- elates the Gov Government has raised a point pOint- which if held to be sound will wUl hopelessly wreck the Hie case of th claim claim- ants This point Is that a state of f actual actual actual ac ac- ac- ac war prevailed I In iii Cuba tuba from 1835 1895 up to 1898 and nd that tha under the rulings of ot international law the Spanish authorities authorities author author- i ties were not responsible for depredations depredations depredations committed by by men whom they were unable to tp p control The difficulty with th the Government contention is that as we ve regard the matter it Is estopped from advancing it If Jf f a state of war had hai been ben acknowledged at any anytime anytime time from the oui outbreak reak of the last Cuban insurrection insurrection in 1895 1895 to to the defeat and expulsion of of the Spaniards in 1898 the case might now be different But our Federal authorities re repeatedly declared up to within a few days of the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning of hostilities that a state of war var warin varin in Cuba did not exist Hence we believe believe believe be be- lieve that the they are precluded from es establishing establishing es- es s the I contrary now If f they are are not they ought to be e. e I i THE TRI TRIPLE L ALLIANCE AN E. E In the rush of events during the past week it may have esc escaped ped the te atten attention oh ohof of readers reader of our I news ws columns that the Emperor Fr Franz Josef and ard the Austrian Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- trian Minister of Foreign Affairs have announced arrangements for a renewal of the triple alliance I between Germany Austria and Italy on the expiration of the present treaty in May 1903 This official sta statement ter erli will will serve serve erve to allay all fears o q of what happen were- were the old contract ved allowed to die with nothing of of the same san same kind kind to take take its place Following the announcement aboVe above menti mentioned ned Count oun un hi hits declares th the h Russian Franco alliance alit alli an ance e to be be in th interests st of peace in Europe Referring to tl this s matter the Paris correspondent of of oE the New Kew York Tribune cable cabled his s journal that the th declaration of the Hungarian Austro Minister of Fore Foreign Affairs is greeted In France as the most pithy and authoritative authoritative au au- au guara guarantee ee of peaceful relations relations relations relations' rela rela- among the European powers Uttered uttered uttered ut ut- since The Te Hague arbitration conference conference conference con con- ference and in in circles here fully Justifies the confidence of the French Cabinet a striking evidence of which is afforded by by the despatch across the Atlantic pf of the general in chief of th the Fren army y General Brugere Brugere Bru- Bru gere on a friendly mission to the United States thus Involving the abs absence ab ab- ab- ab s sence nce fr from Jm Fran France for several we weeks ks of the man man- above ab ve all others whose presence In P rl's would be most Imperative Imperative imperative Im Im- im- im were there there th the slight slightest st cl cloud ud discernible on on th the pol Ucal horizon |