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Show DECLINED TO SING. Tabernacle Choir Resents Insult and Does Not Take Part in Eisteddfod. Seattle. When the members of the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir were requested re-quested to pay an admission fee to the hall for the purpose of hearing themselves sing, they refused to take part in the Eisteddfod program. Later they sang in the open air at the grounds, fully 25,000 people applauding ap-plauding their efforts. The splendid tribute to the great choir was construed con-strued as a fitting rebuke to the committee com-mittee in charge of tne Eisteddfod contest, for offering such an affront to the visitors from Utah as to drive them away. Many hundreds who had paid admission to the Eisteddfod program, pro-gram, solely In the expectation ot hearing the tabernacle choir, were outspoken in their indignation, upon being acquainted with the cause of their disappointment through the morning newspaper. |