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Show B. I). YOUNGJN TOWN. An Interesting Talk With Salt Lake's Old Baritone Favorite Who Will Sing at the Festival. THE SOLO SELECTIONS MADE. What He Thinks of Zion-The Prohibition Prohibi-tion Question and Its Effect on Zion. . Mr. B. B. Young arrived from Omaha this morning, accompanied by Miss Bertha Bayliss, who is one of Madame Young's pupils. Mr. Young is the conductor con-ductor of the Apollo club in Omaha, and has the reputation of being the principal baritono singer in that city. Mr. Young and Miss Bayliss are in Salt Lake to tako'part in tho grand festival next Friday and Saturday, he, in conjunction con-junction with Mr. Goddard, taking all tho baritone solos, aud Miss Bayliss the principal soprano solos. Friday evening Mr. Young will sing Parker's! 'Jerusalem," with orchestral nccompaniments, and a duet with Miss Bayliss from "Trovatore." At tho Saturday Sat-urday matinee ho will sing "Tempest of the Heart," from "Trovatore," and in the evening "It is Enough," from Mendelssohn's "Elijah." Mr. Young has not been in Salt Lake for a year past. Ho is impressed with the wonderful improvements that have taken place since his last visit, which he characterizes as the most remarkable he ever saw. Ho is particularly struck with the liveliness of everything. "Men," said he, "now seem to have something to do. Salt Lake used to be one of the dullest places I ever saw, but now all is changed. I wish I could stay three or four weeks, I should so enjoy it. Besides I would have an opportunity op-portunity to seo old friends and renew old acquaintances. In Omaha everybody every-body talks Salt J v':e, and in Chicago, where I have becu for the past month, it is the same thing. Somehow or other, the impr&ssion has become general gen-eral in those two cities that property in Salt Lake is depreciating in value, and that there Is not much building going on. I think this has had something to do with preventing people from coming here. Salt Lake needs better representation repre-sentation in the east. "One thing Salt Lake is not troubled with, and that is prohibition. That's one advantage arising from the territorial condition. Prohibition may be all right, but the agitation of tho question in the stales results disastrously to business. Nebraska is now in an unsettled condition condi-tion on account of the prohibition movement, and will remain so until after af-ter the November election. "I shall remain here untill after next Sunday and then go ta Denver. I must bo in Omaha by next Wednesday. The Apollo club is in a flourishing condition condi-tion and is doing a good work. It now numbers thirty-four active members, and tho subscription, geuerall runs up to about $1500 a year. The club has given three very successful concerts so fur this year, and there is no doubt that it exercises a marked beneficial effect on tho musical taste pt the citv. "Madame Young and Mr. Fred Nye, who wrote tho opera of 'Samson,' are now engaged upon another work, the name of which has not been announced, and which will be finished next month. "I havo determined to settle in Chicago. Chic-ago. I will have charge of the chorus choir of the Church of the Convent, on the north side, but I Will, of course, go to Omaha at least once a week in the interests of tho Apollo." |