Show THE CHOIR MUST GO The railroad companies ought to be generous with the Tabernacle choir in the matter of transportation to Chicago and uack It is a body of singers serving the public gratuitously These ladies and gentlemen are going to the Worlds Fair to represent music in Utah It will be a most striking advertisement for this territory ritory It will be of great value in many ways A choir from Salt Lake in compet ition with the trained choirs of the musical musi-cal world will challenge attention and we have no doubt will command wondering wonder-ing admiration So fine a body of singers able to render the kind of music that has been selected for the occasion will not be expected from this wild country as it is supposed to be and peopled by the sort of folks that exist in the popular imagination Its excellence will be a surprise and both the personality and the ability of the members of the choir will accomplish much to change the opinions of the pubic pub-ic in regard to Utah md its population It will be the means of attracting many travelers to this point and in that the railroads will come in for their share of the benefits We therefore urge upon them the importance of making the terms for the trip such as can te met by the managers entrusted with the conduct of i this important affair Messrs CLATVSON and WHITNEY start this morning for the Hast and will endeavor en-deavor to make arrangements for the journey and for a series of concerts by the way so that part of the great expense of conveying and caring for two hundred and fifty persons may be met in that manner We hope they will be successful success-ful in this and that we shall hear good news from them shortly This trip of the choir must not be permitted per-mitted to fail Times are hard and money is scarce but this is something worth more than money to the people of Utah at the same time it will bring a full return re-turn for all that is expended Whether the choir will take any prize is of course exceedingly doubtful as the choirs with which it will have to compete have had a year to practice on while ours has only recently received the music But that it will bring credit to Utah no one who knows its excellence and the ability of the leader will doubt for a moment The Tabernacle choir must go |