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Show DKATII OF MISS ABBOTT. Tlio ominous report which issued from the bedside of Miss Knima Abbot ever since she was stricken with pneumonia pneu-monia prepared the community in a measure for the news of her death contained con-tained In The Timks today. And yet the shock is a severe one, for the prima donna was popular in Salt Lako City both as a woman and an artist and it was hoped that her sturdy frame might withstand tho assault of the disease. Especially was this the case whim sho rallied from a sinking spell yesterday which many believed was tho turning point of her illness. Miss Abbott contracted a severe cold long before she arrived in Utah and had she been less ambitious and less conscientious consci-entious sho would have cancelled her engagement both in Ogden and here. In Ogdeu sho opnned the new opera houso when she should have been at home under the care of a doctor, and even in Salt Lake she attempted to fill her part in the repertoire and actually appeared the first night when all the symptoms of pneumonia had developed. Hut the pluck which characterized her eutire career adhered to her to the last, although it was not sullicieut to ward olT death. Miss Emma Abbott' untimely end will not bu mourned in Salt Lake alono but all through the United Stales, because sho was the one American singer on whom the public could rely in ail emergencies for superior entertainments. enter-tainments. Whilo she was not tho greatest artist on tho operatio stage this country has produced, sho was one of the most successful, and her companies, on the whole, the best fnp lipped. They were never top-heavy. Since the retirement of Kellogg and Carey Miss Abbott was recognized as the representative American prima donna. As a woman no meed of praise can be too fulso -.-e of her. While sho loved her profession sho ennobled it at the same time. Through all the years sho w is on the stage not a whisper of scandal scan-dal attachod to her name, and by her conduct in her public and domestic relations re-lations she proved that the footlights are not always destructive of the noblest virtues. Miss Abbott was a public singer and a church member at the same time. It is a strange coincidence that her husband should have died about two years ago in Denver much in the same way sho did. The sorrow of a peoplo will follow Emma Abbott to her grave. |