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Show pKAClE CHOIR m Natural Amphitheater and Minder Cloudless Sky, Great m Chorus of Utah Is Heard. KEKDID TRIBUTE IS accorded BY MULTITUDE Bteddfod Officials Claim Salt Bpakers Withdrew, Fear-B Fear-B ing Defeat. Bctal to The Tribune. KlATTLE, Aur. 29. Fully 25,000 Ena heard ihc taboruaclo choir sine flfthe Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition Kght. Under a cloudless sk', the Kers appeared on the platform, in Kt natural amphitheater in the open BLnt 8:15 o'clock. Twclvo thousand Mfeoas had occupied every available j IE more than an hour in advance of mfcx appearance, and more than as Bny more crowded points of vantage Eatanding room in that vicinity. Htfilh tho placid waters of Lake tthington as a back ground, and Htely pine frees for sounding boards, R'nttglity chorus was given a, primi-He primi-He setting, that enhanced the effect-meess effect-meess of the programme. The iiupros-IHneS iiupros-IHneS oI" a religious ceremony char-KBeriKcd char-KBeriKcd tho singing, yot the enthus-(Ki enthus-(Ki of tho audience was unbounded Mfjcarcoly restrained. K Rebuke to Oommittoo. foe splendid tribute to the great Krmon choir was construed as a fitting B'uko to the committee in charge ot iM- Eisteddfod contests, last evening, iRoffering such an affront to t lie vis- IlrOUl Utail as IO Mllu mem avwi.t. ' hundreds who had paid admis-to admis-to the Eisteddfod programme, - in tho expectation of hearing ibeniaclc choir, were outspoken in indignation toda3', upon being acted ac-ted with the causo of their disap-ment disap-ment through tho morning news-s. news-s. It was uniforml.YpTonounced lost unfortunate incident that has etcrized tho treatment of visiting lizations at the exposition. Dis-utmcnt Dis-utmcnt last evening gave way to st and was in turn succccdod by nation and denunciation, us the became known. So far as the an-c an-c was advised last evening, the nncle choir had wantonly and in-ably in-ably declined to participate in the ammo, and a lint was conveyed ie Eisteddfod officials that its o had been dictated by fear of t. So different was tho aspect of fTair, when the J ruth was disclosed, the desire to hear the choir in Ill's coucert was tho more urn-answer urn-answer to a general demaud. the rendered this evening the num-that num-that it had prepared for the liis-bd liis-bd contest. Committee Seems Narrow. q caliber of the Eisteddfod com-o com-o vas disclosed when it refused ly the advertised award of $1000 i0 winner of the contest, but ro-l ro-l it to $7i0, excusing this action ic ground that there had been no otition, the St. .Mark's choir of le being the onlv one that sang, clicaior Professor Daniel Prothoroe rod the St. Mark's choir had dem-atod dem-atod a quality that entitled it to prize anjway. o local eoinniiltco said the trouble iroso because t he Mormons were a of defeat by the St. Mark's , and therefore seized the slightest xt to withdraw, Tho Mormons they objected to the matter on iple, stating that they had never 1 of an admission being required iontcstants. Statement of Official, igh T. Williams, treasurer of the iddfod association, tho man who :stcd the exposition police to dis- itbo Mormons, on the steps, said light: "Wo were here under the ics of tho A.-Y.-P. They" fur-1 fur-1 the passes for all the contestants me into the grounds. Every con-it con-it or choir paid admission into all. Wo passed a rule in our oration or-ation that everyone should pay. not Tight that one should object all have paid. This is our fourth n. The Mormons have been here days. Thev bad plenty of time rotcst and "did not. Tho.v were anting all over the city, instead lying out here. They were afraid Marks. Griffith Davies of this )ffered to pay their way in, in or-ttmt or-ttmt they might sing. They re-. re-. They held a public mooting lo. They disturbed tho audience tried to attnict attention. 1 had ve the guards disperse them. Their r told them 10 go down ihc 'Pay k' and cn,ioy themselves." uben W. Join's, president of the said: "The Mormons think they lie main drawing card. It would a awful eomo down for them if a local choir would bent them and seized auyk chance to withdraw." What Director Sayo. an Stephens, director of the tab-Jo tab-Jo choir, said: :uc choir has appeared in five Kis-tods Kis-tods and eleven contests and has r, until it arrived in Seattle, been Mo pay its way into a hallt for privilege of tinging. The visilin- and choruses, which have np-u np-u at the Salt Lake Eisteddfods, never been asked to pay, but. on spntrnry, have been invariably en-iriod en-iriod by the Eisteddfod committee ton tabernacle choir of Salt Lako. io no agreement was eutered into ,tbc Seattle Eisteddfod to admit "tigers, wo took it as a matter of 'o, and not until tho last minuto wo learn that it was expected that .member of our big chorus was to tu cents before entering." |