Show HO FOR CALIFORNIA WITH VIT THE CHOIR I HAT tho the coming choir excursion to California has Imas aroused the keenest con st l kind of ot interest our entire community ity Hy is evinced by tho time numer umer numerous ous ou applications to 16 join tho the party received from nil over oer tho tIm state stute Two Pullman oars cars more than the tho original inal train of at three hundred people aro are already nearly filled How lIow many realize what hut such an nn on en enterprise means In tho the labor of at planning and tho the raising ol or o the tho necessary mOans means A herculean task lusk of ot Itself illicIt Ih In a Il community like ours which has imas hn so many things to keep afloat financially that to turn eight or ten thousand dol del dollars lars luls In any one direction and that UK till tit Tabernacle choir Is like turning tumina a Il river over oer a mountain Then rhen the JlII musical task of ot preparing perform In lag a n program oven though it tt bo be for tor a II trip but ten days dus away avay Is s a I five months task at home tho the worry care and sometimes dissatisfaction over time tho selection of ot two hundred singers out of ot hundred and all all very overy jot of ot It to bo borne by one pair of ot shoulders those of ot time the indefatigable conductor con and und manager Prom From tim tho beginning h lie hp assumes every particle of ot responsibility financial anti artistic Ho lIo simply simp de do elded that time the trip li is a necessity to th tb Interest progress of at tho time great groat rent choir of ot which ho has hall charge chorgo and straight straightforward forward torwald put his shoulder to time the wheel and ind set sot things to moving the tho lard hard unyielding demands of ot every evelY tao taco tor or concerned where nothing but tho the I hard hald cash counts fur for anything allY thing and without even appealing for tor backing from any uny source louree except to ask public patronage for tOI the concerto he lie provides To think of ot it all must compel tho the sympathy nail and admiration of ot all who mow our Indefatigable choir builder Ryan Kvan l an Stephens We Ve might search In vain time the country countr over to had find another example to match him No wonder we e have n a choir by tho the side of ot which numerically at least even oven Now New greatest church choirs with their cost coat of or a year e t I lEo arc mere fragmentary bodies hOltieN And nr mw speaking s too ton accustomed uti an anO wo O are 1110 to hoar our choir wo se e from out our slumber with u a II tin tilt tingle gle glo gb of ot pride when wo we 0 hear henr tho the wild lId of Ut applause our singers receive from stranger musIcians ml Nordica Sousa RouHa Macanna Godfrey o Creators ami others at others lets havo Praised ed tho the choir in tho the warmest terms hilt but to hear those thouc tty Italians In time tho Royal Italian hind Hand so 80 fresh from Italy UlIly that they timey tho scarcely speak English h a nil yet raise their delighted shouts after every overy number lit at tho timo recent concerts was wa us a n now new reminder that manic made our au nil audiences feel teel so prowl proud hat nothing short of at encores to 10 every selection time the choir gave would If It time the choir im Ira impresses presses audiences in California In like manner what hat a n cause for tor pride will willUlah Utah Ulah have bave Anti And It If they can con appear IIPP under proper auspices there thero Is hI no rca rea reason reIson son why Wh they should hould not create tho same sarno enthusiasm on 01 their coming tour This Thill will bo be tho the fourth notable excursion sion slon out of ot the tIme state that the big choir or a part of oC it has ims taken taleen It will vIii also celebrate the twelfth year of at its public work under Its present director Mr Stephens and In Its present enlarged form torm It will VIII be a fitting WRY way to edo cele celebrate brate for nowhere unless we could be bo transported trun ported to sunny Italy could ld such sucha a pleasure trip bo be consummated con ten ton days as liS this one to tho the famous city of ot ofSan San an Francisco Thence southward lays laya the rhe coast to the tho Monterey Pa ia Pacific cub Grove Gr vc and Del Monte Para spot never to lie be 0 forgotten whon when once beheld and thin at nt a 11 time of ot time the year when nil all four ur seasons can cAli be Je crowded Into Inlo ten days wo so 0 are Indeed fortunately located to be bo within thirty six nix hours of ot the land IlInd of at perpetual flowers and still breathe and grow rugged In the tho pure mountain air all of ot tho the God time the great choir In their journey journo when the time time Ume comes for tor them to start anti and 11 nil In tho the meantime let us till aid uld by our patronage and our appreciation the moves moveR made to raise the time necessary i finances for tor the show ing lag our matchless le s choir amid ltd director that wo we are with them heart soul and purse strings In their big enter enterprise prise A |