| Show SINGERS AT HOME the california chorus and aco ompa nying friends arrived home borne today the unla union pacific special of seven sleepers elee pere and one baggage oar car reaching the 01 city ty thursday april there were a thousand people at the depot ir lends mothers ta lathere brother si fistere stere sweethearts awaiting we the arrival of me be train load of procious precious freight it was a happy meeting Dg and while the trip has hag been by toe the excursionists they ILI leai 8 L no time in leaving we the train and fe feeling 1 ing beneath their feet the soil of their mountain home most moat of tho the travelers tra velera looked dusty and some of them a little fatigued but there were dune out bat amiling faces to greet one as ag he be viell ad the throng wilne while the merriest ol of merry laughter filled all the air here and there was a singer carrying home a big fa fat flower pot containing tome choice plant while orange boughs with two ox or three beautiful yellow spheres thereon were possessed oy by majba director was ti aku in 10 hla flin prace of the people of Valko rois gawe vye have enjoys d the tb its said gland and put diar 1 a 4 y pal p lipely awl we uva nave given eight in all one in oakland five in san ban francisco one in san ban jose and one in sacramento and each one has been an artistic suc success cese la in ban frau frac ilsoo we opened to a small house bouse we but ut the abe patronage in creased with each successive eff effort ort until on sunday evening the house bouse was literally packed the trip while been one of the greatest pleasure to our singers has been a musical suc succors the beautiful valleys of california richly covered with grass grams and flowers were a great change irom what we had left at home and we treatment accorded us helped us the better to enjoy the sights in fact the worlds fair trip did not compare with it in any way we have met with some funny little experiences however one of which was wag the attitude of some of the ne newspapers we papers I 1 was told by the report erm era in one or two iwo instances that their abt ir editors had bad refused to publish their criticisms of our work on the paro that all we came to california for was to boom oom the mormon church 1 I As a rule however we have received very fair treatment from the abe papers the only one that proved a particular exception was the examiner while it told many un varni ened truths was inclined to be somewhat dyspeptic I 1 have been in formed however that the examiners was an chorus di lector of san francisco isco and that our oar success was not very palatable to him I 1 regard toe san francisco music and drama as the h st musical authority on the coast and very much respected throughout the united states I 1 its aa opinion will be given more weight by musicians than will the criticisms of the newspapers 10 the ibe has al reedy published thi critic lain above referred lel erred to 11 while this and were somewhat enthusiastic and highly appreciated prec precia ted by up they fail absolutely to lo sunvey to the mind a proper idea or of the peoples penpit s appreciation our audiences were positively wild in their esthuel en thuel aern at times and we took a ws we rin ran place in the ibe hearts of who heard board us I 1 am very proud of ane choir and of their splendid work during the trip and I 1 am thankful no DO accident Occur occurred kou to mar the tout tour we are all home again sale and sound manager whitney who has had bad charge of the business buei ceas affairs of the is highly pleased with the financial result of the tour we started cut rum frum here bore with a deficiency lenoy of a little over two thousand dollars dollare I 1 am unable to say before balancing up my accounts what we the exact figures are but our receipts from the eight concerts were a little over four thousand Li dollars our expenses were iu the neighbor neighborhood bood of two thousand doll dollars arp so that we have just about cleaned up our deficiency I 1 the great trouble is that we came away just as people were becoming in terea torea ted and had we remained another week in dan francisco Franci seu we could have had bad packed houses hous every night As jt it is 8 we were offered a guarantee of fifteen bun bundled died dollars a night tot for next Saturday and suu day if we wd return for those two idwyl idy the offer owma cume from the mad tho theater and ij W A hood 0 MIT sta aula in j san ban Fran ewo the work of tha has baa according to president fannef Talyn isy of the california mie mis allayed vai very V much of the unreasonable prejudice which had bad heretofore existed on the pacific coast against the church and the good done to in this way Is in almost aimed incalculable we went to california on a pleasure trip not as a fin anem venture our aim was to try and pay day our expense which we have as near as I 1 can see now without the actual results in figures before me |
