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Show HiEhr .!3Snr;rim BERLIN j i By Melvin Hill j I urn i:la 1 to rqiort that the U'.ahi co'h riy in Berlin is jr!winer. Tiie a-- rival of Miss Romania Hyde, J. B. j Gates itnd Miss Lucy Gate-, gave us n :.v hope ami courage just what we j were needing. One would nattirally j think, whik' standi:,'.' off and 1 .viking en, that this student life is a snap. Well, it mia;ht be for some of Irwm. j Here in (e-niiittiv, and we would he j safe in s i in? in Etrope as a whole,! the person ia hard to find who cannot j take a piece of music and play it with- j out a mist-ike. Well, now, why is this so in tiii? country an 1 not in our o.vn? The question is very easy to answer, i It is a welikno.vn fact, that this Ger-j Ger-j man land is a home for the art called j "Music." As I have already stated,! jitU very seldom that you find in a j family one who cannot play. On th3 I ! streets are to be heard the most diffi- j j cult melodies frohl the opera as the J ' little boy Roes whistling on his way to i school. Now, I will tell you, we, some ! j of us, feel quite far back when we run j j up against such. Some one might ask !hitnlt", why can this be so. It is Ivory easy to cl.ar away. They are ; born and bred in the midst of it. Now : you will perhaps understand us when we say we have new hope and courage 1 when, someone from our hind comes j ' over t'.i make a trial. I have been in-1 in-1 formed that several others from our i dear old Utah are soon on their way to the German capital. The Hyde and Gates party which left Zion's center some weeks ago reports having had a most pleasant journey by land and by sea. They had the usual shipboard experiences, Miss Hyde being be-ing quite ill for four days and Miss Gates and her father attending 'her. Miss Gates, who went on board ship at New York ill with tonsilitis, recovered before she landed and was aole to fill her dates in Scotland, singing at Dundee, Dun-dee, January 21) th; Glasgow, February 1st; and Edinburgh, February 3d. Mr. Gates and Miss Hyde waited here in Leichester at the home of Mr. Gates' relatives. After a few days visit in Leichester the party went to London. Miss Gates, having dates to rill elsewhere, else-where, left her father anl Miss Hyde and miJ3 hsr way spiilily over F.aace """" i; to the Swirs capital where she gave! concerts ami then again at Bassel. ! She was successful in rendering her;: exceedingly tiillic it programs. It is j indee 1 marvelous what this Utah girl j has been able to accomplish since her I farewell from home when we think of the long illntts and the strain of tuch a long and weary journey. The party has taken up quarters at the weliknown Smith ho.ne, lYtiizeregenten sir 8. Prof. J. J. McClellan and son, who have been in Berlin tome three and j half months, have begun their home I ward journey, wenoing their way south- i ward through Germany, visiting all the most famous cities, to sunny Italy, j Mr. McClellan intends visiting Ro.ne, j Venice, Geneva, and Naples. He in- tends staying for a time in Rjme to j become acquainted with the secrets of the Italian organists. Mr. McClelUn writes me today from Rome wnere he and son have been for! some three days. He toils of the most beautiful trip througn the mighty Alps. : lie says while speeding across the low- j land siopej of the "Boot" he was i somewnaC reminded of Cue valley ;where he lives, out mere' in Utah. We at j home have tne idea that this country oyer nere is something which is excep- 1 tionally .-traiige, Due it is not that what ; we t'unn it to be. ! Prof. McClellan thinks of leaving ! Italy in a few dys. He wdl make nis : way to tiie beautiful city of Paris and ; intends embarking lor the U. S. A. I about the 12th of Marth to reach home about the 5th of April. The Berlin, Mobit, Spandou, Potzdam . saints (about three .hundred and fifty m nuotoerl came together in an extra ! meeting to discuss their rights as citi- i zens of Germany to worship as they ; wish, and also the present condition of ' the Mormon missionaries. Tney sent: a report to the police president of Prussia, explaining the real object of tne Mormon missionaries in this city , and in the country. This letter reach- ed its destination after a time of con- sideral.ion from the under authorites and was handed back to senders with these words and the signature of the police president. "Your cau e may! be just, but we can do nothing for you in regard to the request you have stated in your report. We also send the warning out to your Mormon leaders lead-ers or missionaries, that they are for- bi Men to hold any meeting in this oily, anil should any of them he found they will have to sudVr the consequences, conse-quences, " and that means imprisonment imprison-ment and banishment. They also f 1 1 ted that they would ask them kindly kind-ly to extend this warning to those who might be sent to the doomed city. (Continued next week) |