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Show ! DECLINED TO SING. Tabernacle Choir Resents Insult and Does Not Take Part In Eisteddfod. Seattle. When tho members or tho Salt Lako Tabernacle choir were requested re-quested to pay an admission feo to the hall Tor the purpose or hearing themsolves sing, they refused to take part In the Eisteddfod program. Later they sang In tho open air at tho grounds, fully 25,000 people np-W np-W n plttudlng their efforts. The splendid B tribute to tho great choir was con- B strued as a fitting rebuko to tho com- B mlttce in charge of trie Eisteddfod B contest, for offering such nn affront fl to tho visitors from Utah as to drive B them away. Many hundreds who had B paid admission to the Eisteddfod pro- I gram, solely in the expectation ot I hearing tho tabernacle choir, were I outspoken in their Indignation, upon I being acquainted with tho cause ot I their disappointment through tho I morning newspaper. |