Show SAL SALI LAKE AND STATE NEWS CHOIR INSULTED AT SE FAIR j Seattle Aug In charge of the Eisteddfod program at the exposition blun blundered blundered dered tonight and tried to force Coree the tho choir from Salt Sui t to pay par an admission fee Cee as Individuals The choir refused to sing left the tho thedoOr doOr daM of the hall hail In disgust and scat scattered scattered to all parts of the fair grounds and when the fair management Ie ic and attempted to hunt tip up the tho Salt Sal l Lake visitors ani only a few o of them co coId ld be found The reused refused to re return turn tu rn According to Evan Ean tor or of the choir his singers have never before been offered such Ruch an Insult The choir has appeared In five Ove and eleven eleen contests do dared tho ho director and never nover before befaro have we boon been asked to pay admission to lo hulls On the contrary we have havo always beOn entertained by the Els Eis committees Besides this when singers have visited Sail Lake Lako I the tho committee has enter thom them ily I have hae never noor heard of such Buch a thing When Whon m my choir appeared at the doors of the ball tonight each member WR asked to lI produce 75 cents for far ad Of course we wc refused Had Hild Hadit It been heen stipulated In the tho pro program gram that singers were expected to pay it might have hae been different Wo We not have come to Seattle Vote Not to Sing When the tho choir gathered at the hull bull hullit bullIt It wan waH explained to liB hit that We e wore expected to pa for admission It Val wa Valthe the unanimous vote of the tho singers ers that thal wo we not only not pay va butt bul would not sing Later Lator In the tho evening it waR wan rumored about the hall hail that lie tho Salt Lake singers had refused to be Im Imposed posed upon members of the fed fod committee sought Mr Stephens antI triad to eXplaIn Mr it Stephens Stephen re regretted that the tho matter maller had taken turn turn and ono one man offered to pay the tue admission It was waR too late The Salt Lake Lako singers had scattered to various of the tho grounds and oven bath harl they ther elected to return to the tho hall it Il would have been ot colle coilet t them Competition thus being Impossible the tho r prize offered b by the exposition for Ute the winner or of the contest for choruses of af sev 4 members was reduced to 7 O and awarded to the tho St S1 Marka chorus of Seattle b by default |