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Show 00 SOLOIST SHOCKS REVEREND CRAGG Huntington. L. I.. Feb. 5. The I Episcopal church community here is perturbed to an amusing extent over 1 jthe criticism which the Rev. Charles 1 LB Cragg, rector of St. John's church., directed against a young woman solo. I 1st who sang the word Jerusalem as "Jer-u-see-lum" in the rendition of the "Holy City" at an entertainment by the Huntington Historical society! I last week So shocked was the rector I at the way the word was intoned, he straightway sat down and wrote a note to Miss Gladys Dean of Ohio, the soloist, and declared It made the whole number 'an object of ridicule1 to manv. He declared that the sjl- K able "sa" should be pronounced aB if It it were "ser ' or "ear". The contro- ;B versy which ensued has by no means K subsided and church members, find- fe lng dictionaries unavailing, are still V. swapping opinions it |