Show BIG CHOIR RE FUSES TO SING seattle contest is a frazzle contest committee asked salt lake singers to pay admission to hall fall the following special dispatch di patch appeared in the derild republican 1 8 sunday seattle august 28 those in charge of the pr program oram at the aaa alaska ka yukon pacific e deposition blundered tonight and tried to force the tabernacle choir from salt lake to pay an admission fee as individuals individual the choir refused refu ed to sing left the door of the h fiill all and scattered to all parts of the fair grounds and when the fair management repented and attempted to hunt up the salt lake visitors only a few of tham could be found they refused to sing according to evan stephens director directo of the choir his ingers hae never before been offered such an insult the choir has ha appeared in five eisteddfods and seven contests de clafred the director and never babe have ve been asked to pay admission to halls ha I 1 Is on the contrary we ve have alnah been entertained bi b the eisteddfod committees besides this when singers have visited salt lake the eisteddfod committee has entertained them elaborately 1 I 1 hanu hae never hear of such a thing thine when my choir appeared at the do doors 0 rs of the hall tonight each mem her was asked to produce 73 75 cents for admission of course we refused had it been stipulated in the original 1 program that singers were nere expected to pay it might have been different we might not have come to settle when the choir gathered at the hall il was explained to us that we were epe ejected ted to pay admission it was the vote of the singers that we not only would not pan pa but would not sing liter in the evening when it vas as rumored about the hall that the salt lake singers had refused to be imposed imi I 1 upon members of the eisteddfod committee sought mr stephens and tried to eplion mr stephens stephenb re abetted much that the matter had taken this turn anil and one man offered to pay the admission it was tool too late the salt lake singers had haci scatter ed to various parts of the grounds and even elen had they elected to return to the hall it would have been impossible to collect them competition thus being in possible the 1000 prize offered b the ex positron for the winner of the contest for mixed cho choruses rues of seventy five members was reduced to and awarded to the st marks chorus of seattle by default tonight prof ard his singers ingers are right but it is a regrettable incident as that prize was ju jut just t as surely salt likes lakes a as if it in their posses sion stephens had a bunch of sing ers fit to battle for or supremacy anywhere and no matter how much just ahe there was nas the incident leaves a bal baj taste and there will be some censure for the singers in any event |