Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. 8. Heath, Correspondent. NEW TO UK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner IWkmsn and Nassau Street. TEIIMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. One year, withont Sunday fl-00 One year, with Snnday 14.00 frix months, without Sunday 6 00 hlx months, with Sunday . 7.00 Three months, withont Monday 3.00 Three menthsf with Sunday . 3.50 One month, withont Sunday l.oo One month, with Sunday 1.20 WEEKLT. Ter year $100 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents, or nd subscription to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXDIANAPOLIS, IND. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can he found at the following place: LONDON American Exchange In Europe, 449 Blrand. PAP.I8-Am?rlcan Exchange in Paris, 35 Bonlevard dea Capucice. NEW YOP.K-GUsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. 17 Kemble, 373S Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House, CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawley A Co.. 1M Vine street. LOUISVILLE-C. T. Deertng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson stret ta. 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and SouUiern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House and EbMtt Housfc. Telephone Callfl. Business Office 238 Editorial Booms 242 The Southwest, tho liquor organ of Cincinnati, says: "There is no safety for personal liberty or tho traffic anywhere except in Democratic majorities." True, my lord! t The Methodist ministers yesterday discussed tho question, "Is the Pulpit Frecf Any layman could answer that question. Of course, the pulpit is free; it is the pews that aio for rent. If the Methodist Book Concern had celebrated its one hundredth anniversary by changing its ridiculous name to something more euphonious it would "liavc been doing a sensible thing. TnE New York Post devotes a column of editorial space to tho subject of strawberries. How it can give itself up to tho consideration of epicurean topics while the country is in such awful danger from a Republican administration is what no one acquainted with tho mugwump feeling of responsibility for the universe can understand.

T AVun all due respect to the most pious editor of any age, it must be insisted that when Colonel Shepard, of the New York Mail and Express, undertakes to edit tho Presbyterian assembly, the railroads and miscellaneous enterprises of the country, and all the seven-day news'papers, ho tackles a job beyond his capacity. The little Evening Mail and Express is about Colonel Shepard's size. A half dozen or so saloon-keepers at Cincinnati, early last Sunday morning, went before a justice of the peace and had themselves arrested for selling liquor on Sunday. They gave bail and then resumed their business for tho day, as only ono arrest can be made for the day. "Whether this scheme will bo generally adopted depends upon how this experiment works. As they had their selection, it is probable they chose a friendly justice of tho peace. The New York Sun thinks that those who are interested in building the Nicaragua canal should see what they can buy the Panama half -finished canal for, and what it would cost to finish it bef oro they spend much money on the Nicaragua route. The Panama can be had cheap, but would it be worth as much as the Nicaragua when finished? The Journal thinks not, for the latter is within tho future United States; the former, never. To be a member of the next General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church will be no holiday sport if the presbyteries all, or even half of them, answer the question: "Do you desire a Revision of tho Confession of Faithr in the affirmative, for then follows the second: "In what respect and to what extent!" Tho only answer to this "can be in the formulating of the substitute. Only think of a thousand or so formulas coming before the committee on revision! The New York World goes out of its way in congratulating President Harrison on tho remission of Coy's fine to misrepresent Judge Woods. Coy was not convicted for altering the tallysheets, but for being ono of many conspirators to prevent an honest election at which candidates for Congress were voted for, the congressional feature being essential then, as now. It was because no Congress figured in the lato indictments that they were dismissed. Samuel J. Randall, in a recent interview for the Courier-Journal, said: "I think everything looks tho best kind for us Democrats. I feel sure of the next House and tho next President. We fellows have all got to get together, and I am certain that wo will and wo will whip them out of their boots." All of which reads well, except that we want to know whether the Millses and tho Hills will go to the Randalls and the Gormans, or vice versa. Somebody will have to do the going to get together. ' Gen. Clinton B. Fisk formally abandons tho Prohibition party, in a card published in the Voice of May 23, over his own name, in which he says: "I have said boldly, and now state, that any movement in my own State of New Jersey, giving promise of success that would undo the wrong-doing of last winter's legislation, I would support." General Fisk is to be congratulated on taking this stand. Had he and his followers taken it a year ago, the local-option law of that State would not have been repealed. The Atlanta Constitution administers a deserved rebuke to tho Springfield Republican, which is unhappy now, has been 'for years, and seems to bo determined to bejfor all time to come. Speaking of a bad spell the Republican lately had because everything is '. going to tho bad, tho Constitution , Bays: "Eecjle 2no less sordid and better than

they ever were before," and adds: "No editor who understands his business can

afford to be a pessimist." These frequent outbursts of good sense atone for many of the Constitution's crankish notions. LEVEL-HEADED, AT LEABT. That a man may be unsound on one or on many subjects, yet perfectly sound on other.', is generally conceded, and the books abound with examples; but not one is more striking than that exhibited last Saturday in the Southern Presbyterian General Assembly. Assuming that Dr. Woodrow, who has become a denominational issue, if not a national, is wrong on the evolution question which the Journal does only for the sake of tho argument, for, to confess the truth, Dr. Woodrow himself and those who voted with him last Saturday, are instances of progress too marked to be ignored in an argument on this question his speech in the General Assembly on the matter of amending the Constitution so as to forever prohibit the inauguration of av President on Sunday, shows that on that question, at least, he is level-headed. . The Journal would not deprive any minister of any political or social right. As a man and a citizen he is the equal of any other man, and may as freely express his opinion in any proper place; but this does not authorize him to turn his pulpit into a political rostrum, from which he may fulminate his personal views on political questions, neither may he and a dozen or a hun dred other ministers and as many lay men turn an assembly or a conference into a political meeting to discuss and vote upon purely political questions. The scope of these meetings is well de fined by their respective organizations, and to discuss politics is not one of the purposes of their being; yet, of late, every once in a while, some ono with narrow views but broad assumptions springs some political or social question on tho meeting. In this case it was a crank who foresees that sometime or other the 4th of March may come on Sunday, and supposing that such parades and displays as were witnessed last 4th of March are provided for in tho Constitution, and are indispensable to the proper induction of the new President, wants a law passed so that such a coincidence may never happen. On this Rev. Dr. Woodrow made the following level-headed remarks: It will also be in violation of the very principles on which the Southern church was founded. The matter is a very small affair, as an inauguration day cannot fall on a feunday once in twentyfive or thirty years too small a matter to disturb the foundations of the government. If we begin this, where shall it end? We may next be petitioning Congress to remove the tariff on the plea that it was robbing us. Thus will we go on from one thing to another till we will be trying to control the offices of the state, we have denounced the Romish Church for this, but why denounce them while the beam is in our own eyes? I beseech you, brethren, that you take steps to crush out this growing eviL I therefore move to strike out that part of the resolution recommending such action. The motion prevailed. THE MTJSIO FESTIVAL. Tho first concert of the festival was all that haa been promised, and all that tho most exacting musical enthusiast could wish. The merit of tho performance, indeed, exceeded expectation. No choruses on the programme are more difficult of execution than those of last night, but the manner in which they were rendered is worthy of all praise. That thi3 body of singers has attained such precision and skill in their three months' practice is at once a proof of their individual qualifications as vocalists and a tribute to the skill of their instructor. It is this chorus that constitutes the peculiarly local feature of tho entertainment. It is not difficult to secure soloists of celebrity for any musical enterprise. An orchestra may bo gathered together with comparatively little trouble, but upon the merit of the chorus tho success of a festival of this sort chiefly depends. A well-trained chorus of fine voices means talent on the part of leader and singers, and is a combination by no means common. For the second time, it has been demonstrated that Indianapolis . possesses all the materials for the proper presentation of great musical compositions. It is past the stage of experiment, and the May musical festival may now safely be considered an established institution. It greatly grieves tho Democratic press, and the Democracy, in general, that Minister Lincoln was cordially received at the court of St. James, and especially that some of the English papers were frank enough to say that he was welcomed "for tho sake of his father." While it must never be true that position or honors follow, in this country, because of ancestry, honorable and distinguished ancestry should never be a bar to position or honors, and it is a piece of reprehensible journalism to npeak disparagingly of a man of merit because his ancestors were men of merit. Abraham Lincoln seems to tho careless observer to havo sprung from an obscure family. True, his immediate ancestors were poor and comparatively obscure, but it was their surroundings that made them so. They had been cut off by their pioneer life from opportunities to be extensively known, yet all the while there were native forces that could not be well developed. Tho Lincoln family had an honorable record running back through more than a century. Robert T. Lincoln comes of a family of patriots, and it is the most unnatural thing in the world to not respect such a man as he is for the sake ot such a father, as well as for his own merits. The conduct of the Democratic constables at Shelby ville, last Sunday, in what they supposed was in the interests of the saloons, was so outrageous that even tho saloon-keepers felt called upon to disavow it. The marshal, as in duty bound, closed tho saloons. Every saloon but a few low dives, the headquarters of the managers of the Democratic party for that county, expressed a readiness to close if all would, but these low dives instigated their tools to annoy tho citizens by not allowing tho sale of tho Sunday papers or anything else. Their attempt to prevent tho sale of tickets at the depot was characteristic. The truth ia that tho identity of the law-defy

ing portion of tho Liquor League and the officials of tho Democratic party is becoming every day more manifest. Even Shelby county Democracy cannot be induced to indorse the combination.

TnE interview between Minister Lincoln and Queen Victoria last Saturday was a solemn affair. Each was glad to see the other, and each was glad that the others country was prosperous, and each hoped that it might always be, and that each country might forever love tho other. Not a word was said about the fogs of London or the cyclones of America. Neither asked the other about the family, nor was a word said about natural gas. Tho interview might as well not have been, so far as Indianapolis is concerned. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, who is posing as a Prohibitionist, "and canvassing Pennsylvania ostensibly in the interest of the amendment, loses no opportunity to stab tho Republican party, while pretending to be working in the interest of the non-partisan measure now before the people. In this he is in complete accord with the Prohibition party in the North, though he will have none of it in Georgia, but votes tho Democratic ticket always. It is not tho idea that a mini ster of the gospel is less susceptible to the tender passion than common men that leads to general surprise when one commits suicide from disappointment in love, but a very decided belief that the religion he professes should be of enough practical service to prevent such reckless conduct. The piety of Rev. Mr. Schorr, of Baltimore, was evidently of a mild type. One W. P.Tomlinson, a Democratic editor of Topeka, Kan., hired himself out to the , Liquor League to travel through Massachusetts, before the late election, and make speeches and to be interviewed to show how prohibition was a failure in Kansas. The following from the Boston Globe is a 6amplo of his sayings: The liquor cases have completely choked up the court. We have been obliged to establish the grand jury. Within the past thirty days Topeka haa been obliged to establish the Metropolitan Police Steni to enforce the liquor law, and still it is not; enforced. Dives and Joints flourish, and all the iniquities of secret selliug are added to the lesser4evils of the open traffic Whon he returned to Topeka with the money and fame he had acquired, his neighbors, who assumed that he knew what they did not, brought him before tho grand jury where he was interviewed as follows: County Attorney Welsh State your name, ace and residence. Tomlinson William P. Tomlinson; fifty; Topela. Kan. W. Do you know of the existence of an open saloon in Shawnee county at the present! T. I do not. W. Do you know of any open saloon in Shawnee oounty within the past two years! T. No, I do not. W. Do you know of any secret place in Shawnee county where Uquor can be bought by the drink! . T. I do not W. Do you know of any drug store where intoxicating liquors aro sold contrary to law! T. Of my own personal knowledge, I do not The schools of the State are now in a whirl of social and literary dissipation. Once graduation was a comparatively simple affair, but now the various ceremonies cover a period varying from a week to a month, and tho graduate, his teachers, associates and friends are in a state bordering on collapse when the whole business is over. Doubtless it is all right, but by contrast tho emancipated student nust find life a very common-place affair when he takes it up again in its prosaic details. Speaking of the raising of flax, the statement that a mill in this city has.converted 230,000 bushels of flax-seed into oil and meal in tho last year would seem to indicate that a considerable quantity of the plant was already raised by somebody. When the Agricultural Department's machine that separates this fiber inexpensively conies into general use, the cultivators will be making a double profit off their crop. The New York World insists that whether execution by electricity instead of by rope is constitutional or not, so . much of the law as forbids the publication of the details of the execution certainly is. No doubt of that, if you can get them. This is a free country, and a free pr ess means the publication of everything you know; but how are you going to find out about the details! A Reader, Mohawk, Ind.: Address Commissioner of the Goneral Land Office, Washington, D. C, to obtain information concerning public lands, maps, etc. You can only get a complete answer to your second question by studying the history of the Democratic party. The two men mentioned pleaded guilty and were released on their own recognizance, pending sentence. Tub large order received from Paris, France, by an Indianapolis1 manufacturer, leads to the supposition that wares from this factory are on exhibition there, and raises the inquiry as to how many other manufacturers of this city aro represented at the World's fair. Such exhibits are of individual benefit and a help to the town from which they are 6ent. TnE Baltimore American predicts some sad disasters if the ocean steamers keep running at the present fearful rate. If nothing happens to the fast boats themselves they will be almost sure to run over some small boats. The American has done well to put itself thus on the record. If it lives until something does happen it can now say I told you so. A New York court has decided that a stable, however well kept, is a nuisance in the neighborhood of handsome houses. Just how handsome a house must be to entitle the noses of its occupants to the protection of the law does not appear. Reader, Carmel, Ind.: A great many physicians advertise their ability to cure deafness. We do not know to which one you refer. It is safer to consult a home physician. ABOUT FEOPLEAND THINGS. Stockholders of the Suez canal will receive this year a dividend of S9 per cent. John G. Whittier, tho poet, says that he expects to live to be a hundred, though he is not anxious to. Walt Whitman's seventieth birthday comes May 31, and John G. Whittier has already written a poem to bo read on that occasion, and letters are expected from Tennj'son and others. In a theater at Ashton, England, during the performance of a melodrama, an excited woman threw her bonnet and umbrella at the "villain" on tho stage when he was strangling one of tho characters. She "brought down the house." The largest vine in tho world is said to be one growing at Oys. Portugal, which has been in bearing since 1802. Its maximum yield was in 18G4, in which year it produced a sufficient quantity of grapes to make 165 gallons of wine; in J8L Hfl gallons, and in im onfcr

79 1-2 gallons. It covers an area of 5,315

square feet, and tho stem at the base measures 6 1-2 feet in circumference. It is proposed to erect a monument to the late E. P. Roe by placing a natural boulder at sorao suitable spot near Ins home at Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y., and the Christian Union invites subscriptions. A few hundred dollars will cover the cost Mr. George Kexnan, the Siberian traveler, has given up his Washington house. For the next year or two he will bo busy with lecture engagements, and in the summer will live on Cape Breton island, next neighbor to Prof. Alexander Graham Bell. It is earnestly requested that all persons having in their possesion letters from tho late president of Columbia College, Frederick A. P. Barnard, send them to Prof. Nicholas Murrav Butler. Columbia College. New York, at their early convenience. rf i in v a , . v iney wm ue reiurneu alter copies nave been made. Madam Cellini, the noted instructress of vocal music, who has in charge the voices of their royal highness the daughters of tho Prince of Wales, is going to close her place of residence in Arundel Gardens, and is coming to New York to snendthe winter.. returning home in time for tho next Lon don season. Between fifteen and sixteen thousand children are lost in London every year, al most all of whom are found and restored to their parents by the aid of tho Metropolitan police. Between 120 and 150 adults are missing yearly in London, and about fifty dead bodies are not claimed or identified after being found. Miss Fair, the daughter of James G. Fair, the millionaire ex-Senator, is said to be engaged to anassistant surceon in the navy whose fortunes are limited to his pay. Miss Fair has some $4,000,000. She is very oeautiiui, witn a cold, statuesque face, almost devoid of expression. It was said at one time that she was engaged to G. Creighton Webb. It is related that when Prince Bismarck met Samoan Commissioner Kasson he was struck with the idea that he , had met that gentleman before. "Is mv face familiar to you!" asked Bismarck, with a puzzled expression on his countenance. "Your features are known to everybody in our country," &aiu me cuuruy ivassou. uui; me latter was not pleased to think that Bismarck should have wholly forgotten their meeting when Kasson was minister to Austria. Tnn cruelest woman in tho country is mentioned by the Boston Traveler as follows: "A woman in Irwin county, Georgia, understands the hen business. Whenever she gets ready to set a hen, it matters not whether the hen is ready or not, she catches the fowl, breaks one leg, puts eggs and hen in a nest and nails them up. She says there is nothing like breaking one leg to make them set. Bv the time the hen hatches, the leg is well and she is ready to care for the chicks." "About twenty-five years ago," says George W. Childs, "I was in Boston one day, in a book store a wretched day, rainy, sloppy and muddy when I saw the striking figure of a little man, wearing a slouched hat, his pantaloons rolled up, dashing along the street. He looked as little like a poet as a man could. I turned to the book-seller and asked him who that was. That is Ol iver Wendell Holmes,' he said. 'Well, I want to know that man,' and 1 got to know him, and we have been tho best of frientWever since." A singula wivorce caso has just taken place in Long Island. Some time ago a certain Miss Bankin was about to be married. The time approached; the guests assembled, but the prospective bridegroom did not nut in an appearance. In this dilemma John Jordan, who had been celebrating pretty freely, stepped forward and said that, not wishing to disappoint the company, he would marry the bride himself. She assented, and trie wedding took place. A few days afterwards Jordan repented of his bargain, and is now trying to havo the marriage annulled on the ground that ho did not know what he was doing when the ceremony took place. A Melbourne paper is responsible for a capital story about the wife of the Governor of New South Wales. "The other day," says this journal, "a South Australian magnate called at tho government house. Ho sent his card in. and, waiving the footman aside, said ho would go up and give his lordship a surprise.' At the top of the stairs ho met a nice-looking younir woman, and, in a fine old gentlemanly, gallant way. chucked her under tho chin and pressed half a crown into her hand, saying, at the same time: 'Show me into the presence of his lovdship, my little dear.' The little dear, with an enigmatical smile, opened the door of Lord Carrington's study, and said. Bob, here's a gentleman to see you, and' opening her hand 'he's given me half a crown to show him where vou are.' " COMMENT ATD OPINION. Mormons are immigrating to Manitoba, and sixty millions of people in the United States will say amen. They are not American citizens in any true sense of the term. Chicago Inter Ocean. TnE country knows General Harrison to be an honest, conscientious Christian, and the country will accept his acts if they are satisfactory to himself as the best he can do, and that is all that can bo expected of any man. Cleveland Leader. A long step would be taken if it could become a matter of national policy that the customs tax would be instantly removed from the foreign substitute of any American made article, the manufacture of which was regulated by one of these trusts. Boston Herald. To right thinking citizens of these States the dynamiter is no better than tho Anarchist. The wretches who plot to satisfy an unreasoning thirst for vengeance, at the risk of destroying innocent lives, are no improvement on tho upholders of the red llag, who flaunt their wild theories whenever relaxation of police vigilance enables them to obtain a hearing. Brooklyn Eagle. There can be no two opinions, one would think, about conditional divorces. Permission to marry again, while a former husband or wife is living, should be altof ether denied, or it should be irrevocable, nstead of granting a divorce that is revocable within three years, it would be better to withhold the decree for three years and then grant an unconditional divorce, Louisville Courier-Journal. "When the Western outlet in this country is closed, immigration from Europe must fall off, and it will doubtless be strictly regulated by law. Contrary to Macaulay's prediction the only Huns and Vandals who menace the United States come from without, and are not engendered within, and it Is only a question of time when the bars will be put up against European Socialists and Anarchists. Chicago Herald. The impression is pretty prevalent throughout the country that Congressmen members of the upper as well as of the Jower branch are attempting to exercise power in the distribution of patronage with which they have never been endowed by either organic or statute law. and that a rebuke to these assumptions, such as has been administered to the Illinois Senators, is timely and appropriate. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. It is plain that the Presbyterian Church will soon experience a ministerial famine that may jeopardize its very existence unless (something is done to check it. But just what8hould be done is not at all clear. The desire for wealth and the spirit of materialism which are abroad in the world' to-day are doubtless responsible for the refusal of many young men to enter the Christian niinistr3 at the present time. New York Tribune. Providing common food is a matter that troubles but few persons. A half-grown boy can earn a barrel of Hour in a week, and this will keep him in bread for a year. These things go to show that there is no danger of starvation, hunger, or even want All theories to tho contrary, food appears to increase much faster than human beings do. At present all farmers, fruit-growers and stock-raisers wish there were more mouths to till. Chicago Herald. Why tho Fine Was Remitted. Terre Haute Gazette. President Harrison has remitted the line of Sim Coy. The reason is understood to be that Coy has been robbed bv his old pal. Sullivan, and is unablo to pay "bis fine. He will now simply havo to serve out his terra of imprisonment, and about the 1st of June he will go forth from the penitentiary to begin life anew. We hope that he may so live as to redeem his life from tho stain he has placed upon, it

OPENING OF TnE FESTIVAL

A Scene That Had Charms Aside from Those Musical Artists Imparted to It Warm Greetings from a Brilliant and HighlyPleased Audience That Represented the Culture and the Best Social Conditions. Fine Choral Effects from the JIasters of Art, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Perotti and Juch Add to the Evenings Enjoyment, and the Orchestra Surrounds All with a Eichness of Sound Notes. THE FESTIVAL AUDIENCE. A Brilliant Scene the Thousands of People Presented In the Larffe Halt Soon after 7 o'clock last evening many hurrying groups of three, four and more could bo seen coming from all directions, gathering in, with Tomlinson Hall as a focus. Theso were the ladies and gentlemen of the chorus, and the fitful dashes of rain through the afternoon gave uneasiness even to the most adventurous of these singers, who have a not altogether unreasonable dislike to a wetting. Though still threatening, nature was at last kindly, and they gained the hall breathless, but without any watery mischance. Tomlinson Hall never looked more beautiful than last night. There was a simplicity about the decorations, only a few large American Hags draping the stage, a few nondescript pennons, a few plants. That was all except that pendant from each of the great chandeliers was a basket covered with a profusion of plumes, grasses and flowers, gorgeous in color. It was the chorus and the audience that tilled the picture and made a scene of resplendent beauty. Tho stage alone had more figures in it than any artist could well find, time to paint, for in addition to the orchestra in the foreground there were 650 in the chorus, the gentlemeu basses and tenors in the center, while on either hand beauty in tiers rose ono seat behind another until all tho assembled loveliness, soprano and alto, had full opportunity to see and to be seen. Tho chorus, with the exception of thirty from Crawfordsville, where musical talent is abundant, were all Indianapolis people. The black suits of the gentlemen furnished a contrast to the richer raiment of the ladies. The greater number of these were in white, though a sufficient number were in livelier colors to make a pleasing diversity, and nearly every corsage had a bouquet of roses. Additional animation was given to the scene by the graceful waving of fans as the chorus, promptly in place, waited in great complacency for tho performance to begin. The audience was not as prompt in coming in as the chorus, though like injunctions for punctuality had been laid upon the people. The gallery tilled first, nearly t every seat being taken Deioro t o'ciocic The chorus singers were all in their seats when the orchestra filed in. The first manifestation of applause was when Director Bams stepped upon the stage. The doors leading into the auditorium were-then closed. The orchestra tuned up modestly, bows were drawn lightly over fiddle-strings and sotto voco toots were taken in a sub rosa manner upon various-patterned wind instruments. Kat-tat-tat! went Director Barus's baton, and the grand orchestra began tho opening overture. No better audience could be desired. The people came to hear and seo, they listened attentively, and when they ap- ? lauded it was with discrimination, hey beamed enthusiasm. It was a cultured audience, the music-lovers of Indianapolis being reinforced by the best people of tho larger towns and cities of the State. As the orchestra concluded the opening number there was a buzz of admiration: this growing stronger, found vent in a burst of applause, for which the director bowed his acknowledgements. A slight intermission was then given to allow the doors to be opened and the late comers to be admitted. There were hundreds of them, and when they were seated the auditorium was well filled, the unoccupied seats being in tho rear of the hall. The tilling up of this space put a very different face on affairs. When the chorus rose it could readily be seen where the great interest of the audience lay. Great things were expected of this chorus, and as the singers broke forth in a marvelous strain of melody the countenances of the audience glowed with delight, and as they finished there was longcontinued applause, tho tribute of a thoroughly well-pleased audience. The busts of Beethoven and Wagner stood near each other, between the orchestra and the audience. A very observing person says it was at this moment, just as the singers were settling in their seats, that they nodded to each other in a thoroughly satisfied manner and remarked: "Well, this is something like!" It certainly is an event for Indianapolis to be proud of. as in this festival she takes her place beside older cities, and cities of four and five times her population. In fact it is boldly said that this chorus is in everyway superior to that of any musical event at either Cincinnati or Chicago, and is especially strong in the tenor, a part of the chorus that is rarely satisfactory. When the intermission came great numbers of persons came out into the corridors, and groups gathered hero and there in earnest and enthusiastic discussion of the concert, all being agreed that nothing approaching it in importance or excellence nad ever been known in this city. ORCHESTRA AND SOLOISTS. Features of the Concert That Enhanced Its Grandeur. Promptly at 8 o'clock the orchestra began the overture to Beethoven's "Lenore," No. 8. The instrumentalists number sixty musicians, each an artist, selected from the famous Thomas aud other orchestras. The number of instruments is well balanced, and no one part overshadows another. The several movements of the overture 'J were executed admirably, the strings being especially good. The allegro, the andante and finale were effectively given. The "William Tell" overture came directly after the intermission and the tranquil andante. The descriptive portions, through to tho trumpet call and the brilliant finale, were finely depicted. With tho brief synopsis, as given in the programme, there was not one in the audience who could not perfectly follow tho various effects which the instruments describe. It is a composition of this kind that pleases the public, and it fills in a measure the lack of words which makes a song more pleasing to the masses than are instrumental work. The "Largo lor tho First Violin," by Handel, never received a better rendition nor a more quickly recognized appreciation, in this city, than last night. Max Bendix sustained the solo theme, accompanied by the harp, and his sympathetic bow made the melody rich, yet tender. The air is one of the sweetest known in the rabn of classic composition, and its hymn-like subject awakens a response in the least musical nature. No number dnring the evening was more warmly applauded. The soloists are all of the first magnitude, and nothing but praise can be saidof them. Signor Perotti, who had been heralded as tho world's greatest high C tenor, did not disappoint even the most fastidious critic. In personal appearance he is the counterpart of ' his pictures, which is not always tho case. From tho first notes he uttered he won the audience. His voice is something wonderful rich, clear, perfectly attuned, and reminds one of tine old wine mellow, translucent leaving nothing to be desired. His high notes aro taken and held with an ease that proves hU voice to be a natural as well as most highl cultivated high tenor

The Romanza from "Huguenots" was a'del icate bit, the zephyr-like accompaniments being in perfect harmony with the theme. The l)i Quella Pira. from "Trovatore" was short but exceedingly brilliant, and at its conclusion a perfect storm of applauso broko forth, and repeated bowings by the singer were given to the continued clapping of hands and shouting. Signor Perotti appeared in the second part of the evening, rendering Cavatina. from "Faust," exquisitely. The artist, after repeated recalls bang an aria from "liigoletto," and then again was received with enthusiasm. Miss Emma Juch is not new to Indianapolis audiences, and she is always ure of a hearty welcome. To accompany her sweet voice she has a most attractive stage presence. Her picture is familiar to tho public A blonde of the purest type, of strong physique and graceful mein, she wore last night (this lor tho benefit of the ladies, a court dress of green silk, with train of heavy white moire. The panels were trimmed with pearl bandeaux, and tho green petticoat and corsage were heavy with pearl penddants. The grand ana from "Dor Frcischutz" was well selected to show off her fiue vocalisru. Her rich, liquid tones in the tender passages, her great power in the

forte and her sustained notes were equally admirable. Her execution was faultless, and the intricacies of the composition were as easily accomplished as the less ornamented. The applauso was deafening at its conclusion, aud, after repeated recalls, she saDg that gem of Rubinstein's, "Thou'rt Like Unto a Flower," and The silence of the vast audience was 'most oppressive as each ono listened, breathless, to the song. Mi6S Adele Aus der Ohe. a girlish appearing young woman inawhito embroidered gown, whose hair was also arranged in girlish fashion, came forward. The only pianist of the evening, and a rival 6t the greatest piauists in this country, Liszt s E flat concerto, ono of that composer's most diflcult works, was her number, and under her magic touch tho grand piano became a thing of life. Miss Aus Der Ohe was a pupil of Liszt's, and seems to be inspired with all his enthusiasm and genius. Sho gave a most brilliant rendition of one of tho most difficult, as well as the most original of modern compisitions. Sho has great skill, great endurance, perfect technique and all of those qualities requisite for a tine artist. The orchestral accomnanimpnt. wn nil. mirably given and with rare good iaste. never covering the work of the soloist. Miq Ana TlAr OhA wnn mnnr friamla irfion here before and added to tho number last night. Ail in all it was a night of brilliant instrumental and vocal music. A SPLENDID CHORUS. 3Ionths of Hard and Unceasing Study Close with, a Triumph. It is a pleasure to writ of such chorus work as was done last night First lor the immediate pleasure of the listener, and, second, because it shows more than aught else tho strides we are making m tho art of music from year to year. The predictions made by the Journal were fully veri tied, and it is not to be disputed that the present festival has developed tho largest and finest chorus yet gotten together in Indianapolis. Its full power was fairly and satisfactorily developed in. several climaxes, while its lighter passages were, indeed, nicely done. The first choral number was the "Hallelujah" from Beethoven's oratorio, "The . Monnt of Olives," sometimes called the "Engedi," and so down on the programme. The number fitly followed ono of the four overtures (No. 3), written by Beethoven, at different times, for his only opera, "Fidelio." The fugue was gloriously delivered, and it is doubtful if an Indianapolis audience ever understood and felt tho force of this, the highest and most intellectual form of composition. The majesty of the movement was retained with telling effect, and, closing with the impressive "Praiso the Lord in Holy Songs," beginning pianissimo and closing with a mighty repetition, fortissimo, it marked a grand achievement and the great success of tho work devolving upon our own people in the great festival. Kighini's chorus "The Lord is Great," number six on the programme, was quite as well sung as tho Beethoven number and gave the chorus a test of its unity in its running passages, which were remarkably evenly sung, and tho tempo was maintained with charming precision. In fact the chorus rather got tho best of the orchestra in the finale, tho brasses getting a lato start and lagging through several measures. When it came to the pretty serenade of Pin8uti?8,v8ung without accompaniment, . an exacting test of vocal work was made, and the six hundred voices gave a splendid account of themselves. Modulations are frequent and difficult in the work, and a repetition, heartily demanded by tho audience, proved that they had "held up" throughout the work, something they have not done by sometimes a tone, nt rehearsals. The beautiful Lorelei finale, by Mendelssohn, from an unlinished opera, concluded the work the chorus had, in the first night's programme of this really magnificent festival. To go into detail would .simply be to describe tho work through, and one can easier say that tho Lorelei was sung without an important flaw, Juch, as is known, taking the Leonora with great effect Better chorus work is rare, and the oppor tnnities for hearing it yet rarer, and if the work of last night is kept np to the end w o will score our greatest success in this, the grandest and most inspiring field of music. It is hoped that Professor Barns may yet stand before many such arrays of conhdent followers in Indianapolis, but we do not ask much better things of him or of any leader. PHASES OF INTEREST. . People Who Came to the City to Enjoy the Season of Music. . The following persons attending the fes tival from neighboring cities are registered at the hotels: Peru: Mr. O. C. Miller, Andrew Wev. Cincinnati: Mrs. Kosa fccliottenfels, Mattel Albert von Prenboff. DanvUle, 111.: Mrs. C J. Talmer, M1m F.i ralmer, Miss Georgia Whittier, Miss Cannon Ml8 Webster. Richmond: Hon. WillJam D. Foulke and uife Miss Carrie Foulke, Ml Llllle FouUre, Ml Nicholson, Miss Weber, C. 8. Bead and wife, L. 11 Iemon. Blooniington: D. 8. Jordan. Lafayette: Mrs. E. C. Whitehead. Kdinbunr: Rev. T. M. Todd and -wife. Mount Vernon: O. Menzies and wire. Oxford: M1.a Jennie White, John W. EommpL Mrs. U. C. McConnell. Angola: T. B. Williams and wife. Gosport: James 11. Henry. Rushville: Mrs. Z. K. Mauzr, Mrs. 8. W. Atrcrombe. Hpencen E. C. Steele. CraMrfordsville: J. II. Ollhrrt and wife, Mr. J. J. Insley, I A. Foote and wife. Delphi: N. W. Brwn. Kokomo: Mrs. B. II. Johnson, Mrs. H. E. Heiv derson. Kvanaville: J. W. Layman. Terre Haute: N. W. Parsons, William II. Wiler, J. W. fruit, Robert Van Vagate. Thomas li. Long. Fowler U. Z. Wiley and wife, Charles M. ny der. (Hen Dale: J. V,'. Clark. Washington: J. J. Glcndennlng. Madison: R. L. Inland. Edlnburg: M. G. Demmlnc. Iebanon: B. 8. Hlcsrins and wife. Rookville: I. W. htark, Rertha C. Ftark. Ht. Mary: Johu Tlaldwln and daughter. Lafountaln: J. II. Scott and wife. Kureka: J. IS. Lilian and wife. 8yraene: John w. Btetlr and wife. West field: Mrs. V. Knapp. Seymour: John W. Caress and wife. This Afternoon and Evening Concerts. The programme for this afternoon, while not so elaborate as those for the evening performances, presents numbers equally pleasing, and which, perhaps, will be more satisfactory to the popular car. Down the list appear tho names of Meudclssohn, Meyerbeer. Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi. Thomas, Gounod and Supoe. Selections from tho works of the first-mentioned will give tho color to tho concert, as they exceed in number those of other composers. They are, too, mostly familiar to non-tmu sical, as well as musical people, for time and again they have been the staple of orchestral concerts. However, like all compositions of this genius of mmic, Ihey never lose their freshness. Tho afternoon will open with his "Midsummer Night's Dream." and then, just preceding the final chorus before the intermission, his concerto in G minor, for piano and oreheatra, trii