Hiawatha's Wedding Feast

MONEY WILL BE ON HAND

To Pay for the New Science Building

IF STARTED NEXT SPRING

It will Take Over a Year to Complete it - Have now Got an Extra $92,000

The board of regents held a long session last night concerning the new science building. The lobby was filled with medical professors, each desirous of seeing that their particular brand does not suffer when it comes to parceling out the rooms.

"If every professor gets all that he assures us is absolutely necessary," said Regent Lawton, "it will take $300,000 to construct the building."

Secretary Wade was asked if the Auditor-General is going to make any trouble about furnishing funds for the building. Said he: "He can't. The money raised by taxation for the University is a specific tax. It cannot be withheld. When the one-quarter mill tax bill went through the legislature, it anticipated one year's tax. The Auditor-General pleaded that he did not have the money on hand, and , as we had no immediate use for it, we allowed the matter to go over until the present month, when he is making his collections. That will give us an extra $92,000.

"How long will it take to construct a $200,00 building?" he was asked. 

"I do not know, but it will take over a year, I should judge," he answered.

Therefore, if the building is started next spring, it will not be finished until the fall of 1901. By that time the money will have accumulated, so that it can be paid or provided for very nicely.

The architects are already very busy in gathering ideas of exactly what is wanted, and will work up the ideas into rough plans for the next meeting of the board. One architect, yesterday, had a plaster of paris model of the front of the building, which he proposed as a plan.

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HIAWATHA'S WEDDING FEAST

A GREAT MUSICAL TREAT BY A COLORED COMPOSER

The third Concert in the Choral Union Course at University Hall. 

Next Monday Evening.

The third concert in the Choral Union series will be given on Monday evening, Dec. 18. The Choral Union will sing in addition to several short selections, "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" by Coleridge-Taylor.

The orchestra formerly known as the Chicago Festival Orchestra will take part in this production, and will also give orchestra numbers. Heinrich Heyn, always a great favorite here, will be heard, while the two soloists, who appear here for the first time, come with the indorsement of the best critics and will without doubt prove themselves worthy of our approbation. The most interesting feature of the concert will be without doubt the new Choral work. The composer, Coleridge-Taylor, is a mulatto, born in the West Indies, and has won for himself a place in the front rank of the younger English composers. The following extract from the London Musical Times of Dec. 1, 1898, is a very fair review of the work:

"Of one important factor in melody--rhythm--Coleridge-Taylor has ample store. His music pulsates with rhythmical energy and even the incessant and, indeed, rather monotonous metre of Longfellow's poem does not seem to affect the variety of the music. In one rather obvious respect he is peculiarly fitted to deal with a poem as 'Hiawatha.' Like Tchaikowsky in his most characteristic movements, there is a certain barbaric opulence about his music, an absence of any apparent labor, and a passionate energy that are in perfect keeping with the subject. Dvorak, who has anticipated him in treating of 'the forest primevael', has hardly a greater wealth of fresh melodic ideas.

"Another of Coleridge-Taylor's virtues is that, unlike most young composers, he is practical, and his music produces its effect without any disproportionate expenditure of means. Sudden as are the changes in harmony or in rhythm, they are not forced, or reproduced simply for effects's sake, and the whole of this little cantata--it takes just 36 minutes in performance--has the great charm of perfect spontaneity. It is very evident that the subject has appealed very strongly to the composer's imagination, otherwise it is difficult to understand how he could have infused so much interest into the many lines of Longfellow's poem that most certainly do not yearn for musical expression. The description of the guest's clothing, the detailed menu of the wedding feast, the catalogue of the wardrobe of Pay-Pau-Keewis, the mystic dancer; all these are somewhat tiresome, though not altogether out of place in a descriptive poem. To a composer who 'could set a placard to music' they would, of course, present no difficulty; but in these days, when the musician leans more exclusively upon the poet, they might well prove a stumbling block. Mr. Coleridge-Taylor, however, has an impetuosity that carries him right through; the freshness and vitality of his music carry all before them and give color and interest to even the least emotional lines of the poem.

"Where, however, a genuine emotion has been provided for him, he has not been behind hand. The culminating point of the poem is, of course, the the love song, 'Onaway! Awake, beloved.' This is set as a tenor solo and its passionate character is admirably reflected in the music which is thoroughly vocal, while the orchestra is treated with the same wealth of color as is found elsewhere, together with a still higher degree of finish in matters of detail."

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THE WAUGH CASE SETTLED

The case of the claim of William J. Webster, of Milan, against the estate of Jas. Waugh, deceased, was settled yesterday between the parties. The Argus had published at length the facts in controversy. Webster worked for Waugh, and made a contract to receive certain property for his labor iin conducting a cider mill and working his farm. The contract was not signed by Mrs. Waugh, and on this ground was thrown out by the supreme court. Webster then revived the hearing of claims in the probate court and put in his claim for labor. This was allowed by the probate court, and appealed to the circuit court by the administrator, Alfred Davenport. It is understood the settlement was made on the basis of the costs expended by the executor, they being paid by Webster, and the heirs deeding him the property. Randall & Jones represented Webster amd E. B. Norris the estate. One of the heirs, Naham Waugh, died at Gaylord last September. The claim has been in litigation since June, 1898.

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From Thursday's Daily Argus

All stores are open evenings during the holiday season.

Marriage licenses granted: Henry Newling and Mary J. Swain, both of Milan.

The high school will close for the Christmas vacation on Thursday of next week.

The fire department was called out twice Tuesday by burning out chimneys. One was at 1205 Pontiac st. and the other at 527 S. Seventh st.

Abram Wallace has gone to Chicago to sell a $1,600 horse for a Milford party. The animal will be put up at auction at the horse sale there.

The residence of James L. Babcock is having some very handsome electric light fixtures put in today by J. F. Schuh.

Abbot Avery, of Milan, has been granted a divorce from his wife, Laura Avery, on the ground of extreme cruelty.

Tickets for "The Pixies" can be secured of C. E. Hiscock at the Ann Arbor Savings Bank and of Mrs. Dr. Fitzgerald, 228 S. Fourth ave.

Hot  oyster stew, hot coffee, ice cream and cake will be served at the Christmas bazaar in the Unitarian church Friday and Saturday, 3 to 10 p.m.

Marshal Gerstner is keeping warm these days by chasing up children who are sliding on sidewalks and thus converting the walks in a dangerous condition.

The Ladies' Aid Society of the Church of Christ will serve a New England supper at their monthly tea social on Friday night. Tickets fifteen cents.

Our own Congressman Heinrich Simth has been telling down at Washington that he was nominated to secure the Smith vote for the republican party. From the looks of things last year, the little scheme must have worked.

John Schiplack, a well known laborer of this city, died last evening while at the supper table at the home of his neice, Mrs. John Hiller, of South Seventh st. He was 71 years of age and was born in Eastern Prussia, and had been a resident of Washtenaw county for many years. He leaves a wife, five sons and two daughters. He was a very industrious man and everyone had a kind word for him. 

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