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Booming The City

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
March
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sditob Demoobat: Since ail enterprising classes of our city seem to comprehend the ultímate )eneflts absolutely certain to arise from an increase of a desirable population and, as the spirit and desire to boom the advantages of our city seems to be abroad t may not be deemed arrogant to state what has already been done by the Beetïoven society in a quiet yet most practical way, towards sowing the superior advantages of our city in rich and fertile ground. and, perchance, to enlist the material sympathy of those "boomers" who reallydesire and are prepared to aid a substantial boom. In 1874 the Germán singing eocieties of Michigan, then belonging to the German national society of America, withdrew from the central society to establish the Peninsular Sangerbund, in order to enlist all the societies of Michigan to hold one grand festival every seoond year in some oity of the state. So far, these festivals have met with suocess, the number of gueste ranging from five thousand in the smaller cities to over ten thousand in Detroit. Soon after inauguration the Beethoven Bociety of Ann Arbor joined the Bund, and at the festival iu 1884 invited the Sangerbund to Ana Arbor in 1886. Not oue oity of the state bad a hal) to accommodate the guests, tiJ so halls had to be built expressly for the festivals. In Detroit the great Music hall, lately destroyed in the large flre, was built for these festivals. The Beethoven society reckoned on the support of the university and at the last August meeting of the board of regents the oase was properly presented and the regents generously grnnted the use of university hall for the concerts. But, besides the hall, there are other great expenses connected with these festivals, and as the question of the failure to pay expenses on account of weather, etc, must be taken into consideraron, a guaranteefund becomo ad trboixxo Ooo.ify_ So far, these funds have only been drawn upon to p y for the halls. The Beethoven society needs a guarantee tund of $2,500, and so far ouly $1,200 has been subscribed. Now, whon you bear in mind that the men of other cities of the stare reacueu ueep mtu uucn pubvw tv build halls for the Sangerbund, it eer taiuly is not asking too much of the "boomers" to subscribe, say, from $25 to $50 to this fund, of which not one dollar will be taken if tbe weathor is a all favorable. Milwaukee has raised a guarantee fund of $25,000 for the na national sangerfest. No one can question the advantage certain to accrue to Ann Arbor from thi festival. Thousands will come to see the university and our beautifnl city and the impressions here made will be carried back, not to those dreary homes where dogs and cats receive that devo tion designed to have been a motherl; oare of immortai soul, but to oheerfn homes, where blooming wives are prout mothers of large families, to supply the "omiusr generation with mímeles anc nerves, and brains; to carry the civiliza tion of our race to a higher plañe in the Ann Arbor, March 12. 1886.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat