History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, Volume II, Part 109

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1196


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On August 29, 30, and 31, and September 1, 1865, the North American Sängerbund held its annual festival in Columbus. This was one of the most important musical occasions in the history of the city. The executive committee


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of arrangements comprised the following members: Peter Ambos president, J. G. Bull vice president, C. P. L. Butler recording secretary, Henry Olnhausen corresponding secretary, Louis Hoster treasurer, J. P. Bruck, Isaac H. Marrow, C. A. Wagner, J. H. Stauring, J. G. Bickel, Otto Dresel, Jacob Reinhard, Joseph H. Riley, Theodore Comstock, E. Barcus, Isaac Eberly, J. Falkenbach. The head- quarters of the committee were at Schreiner's building, opposite the Courthouse. Other prominent places of rendezvous were Wenger's and Zettler's halls. All of these buildings, and many others, were lavishly decorated with wreaths, flags, mottoes and streamers. The headquarters of the Columbus Männerchor were in Hettetheimer's building. For presentation to the Sangerbund, a splendid Bundes- fahne ( flag of the Singer's Union) was manufactured in New York on the order of the German ladies of Columbus, at a cost of $450. This flag was thus described :


On the white side of it a magnificent embroidered eagle spreads his wings over a lyre; beneath the lyre is a book of sheet music on which we see the song, " Stand firm, my coun- try," ete. The whole is surrounded by grapes and grape leaves; the stars over the lyre represent the societies participating in the festival. The inscription, in beautiful German letters (violet color) is as follows: " First German Sängerbund of North America, founded June 2, 1849." The other side is of blue silk, bearing the following inscription: "Donated by the German ladies of Columbus, Ohio, at the Thirteenth Union Festival, August 29, 1865." The whole is a beautiful work of embroidery."


The first day of the festival, Angust 29, was devoted to the reception of visit- ing societies, of which the following had announced their intention to be present: Sängerbund of Buffalo, Mannerchor of Indianapolis, Sangerbund of Upper San- dusky, Frohsinn of Pittsburgh, Mannerchor of Wheeling, Sangerbund of St. Louis, Harmonia of Dayton, Sangerbund of Cincinnati, Gesangverein of Cleve- land, Concordia of Cheboygan, Michigan, Liedertafel of Buffalo, Mannerchor of Cincinnati, Liederkranz, Orpheus and Frohsinn of Louisville, Liederkranz of Sidney, Eintracht of Chillicothe, Mannerchor of Columbus, Indiana, Gesang- verein of Piqua, Harmonia of Cincinnati, Bruderbund of Tiffin, Männerchor of Rochester, Liedertafel of Akron, Germania of Dunkirk, New York, Harmonia of Wheeling, Frohsinn of Toledo and Liederkranz of New York City.


On the evening of August 30 the grand opening concert was given at the Opera House, which was crowded in every part. On the stage were about four hundred singers representing the different societies. The daily newspapers described the performance by ecstatic references of too general a nature to be of historical value. During the evening of August 31 a grand prize concert took place in the presence of an audience as large as the Opera House could possibly contain. The members of the awarding committee were Messrs. H. M. Grönland. Professor Nothnagel, Carl Schoppelrei, Emil Forster and Carl Spohr. The awards made were as follows: To the Cincinnati Mannerchor the crown prize, consisting of a laurel wreath and a silver goblet ; to the New York Liederkranz a silver set; to the Pittsburgh Frohsinn and the Akron Liedertafel each a silver cup; to the Rochester Mannerchor a silver embroidered banner and scarf; to the Tiffin Bruderbund a guitar; to the Louisville Liederkranz a drinking horn; to the Buffalo Sängerbund a picture; to the Indianapolis Männerchor photographs ; to the St. Louis Sangerbund a flute; to the Upper Sandusky Sangerbund a silver tuningfork.


On the morning of September 1 the different societies marched to the Capitol Square bearing their banners dressed with crape as a token of respect to Governor Brough who had just died in Cleveland. In the presence of a great crowd which bad assembled around the Capitol the Cincinnati Mannerchor sang very impres- sively the dirge, " In the Grave. is Peace." This was followed by the Star


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Spangled Banner, sung in English by Mr. Stein, of St. Louis. At the conclusion of this music the singing societies, a detachment of military, and various other bodies formed in procession and marched to the Fairgrounds, south of the city, where the exereises of the day were opened with an address in German by Doctor J. Eberhardt, of Wheeling, after whom an address in English was delivered by Hon. R. B. Warden, of Columbus. At the conclusion of the speaking the singers and invited guests sat down to a dinner spread in the grove. The remainder of the day was spent in songs, miscellaneous speeches and amusements. In the evening banquets and dancing took place at Wenger's and Zettler's halls.


From this time forward the musical and dramatic events of the city become so numerous that only the more conspicuous and important can be mentioned. Those which pertain especially to the Männerchor and Liederkranz have re- ceived due attention in the sketches of those societies. In November, 1866, it was announced that Professor Carl Schoppelrei had organized for the Opera House a new orchestra of fifteen performers. The De Beriot Club, organized in 1859, maintained its prominence throughout the sixties, and gave concerts or dramatic performances in various cities of Ohio. A concert troupe of which Parepa and Brignoli were stars gave a performance on December 29, 1866, at the Opera House. At the same place, on October 7 and 8, 1867, Madame Anna de la Grange and Signor Brignoli sang in operatic concert portions of Rossini's Barber of Seville and Donizetti's Don Pasquale. The director of these perform- ances was Signor Rosa. The Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston appeared at the Opera House October 25. In December Madame Adelaide Ristori gave, at the same place, performances in the characters of Mary Stuart and Queen Elizabeth. On March 3, 1868. Ole Bull reappeared with his marvelous violin at Naughten Hall ; on December 9 he gave a concert at the Opera House. On April 30, 1868, another concert was given by Madame La Grange and Brignoli. On March 3, 1869, Joseph Jefferson appeared at the Opera House in Rip Van Winkle. On December 13, same year, the city was favored with a concert by the Theodore Thomas orchestra of forty musicians. On January 11, 1870, Haydn's Creation was sung at the Opera House by the Philharmonic Society ; Professor Herman Eckhardt director. In this performance Mrs. Lizzie Eckhardt appeared as Gabriel, Mr. Joseph Falkenbach as Raphael, Miss Mina Senter as Eve, Mr. H. Hyde as Uriel and H. W. Frillman as Adam. The orchestra com. prised thirty musicians. By the same society, at the same place, Rossini's Stabat Mater was performed on April 21, Professor Eckhardt directing. Ole Bull again appeared at the Opera House in April ; on April 21 a transient fraud known as the " Cardiff giant " was exhibited. On May 2, 1870, Mozart's superb opera, the Marriage of Figaro, was sung at the Opera House with Parepa-Rosa, the reigning queen of song, iu the leading part. Parepa was supported by Miss Rose Hersee, Mrs. E. Seguin and Mr. S. C. Campbell ; Carl Rosa conductor. The oratorio of Queen Esther was sung at the Opera House August 25 and 26, 1870, by a company of local amateurs for the benefit of the Hannah Neil Mission. The chorus comprised one hundred voices. The Philharmonic Society, led by Professor Eckhardt, gave a grand concert at the Opera House in December. In November the city was favored with a dramatic visit by John E. Owens. Clara Louise Kellogg and the pianist James H. Welhi gave a concert at the Opera House December 28. Anna Louise Cary, accompanied by Signor Brignoli and the great French violinist, Henry Vieuxtemps, followed on February 11, 1871. On February 22, that year, the city was favored with the superb vocalism of Christine Nilsson. Mademoiselle Nilsson was accompanied by Anna Louise Cary, Brignoli, Henry Vieuxtemps and others. The gross receipts of this con- cert amounted to $4,400. Rossini's opera, William Tell, was performed by the Thalia Verein at the Opera House February 27. William Bach, long connected


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with the German opera in eastern cities, removed to and settled in Columbus this year. Under the name of Neil's New Atheneum the State Street theatre, after a long period of desnetude, was reopened on November 13, 1871. The opening performance was given by Columbus amateurs in a comic opera, entitled the Doctor of Alcantara. As reconstructed by Mr. Neil, the Atheneum had a seating capacity of 1,500. Flotow's Martha was sung at the Opera House by the Parepa- Rosa Company December 14. Among Parepa's assistants were Mr. S. C. Camp- bell, Mr. W. Castle, and Mr. and Mrs. Seguin. On February 8 and 9, 1872, the operas Lucia di Lammermoor and Fra Diavolo were performed at the Opera House with Christine Nilsson as principal star. Supporting parts were taken by Brig- noli, Barre, Victor Capoul, Anna Louise Cary and Mademoiselle Leon Duval. Sells Brothers' Circus, a Columbus enterprise, was announced this year, as " the most stupendous confederation of exhibitions ever placed before the American public." The "confederation " comprised three or four different shows com- bined as one. A Strakosch concert by Carlotta Patti, Anna Louise Cary, Signor Mario and other stars, was one of the entertainments vouchsafed in November. H. J. Sargeant became manager of the Atheneum in December, 1872, and opened the establishment in January, 1873, with the play of Caste. On February 25, 1873, a complimentary testimonial concert was given for the benefit of Miss Emma McCarter. In April of the same year Madame Pauline Lucca and Miss Clara Louise Kellogg appeared in the operas Il Trovatore and Faust. During the same month and year the Atheneum was sold by Mr. William A. Neil to Messrs. E. T. Mithoff and H. T. Chittenden. P. T. Barnum's " Great Traveling World's Fair" arrived July 18. In December Richard Porter, a colored man, was denied admission to a parquette chair on account of his race, and in conse- quence of this action considerable discussion of a political nature ensued.


At the Opera House on March 30, 1874, Ilma di Murska appeared at the Opera House in Lucia di Lammermoor. Pauline Lucca reappeared in May, in the opera Mignon. Later in the season Madame Janauschek played in the title roles of Mary Stuart and Macbeth. In December, 1875, an Eisteddfod was held by Welsh singing societies at the City Hall. Several prizes were awarded. The Beethoven Club and the Shakespearean Club were local organizations of promi- nence in 1876. Another Eisteddfod took place at the City Hall on Christmas Day, 1877 ; president, John M. Pugh ; conductor, Rees E. Lewis. A Central Ohio dis- triet Sängerfest took place at Columbus on July 10 and 11, 1878. A grand con- cert was given and the Central Ohio Sangerbund was organized. The principal speakers of the festival were J. H. Heitman and Henry Olnhausen. The visiting and local societies enjoyed their usual parade, banquet and ball. The Columbus Harmonia Society was organized in September with about eighty members. In October Professor Herman Eckhardt's Columbus Quartette was organized and equipped with instruments. In May, 1879, it gave its third grand concert. Three performances of the comic opera Doctor of Alcantara, were given by the Amphion Club, at the Opera House, then known as Comstock's, in April, 1880. In Decem- ber of the same year Miss Mary Anderson appeared at the Grand Opera House (former Atheneum) on State Street, as The Countess. Madame Sarah Bernhardt, with Henry E. Abbey's French company, played at Comstock's in February, 1881. During the latter part of that year the Orpheus Club was organized. Min nie Hanck appeared in concert at the Grand Opera House March 12, 1883. She was accompanied by Constantine Sternberg, a Russian pianist. On April 23, a reception and benefit were given at Comstock's to a young Columbus actor, Mr. George A. Backus. In May, same year, a musical festival was held under the auspices of the Orpheus Club. Among the outside participants in this festival were the Thomas orchestra and the pianist, Madame Julia Rive-King. The Ohio Music Teachers' Association held its annual meeting at the Highschool building


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in December. Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, famous English players, appeared at Comstock's on February 5, 1884, in Louis XI. At the same place, on May 8, 1885, a performance was given under the auspices of the Orpheus Club by the celebrated pianist, Raphael Joseffy. An Eisteddfod was held in January. The State Music Teachers' Association met at the Highschool chapel in December.


On November 17. 1884, the Arion Club, a male choral society, was organized. Most of its charter members had belonged to a political glee club led by W. H. Lott. At Comstock's on February 1, 1886, the Orpheus Club gave a successful concert. The Central Ohio Eisteddfod met at the City Hall, February 10, 1886, and elected officers. In this year the Comstock Opera House was reconstructed by Mr. Isaac Eberly, who had become its principal proprietor, and who changed its name to The Metropolitan. The improvements made in the building by Mr. Eberly cost about 830,000.


In December, 1886, the Columbus Orchestra was organized. Its most active founders were C. C. Neereamer, who was made its director, and concertmasters S. B. Bayer and F. Neddermeyer. On February 20, 1887, a musicians union was organized : on the same date the Grand Opera House was destroyed by fire. In May a series of festival concerts was given under the auspices of the Arion Club. The Ohio Music Teachers' Association held a very successful and interesting con- vention at Columbus in June. The Columbus Orchestra gave its first concert on June 8. A concert by the Orpheus Club took place November 14. On January 20, 1888, the Columbus Opera Club was organized. On February 23, same year, a Welsh prize concert was given at the Second Presbyterian Church. In June the Ohio Music Teachers' Association held its ninth annual convention at Colum- bus. In the course of its proceedings several interesting concerts were given. During the winter of 1889-90 two performances were given at the Metropolitan by the great Italian tragedian, Salvini.


On June 17, 18 and 19, 1884, the fourth Sangerfest of the Central Ohio Sängerbund was held at Springfield, Ohio. In the course of the proceedings on that occasion it was decided to hold the next festival of the Bund at Columbus in 1887. Accordingly, preparations for the event began to be made in the ensuing July, committees were appointed, and a canvass for subscriptions to a guaranty fund began. The following officers for the general organization of local manage- ment and direction were chosen: President, Joseph Dauben ; vice presidents, George J. Brand, C. Hertenstein and George Janton ; treasurer, John Farmer ; financial secretary, Adolf Theobald ; corresponding secretary, Thomas F. M. Koch ; recording secretary, Louis Wichert; musical director, Herman Eckhardt. Com- mittees on music, finance, halls, quarters, amusements, railways, decorations, reception, procession and baggage were appointed, and the following accomplished soloists were engaged for the concerts: Mesdames Fursch . Madi, Emma H. Perkins and T. H. Schneider, Miss Anna Tresselt, and Messrs. Max Heinrich, William Bach, Henry Lippert and Michael Brand. A grand festival chorus con- sisting of about one hundred voices - ladies and gentlemen of the city-was organized and trained by Professor Herman Eckhardt, and a grand chorus of school children was organized by Professor W. H. Lott. The Cincinnati orches- tra, comprising sixty performers, was engaged for the grand concerts, three in number, one to be given on Friday evening, July 29, and two on Saturday, July 30. A large number of the German singing societies of Ohio, besides several from neighboring States, participated in the festival. These societies mostly arrived, and were received by the local organizations, on June 29. In honor of the occasion many buildings in the city were handsomely decorated.


Space will not admit of a detailed description of the musical and other festiv- ities of this great carnival of song. The concerts were given at the rink on West Goodale Street, under the leadership of Professor Eckhardt, and were of a magifi-


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cent character. The outdoor speeches, banquets and amusements took place at the City Park. Unfortunately for the financial success of the festival a heated term of great severity prevailed during its entire continuance. This, with other untoward circumstances, caused a deficit in the receipts, as compared with the expenses, amounting to about $4,500.


On January 25, 1892, the Metropolitan Opera House took fire and was com- pletely destroyed. The Henrietta Theatre, a very handsome dramatic temple erected by Mr. H. T. Chittenden on. West Spring Street, was opened to the pub- lic on September 1, 1892. During the same year the Grand Opera House, which had been rebuilt directly after its destruction by fire in 1887, received a new front and was completely and handsomely remodeled.


With the conclusion of this chapter on Music and the Drama in Columbus the author has reached the end of the historical drama, if haply it may be so called, on which, for over three years past he has been engaged. On October 8, 1891, he began writing the text of these volumes; on October 8, 1892, he writes these con- eluding words.


The curtain may now descend.


NOTES.


1. A "showground " of this period lay just east of the present City Hall, ou the south side of State Street ; another was at the corner of Third and Town streets ; a third on the " Asbury lot," on Rich Street, between Third and Fourth.


2. One of Welch & Delavan's leading attractions was Madame Marie Macarte, a beauti- ful and famous equestrienne.


3. Ohio State Journal, November S, 1851.


4. Ohio State Journal.


5. Probably Hon. R. B. Warden.


6. Ohio Statesman.


7. A joint proprietor with Mr. Eberly was Mr. Ebenezer Barcus.


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Residence of Frederick Lazarus, 380 East Town Street, built in 1879.


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Monypeny Building, The Normandie, East Long Street, built in 1891.


Biographical.


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MITCHELL CAMPBELL LILLEY


[ Portrait opposite page 16.]


Was born July 18, 1819, in Augusta County, Virginia, and is the son of John and Elizabeth (Doak) Lilley. Both the Lilleys and the Doaks were of the colonial period. Members of the latter family were representatives in the House of Burgesses when the Virginia colony was under English dominion, and members of both the Lilley and the Doak families took an active part in the Revolutionary War Colonel Robert Doak, the grandfather, organized and drilled a company for the war, and gained the title of Colonel through subsequent service. Rev. Samuel Doak, the pioneer educator of Tennessee, was also of this family. John Lilley, the father of M. C. Lilley, is said to have taken the first hogshead of tobaceo from Augusta County, Virginia, across the mountains to the markets of Richmond.


Mr. Lilley left Virginia at the age of ten, and traveled on horseback to Brown County, Ohio, to make his home with Judge and Mrs. Eleanor Doak Campbell, who cared for the orphan boy as if he were their own son and whose home afforded him influences and opportunities of a rare character. Judge Campbell, on the accession of General Jackson to the Presidency, was nominated for the office of District Judge of the United States Court for the State of Ohio. His nomination being confirmed, the family removed in 1831 to Columbus, where, since that time, Mr. Lilley has resided. He was educated principally at the private schools of Columbus, and completed his education at the Capital Uni- versity on Sonth High Street. In 1835, at the age of sixteen, he started to learn the trade of bookbinding, in which line of business he has been interested more or less ever since. He is now (1890) serving his twentyfourth year as superin- tendent of the State Bindery, and is also senior member of the M. C. Lilley & Company manufacturing concern which was organized in 1865. When the Mexican War broke out he enlisted (May 10, 1847) and was made Captain of Company E, Fourth Ohio Regiment. He was discharged with the company on July 18, 1848. In the Civil War of 1861-5 he went out early in command of a company of Home Guards which he led to a point on the Cincinnati & Marietta Railway, traveling from Columbus by stage. Nearly every member of that com-


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pany figured conspicuously in the confliet that followed. In 1861 he was given command of Company H, Fortysixth Ohio Infantry, but owing to ill health be was obliged to resign in Jannary, 1863, at La Grange, after taking active part in the battle of Shiloh only.


Mr. Lilley was married to Amanda C. Brooks near Paris, Illinois, on September 4, 1849. Out of their family of thirteen children, eight are living. namely, Eleanor C., now Mrs. Nutt: Thomas M. ; Kate M., now Mrs Haller ; William A. ; Alexander S. ; M. C., Junior ; Harriet and Anna. Mrs. Lilley died on July 21, 1887, at Columbus, Ohio. On January 24, 1889, he was married to Katherine E. McConnell, at Columbus. Mr. Lilley is affiliated with the Demo- cratie party, but has never taken an active part in politieal affairs. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Uniform Rank, and the Grand Army Republic. He attends the Presbyterian Church being a member of the Broad Street Church of that denomination. and one of its board of trustees.


MICHAEL ERNEST SCHROCK


| Portrait opposite page 32.


Was born June 24, 1836. on his father's farm, onehalf mile south of Canal Winchester, in what was then a part of Fairfield County, Ohio, but has since been added to Franklin County. His father, John Schrock, was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1799, and died in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1882. His mother, Lida Ernest, was born in Pennsylvania in 1802 and died in Franklin County in 1874. In 1834 his parents moved from York to Franklin County, Ohio, where they engaged in farming. Their family consisted of seven children : Caroline, Henry, Louisa, Michael, William, Collan and Lydia, who with the exception of Caroline and Louisa are all still living.


Mr. Sebrock's education was limited. During his boyhood school was only in session three months in the year, and was held in what was known as the Zimmer Schoolhouse, one mile from his home and half way between Canal Winchester and Lithopolis. He was deprived of the privilege of attending regularly during the limited session, as he, with his brothers, had the farm to clear and get ready for spring plowing. In the summer of 1855, he started to learn the trade of plasterer and was apprenticed for three years to H. L. Boos, of Mifflin Township, who was at that time the best man in his trade in that section. He rapidly acquired a full knowledge of the business and in the second year of his apprenticeship had entire charge of the work. In 1857 he worked at his trade for himself and was success- ful to such an extent that the end of the year found him with a nice sum laid aside.


It was then that be determined to go to California. On December 15, 1857, he started for New York and on the twentieth day of the same month boarded the steamer George Law. He reached Aspinwall December 30, and on the same day crossed the Isthmus of Panama by rail and took passage on the steamer Golden Gate for California. During his stay in California, most of his time was spent in Trinity County. He had very good success in mining and owned one of the richest claims in the county, but it was not fully developed until after his departure in September, 1862. The first news that he obtained of the late war was on his arrival in New York. On reaching his home he found that his brother, William, was in the regular military service and that there was no one to run the farm. He therefore settled down to a farmer's life until 1864, when he started to


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cross the mountains to Montana, in which country he remained one year. Here he was again successful in mining, his field of operations being on Alder Creek, near Virginia City. In 1865 he returned to Franklin County, where he has since resided.


In 1867 Mr. Schrock purchased his father's farm and on March 22, 1868, he married Mary J. Decker, daughter of E. B. Decker, a grain dealer in Canal Winchester. Ile has a family of five children : Cora L., Charles P., Sarah A., Claude E., and Elisha B. He remained on his farm until 1878, at which time he engaged in the agricultural implement trade in Canal Winchester. Being suc- cessful in this he in 1881 started a store in Columbus with John Huffman. In 1882, J. B. MeDonald was taken into the firm, which was known as Schrock, Huffman & Company. In 1885, Mr. Huffman sold his interest to Messrs. Schrock and McDonald, and the firm became known as Schrock & McDonald. It was incorporated in 1889, under the name of The Schrock McDonald Company. In March, 1892, it was reincorporated as the M. E. Schrock Company, with Mr. Schrock as president and manager, Mr. Schrock being the only original mem- ber that retained any interest in it.




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