Foreign Language Press Service

The Welshmen of Chicago held a meeting last evening, as they are in the habit of doing every week, the proceedings mostly being of a literary and musical character. Amont the exercises was music by the Cambrian Choral Society, readings and recitations, and an address by Rev. Mr. Hughes. The m

The ladies of the Welsh Congregational Church give an oyster supper this evening in the rooms usually occupied by the Cambrian Literary Society. On this account the regular weekly public meeting of the Society has been postponed until Tuesday evening, the 17th, on which occasion the question,

A delegation of Welshmen, including Messrs Powell, Smith, Ap Maddoc and Job, called on the director-general yesterday. They desire that one week during the fair shall be set apart for their nationality, when national games will be played, national bands be present and they will offer prizes t

P. 3 – Welsh newspaper, The Columbia, printed in Chicago, August, 1891- J. W. Jones, proprietor and M. A. Ellis, A. M. editor. Editorial and composing rooms at 315-317 Dearborn St. Paper, pages printed alternately in Welsh and English, devoted to general news, and social, religious, musical a

W. E. Powell is actively interested in the success of the International Cymrodorion Association, the Welsh society which proposes giving a musical and literary festival in this city the last week of August, 1893. Speaking of the current rumors that there is discord among the Welshmen in relat

p. 3- Except for the presence of faces familiar in Chicago, one would imagine on stepping into the ladies’ ordinary of the Grand Pacific last night, that he had been transported suddenly into an Old World banquet hall. It was the social banquet of the National Cymrodorian Society, and everyth

p. 3 – The natal day of St. David, the patron saint of Wales, and the first Archbishop of Caerlleon, was religiously celebrated yesterday afternoon at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul. The services were conducted by the Rev. J. Gwynne Jones, Pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and t

p. 5 – Today at eleven o’clock begins the International Welsh Eisteddfod, which promises to be one of the biggest musical festivals of the Fair. The Eisteddfod lasts three days and fifteen splendidly trained choruses will participate. All these choruses, four of them coming from across the se

p. 1- About 2,500 persons were assembled yesterday at the Festival Hall and were Welshmen direct from North Wales, South Wales and all parts of the United States attended. Then came duet competitions for a prize of $20.00 and a badge of honor offered by the Seattle Cymrodorion. It w

p. 5- The ceremonies of the Welsh in their second Eisteddfod Day at Festival Hall were only fiarly well attended yesterday. A Tenor Solo Competition Then came a most interesting contest-a tenor solo competition. “Oh, Delyn Fy Ngwald” (Oh, Harp of My Land) was the song sele

p. 2- The choral competition with which the Esiteddfod concert opened last evening engaged the attention of a large audience. For this contest, which was for women’s voices, choirs of fifty voices each were entered, the Cecilians of Wilkesbarre, Pa., directed by Mrs. Annie Thomas, and the Wel

p. 2- The Rev. W. C. Roberts presented the report of the adjudicators on the last contest of the day before, and announced that the Rev. Ebenezer Edwards of Winersville, Pa., who contested under the nom de plume of William Penn, was the winner. Then the baritone soloists sang agains

P. 5 – The first even of the afternoon was the contest for the prize offered for the best handbook in Welsh or English of short biographical sketches of Welsh poets with criticisms upon their poems. The prize was not bestowed, but Erasmus W. Jones was mentioned as the most worthy competitor,

p. 5 – The modern church was launched yesterday afternoon at Bricklayers’ Hall. The meeting was announced for three o’clock but a number of persons, including the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, who was to deliver the address, arrived fifteen to twenty minutes before that time. They found the doors

Religious music is found in many forms. For instance, the great oratorio writers, Handel, Hayden, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Parry and others, interest the upper class of people, that have had a degree of musical education that is above the average. I believe the best music for the consecrated C

P. 2- “Wales has produced some of the chief soloists, chorus singers and preachers of the ages. She has not produced either a scientist or a historian.” P. 7- “There is more religion per square foot in Wales than in any other country under the sun.”

P. 64 – Roger Williams was born in Wales, 1596. Seventeen of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Welsh. P. 65 – Captain Jones, commander of the Mayflower, was Welsh.

P. 297- Born Swansea, Wales, 1826. Came to Cook County in 1839, and to Chicago in 1843. Became large owner of Chicago and Hyde Park Real Estate. Was Director and Treasurer of the Cambro Printing Company, which published in Welsh and English a newspaper called “Columbia,” the largest

P. 51- “Miners, farmers, skilled and unskilled workmen can discuss with considerable ability such questions as the nature of the soul, the origin of evil, the identity of the human body at the resurrection…”

P. 56- The Welsh “dislike theatres, sports and races…They are impulsive…and have a tendency to be obstinate and are far more gifted with the perception of differences between themselves and others, than with the recognition of similarities and agreements; envious and vindictive; more religiou