Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-09-20
FAIR POtNT.

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This place 10 four miles below Maysyille, on
Chautauqua Lake, aud Is the seat of the
Methodist Camp Ground. Your corrcspon.
dent from Bemus Point supposed | had witt.
ten. Excuse me-f had not done my duty.
VIII briefly write what my friend has omitted !:
No pcnman can express the beauty OF that
lovely sheet ot water Chau,auqua means
bag tied III the middle. Chautauque Lake de.
rlyes its name from resemblance to such u bag.
Fair Point is the most beautiful spot on the
lake. The PEOPLE gave il its name un account
OF Its beauty and it has been the most famous
picnic ground along the shores The Camp
Meeting Association has bought fifty acres of
land here for religious purposes. They pro-
pose, Ii this lake is tu Ue place of resort, that
Christian people shall have the most lovely
spot of all' They have but just beguh to i'm
prove it, part has been cleared uf small trees,
and fallen iimberj the rest will be during the
present year, There are around the edges three
small, niarsliy places They are to be cleaned,
graveled, and constructed into lakes. What
looks unsightly now, to The unintlated, is to
be place Of beauty. Your correspondent
happened there in a rainy season. He came,
also after the feast was over, the camp moved
and the thousands of Israel gone. Twas not
the time to judge. l SAW ten thousand on the
ground in one day, they all seemed quiet, or
derly and habpyI l heard nothing of disagree
able smells where noses were kept in their
proper places.
This Is indeed destined to be place of rare
beatty aud religious interest. The auditorium,
a.,
nature of the ground in front of the speakers
stand, moderately fair speaker can be heard
by thirty thousand people. A landscape gard
sner from New York and corps of workers
are to display their skill in making this a joy
forever
Bemus Point is pleasant. but this shall be
glorious. God loves the gates of Zion more
than all the dwellings of Jacob" Let all who
would like, go next year and see that speak
words of truth and sOberness, In the mean.
time, commehd TO all my friends these
words OF the Iatertorj staunch PRESBYTERIAN
paper Of Chicago. A, ID. MbRToN.
The Methodist camp meetings for the cur.
rent year are attractive places They are the
| right kind of substitutes for Long Branch,
| Saratoga and similar gamblers resorts The
people get all the betieht of novelty of scenery,
and Of manner of life, fresh air, the exhilara.
lion OF society. the satisfaction of meeting old
friends and making new ones-in short every
thing aitanable at any place OF public resort,
and besides, haye their religious life quicken
ed and strengthened. The press are snecring
at the new-fasllioned and fashionable Metho.
dist caitip.meetings, and suspecting PEOPLE of
gong TO Them for amusement, matrin.Dny and
display. We have no care what they 70 for
| provided the Methodist preachers pour the
old fashioned gospel grape and canister into
their ranks. The new order OF CAMP. meetings
in nnnlu r..R. u
taste, aud its acceptance by the Methodist is
evidence OF first. class common-sense. We be.
| lieve in the old NethOdstie ways and
means of evangelization, as much as we do in
old-fhshioned Presbyterisnism, and are conf
dent that the Mtthbdiss can and will accom-
plish much In the future by the employment
OF their simple ius,rumentalilies for The spread
ot the gospel, as they have in the past. We
would not be surprised If their midsummer
| cathp-meetings became more popular with the
people, rich and poor and attended with more
precious results than ever before. If they
Will organize grand woodland Zion some-
where on the cool, breezy shores of Lake
Michigan for next year. we will do whatever
we can to make II a rouser. Plenty of our
Presbyterian preachers and people need TO be
ground over once year, and if the Metho.
dists will run the mill, we will send In few
Calvinistic gyisis.
GRAVEL QUEsr1oN. Our Council will have
to face the gravel question, soon, as there is no
dodGing the necessity for graveling up Lake
street before the season is over and gone. The
smount OF travel on that thoroughfare has be-
come almost constant, and with The fall fains
upon 1t, 1t cannot but become nearly or quite
impossible. We appreciate the difficulties
surrounding ihe subject, in sAe exhaustion of
the gravel pits about The village, and the traiff
now laid upon lake gravel, which we under
stand can only be had butat fIie fate of 25cts a
load. Tire alternative is presented Of foFego-
ing the ballasling up Of that street, on OF sub
mitting to the exaction. If lake gravel is the
only material To- he had, and that at the rate
nanedSthc public win hardly submit to being
shut of iron the fake by such draft upon the
village treasury, however severe 1t msy seem
to the eye Of economy. Something must be
done at once with the road, but, while adopt,
ing the best means for meeting this emergency.
II would, perhaps, be well for the Council 10
throw out accommodating party 10 the loeaH.
ty of the Rogers settlement and west of the
railroad bridge. Thcre are gravelH soils in
that vicinity, we believe, and II peradyentuye
= gravel bank could be found in that neighbor.
hood. lis location weuld 30 admipabls for ser
vice In the north portion of the corporation.
II such discovery cannot be made ,let ne
gotiaiion be opened with the r. s.. company
for the delivery Of road mate rial at the cross
ing, which, If practicable, would be very con.
yenient for the localities Of use. Scusshing
must bs dops and thss ialpsedfatsis, ss.ssss