The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-07-13
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The Ress Camp Growad and tlbs Abs
Camp Meeting.

The Ness Camp Grosad and tlbs Abs
Camp Meeting.
\ The Camp Meeting at the new CincfA
natl Camp-grounds, near Loveland, he
gins this afternoon. Unusual prepsrA
tions have been in progress for weeks. ID
expectation Of this event, and arrange
ments for the best of ministerial talena
and for the accommo odation Of large at
tendance have been made. /,
At the sale OF lots some time since
purchases we're made by very many q
our most prominent citizens, and large
number Of buildings and tents have besn
erected. Yesterday and to-day the build
ings have been rapidly filling up and the
pr0priet0rs making ready for the season
Of prayer and praise.
The grounds, although new, are'excel.
lently arranged and conveniences 0l
every kind have been provided. Theirs
are five boarding houses and restaurants
for those who wish to board, and gro
cery and provision store for those whq
wish to occupy tents or cottages and
provide for themselves.
A post-office has also been erected,
and those In attendance may have thei4
mail sent to them regularly. Several
news-stands are in readiness and pra-
pared to furnish papers and books OF al
kinds. A number OF other public build
ings, amounting to fifteen or twenty in
ali, have been erected, and the grounds
with their avenues, residences, tabef-
nacles and business houses present tho
appearance OF q thriving young city.
The number OF private cottages, a.
though large, is not SO great as would
have been had the weather been mofH
favorable.
A monster tabernacle, capable of 40.
commodating fully five thousand people,
has been erected and is comfortably aud
neatly arranged. Besides this there are
three large tents with the capacity Of an
ordinary church each, and with ampls
accommodations for prayer and experi+
ence meetings. The scene at the grounds
this morning was one Of unusual activity
and interest.
The railroads yesterday and to-
day ran tree freight cars for the accom-,
modation of those removing from the
city, and also commenced the sale OF re-
duced rate tickets to and from the
grounds. Large numbers ava lied them
selves of the opportunity offered yester-
day, and were this morning in full pos
session OF their temporary homes, busily
occupied in putting the finishing touches
to the arrangement of furniture, etc.,
and in arranging to assist and tempora-
rily accommodate their friends who were
to arrive to-day.
Many of the families who are to attend
yesterday sent their furniture and
needed articles by trusty employees, whoy
this morning, had the homes In readi-
ness to welcome the occupants on their
arrival.
Many, however, with that natural
dread of 'moving," have deferred the
task until to-day, and the trains this
morning were loaded with furniture,
kitchen utensils, provisions, trunks, va
lises, clothing, and all the paraphernalia
attendant upon even temporary trip n&
this kind. The passenger cars wers
crowded with anxious mammas, ,eager and
jubilant children, worried paternals, be4
fore whom visions of stove pipes, car
pets, bedsteads, and the hundred annoy.
ances OF the day doomed up, and with
the thoughtful workers, whose fac "a. be.
tokened an earnest desire that the fruits
OF the season might be plentoeus and en-
during. '" f"
UP to noon, when our reporter left the
grounds, everything was in state ol
comparative confusion, but was gradu-
ally assuming proportions, and the pros
poets were that by 3 O'Clock the tents
and cottages would be occupied, the
work of arranging completed, and ths
attendants fairly settled in their homes.
ready to enter into the spirit of the
afternoons services.
Prayer meetings were held in seversl
tents at noon to-day, and the voice OF
prayer and song was beginning to be
heard over the grounds as the reporter
pocketed his notes and prepared for q
hurried trip to the office.
This afternoon at 3 O'clock services
are to be held and the opening sermofi
preached by Rev. j. S. Chadwick. iornl-
erly of Coyington but now of Louisville.
Appropriate services Will also be held
this evening and tomorrow In the morn
ing, afternoon and evening.
An unusual degree OF interest 10 mani
tested, and the prospects are that The
meeting will be one Of more than ordt-
nary results. Ample accommodations
for transit to and from the city have been
made, as the trains on the Little Miami
and the M. 6 G.. roads run at reduced
rates and stop at the grounds. :.
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