Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-16
SUNDAY AT; T;sPIRITUALIsTS' CAMP.

Camp Meeting at Lake Pleas. ant, Massachusetts, Kesterday-At- tended by Fen Thousand PeoPie- Many Connecticut People at the MeetIng-A Birds Eye View of the
 Grounds as They Now Are-Yester-
 days Speakers-The Band Concert Speakers for the Coming Week
 Another Big Meeting Next Sunday
 Connecticut People at she Camp
 other Camp GIeanings-The Camp
 Grounds to be Enclosed.
 LAKE PLEASANT, Mass, Aug. 15.
 Especial to the JOURNAL AND CoUR1ERl
 Ten thousand people were in the Lake Pleasant camp graonds to-day attending the annual camp meeting of the Spiritualists Preparations were made to hold monster meeting and all expectations were amply verified. At 10:30 o'clock 8 special excur- sion train starting from New Haven arrived here, bearing over fifteen hundred people. The train was run over the Northampton road as far as East Deerfeld, and then through to the camp grounds over the Fitch burg railroad. The Fitchburg special ex- cursion trains brought to the camp grounds thousands of people from all over Massaehu- setts. The speakers of the day were selected especially for the occasion. They were Mir. Charles Dawbain, of New York city, and MT. J. Clegg Wright, of Philadelphia, Pa. Mir. Dawbain gave the first address, which was listened to by fully seven thousand peo- pie, who filled the ampitheater seats to over flowing The speakers address was both powerful and eloquent. He set forth the Spiritualistic truths in 8 very forcible and able manner and was very frequently ap- plauded. An intermission was given for lunch, which was preceded with singing by the audience standing. The songs which came from nearly ten thousand throats swelling out and over the surface of the beautiful crystal Lake Pleasant was in a manner never to be forgotten by those who heard it:
 After lunch the first speaker introduced to the audience was J. Clegg Wright of Phila- known Spiritualists in the country He gave many very foreible tests to differ ent persons in the audience and astonished many by his wonderful spiritualistic powers. His subject was on "Trance Conditions" It took him nearly two hours to finish what he had 10 say to the audience, and at it's close he was loudly applauded. There were other short addresses during the afternoon and popular singing and concerts by the Fitch burg band. The multitude of people were distributed about the camp grounds nearly mile square. A nasty view of the camp was taken by 8 COURIER reporter, piloted Dy R0ulloIudu WuO nus dtIouucu Spiritualist camp meetings for many years. The visitor to the Spiritualists' camp grounds this year finds not the old-fashiond tents of a few years ago. Then 8 tent with tick filled with hay, dish or two and stool were about all the household utensils neces- sary. Old men look back on the "good old times," forgetting in the distance between the then and the now the discomforts of it all and embering only the pleasures. Happy faculty that, is it nots
 To-day we find a little village with cot tages making pretensions to beauty, and on day like this gaily attired mass of surging humanity numbering among the thousands Fashion and precedence here as at snmmer resorts strive to keep up the battle, that is always one of the great features of town life. Tue camp life has changed immeasurably for the better. externally eaid the CoURIER's pilot. The amusements here varied enough-the merry tread of the dancers robs the hours of their burdens, while the efforts at base ball on week mornings display quite as much muscle as science. The little steamer on the lake makes her hourly trips about it's glassy surface scarcely disturbed by ripple.
 The programme by the Fitchburg band ,I,,ry