The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-19
CHAUTAUOUA.
A Magnificent Summer Resort
For the People.
A List of Attractions Never Before Equal
cd in the South-A Fine Mu-
steal Programme.

Here are n few words for every reader Of
The WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
Atlanta offers you and your families this
summer the best and cheapest attractions ever
offered before.
A number of Atlantans, Messrs. M. G.
Kiser, H. w. Grady. James r. Wylie, John
r. Wilkerson and others have established the
Piedmont Chautauqua few miles outside of
the city, where they have immense taber-
nacles, colleges, and other buildings for rum
ming the Chautauqua session.
What is a Chautauqua?
The Chautauqua is an elaboration of the old
camp-meeting. 1t represents gathering of
religious people, who have besides sermons
and other camp-meeting exercises all innocent
and wholesome amusements. There are tab
ernacles, tents, cottages and hotels, so that the
people. can live absolutely as they please. You
can send your family here, and rent tent,
and do your own cooking or eat at a restaurant,
or counters New York has q Chautauqua at
which 100000 assembled last summer. 1t is
admitted that the Atlanta Chautauqua is put
ting up finer buildings. and finer grounds, and
is offerings finer programme than the New
York Chautauqua.
Preachers For the Chautauqua
More than twenty thousand dollars has al
ready been expended in engaging preachers
for the Atlanta Chautauqua Sam Jones will
preach and lecture for several days. DIR. Tai
mage will preach and lecture for several days,
and will preach and lecture nowhere else in
the south this season. DIR. Hinson, of Chicago,
DR.. Hayes, of Cincinnati, DIR. Stocking, of
Newark, DR.. Fitzgerald, of Nashville. DIR.
Miller, of Pittsburg, and two score of the best
preachers north and south will attend the At
lanta Chautauqua and preach and lecture. An
offer has been cabled to DIR. Spurgeon, offering
him two thousand dollars for single sermon
if he will deliver it,
From the Atlanta pulpit will so, Bishop
Beckwith, Drs Hawthorne, Morrison, Glenn,
Barnett, Lee, Stricken, Mcdonald, who will
preach and lecture. 1t will be a chance to
hear such preaching and such great divines as
have never been gathered together before in
the south.
Lecturers for Chautauqua.
Besides the preaching and sermons SPLEEN
did course of lectures is provided, embracing
nearly fifty takers from the north and south.
Lieutenant Schwatka, who lead the Greedy re-
lief expedition, will lecture on"The Dangers of
the Polar Sea and the Wonders of the Polar
World" with superb Illustrations. George Il.
Vending, of Buffalo, New York, will lecture
on Stonewall jackson and Saul of Tarsus.
Professor II. G. White, of the State university
will lecture on 'The land of the Midnight
Sun, and Farming in Norway" Frederick A.
ODER, of New York, will lecture on "Adven-
lures in Mexico, ond Scenes in the West
Indies" Mr.. Walter b. Hill, of Macon,
Georgia, will lecture on "The Best One Hun
dred Books, and Wit and Humor." Mr. Peter
Won Ficklestein will lecture on "The Haunts
of Jesus and 'The Bedouin of the Desert"
Professor John B. DeMott of Michigan uni
h,s,,o .. r.
apparatus and lecture with experiments on GA
Beam of Light, the Beauties of the Stars and
Wonders of the Seas" Leon III. Vincent will
deliver six lectures on Dickens Thackeray,
Shakespeare, and other topics. Mr.. Wallace
Bruce, of Chicago will lecture on "The
Womanhood of Shakespeare and Landmarks Of
Scott" Professor Friedrich Star will lecture
on "The Interior of Africa and Across the
Dark Continent" Lewis Albert Banks, of
Cincinnati will lecture on "The West Indies"
and so on through the list.
These lectures will be of incalculable benefit
to yourselves and your children. 1t will be q
liberal education to hear them. There will be
telescopes and microscopes on the ground free
for use in studying nature, the earth and the
stars, and all explained by free lectures.
The Musical Programme.
In addition to all this there will be tho fin
people. An engagement has already been
made with the famous Rogers Goshen band of
Chicago, which took the five thousand dollar
prize in band contest and which has thirty
three musicians giving brass and orchestral
music. We have engaged also the Hungarian
Gypsy band, which is now creating tremend-
GUS sensation throughout the north. The Bos-
ton Stars the Scandinavian Quartet, the
Spanish Students with their mandolins, lEmer-
son and Turpie with their comets, Vital and
Pinelta with their italian harps. Many of
these single performers cost five hundred
dollars a week. There will be daily and
nightly concerts, and music almost every hour
of the day from these famous bands, with
chorus of six hundred voices, all out in the
woods. You will hear such music as you have
never heard before, and you will see instru-
ments Of which you have never dreamed.
The Wonderful Pyrotechnic Displays.
There will be at night the most wonderful
/ display Of fire works. The Piedmont Chau-
tauqua has offered one thousand dollars in
gold as prize for the company making tho
best fire works display and Messrs. James
Pain & Sons, of London; Detwiler g. Street,
and the Unexcelled Fire Works company, of
New York, and Louis Witte, of Now Orleans,
have entered for this prize OF course each
firm win do its best to win the prize, and conse-
quently each firm will give such display of fire
works as has never been seen in this country.
The firm that makes the most gorgeous dis
play will get the contract for the rest of the
season. No man who can afford to see them,
should miss these contests.
The illumination of the Grounds.
The illumination of the grounds will in itself
be the finest spectacle ever seen in the south.
Twenty thousand Chinese lanterns and 5000
var-colored electric globes have been pur-
chased. Six hundred electric lights will be
placed through the trees and buildings and
the scene will be one Understandable grandeur.
A splendid lake has been built, the water for
which is pumped through an immense pipe a
mile and a half. There will be every possible
sport that is innocent and wholesome. Not a
drop Of liquor will be sold on the grounds nor
will any betting or gambling device be al
lowed.
The Atlanta Chautauqua ia a religious as
| sembly. There are dawn and twilight prayers.
There are two to four sermons a day There
arc lectures every day and night, and exhibit
tions Of fireworks with beautiful effects pro-
duced on the water.
Now for a word Of advice. July and August