Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
GAY CROWDS AT CHAUTAUOUA,


Plttsburgers Out In Force-Opening of the
Sunday School Assembly-Editor shep.
ard Oratory n Disappointment - An
Epidemic of Lawn Tennis.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
CHAUTAUoUA, August 10.-About two
hundred persons arrived at Chautauqua
Tuesday on the fifteen days excursion from
Pittsburg to Chautauqua, Niagara Falls,
Toronto and Thousand Islands. Among
the excursionists were Mr.. Henry A
Lavely, Miss Mary B. Lavely, Mrs. NJ A.
Booth, Rev. Mr.. Collins and wife, Rev.
Mr.. Montgomery and wife, Hon. John f.
Cox, wife and daughter, Ed. Montgomery,
c. 1. Montgomery, Elizabeth G. Wood,
Marie Wilkinson, Winnie L. Wilkinson,
Mrs. E. W. Morrow and Mrs. c. W. Culp.
Other Pittsburgers who have recently ar
rived are Mr.. and Mrs. J,P. Hanna, Jessie
B. Potter, Emma B. Gamble, Nellie C.
Wenzel, Rose Sterling, Ellen Rogers, Miss
S. J. Payne, Miss Maud Turner, Mrs. G. L.
Holiday, Miss M. P. Semple, Miss NJ. S.
Macrwm, Misses Kate B. and Cora E.
Hayes, DR.. S. j. Hayes, Bertha f. Chad
wick, Emma M. Squires, Holmes NJ. Chad
wick. George H Quail, Dora ]. Welsh, Byron
w. King, Mrs. B. w. King, Olive Mary King,
]. NJ. Wisman, George A. Brashear and T. A.
Cleand-
At the Hotel Atheneum a large party of
PiJtsburgers is registered: Grace Henderson,
Mrs J. E. Schwartz, Mrs. A J. Nicholson, Mrs.
Edward Gregg Mrs. Rueben Miller, MI. and
Mrs. d. Herbert Hostetter. Mrs. J. d.
Long. Miss Bessie Long, Miss Schwartz
Miss Hanna Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. DravO,
Ruben Miller, Frank A. McCune, T. NJ Car
negie, w. B. Dilworth Frank NJ. Schwartz,
George B. Crawford H. l.. Fisher and wife, ].
W. Kinnear and wife Miss Laura Crime, Mrs.
w. A, McClurg, Frank Armstrong, George L.
Bard and DR.. ]. A. McCready.
Rev. j. F. Patterson, of the Sixth Presby-
terian Church, is here with his wife, and Rev.
A. E Linn and wife, of the Lavrenceville Pres
byterian Church are stopping here. DR.. J. j.
Co vert is here for his tenth annual visit.
John w. Carr, Basil Bell, Mrs. Maggie Nc
Quillen, John l.. Vance, NJ NJ. Latimer, Misses
Lizzie and Letitia FIocker: Mrs: Prof Griggs.
Emma N. White, Misses Kate L. and Jennie
Adair, George G. Swan, Miss M. NJ. Dorring-
ton, Ida B. Keyser and Anna r. Keyser.
THE BAGGAGE-SMASHER's PICNIC.
The crowds are beginning to arrive. Every
boat comes in loaded, and the baggage-smasher,
who is to be found even at Chautauqua, has an
opportunity to exercise his fiendish talent to
his hearts content. The amphitheater begins
to look homelike by being crowded to its ut
most seating capacity. During July it is very
quiet here. There are not many guests. and
most of them are teachers; but when August
comes Chautauqua puts on a livelier appear
ance. Then it is that pleasureseekers begin to
come.
The Sunday School Assembly has opened,
and the classes have been organized. Tuesday
evening was the opening night, and, according
to the custom, Chautauqua was in her gala
TnT lnr h.x~I Al..-r
on the hotel lawn. and encircled the amphi-
theater with lipe Of light. Colored lights
cast roseate wells over the scene, the Athe-
neum watch-fires were burning, the platform
of the amphitheater was decorated with pro-
fusion of flowers and twinkling fairy lights.
The exercises consisted of a vesper service
and five minute addresses by prominent men.
1t seemed more like pleasant social evening
than public exercises. The speakers INDUCED
in a good deal of levity-bright Stories good
humored jokes at each others expense, and
pleasant "reminiscences. Music was furnished
by Rogers Band, and Miss Annie Park cor
netist, of Boston. Greeting from away were
read, and friends who have died in the last
year were tenderly remembered. The best
speech OF the evening was made by DR.. Dnn-
can, Secretary of Chautauqua. For once, he
surprised us by restraining his fondness for
his own voice, and merely saying, THE poor
you have always with you; SO 1t is with me-"
A display Of pyrotechnics put brilliant period
to the evenings entertainment
However. all the gayety was not yet at an
end. A banquet was given at the hotel by the
management to the Press Association of
Western New York and Pennsylvania. A
goodly number attended, and enjoyed them
selves far into the wee hours Of the morning.
EDIros IHEPAKD TALKS.
Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, proprietor of the
New York Mdil and Express, gave an address
Sunday evening on the subject of keeping the
Sabbath holy When you have said that he
had good subject a fine presence and pleas
ing voice, nothing remains to be said in his
favor No one has shown more skill than he
in emptying the amphitheater. 1t was the
more Disappointing because expectations
had been raised SO high. HIS address was Hog
zeal and ungrammatical and he violated every
rule of good oratory Although he may be a
talented man, his vocation is not public
speaking
This week has been full of unusually rich
treats. DR.. Gunsaulus, o. Chicago, has carried
the people by storm with his brilliant oratory.
lin, has given some ne y lectures SSsd Spicsd with With
keen Irish wit The finest musical talent Is
now here that Chautauqua has ever afforded.
Ceciliaa Quartet, of New York, Miss Annie
Park, Rogers Band good chorus under II. R.
Palmer and Mrs. Doc, of New York, make up
the corps OF musicians. They have given one
concert and are 10 give several more.
Dr. Gunsaulus has been made President Of
the chorus for the coming year. There il much
honor in the position, bur little else.
Only the blessings of life here are ordinarily
described, but that, by no means, proves there
are no Ills. Your trials begin as soon as you
arrive. You start in search of boardingp place
and traverse the area Of the grounds with no
success. finally coming back thankfully to the
place you thought at FIRST must be the most
undesirable on the grounds. When you have
been there half a day and your trunk has not
put In an appearance, you call upon the bag
gage master. and gently hint of an unfulflled
duty. You possess your soul in patience a few
hours longer. then casually drop in to see the
baggage man again, and tenderly expostulate
with him on the error OF his ways The third
time you go you make a brief remark in a de-
cided tone and your Trunk arrives duly.
TWO VIEWS OF CHAUTAUoUA.
On seating yourself az the lecture in the
evening, you discover that you are what is
called in Chautauqua vernacular, posted. That
is, there is q slight obstruction to your visw,
over, under, around or through, which you
cannot see. A man behind you makes use of
your dress in lieu of door mat. talking volu-
blYto his companion SO that you do not hear =
word of the lecture. You are not in what
might be called a sanctim onious frame of mind
when you reach home. You sit down in semi
darkness, for want of more oil in the lamp, and
write home-sick letter, describing the dreary
rain-for a. the proverb says, lit sometimes