Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-28
LIFE AT CHAUTAUQUA.
Personal nnd Literary Gossip From the
Lakeside Summer Resort
,eprUA1. rrLKGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.i


,sproAI rELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.i
CHAUrAUoUA, July 27-Pittsburg people
are beginning to arrive in greater numbers.
The latest arrivals are Mr.. and Mrs. A. e.
Clancy, w. w. Clancy. Mrs. W.W.McCandless,
Misses Faith and Leora McCan dless, Mrs. ]. ].
Brown. Mrs. A. E Linn, Guy Linn, Mr.. and
Mrs. +. NJ. Sawyers, E. P. Wright, Lucy II.
Wright. Mrs. d. w. Permat, Ralph Permat,
III, G. Kindersod, and Mrs. Emma and Laura
French. The new comers from Allegheny are
Misses Efie and Helen Mcmillan, Mr.. and
Mrs John S. Graf. 8. A. Espey and family,
Edmund B. Patterson. Mrs. s. A. Potter and
Miss Mary d. Potter. Mrs J. Schoonmaker is
stopping at the hotel. Prof. c. b. Wood. Of the
Pittsburg High School, is here for the
summer.
More Pittsburgers and Alleghenians are at
Bemus than any other point Mrs. c. E.Arens-
berg and family, Miss Frank Strickler, Mr.. d:
]. McComb and family, Milton l. Myers ana
family. Mr.. and Mrs. John b. Murphy; Miss
Mary E. Armstrong Master Howard and Will
lam Armstrong, III. w. Armstrong. Miss susan
Collier, DR.. w. H. Winslow and family and ".
b. A. David and son are registered there from
Pittsburg, and E. A. Graf and family, Mr..
Frank Jacobs and family, Miss Maggie Conor,
Mrs. 1. E. Hanson, Miss Sue Hanson, Hen
derson E. Davis and Miss M. Losey Davis from
Allegheny j. NJ. Kirby, Miss E. V. Love, Geo.
n. Giant and family W. c. Deymeyer, Mrs. j.
b. Stevenson and Miss Bessie Stevenson, OF
Pittsburg, are stopping at Point Chautauqua
Last Sunday DIR. Lyman Abbott of Plymouth
Church. BROOKLYN, preached. All agreed as to
the beauty of the sermon, but differed as 10 its
orthodoxy. As "orthodoxyis my doxy and ne
terodoxy is your doxy'' all the discussion that
grew out of the sermon failed to settle the
question.
Hiorth 81. Boyeson, Professor of Germanic
Languages at Columbia College and famed
author has delivered fine series OF lectures
on literature. His ability as literary critic
added to pleasing manner explains the cnarm
of his lectures.
Richard Malcolm Johnston, Southern
writer has given readings from his own works,
which are mainly dialect sketches. Their chlet
power lies in quiet, unpretending humor tnat
pervades them.
The greatest treats in store for us next week
are the lectures by DR.. ]. H. Buckley, editor OF
the New York Christian Advocate, and the
readings by Mr.. A. p. Burbank, OF New YORK
The week after. the best lectures OF the season
College, Dublin, and DR.. Gunsaulus. OF chicago,
hold forth. Next Friday will be Grange Day;
On that day grangers wAl be admitted free and
will be entertained with lectures appropriate
The Retreat has closed. and for few days
ChautauQua will be very lonely. About half
the people here will leave and new visitors VIII
come, so that there will soon be an entirely
different set,
Chautauqua has undertaken an important
an immense scheme, the University extension
plan. This is, in brief, to give the masses
glimpse of a college education by means OF a
systematic lecture course. When town or
city wishes a course of lectures, they form
local committee, select the SUBJECT upon wnicn
the lectures are to be given, raise guarantee
fund, and sell tickets for the course. they
then send to the Central COMMITTEES, which
| supplies them with lecturer A corps OF
lecturers carefully chosen, is controlled by the
General Committee which consists OF pro
fessors in the various colleges throughout the
| United States The lecturer gives Il lectures
of an hour each, and IL lessons, for Individual
| of 4 mi
| lines of each lecture and questions concerning
them. Each student answers these questions
and submits them to the lecturer Tor cor
| rection and comment. He brings with him 9
| small library which the students are expected
| to use as supplement to their other work Al
| the close of the course an examination Is nelo
under the authority of the Central Committee
The committees are now holding meetings, and
expect to complete arrangements SO that they
| can begin work in the fall
The glee club bade Chautauqua goodby or
| Friday. Thursday night they appeared for the
last time, and sang all the songs which had
proved to be the peoples favorites. Wednes
| DAY was Yale night. Forty Yale men, mainly
graduates, appeared on the platform. Among T
| Ely. They seated themselves on fence thai
| had been constructed on the platform IN mem
| ory of the old Yale fence, and sang the college
| songs. Two traternities were represented, ant
| the two sides engaged in mock struggles ovel
| their banners. They ended with the ale yell
| given in a most spirited way, and marched OF
| to the hotel where they INDUCED IN a banquet
Much regret has been expressed over the de
pafture of the glee club.
A new idea has struck Chautauqua-tn'
formation of a boating club DR.: Anderson
Director of the Department of Physical Cul
| ture, has the project in charge, and the pros
| pect is that there will be one or more excellen
crews formed. The fleet is to consist of four
six and eight-oared boats, one OF each to b.
ordered at first. All arrangements are to b
| perfected this summer, and next season tn
club will be in active operation. g. 0. +.