Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
UNDERTOOK AND KEY.
Chautauqua's Gates Will be Tightly
Locked on the Sabbath.
NIGHT PROVIDERS NOT ALLOWED
No Show for Woman's Rights Takers and
VIC. T. Q. Exhorters.
EDWARD BELLAMY WILL BE A FEATURE

ment," said George Edgar Vincent OF
Chautauqua. speaking Of the ironclad rule
which closes the gates of that great summer
university every Sunday. "That isn't 1t.
But if excursions are run from all the places
within easy access of Chautauqua, vel have
the scum of the earth in there disturbing the
peace and quiet of the Sabbath. People are
welcome to come in on Saturday night and
stay over. We are glad to have them. Sun
day afternoon or evening they can take a
carriage to Mayville, if they must depart.
Drummers frequently do this, and their
Sundays are spent in sweet doing-nothing
existence, with plenty of cigars and papers.
"What about this lights out at 10:30'
order?''
"WelI, it's Just this: We don't care 10
have people running the street and talking,
which, owing to the thinness of the walls of
most cottages, would disturb the inmates.
It's on the same principle that nv neighbor
in the city may sit up in his house and burn
his lights all night if he chooses; it's moth
ing to me; but if he plays the cornet all
night ghall have him run in as nuisance.
The same rule holds good at Chautauqua.
You can sit up until dawn if you wish and
burn as much gas as you can afford to pay
for, but when it comes to running the streets
we can't have it.
NO RELAXATION OF RULES.
$50 these two rules, which have caused so
much comment-favorable and otherwise
in the past, will continue to be distinctive
characteristics of this very remarkable City
in the Woods during the coming season OF
1890. By the way, in this latter half of the
nineteenth century it is no longer safe to
sneer at people who are educated in the
woods! There are $4,000 pairs of feet
whose owners have thus trod the paths of
knowledge, and you are likely to tread upon
some of the toes.
''There is a popular falIacy that to go to
Chautau1ua means to immerse ones self in
a religious brine and come out sancti-
monious pickle. Nothing could be further
from truth. Religion they do have, and of
the best and truest kind. Several of the
denominations have club houses, where the
members SO to have q quiet chat or to read.
One can go to church three times on the
Sabbath day, and to vespers ON Wednesday
evenings, and during part of August there
are devotional hours each day, from 10
o'clock until 10:45 in the morning. Does it
sound very formidable?
1.-THE means of intellectual quickening
which will be offered at the City IN the
Woods will come from the brains of men and
women prominent in all departments of
life. Particular attention will be given to
the university of extension courses, which
are progressive series of lectures, each of
which treats of one general subject, and in
several courses examinations will be held at
the end of the term. One of these courses
will treat of social economics and women, to
be conducted by Mrs. Helen Campbell, of
New York, correspondent of the New York
Tribune in East London.
SOME OF THE FEATURES.
"Mrs. Coleman E. Bishop will again 'hie
herself hither as an exponent of the Del
sarte system of expression. Prof. Richard
7. Ely, of Johns Hopkins University, will
be one of the lecturers on social questions;
Edward Bellamy will be another. He will
endeavor to persuade US that car driver is
just as good as a jeweler any day. BY the
way, Mr.. Bellamy isn't getting rich, by any
means. off the profits of his books. When
he was asked to lecture at Chautauqua this
season, and what would be his terms, he re-
piled: GAS for remuneration. 1 don't want
any for talking on this subject (Social
fortune out of Looking Backward which
the papers credit me with, shall have to
ask that my expenses be paid"
"Saxton, the author of the famous ballot
reform bill, will PROFOUND his theories Au-
gust 16. As an imitation man, woman isnot
a success-at least not a Chautauqua sue
cess, for none of the Woman s. Rights-and-
sort of a person is down on
the list of lecturers. The committee has
also steered clear of the W. G. T. q. DR..
Deems, of New York, will probably talk on
SAM SMALL DID NOT PAY
"Sensationalism will also be avoided. 1t
did not pay to run excursions from all
points to hear Sam Small. After he was
the balance went to pay the
gardener who picked up the egg shells and
paper bags of the lunchers. Therefore,
D. D., if you have an extempo-
address prepared for delivery in
Park, Chautauqua, burn it. 1t
will be of no use. One of the spicy things
will be the comments by Alexander Black,
of the Brooklyn Times, on the ''instanta-
neous views" of scenes in New York and at
Coney Island. This man is an expert anna
teur photographer with a proper apprecia-
lion Of the rich things in life.
"The musical advantages will this year
be greater than ever. A new idea |
will be the illustrated musical lectures
during July by I. V. Flagler,
the celebrated organist from Auburn. |
The great and only Sherwood will,
IS usual, have charge of the piano in |
,truction. In the way of entertainments,
you can take your choice. They run from
,pelling-bee to an athletic exhibition.
"And speaking of athletics, they do have |
capital tennis courts at Chautauqua, and |
IT'LL there are more to follow. For good and |
obvious reasons certain amusements are ta- |
,ooeu vet every facility is offered for whole
iome, healthul enjoyment, and jest and
7outhful jollity' abound.
PLENTY OF PREACHERS.