Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-24
LARGEST ON RECORD.
The July Crowds at Chautauqua
Eclipse Any Similar Month.
EDUCATORS OFFICERS ELECTED.
Some Interesting Historical Points Given
Out by Lecturers.
LIFE OF THE ANCIENT CHAUTAUQUANS


cation of New York and Pennsylvania rail-
road superintendents arrived here at noon
from Buffalo, and were entertained In the
Amphitheater by music and reoitations.
There has been the largest attendance du-
ring the month of July ever known in the
history Of the assembly. New cottages,
which will accommodate at least one thou
sand people, have been built since the close
of the last assembly.
The older cottages do not seem to suffer
any falling off IN consequence of the build
ing of so many new ones, as was feared by
some might be the case. 1t does not seem
possible for Chautauqua TO grow too rapidly
for the people who wish to come here. The
Amphitheater has been repeatedly filled,
which is altogether unusual in July.
Programme of the Day.
This was the programme to-day: Woman's
Club, Conference in the temple, led by
Mrs Emily Huntington Miller, lecture, "The
Chautauqua Country in History" by Prof.
F. n Thorpe, of Philadelphia; lecture, "The
Old Testament From an Assyrian Point of
View," Prof W. 3. Harper; conference,
Bible Helps" Profs. Horswell and Weld
ner; pronunciation match, conducted by
Prof. R. L. Cumnock, of the Northwestern
University, in the Amphitheater.
Melville Newey, the Librarian of the New
York State Library, who was to have lee
tured to-day, has been ordered abroad by
his physician, and has been forceo TO post
pone his visit to Chautauqua to another
season A letter from Mr.. II. w. Raymond,
Secretary Tracy's Private Secretary at
Washington, just received, announces MS
serious Illness and inability to meet hls en-, en-,
gagement here next week. An attempt Will
be made to have his views OF the navy ex-
hibiUed on one OF the evenings, so that Chau-
tauqua can have some idea of what Uncle
Sans vessels look like. Next Saturday
afternoon the political equality clubs will
meet a Chautauqua to hear the address OF
Mrs. Zerelda Wallace, mother of General
Lew Wallace. The Rev. Anna H. Shaw and
Miss Susan B. Anthony will also be present
and make short speeches on the general
theme of the afternoon.
Educators Elect Officers.
The Business Educators Convention ad-
journed to meet in Saratoga next year, elect
ing the following officers of the B. E. A OF
A.: President, Enos Spencer, Louisville,
Ky; First Vice President, P. E. Gallagher,
Hamilton, Ont; Second Vice President, D..
NJ. Mehan, Des MONIES, Ia; Secretary and
Treasurer, W. E. McCord, New York; CHAIR
man of the Executive Committee, A. S:
Osborne, Rochester, n: Y, who selected
Messrs. T. S. Packard, New York, and II. G.
Spencer. Washington, D. c.. as his asso-
ciates: Third Vice President, Mrs. Sara A.
Spencer, Washington, ID. c.
Mrs. Emma Ewing delighted large aud
fence to-day by showing them now TO. 20
scientific broiling in three dinerent ways,
of broiled fish, beefsteak, chicken, ETC., be-
fore the eyes and nose of her hearers in such
q delicious way that one Southern lady cried
out that Mrs: Ewing would spoil the whole
class for ordinary cooking by preparing
such savory dishes.
II wish could spoil everybody then" re-
piled Mrs. Ewing, "for nothing Will DrlnS
around the millennium quicker than the
proper preparation of food" And every
body there wished the millennium were at
hand if it brought such tempting vlands as
Mrs. Ewing can prepare.
Quite an Interesting Lecture.
Dr. Francis Thorpe's lecture, bearing on
Chautauqua history, was intensely interest
ing. For ten years Prof. Thorpe has been
investigating the historical interests of the
Chautauqua Countrywide fertile triangle
comprising the country, Buffalo and Cleve-
land, Cleveland to Pittsburg, and Pittsburg
and Buffalo-early letters and newspapers
the conversations of aged persons; and the
historical wealth of the Buffalo Historical So
ciety. The forester papers of the Pittsburg
archives have been carefully consulted.
The lecturer covered the period of the
ChautauQua country on the eve OF the sec,
ond war with England, and chiefly described
the social and political life in Western New
York, centering in Buffalo.
Tha manners customs and social life pre-
vailing in the ChautauQua country at the
period of the war of 1872 were shown, and
the westward movement of New England
ideas and their notifications under the con-
ditions of pioneer life illustrated. The early
settlers in the Chautauqua country were
chiefly from New England, Eastern New
York and Central Pennsylvania, and at the
present day there can be discovered through
out that country from Buffalo to Cleveland
and from Erie to Pittsburg their religious
opinion, political ideas, social conditions,
styles of architecture, systems of agricult-
ure, local names, peculiar idioms of speech,
traditions and customs, directly traceable to
the early institutions of the country.
The Manners of the People.
The lecturer traced these conditions and
their effects through the last 80 years in the
history of the ChautauQua country and
dwelt particularly upon the early religious
life of the community, the institution of the
campmeetings, the curious land speculations
preceding the building of the Erie canal;
the early Dutch manners and customs; the
modification of New England federalism in
New York; the economic condition of the
time labor, wages, hand manufacture, prices,
stores; the books that were read and the
people who read them; styles of dress; the
crimes and misdemeanors peculiar to the
times; the early newspapers; the lotteries
for the benefit of medical schools, of
churches of bridges and of roads; the evi-
dence of social excitement at the approach
of the war: the politics at Washington and
at Buffalo, and especially the effect on the
whole Chautauqua country of Jefferson's
embargo, and the social and political isola-
tion of the Chautauqua country from the
eastern part of the United States
DIR. Harper, in his lecture, said that the
Assyrian material furnishes direct and indi-
rect testimony to the Divine origin OF the
Scriptures in the form of actual confirma-
ton of what the Scriptures affirm by expla-
nations and illustrations, furnished from a