Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
AT THE SUMMER CITY.
Chautauqua's Coming Attractions-A splen-
did Season Assured.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.

Chautauqua's Coming Attractions-A Splen
did Season Assured.
rsPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
CHAUrAUoUA, Y. Y, July 4.-This beautiful
summer city" on the northern shore ol
ChautauQua Lake is again beginning tt
TEEN with life, for the assembly season OF 81
is At hand. The youth, beauty and chlvalTy
OF the land are arriving by every boat and
train, and the children of a larger growth
! are not behind in putting in an appesrance
Hence it is that Chautauqua has already be
come place of study, sunshine and song
Many OF the cottages have opened their hos
pitable doors, and the booths and shops are
Seing put in order for coming ducats by the
hundreds, for all indications point to the
biggest season ever held here. Secretary
puncan tells me that the gate receipts fol-
the first few days were One-third larger tnan
last year
1t is quite interesting to watch the boats
unload their passengers at the dock, 1or one
can get some sort of an idea of the class OF
visitors who come to Chautauqua. FIRST to
get on Is the summer girl. fresh from scnooi
or seminary, who has to all appearance JUST
escaped from a genius tutelary, and Is more
than an xious to try her culture ana coquetry
on the masculine heart. Next is the college,
student, who has passed through the year
examinations with more or less successes
promenad1ng, posing, and proposing. Inen
there Is the earnest school teacher on study
bent, the young widow on pleasure Dent, tne
sp1nster who would renew her youth IN tuls
spot so near to natures heart. Of course,
papas and mammas come by the score, TOO,
to see Chautauqua and watch with parehtal
care the progress in study as well as the
pleasure pursuits of their hopeful offspring.
In short all sorts and conditions OF men ana
women come here, so that Chautauqua Is q
Teritable microcosm. The light-hearted ana
prght-hearted, the faded ana Jaoea, the
pretty and witty-au contribute to make the
place human Kaleidoscope both PIC
turesque and suggestive.
Tempting Programme Arranged.
The assembly programme this year will be
exceedingly tempting. In view of the ap-
proach OF the Worlds Fair and the Colum-
bian anniversary, the management deemed
it highly advisable to give considerable
prominence to the study of American his
tory and American institutions. Accord
ingly, a series of very entertaining and in
structive lectures have been arranged,
covering all the different phases of Amer
ican historical research. These courses VIII
be delivered by Prof John Fisk, of Harvard
University, the peer of any professor in
welding the pen: Prof. H. b. Adams, OF
Johns Hopkins University; Prof. Francis n.
Thorpe and Prot. j. B. McMaster, both of the
University of Pennsylvania, and Prof. Fred.
Starr, of the American Museum of Natural
History. Then there are illustrated lectures
provided, and these deal with American
scenery, giving the audience an opportunity
to travel with their eyes, in the same way
that Mark Twain ascended Mt. Blanc by the
telescope without the fatigue of the journey
nor the danger from accident. Among the
lecturers in this course L note the names of
Prof. III. III. Ragan, DR.. A. II. Gillett and DR..
Charles s. Wells. Mr.. +. w. Raymond. Sec
retary Tracy's private secretary, IS down
for two illustrated lectures on the ''Old and
New Navy of the United States" F" the intent
being to stir up an interest among the people
here TO the needs of q good naval marine,
both for war as well as for the piping times
of peace"
the name of DR.. Edward McGlynn, Of New
York, who will try to convert ChautauQuans
to his way Of abolishing poverty. The ex-
priest is an orator, II nothing more, and his
peculiar earnestness and forcefulness will
be something new to this section. Hon. J.
J: McClaren, of Toronto, will tell on the
platform of the amphitheater what his views
are on the annexation of Canada, and try
to convince Chautauquans that Canada and
the United States have many things In COM
mon, and that they should be one country
and under one flag.
General Lew Wallace's mother is on the
programme for lecture on Political
Equality" and it will be somewhat enter
tanning, to say the least, to hear a woman's
side on this question
One of the most prosaic and perhaps the
least poetic part OF Chautauqua is the sale
of tickets, and yet study of these sales day
tfon. First, the increased revenue shows
that ChautauQua is becoming q colony
rather than pleasure resort In other
words, many who come to scof and see
casual visitors they emerge into full
hedged citizens; and this is easily demon
strated by the new cottages that have been
built within the past year. The circus eie-
the crowd that comes to ChautauQua- The
major portion of the people who step off the
boats are students and teachers bent on.
hard study and work.
Creeds Meet on the Platform.
There is also another healthy Sign Of the
times at ChautauQua in these days of And
over controversies and Union College theo-
logical fights. Chautauqua is becoming COS
mopolitan as regards preaching. The list of
sermons to be delivered this year embraces
the prominent ministers of all denomina-
tions. Among these are DR.. z. S. Macarthur,
Baptist. of New York; DR.. John Barrows
Presbyterian; Bishop W. A. Leonard, Epis-
copalian: DR.. A j. Behrends, Congrega-
tional, and Bishop j. P Newman, Methodist.
The new arcade of shops on Simpson ave-
nue. is a big improvement, and the Presby.
terian House stands firm in brick and stone
just east of the hotel Itis the first building
erected here of enduring materials, Dr. 7.
L. Floods cottage in the north of the
grounds fronting on the lake is the pioneer
journalists home here. Many newspaper
men come 10 SnauCauQua eacn year. and it
will not be strange if the example set by the
editor of the C7LoS1duQIton is followed by
other knights of the pen"
The Chautauqua Lake Railway has builta
station at Chautauqua, and the time-card
shows frequent train service between here
and Mayville, as well as jamestown and in
termediate points.
The new fire department is good feature.
There are two companies with 80 members,
who are residents of Ohautauqua, as well as
property owners. Fire drills are held fire.
Quently, and as a consequence Chautauuua
is better protected from fire than ever be-
fore. The bitter experience from the con-
migration of several years ago has been pro-
life of good results.
Such is a brief description of the state of
things here at the commencement of another
season. With the $4,000 appropriated last
January for permanent improvements,
Chautauqua will be in splendid shape to ac-
the masses and classes who come
to its shore
And in closing this letter, It is only right
to say that THE DISPATCH will follow every
feature of the work here with faithful ac-
curacy, at the same time giving the gossip
of the camp and the names of Pittsburg ar,
rivals.
CREss0N HAS BEEN CAPTURED.
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