The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-26
GLEN ECHo's CHANCELLOR.
A Pleasant Reception to DR.. Gillett at
the Fredonia.

A Pleasant Reception to DIR. Gillett at
the Fredonia.
On Wednesday evening Mr.. and Mrs. La
Fetra opened the parlors of the Fredonia for
an informal reception in honor of DIR. Gillett,
chancellor of the National Chautauaua of
Glen Echo, and large and highly intelligent
company responded to the invitation. Most
OF the churches of the city were represented
by pastor or leading members Mr.. and Mrs.
La Fetra received the guests in the hall. Mr..
l.. DeF Jennings, secretary, stood just within
the first drawing-room door and introduced
arrivals to the guest of honor, the Rev. DIR.
Gillett, who stood on his left. DIR. Gillett is
fine type of a man, with an open, earnest
countenance and genial manner. The ladies
of the woman's executive board assisted in re-
ceiving. Mrs. L. DEF Jennings, the secretary,
headed the line in q cream-colored crepe
gown. Beside her stood Clara Barton, in black
velvet; Mrs. Judge Bently, black silk; Mrs.
Maj. j. w. Powell, gray velvet and white silk
brocade; Mrs. DR.. Hamlin, heiotrope crepe;
Mrs. Miranda Tullock, black silk; Mrs. L. w.
Hilton, black lace; Mrs. E. l.. Sherwood,
black brocade India silk, and Mrs. Sarah
Spencer black lace.
After the guests had assembled a pro-
grammc of literary exercises was rem
dered. DR.. Gillett's happy opening re-
marks on the advantages the Glen Echo
Chautauqua will afford those attending the
June assembly were the chief feature of
the evening. He was exceedingly clear and
terse in expressing himself, and all were i'm
pressed that the chancellorship had fallen into
hands eminently capable. The Doctor could
give but very brief outline of the good things
prepared for the public or of the magnitude of
the undertaking. He dwelt upon the beauty
of the location and the progress already
made. This Glen Echo bids fair, he said, to
be the best equipped Chautauqua of the whole
fiftyodd now in existence. He said the pro-
gramme of the season would provide for the
serious, the spectacular for those who would
be amused, and also calculated to awaken new
desires in receptive souls after the highest and
best, so that if one soul is thus quickened into
such life as shall bless its age and generation
the desire of all Chautauquas will be fulfilled.
At the close of the Doctors talk Miss Fannie
Compton, of New York, rendered an instru-
mental solo, while Professor s. L. Ford elo-
cutionist, gave a number of recitations that
were immensely amusing. Clara Barton, Dr.
Elliott, Dr. Butler, and Mrs. Sarah Spencer
furnished symposium of good things. Mrs.
L. Def. Jennings said that whatever else she
may have done in regard to making Glen Echo
possible, her greatest pride was in having Sc
lected the chancellor, Rev. DIR. Gillett 1t
was late hour when the company dispersed.
Among those present were DR.. and Mrs. Ham
IN, III. Duuier, heV. Dr anu MIS-. Il. >. TODD,
Miss Todd, Mrs. H. G. Spencer, ex-Mayor
Emory, Rev. DR.. Elliott Mr.. and Mrs. Al
phonzo Youngs, Colonel and Mrs. Caldwell,
Mrs. Lucy Tilton, Mrs. J. G. Butler, Mrs.
Henry Williams, Mrs. Tuley, Professor and
Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Colly, Mrs McQuirg, Mrs
Moulton, Mrs. Alfred Wood, Dr. Ida Heiber-
ger, Miss Cleveland, DR.. Warner, Superinten-
dent of Charities; the Misses Jennings, Birch,
Schriver, King, Shannahan, Shannon, Hunt
ington, and Bagsey, Mrs. G. w. Townsend
Mrs. Shelton, Mrs. MCPHERSON, and Mrs. j.
w Bond