The evening world., 1893-11-13
THE FREE LECTURES BEGIN.
Twelve at Once in Different Parts
Of the City Tonight
Fruit Of " The Evonisg World" Free
Lecture Law.

The sixth season Of the free lectures
to the people provided for by what Is
known as "'rhe Evening World Free
Lecture Law" opens this evening in
twelve lecture-rooms distributed through
out the city from city Hall place to
Merose.
The round OF lectures for the first
series OF the season OF 1884, Is particu-
larly attractive and remarkably divers-
fed in character. Twelve lectures will
appear simultaneously tonight. Each
will pass on during the season through
the whole series OF lecture rooms, and
before New Years there will have been
delivered by these twelve lecturers IA
lectures to IA audiences free OF charge
These lectures are full OF both enter
tainment and instruction. There are
other lecturers engaged, too. and they
will still further diversity the enter
tainments
There was an attendance of 22149 at
the frst seasons lectures-January to
Immensely In popular. favor since then.
Last season. from November. 1892 to
April, 1899, there were $3.50 lectures and
an attendance OF 1870, $50. 1t Is expected
that more than 10000 auditors will at
tend the free lectures this season.
Men. women and children make up
the audiences; fathers. mothers. school
boys and schoolgirls. Among the men.
eminent in history. geology. geography,
astronomy and other sciences, travellers,
descriptive speakers and specialists in
the people some things they know this
season. and most Of them will illustrate
their lectures with stereopticon pictures.
maps, paintings and other apparatus;
lege; Prof. Felix Adler. the learned lead
er OF the Society for Ethical Culture;
ex-Postmaster and ex-Postmaster.Gen-
fga Re, ThSm2s rnG haops II Ja%ss Gas PF0fs Pf obs
College: Hamilton w. Mabie. editor OF
the Christian Union: Prof John b.
McMaster, OF the University of Pennsyl
Z. 4. seligman. Prof T. J; Backus, Of
Hughes; David b. sickels Edward King,
jr,, "sergt:" Elias B. Dunn, the weather
prophet; Mrs, Lena Louise KleppLsch.
4; G Carter DR.. F. 4. Lyons, Lysander
Pisserman PisssT James Msols Bowie d9 Or. F. w, w.
Knapp, q. II. Payson. Clarence Pullen
and Prof w. H. Goodyear.
The subjects will be of current inter
est. For instance, to-night's programme
Grammar School No. g. in City Hall
place, II. c. Carter will tell his audi
ence all about THE Sandwich Islands,"
Grammar School No. 8, Grove and
Hudson streets, Prot. T, J. Backus lee
first financier OF the infant United
States.
Grammar School Is. 72s East Fifth
street ST. Or; T.. F. 4, Lyons. on THE Circu-
Grammar school 80, As West Twenty
subject WIN be Art and Architecture
Grammar School q, 2o6 East Forty
land"
Grammar School 81. 52a West Forty
fourth street, DR.. E. W. Fisher, on
Grammar School 50. First avenue and
Seventy-seventh street, DR.. T. 2. Hughes
on aHistoric and picturesque India"
sixth street. Prof. Charles Knapp, on
The Life Of the Ancisnt Romans"
The Institute. East broadway and JEFF
fers95 Mnn,1., street, ,,. g. H. Payson, on THE
Madison hall. Madison avenue and
One Hundred ard Twenty-fifth street.
Clarence Pullen. on 'The City Of Mex
At Melrose Lyceum. at Third avenue
and One Hundred and Fiftieth street,
prof, rN,., w. II; G Goodyear Sysar on masterpieces
The 10000 readers of The Evening
World'' who attended last season will
notice that two new lecture-rooms have
the lecturers are nearly all new. The
lectures are under the superintendency
Of Henry NJ. Leipziger and committee
OF the Board of Education. composed OF
the chairmen Of the several Evening
School Committees, as follows:
Commissioners DE Witt j. Seligman,
Miles NJ. O'Brien. Joseph F. Mosher
Randolph Guggenheimer and Clara NJ
Williams
In the report OF the Superintendent
which was afterwards published in an
amended pamphlet form and distributed
at the Educational Exhibit in the
Worlds Fair. The Evening World was
given the credit due for Its successful
effort to obtain the passage of the law
In 1889, providing for these free lectures
to the people OF New York. The success
attained by the project shows how well
the people appreciate the work of their
favorite newspaper.