Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-15

I
ments Of the thousands of people that
come to the Black Hills for a
vacation Of few days or a few weeks,
is impressed with the fact that many
eastern capitalists are combining busi-
ness with pleasure. While their fam
lilies are multiplying "oh my's' as they
wander through the Harvey range,
staring at the surprises of Spearfish
canon or enjoying the delightful baths
of the city of hot water. pater familias
is investing a share of his surplus in
promising mining property. For a long
time these investments were confined
largely 10 the northern Hills. "Its a
long lane that has no turn" Keystone
surprised everybody. This same every
body will think that lightning has struck
him one of these days, when some
things which your correspondent wot's
OF are secrets no longer. Custer won't
be out in the cold then either.
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What an attraction Sylvan Lake has
become The heavily laden tallyho,
double carriages, mountain buggies,
buck boards, carts, prairie schsooners,
etc., etc, etc. are found, all along the
way from the magic city of Custer to
the gem of the mountains, Sylvan Lake.
On its granite shore, a splendid hotel
that would gladden. the weary traveller
of any land or cline welcomes the
coming stranger" nd speeds the part
ing guest" All about it the sturdy
outliers of the Harney range. and over
yonder three miles distant old Harvey
Peak rears his lofty head and stands a
silent sentinel of the present, a sug.
gestive prophet Of the future and
historic monument Of the Azoic past.
Many tourist scales the walls of this
old pile making his way to its base on
foot or on the back Of the sure footed
mountain donkey. Women, even the
most fastidious, though sensitive en-
ough to blush at the suggestion, are
sensible enough to ride "man fashion"
in making this ascent. One woman of
the type lovable and lovely, modest, re-
fined, reserved, declared, when 4 come
here again next year. I'll have bloomers
and leggins made purpose" She
would never wear them anywhere else
in all the world, not she, bnt she will,
and be none the less woman either.
Some women are modest even in bloom
ers, others are masculine in spite of
dressmakers and milliners. But Sylvan
Lake. Talk about the gorgeous ALE.
ghenies, the towering Rockies, the gla-
cier ridden Alps, and the snow clad
Himalayas, and, we'll you may talk, for
they are wonderful. But would you see
the crowning handiwork of Him who is
the worlds great artist,& 60 to the
weather beaten monuments that tell the
story of his chisel of time in the Buck
horn and Harvey ranges; wander
among the needles that fringe Cathedral
Park, fol = Marble, the photographer
guidN vantage-points Of obser-
vatioA the needles, catch the
changih\ es as the ever shifting
lights ar les afford you a new
picture al respiration, and climb
ing to the\ tof Harney Peak, gaze
upon the enhancing panorama
until it burn >your very soul-and
gazing, know the Black Hills of
South Dakota God is the master sculp-
tor.
49,
The Black Hills Chautauqua Assem-
bly, has just completed its sixth annual
session, the same having been held at
Deadwood. The city of Deadwood had
guaranteed the advance sale of $4,000
worth Of season tickets, as a condition of
securing the location of this session OF
the assembly at that place. In addition
e this, the receipts at the gate were
$4,000. As result the management is
able, for the first time in the history of
the Assembly, to pay ell the expenses
Of the session. The Chautauqua move
ment Is the greatest educational move
Esent Of the century, or Of the Christian
era. True, it does not pretend to the
thoroughness Of our colleges and uni
versities, but it Is 80 far reaching in its
scope that no other educational infiu-
ence can be compared with 1t. The
annual assembly or summer school, now
so much appreciated by the masses of
all classes, is but small factor of this
great movement. 1t is to the G. s. s C.
reading course what the commencement
week Of college, or university is to its
regular curriculum. The programme at
Deadwood was superior, as was well
attested by the large patronage and the
uniform expression of satisfaction heard
on every hand. Chief in interest among
the classes were the children's class of
125 conducted by Mrs. Alice Gossage,
and the large class in minStalogy under
the chilled leadership of Mr.. L. w. Still
we'll. Rev's Rominger, Beard and DR..
Swickard occupied the eleven o'clock
hour with scholarly lectures on Erglish
and German literature. Dr.. Swickard's
lectures on Browning and Shakespeare
had really classic merit. The strictly
popular" lectures were given in the
afternoons and evenings. sBen Hur"
By Evangelist w. B. Culliss, illustrated
with the stsreoptican. was . nastsrly
effort. DR.. Stricklsnd's General Grant
was ideal, lofsy and patriotic. The