The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-24

CHAUTAUQUA
Entertaining Lectures by
Eminent Men
COLORADO'S GRAND CANYON
PROF. CASTOR TALKS OF CUBA
AND THE CUBANS
c0L0RADo'S GRAND CANYON
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on Sunday Schol Work-Con-
cert This Evening

The program of the Chautauqua as
ISOLATION at Long Beach yesterday
opened with the usual devotional exer-
cises, the services being conducted by
DR.. A c. Williams of Riverside.
Rev, c. P. Dolan in the Old Testament
study dealt with the "Ten Words of
Moses" and the laws referring to things
clean and unclean. One God and a
sacred family relation lie at the base of
all Mosaic legislation, as we'll as of all
modern civilization. Purity of govern
ment, of the state and the municipality
all rest on the purity of the family.
Holiness originally had no reference to
moral quality, tent, the ground,
clothing, the person might be holy If
a thing was set apart for a sacred use
it was holy; if a thing posse Ssed some
evil or supernatural influence like a
dead body, leper or sick person, it was
unclean. An object was unclean be-
cause it could not be used and not pro-
hibited because it was literally unclean
The prelude to the lecture on the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado was the gem of
the afternoon. Mrs. Evangeline Had
don, formerly of Philadelphia, more re-
Gently Instructor of vocal music in
Claremont college, sang the following
solos. accompanied by Miss Condit:
1.-THE New Kingdom" by Tours; II
Cannot Help Loving Thee" Clayton
Johns; Break, Break Break" Ryder,
and Little Boy Blue" Joyce. Mrs.
Haddon's voice is deep rich contralto
and she uses it with rare delicacy and
artistic taste. 1t was quite evident to
those who attend the daily sessions of
the assembly, listening from day to day
to the representative from Claremont
college, that there is some fine musical
work being done there. but it is no longer
surprising that the results should be ex-
cellent, after the instructors in the per-
sons of Professor Fillmore and his neice,
Mrs. Haddon, are heard.
Previous to the introduction of the
speaker. president Weller announced
that until Tuesday next course tickets
may be had for 81 each, and after that
time they will not be for sale
Rev G. w. White, president of the
University of Southern California, was
then presented and proceeded with his
lecture on the Grand Canyon of the
1.-THE seven wonders of the ancient
world were all the works of man. The
ancients seemed to leave no record of
appreciation of the wonders of nature.
Very little mention is made in the clas-
sizes of natural scenery. If the modern
world were to make up a list of Won
ders natural scenery would compose a
large part of it. Many places in our own
I
First would stand the grand canyon of
the Colorado. Prior to twenty-five years
ago the Zambesi river in Africa, by the
exploration Of Livingston, was better
known than the Colorado and its can
yons. The first complete exploration
was made by Major Powell of the United
States geological survey from 1869 to
1872 In 1880 Captain Dutton of the gov
eminent geological survey made another
exploration from the rim of the canyon
without descending into it.
In 1889 Mr.. Stanton, an engineer of the
Union Pacific railroad, by use of camera
and surveyors instruments, made a
survey for the purpose of building rail-
road down the canyon. A regular stage
line for tourists has Only been estab
lished from Flagstaff for five years, so
the canyon is comparatively unknown.
1t is not a canyon proper, but series of
canyons. While the course of the inner
gorge in which the river runs is 21S
miles in length, the outer rim, which
measures the side canyons also, is many
thousand miles in length The stage
road from Flagstaff strikes the canyon
at its grandest part. where it is thirteen
miles wide and a mile and a quarter
deep 1t has three terraces or levels,
which have each baen at various times
in its history the bottom of the canyon
or water level so that the descent to
the present bottom is not directly YER
teal.
The interior of the canyon is not an
empty space, but filled with varying
forms of mountain peaks cathedral
spires, mighty domes and vast palisades
This is what lends such grandeur to the
spectacle. The architectural forms are
80 many and mighty as to overwhelm
the beholder, all formed of solid rock
from top to bottom. The rock is sand
stone, limeston e and granite, and, except
the latter, is ali stra titled, which adds to
the magic effect. But above all is the
marvellous coloring of the rocks not in
gentle tints, but in bold colors with glar-
ing red predominant.
The speaker closed. his lecture of that
stupendous work of nature with an in
teresting description of the geologic for
nation and the elements Of nature, that
had formed this greatest wonder of the
world in natural scenery.
THE EVENING SESSION
After the usual musical prelude, Pres
ident Willer introduced the lecturer of
the evening, Prof. Edward Page CASTOR.
Who took for his subject Cuba and the
Cubans"
Cuba, said the speaker, is one of the
richest countries. of the world. but under
the crushing rule of Spain has never
been one-tenth developed It's popula-
ton is about l, 500 0G0 but it could easily
support 100000 Although it was
among the earliest discovered parts of
the western world, there are parts of the
island which are as yet practically unex-
pJored. and which doubtless hide great
wealth. 1t is Spanish greed and lust
for gold that has kept Cuba down foi'
centuries. until one of Gods fairest fields
has come to be plain of misery ana
death.
Sugar is largely at the bottom of the
present instruction against the imperial
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