Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-15
GREAT GATHERING OF KANSAS
CHAUTAUQUANs At OTTAWA.
FORMAL OPENING YESTERDAY.
REV. DIR. DIXON ON "MAN's NEED OF
A BACKBONE"
Concert by Prominent Kansas and
Kansas City Musicians - Mrs.
Sherwood and Her Great
WOrk-sOme Who Are
There.

Forest Park, ottawa, Kas., June a.
Especially This has been a housekeepers'
and homcmakers' day at ottawa assembly
and all day the womankind bOssed things,
while poor, disconsolate man labored with
the problem of how to put the furniture Of
a large house into a small tent. But in
some fashion they did 1t and Forest park
has begun TO look like a veritabIe camp
meeting. Where there is enough room,
there are tents; where there are not tents
there are hammocks; and both are full OF
the people who have been getting ready for
the serious business of an assembly. But
they are not all resting people by any
means; there are lots of busy people here
too. There is Secretary Sandford Topping.
for instance, whose kindly face smiles i'm
partially on all comers, and his able corps
of office assistants, Miss Name Barrett,
Miss Vail, Earl Armstrong and Fred Har-
ris, and a large contingent of park at
taches.
Then the workers and platform people
are beginning TO come in. Selah II. Brown.
of California. one of the oldest Chautau-
quans In America, and an original instruct
or of the New York assembly, arrived yes
terday and was warmly welcomed. DR..
Hurlburt, Mrs. Sherwood, Mrs Noble Prem
tis, Mrs Waterman Stone, Mrs. L. b. kel-
logg and a host of others are settled In the
quantity shaped tents that line the avenues
of the park. There Is, too an army OF
press correspondents, and special arrange
ments will be made for their accommoda-
tion and convenience.
Scattered all over the ground are head
quarters tents of the various clubs and
secret societies of Kansas; and members
OF different orders will be heartily well
coined by the ladies In charge. AT Normal
hall Mrs. Sarah z. Kellar begins her thir-
kindly
Of the Kansas girls friend will shine in its
accustomed place.
At Assembly han the loan collection
brought by Mrs. Sherwood has been put IN
place and Miss Matilda Nanderpool, OF chi
Cago will be in charge. Nearly al OF me
pictures and casts on exhibition are for
sale and a number Of Oruers for valuable
copies have already been taken.
1t was 1880 p. m. when Conductor John
Behr with his best professional bow 70 the
large audience which fiiled the Tabernacle
and a good deal Of space around the out
side. gave TO the symphony sololsts; ntty
Chestra and band. the signal which for
mally opened what promises to be the ban
ner assembly Of the West. After the music
board OF trustees, welcomed the assembly
in a happy little talk and Rev; Mr..
Need of Backbone. Moral, Physical and
At the evening concert in the bandstand
honOrs were divided between the ottawa
University band and Professor Behr's SYM
phony band.
The Chautauqua quartette. composed Of
Miss Emma Dent. of Denver; Miss Mabelle
Crawford, Chicago; Mr.. II. l.. Shirer. To-
peka. and A. D.Cheeny,Of Kansas City.with
Ella Backus-Behr. accompanist. opened the
evening service proper. The quartette sang
MY Love Is Like a Red. Red Rose" by
Gamett. Mr.. Cheeny, who has an unusu-
ally fine bass-baritone voice. sang We
Got a SiNpence," and Professor Almond h.
Palmer, who is new to Ottawa Chautau-
quans, but widely known as a normal in
structOr and lyceum lecturer. gave several
recitations from contemporary newspaper
Professor Palmer will have charge Of the
physical culture work of the assembly. His
hours are from TO a. m. In Normal hall
in the new wOman's building was devoted
by Mrs. Sherwood to a talk on the need OF
an art education for the children, and espe-
Cially the need of artistic exhibits in the
public schools. Mrs. Sherwood f. not an
artist In point Of execution OF from teen
meal standpoint, and her lectures and arr
fact. She IS a dainty charming little
woman, with q sweet face and kind gray
eyes from which look the soul OF the
wOmanly woman as well as the artlStc
temperament, which has made Mrs Sher-
wood the beloved friend of Chicago working
girls. Mrs. Sherwood talked most enter
tainilgly to The Journal correspondent OF
my dear Chicago girls and her work
among them; of the library and reading
room, in which is her private collection Of
casts statues, and artistic things gener-
ally, the use of which is free 70 every
working girl in Chicago; of the Altrua Ii
brary Circle, which has charge OF the read
ing room and art library. Of her travels
and experiences in the art centers of the
Ola World, where many years of her life
were spent: and especially of her philan-
thrcpic art work among the poor people OF
Chicago and the new field which Is opening
for art workers among the poorer classes
ey yeTywhere. Mrs. SherWoods AFTERNOON