Daily camera., 1899-06-09
THE DESiOERATUM.
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only means of accommodation. They
are ready to forget that last year the sun
woke them up at 4 o'clol IN the morn
ing and the electric lights kept them
awake until ii o'clock at night; and they
are willing to laugh. row that they know
they will not need to do such a thing
again. When they tell how they had
to turn out at night in a storm and hold
down their ten,s-'such things. they say,
are thing of the past, since we see that
the Chauts uqua association has had cot
tages put up on the grounds. Were it
not for that, we should not think of going
back
"lf advertising is worth anything, we
shall surely have a good big Crowd-for
we have simply paln,ed-Boulder, Colo
RADIO. and the great Western ohautauqua
all over the state of Texas.
"In addition to our regular advertising
booming and general agitation, have
been following the plan of writing local
articles for the papers, 10 such an extent
that from three to five towns each week
publish at least one issue which is practi-
cally Boulder Chau,auqua edition. Such
thing is possible since the newspaper
men are anxious to encourage anything
that will impr, We Texas In the town Of
r>ler less than ten days ago The Daily
Courier inahgurated a contest election,
lin which the paper Civ. to the most
popular Tyler lady round trip ticket to
Boulder and six weeks board at the
Chautauqua) by sending two hundred
letters through the mail to p, ,ominent
people in town requesting their coopera-
ton in the election of Tyler's represen.
tative at Beautiful Boulder. In one
issue of the paper appeared two. third
column article on Boulder on the front
page, in which it was positively asserted
that while last year tents had been used
at the Chautauqua. this year cottages had
been arranged fo., of which sixty or
seventy-6ve of three and four rooms
each are now being erected. the state
ment being an exact quotation from cir.
culars of the Chautauqua with which we
had supplied them. Such advertising is
simply positive dishonesty and those of
us who have been working now for
months feel unable to go out and meet
our people now with anything but the
exact truth.
"We have enlisted the cooperation OF
parents on the ground of improved
schooling for their children, we have
talked to representative men of the best
interests of the state they love and wish
to improve. We have taken high phil
anthropic stand in the matter, from
which, we're we to fall, the result would
be more than disastrous.
"In many cases it has seemed essential
to enlist the active support of men and
women who figure as leaders in their
town, people who have come to Texas
for business reasons, who have means,
education and culture, who are looking
for the improvement of those about them
who have been less favored, and, upon
their decision for or against the Chautau-
qua everything depends.
Boulder has done too nobly to fail
now of doing the last and only thing
now needful. Too much money and
energy have been spent already to admit
Of this season resulting in anything but
the absolute guarantee, through its own
merits only, on the part of this great
western enterprise. that. as the Texas
people, the best of them. are trusting and
praying, 1t has come to be fixture"
. Mr.. Hull is deeoly in earnest. but he
says the people from whom he comes
are more so. and he begs that the Boul-
der people will do something at once.