The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-27
COMESTHROUGHHERE
CoghIan of the Raj
eigh Goes
TO WINFIELD CHATAUQUA
Was a Big Day at the
Assembly.

Capt Coghlan Of the Raleigh, who help
ed fight the battle Of Manila, will go
through Wichita tomorrow evening on the
Santa Fe at $50 to Winfield, where he
will speak at p. m. Wednesday. A big
! crowd will go from Wichita. 1t looked
Ike half Wichita was there Sunday.
special from Winfield says: Sunday
was red letter day at the Chautauqua as
sembly. The management say that on no
Sunday except one since the beginning of
these assembly meetings has there bsen
80 fine an attendance as on yesterday.
The weather, though a little warm, was
all that could be desired for a day IN The
woods. Island Park could not be in finer
condition for pleasure. A plot of about
twenty acres, surrounded by a beautiful
flowing stream of water and shaded by
one hundred and thirty different varie :ieh
o: forest trees, no spot in Kansas otfels
more inducement for day out than this
assembly ground.
AT II o'clock DR.. H. L. Willett, Of the
Chicago University, preached to an audi
ence of 4,C0O in the tabernacle. II is fair
to the doctor to say that in the thirteen
years OF the assembly's lifetime no finer
nor more profound theological discourse
was ever delivered from that platform.
DR.. W!llett has always been a great favor
lite with everybody who knows him.
At 2:3O D. m, Rev. John Dewitt Miller
preached a most delightful sermon to
large and enthusiastic audience. This was
- AI,aA
has spoken from this platform. and It is
very doubtful IL there is another Chautau-
qua platform speaker who could sustain
himself as the doctor has done. If you
ever hear him once you will hear him
again when possible.
At I p. m. Caman's band of Winfield
gave one Of their most delightful sacred
concerts from their stand in the park to
fully 5000 people. This was an entirely
new departure for the management and
proved so thoroughly satisfactory that it
will be repeated in the future. This fea-
ture Of the program is one OF the de-
lights that will not be willingly given up
by Chautauqua attendants.
At D. m. the Chautauqua vesper serv-
ice was held at the c. L. S. c. paw lion,
conducted by Mrs. Piatt. This is beau
tiful service that Is always largely at
tended at Chautauqua meetings.
At p. m. the Ladies' Schumann Quar-
tette of Chicago opened the services at
the tabernacle with appropriate songs, fol-
lowed by a very able sermon by the Rev.
w. M Lawrence OF Chicago. The taber-
nacle was packed and hundreds of people
could not ger near enough to hear the
speaker.
This ended Sunday at Chautauqua and
no one inattendancd would hesitate to say
that everything was done that could be
for the delight and edificat!on of those in
attendance. Old attendants say that in
none Of the thirteen programs heretofore
carried out have any been stronger or
more uniformly good than the present
one.
Prof. McClintock, than whom there is
no more popular instructor, fills to the
fullest the position of teacher of English
Literature at Ii and o'clock each day.
DR.. Willett Is a superb instructor in Sa-
cred Literature and delights his audience
every day at o'clock.
The c. l.. S. c. work at the pavilion,
under the special direction of Mrs. R. NJ.
Piatt, secretary, has been delightfully."- sue
cessful this year. The daily Round Table
has been very large and of unusual in
terest. The special work of this depart
ment is the Recognition Services, Sunday
evening vesper services and the enroll
ment of readers for the next year. The
enrolment is larger than usual; 1t being
the American year is especially opportune
at this time.
The Recognition services of last Fri
day were by far the most beautiful ever
held. The procession was led by Caman's
band. the address by DR.. Willett and the
degrees conferred by Mrs. Piatt.
Wichita's graduates this year were Mrs.
G. c. Purdue, Mrs. Fred Robertson and
Mrs. Murray Myers.
Miss Lands. instructor in Domestic Sci
ence, gives lessons at a m. each day
to a crowded class anxious to learn the
latest in scientific cooking. If Wichita
doesn't have some improved cooks when
this assembly is ended, 1t will not be
Miss Lands fault.
The Wichita contingent are a rollicking
crowd and bent on innocent fun. A two