Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-09
A SUMMER SCHOOL
One Is to Be Established for Teach
ers and Advanced Pupils in
New Mexico.
A VERlTABLE CHAUTAUQUA
The Ell Paso & Northeastern Railway
Will Erect Buildings and Give Low
Rates to Those Who Attend
the School.

Among the visitors to Santa Fe to-
day vas Prof. George p. Putnam, who
was for many years superintendent of
the schools of Eel Paso, and who has
been holding summer institutes for
teachers in many sections of the coun-
try. Prof. Putnam has been engaged by
Messrs. C. B.. Eddy and j.. A. Eddy and
gentlemen associated with them in de-
veloping the country in Otero county, to
conduct a Chautauqua or summer
school in the mountains.
The Ell Paso & Northeastern Railroad
Company will construct a large build
ing, which will be subdivided into a re-
ception room, a large hall, a dining
room and Well equipped kitchen. The
reception room will be a kind of reading
department, furnished with abundance
of reading matter, books, magazines,
newspapers, etc. The public hall will be
used for general assembly purposes.
The dining room and kitchen will be
well furnished and up to date in every
particular.
1t is the purpose of the railroad COM
pany to conduct a good lunch house at
the lowest possible prices. The com
pany will not run the dining room for
the purpose of making money, as they
are not in the hotel business for profit,
but merely to accommodate the patrons
Oh the road. Substantial board at the
lowest possible rates will be their policy
The attendants Upon the school viii
occupy irst-class tents, floored and vel
furnished. The families of attendants
can also be entertained. Special railway
/ rates will be given by all New Mexico
railways. 1t is the purpose of the pro
moters to make the schoo permanent,
so that the people of the southwest can
have an annual outing hat will be prof
liable from an educational standpoint,
as well as an occasion of pleasure.
This summer building will be situated
in a nice level mountain glade sur
and long leaf pine-an ideal spot for
such a building. Around the building
will be placed 40 or so well-equipped
wall tents, floored and furnished with
comfortable spring cots, tables, chairs,
etc. A stove will also be placed in each
tent.
The general accommodations will be
first class in every way. Those who de-
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home. and at the same time will eXpe-
rience all the novelties of a genuine
camp life. In fact, it will be camp life
in the wild woods and open air, relieved
of all the drudgery of cooking and the
usual Inconvenience of camping. There
is no better place on earth for a genuine
summer outing. 1t will also be cheap,
in the reach of the masses.
While the tents and the building will
be used principally for Chautauqua pur-
poses, and will be open particularly to
teachers and professional people, there
will be ample accommodation for all
who are to run up on the mountains for
a day or a week. 1t will truly be a COM
modious general summer resort.
The summer school of methods and
Chautauqua will open about June 1, and
will continue six or eight weeks. 1t will
have a competent faculty of instructors,
and will be visited by a number of able
lecturers. Arrangements are under way
whereby teachers of New Mexico may
secure certificates.
Teachers may soon expect circulars
which will explain in full the details of
the summer school work. There will be
at least three departments. One will be
devoted to actual high-grade profess
sional work, another to subject matter
and another to primary methods.
AS a summer resort the Sacramentos
simply IA not be surpassed.
An altitude of 5000 feet above sea lev
el, a cool, refreshing atmosphere, the
magnificence of the scenery, dense for
of stately pine and spruce, together
with an endless profusion of flowers,
render the location an ideal one indeed.