The Lafayette gazette., 1902-04-12
SUMMER NORMAL.
ADoOasmOGlnttOns for Visiting
Ts0ehess-Able leSturers for
the Chautauqua.

During the month of June the |
town of Lafayette will have an
opportunity to show the world
what manner of stuff tits made !
off, and to show the world
whether the town can success
fully meet an emergency. We
say emergency because up to
the present writing there are
accommodations for only one
third the number of visitors who
will be present. The people of
the town have not responded to
the appeal of The Gazette asking
ing them to open their doors and
receive their guests. 1t is not a
question of how much money
there is in it, but question of
plain duty. The people of the
town must see to it. and see to it
at once, that every visitor is com
fortably located at a moderate
cost. Applications for rooms
have already been made
and Lafayette must prepare
to accommodate at least two
hundred teachers.
The faculty of the school will
be headed by President Caldwell,
of the State Normal School, and
will be composed of a strong
corps of teachers from that
institution.
The chautauqua feature will be
composed of lectures and enter
tainments, the equal of which
Lafayette has never seen, nor is
likely to see soon. The cOncen-
tration of forces at the summer
school and chautauqua enables
the management to offer attrac
tiOns which could not easily be
presented otherwise. Take for
example, Gov. Bob Taylor and
his this attraction alone
will cost the management two
hundred and fifty dollars for one
night only It is but fair to state
that had it not been for the pub
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fering assistance in case of
emergency, this attraction could
not possibly have been presented.
Gov. TaylOr's appearance
will be the crowning event of the
chautauqua, and on that day the
fire department of Lafayette will
be invited to turn out in full uni
form and the railroad company
will be asked for excursions from
the principal neighbOring points.
In addition there will be one
lecture by Mr.. Hawks, the hu-
morist, and two by Col. Copeland,
the philosopher. The Chicago
Glee Club has been retained for
three nights. Prominent men in
letters and science have been in
vited to lecture before the asso-
citation. Among these may be
mentioned Prof. Alcee Fortier,
of Tulane; DR.. Brown-Ayres and
DR.. Metz, of Tulane. who have
been invited to give demonstra-
tiOns of the notable discoveries
and inventions of the day-liquid
air, x-ray and wireless telegra-
ply; DR.. Baling, the divine of
Shreveport; DR.. Beverly Warner,
the Shakespearean scholar of
New Orleans; DR.. Edwin A.
Alderman, the president of Tu-
lane; B. G. Caldwell, president
of the State Normal School: Jos.
B. Aswel, president of the In
: dustrial School at RustOn; Hon.
III. M. Carver, of Natchitoches,
and others.
All of this and more besides will
be offered to the people of Lafa-
yette at five dollars for the sea-
son ticket, and to the teachers
at three dollars.
The Peabody Fund and the
South louisiana Summer School
and Chautauqua Association have
invested sixteen hundred dollars
in teachers and lecturers.
During the week the normal
and chautauqua association was
reinforced by the accession of