Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-07-17
FROM CHAUTAUQUA.
Rass rIilne Describes con"
ditions at School.
is A GREAT SUMMER SCHOOL,
Mormons a Great Curiosity, and the
Six Students From Utah Sub
jSted TO rlany Questions.

Chautauuua, New York, July g, 1908.
EDITOR IRoN COUNTY REcoBD;-Justa
| few lines To describe an Eastern trip
| for Western lad Our route in brief
to this place was via Ogden, Cheyenne,
omaha, Chicago, Detroit, across lake
| Erie to Cleveland, thence to jamestown
and across lake Chautauqua TO the col
lege town that bears its name.
Chautauqua is the greatest education
Al center for summer work in the
| United States. The average attend
ance at the college during the months
Uf July and August is between sixteen
and twenty thousand, students and tea
| chers The area inhabited by these
twenty thousand people is perhaps
| three miles square.
There are six Students from Utah
here and il Is rather amusing 20 see
| now completely dumfounded the peo-
pie are when they learn where we are
from. Several persons have quietly
asked me II had ever seen many Nor
mons in Utah. And when / have told
| them that / was n Mormon in belief,
though scarcely worthy OF being classed
AS such, they have been astounded and
nave asked me N every man In Utah
aid not have fifteen wives. tell them
hat / hardly think the average would
.Xceod twelve apiece. Then | tell them
II the conditions as they exist in
Utah.
We six Utah students are very COM
fortably located at Widrig Cottage
ind are just across the street from the
large amphitheatre, where all the lee
lures, musicals, recitals, cts, are given,
ind II we choose We can remain on our
Jorch and hear the selections rem
Tered.
The Eastern country is really an in
,piration TO Westerner. There are no
| barren places at all The landscape is
covered by various beautiful forest
trees, which are typical of the Easte rn
states. Lawn grass and flowers, with
hundreds Of fountains cover the ground.
| IL seems pity that nature has not been
more impartial and given the Western
country part of the rainfall that is so
| plentiful here, enabling us to substitute
| grasses and trees for our sage aud rab-
bit brush which is struggling for exist
| ince.
To our right the lake front affords a
beautiful scene Steamers, sail boats,
Jugs, skipps and boats of all descrip-
lions are softly, smoothly gliding over
the CLASSY surface OF the lake, while
tlong the shore hundreds of people are
,njoying the exhilerating effects of Q
!, nniraer hath
The work at school IL excellent anc
one must work. work. work. or b,
likely TO expose his ignorance to hi
comrades. The work am taxing is tn,
physical education training. My tract
work is under DR.. Clapp, Gales famou
runner. l take the light gymnasti
from Dr. Anderson, director of tn
Yale gymnasium. Ny anthropometr,
S under DR.. Searer, the medical exam
luer of Yale, aud other work from tn
{ noted Swede, DIR. Bolin of Harvard
All my time is taken up, as is the cas-
with all the other students from Utah
Miss Spetce and Miss Eastwood ar
, taking courses in outdoor sketchinl
painting and artistic gymnastic course
and domestic science, respectively
The, other Utah students are taking
reading course.
+ We are watched very closely and hen
on every hand whispers of, "phere al
some real Mormons;' and then poop
r. look at ne, and MS there are two boy
and only four girls of us here the
think we are only half Mormons as "
c have only two wives each
u PLEASE address my RECORD TO MI
Erastus !. Milne, care Of Widrig Cot
tnge, Chautauqua, New York You 9,
here they will not allow good con
o mon, every day name like 'Rass," cor
d sequently Tor the present make
= "Erastus."
With best wishes for the good peopl
of southern Utah, am your friedd,
~ I \