The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-02-16
PUSH CHAUTAUQUA.
Business Men Take Up Work Of
Placing the Tickets for the
Summer Assembly.
800 TICKETS SOLD ALREADY.

sha Chautauqua assembly is gather
ing momentum, although it is not as
it we're, running down hill. James H.
Shaw, who is trying to organize it, says
it is harder here than ordinarily be-
cause there is no active business
mems association, as most towns have
to take hold. When he took it up at
Racine two years ago he went before
the Business Mems association there
and presented the plans, which were
accepted, and committee of the as
sociation made canvass of the mer-
chants and factories, and both years
of the assembly have been very sue
cessfu1, the second one being larger
than the first, and it is thought the
third will be still larger. There were
three times as many tents the second
year as the first. Mr.. Shaw has con-
Quoted successful Chautauquas on
his plan at B1oomingto Decatur,
Ga1esburg, Canton, Nation, Clinton
and Lincoln, ILL.,, and Lafayette and
Richmond, Ind, as well as Racine.
His plan is to get the business men
to subscribe for small blocks of tick
cts, which they resell to individuals.
It is necessary to place from 1000 to
1000 of these tickets. Mr.. Shaw says
thousand people organized into the
enterprise by means of season tickets
will do more towards it's success than
a $4,000 stock company with all the
stock paid up, because a thousand
people headed into it are more certain
TO bring another thousand than any
thing you can do. He says on this
ticket plan: on practically get all
Kenosha interested, and that means
certain success" Any merchant who
takes block of the tickets can easily
dispose of those his own family will
not need by speaking to his friends
about the assembly and getting their
subscriptions. It is really a plan of
division of labor. It would be very
large task for the committee to try to
place all the tickets in ones and twos,
and instead, the business men are
asked to take care of a certain NUM-
Der and distribute them to the public.
These tickets are so each and are
good for the entire ten days, about
sixty entertainments. They are indi-
vidua1 tickets, and when a mans
name is written on one ticket no one
else can use that ticket. Therefore it
re qnires more to supply the demand
The day admission is rs cents, and
only allows one admission, while the
season ticket allows in and out all one
desires. It is therefore much the
cheapest.
The plan of canvass is to get COM
mittee of merchants to visit all the
merchants. another committee to call
on the professional men, and another
on the factories. It is thought the
churches and Woman's club will make
liberal subscriptions, and when all
these elements are interested there
will be enough to make the required
number. One of the chief difficulties
is to get committees willing to make
the canvass. About 800 tickets have
been subscribed so far.
It ought to be understood that this
is an institution, and not mere sum-
mer entertainment. 1t is called the
school for out of school people, and is
really peoples college. It is the in
tention to establish it for good, and
those who help now are doing so, not
for this year only, but also the future.
1t is made thoroughly home enter
prise. Local committees select pro-
gram, grounds, tents, and all money
spent goes through their hands. Mr..
Shaw says his relation to the Chaut-
auqua is similar to that of the super
intendent to the public schools.