The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1905-03-31
|CAl|F0RN|A'S
new RESORT
v.o;ce in Southern Part of the
State will be Scene of
Great Things.

CAN FRANCISCO, March 30-South
/, santa Monica and north of Playa
~, Rev in Southern California, lies a
arrow stretch of land. directly on the
.o.an front, for which nature has done
-,cb But during the past months
Ion has been busy beautifying and
,rnroying the spot making it one of
..a most beautiful resorts in the
world.
Venice is the name given to this ideal
| ,,oa,tv. and truly a modern Venice 1t
.ooms with it's miles upon miles Of salt
wafer canals, with it's stately Venitian
,o,aces. business blocks and places Of
| amusement and while the work is by,
M means finished, a fair idea of the
rare attractiveness of the place is OBJ
tained by a visit to it.
II is at this enchanted spot, in pa
vlion seating 5000 people, built on the
rer away beyond the line OF breakers,
where the breezes are always cool and
uhere everything conspires to make
the hours pleasant that the great Ven
ice assembly is to be held during July
and August of 1905. Benjamin Fay
Mills whose name is household word
throughout America and who has re-
gently become permanent minister of
the Los Angeles Fellowship, has been
elected president of the association.
The vice presidents who have accepted
their election include the Hon. George
c. Pardee, governor of California, the
Hon. Franklin X. Lane, the Hon. VIII
liam E. Smythe. justly called the
founder of national irrigation, Mr.. Abb
bot Kinney, and the Hon. George c.
Perkins, U. S. senator from California
The plan includes. first, series of
national sociological congresses on a
scale never before attempted in Amer
lea, excepting at the worlds parlia
ment in Chicago in 1898.
A summer university at which all the
lighter branches of general culture are
to be taught, including a school OF
modern languages. school of music
school of expression, school OF
ethics, and a school of nature study.
A series Of lectures, concerts. dramas
and other entertainments of the high
est GLASS; by participants Of nationa
reputation.
Exhilarating recreation in the form
Of pure and ennobling amusement
Daily concerts by one of the fines
bands in the world. entertainments b.
the trained amateur dramatic society
and general effort to promote goo'
fellowship among those fortunate
enough to be present.
Every Sunday morning a great un
UNCONVENTIONAL religious service vii
be held in the auditorium, with. tn
finest music, and with sermons by rep
resentatives of the various religion
faiths.
To give an idea of the scope of tn
work outlined. it may perhaps be sal
that in the first division, the world
parliament, it is. proposed to hold min
great assemblies or congresses, begin
ming July Fourth with Californl
congress, at which it is hoped tina
Governor Pardee will preside. Other
to be invited include u. S. Senate
Perkins and Flint and the Hon. Wi
liam E. Smythe.
A patriotic congress will meet
consider national and international II
terests. The president of the Unite
States will be invited by an inhuent
committee, and strong hopes are er
tertained that ne will be able to az
cept the invitation. Secretary Taft WI
be invited to speak upon our Coioi
ial Problems" and the attendance
other speakers of the greatest prom
nence will be solicited.
A reform congress. to which Mr.. "A
bert Shaw, Governor Alva Adams, MI
Ida Tarbell, Senator La Toilette
Wisconsin, Mr.. Thomas ]. Lawson,
Clarence Darrow and others, will be II
vited
Other congresses-one Of which IS
be in the interest of universal peas
another to be known as the econon
congress, another the congress OF r
iigions, then a philanthrOpic congre'
educatiol congress. and the congress
psychic research will follow in the Q
der named. at which speakers OF wori
wide fame and of varying views
De invited to give free, courteous
PRESTON to their conflicting opinions
Wisconsin Michigan Debate