The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-29
EUFAULA cHAUTAUaUA.
Plans for Big Auditorium are Already
 Under Way.

Elfaula, May 2S.-tSpecial )-Citi- zens from all sections of the surround ing country thronged the thoroughfares today and the Chautauqua proceeded under more favorable auspices than any day since it began.
 Every entertainment has been char acterizsd with such brtlliancy that the citizens seem to be awakening to what chautauQua really means. The mat ter of another and even more brilliant one is already determined upon for next year and under favorable condi- tions Is expected to thrcng the city with visitors from all sections of this and other tSates
 It is thought aside from this that the chautauqua will mean more. A prom inent citizen was heard to remark that he was willing to subscribe literally to the capital stock of a S15,000 opera house to be built on modern plans with an auditorium attached or in any other way aid in securing a suitable place for holding public exercises of such a character
 Work has already begun in the way of Improvements in doubling the capacity of the Brenau building here and will be pushed vigorously to com pletion by the coming fall The au- ditorium of the First Methodist church was entirely inadequate to seat the vast throng that assembled to hear Mendelssohn's oratorio and numbers had to turn away. Mir w l.. Van Pelt, bass and George Lindner.. tenor, of Montgomery. contributed to the program. MT. Lindner also rendered a violin obligato with exquisite sweet ness.
 This morning under the big tent a most pleasing program was carried out commensurate with Alumnae Day, which drew out hundreds of citizens who were greatly delighted. Among the Alumnae was Mrs. R. F. Kolb of Montgomery. Mrs. L. J. Richardson, of Macon. Ga; Mrs. Ida Gregory of Lumpkin. Ga, and Mrs. L. Y Dean. president of the Alumnae Association
 Mrs. Kolb was sSau1ong a class of six, the first graduates of the institution, and was the valedictorian. During the exercises she favored the audience with an exquisite veal solo, Then You'il Remember me-
 Mrs. c. A. Locke also sang with great sweetness, When You and Were Young, Magic" Misses Bessie and Maggie McTyer played a pretty piano duett. and Mrs. C. M. Thompson, sec retary of the Alumnae Association, read well prepared history of the in stitution. Capt S H. Dent delivered the address reviewing the past and present and predicting a most brilliant future for the college.
 At 3 o'clock this afternoon there was an art contest for a scholarship in which quite a number of young ladies participated, the result of which has not yet been made known.
 Tonight, under the big tent, Otto Pfefferkorn, Director of Music of the Gainesville Brenau, gave a Pianoforte recital, which was one oe the most bril- liant ever heard In the city. Standing room was scarcely obtainable and all who heard him pronounced him a sec ond Tausig
 Mir Pfefferkorns repertoire embraces lecture recitals and selections from the entire range of classical. romantic and modern schools of pianoforte literature and the program tonight embraced master pieces of Beethoven, Chopin. L,iszt, and others that were rendered with a skill and dexterity that make him a master of the divine art. The Alumnae Association will take up the work at once of seeing what can be done towards the erection of an audi torium, and it is highly probable that ere the next Chautauqua dawns such a structure will occupy its place in the city.