Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14

ranged. Most of these are occupied
by holders of reserved seat tickets.
To the rear and to right and left
of the chairs, nearest to the sides
of the tent, arc a large number of
plank>, sufficient to provide seats
for several hundred people. One
tent, IS by 30 feet, intended for
meetings of the w. C. T. u, and
another, 20 by SO feet, erected for
Miss Miller and her classes, arc also
within the woven wire enclosure.
The management had provided
sixty tents, 8 by 81 feet, for the
use of campers. Thus far about 20
OF these have been rented. Floored
with pine boards and furnished
with cots or mattresses, and with
the usual accompaniment of blank
cts, comfortcrs and pine board
tables, these canvas palaces give
comfortable shelter to every lake
dweller in whose soul there still
fingers something Of that primitive
call or the wild.
But besides these more transient
patrons Of the ChautauQua, there
arc the owners and occupants of the
numerous cottages on Crescent
Beach and Green Lake Beach, as
we'll as he guests at Tepcctonka and
lnterlachen Hotels, and the resi-
dents of Spicer and New London.
A good many of the tent DWELL
crs do their own cooking, taking
the greater part Of the catables all
ready prepared with them from
Willmar, or wherever they may
live.
Besides the regular accommodate
tions provided at the Lake View
hotel and the Green Lake house, the
Chautauqua managers have trans
formed Mardin's pavilion into an
eating house or restaurant, with
tables and chairs to accommodate
70 guests at time. This temper
airy hostclry is in charge of John
Harrison. Refreshmcnt stands on
the grounds are run by Peter Sven
son, Noble Schagcl and John Hart
son. Confectionery stores, rcstau-
rants and refrcshment places in the
village proper are busy catering to
the passing crowds.
The organization and establish
ment of Chautauqua and the
management Of all details during
the session is task to try the quail
tiles of the ablest and most expert
enced men; but the moving spirits
in this enterprise have acquitted
themselves most crcditably. Rev.
James l.. Himrod, president, and
Albert N. Gi(bertson, secretary of
the Green Lake Chautauqua Asso-
citation, have spent nearly all their
time during the past six weeks ar
ranging the program and the de-
tails and making preparations for
this great event; and altho they do
not lay claim to long experience in
this work they have managed the
enterprise with marked success.
Since the opening Of the assembly
Rev. Himrod has been as busy as
a dozen bees. Not only does he in
troduce the SPEAKERS, musicians and
entertainers and supervise the rem
dition Of the programs, but attends
personally to a thousand other de-
tails. The result is that his re-
serve energy has almost been ex-
hausted and at times he has been
on the verge Of collapse. But his
pluck and perseverance have en-
abled him to continue his efficient
work and everyone hopes and be-
lieves he will remain at the helm
until the closing day.
Another most busy man is that
genial, hustling, tireless citizen of
Spicer, William Olson, superin-
tendent Of grounds. Under his d.
rccting hand a tented city has
sprung up under the spreading.
branches Of the oak trees to be
wooed by the gentle breezes of the
cleaning lake.
To his lot falls the task of driv-
ing tent poles, putting down level
floors on a rough hillside, warning
toads and chipmunks to keep off
the grass, finding lost hairpins,
sewing up rents in the tents and
collecting rents from the tenants.
These are only few of the little
exercises he takes in the morning
before breakfast to get in trim for
his regular days work.
This first Chautauqua Of central
Minnesota would not have been pos
sible except for the generous spirit
manifested by those who contrib
uted to the programs. The talent
alone for many Of the established
Chautauquas in Iowa, Illinois and
the older states costs the manage
ment $1,000 or $4,000, and in many
cases more In the eastern Chau-
tauquas $500 is not considered a
high total for fees paid to the
speakers, singers, musicians and
entertainers who appear during
the sessions.
The talent for the Green Lake
Chautauqua was practically all do
mated. Some received a little more
| than their expenses. who are Ordin-