The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-08-15
a assembly Plans
TO Pay its Debt
One Thousand Tickets Are To BE
Placed ON the Market At Once
For This Purpose.
PRICES HIGHER NEXT YEAR
Clarksburg Chautauqua Hopes to
Make Institution Permanent BY
Means of This Sort.

Subscriptions for season tickets
for 1908 are being taken by the
management of the Chautauqua AS
sociation in order to help meet the
deficit caused by the first annual
meeting just closed. The deficit
this season is very large, and it is
hoped that enough subscriptions may
be secured at once to guarantee ex-
penses next year. To that end all
tickets subscribed for now will be
delivered next July for $3.50. Af-
ter the advance sale is closed, the
price will be made $500. to every
body.
In the next few days over a thou
sond subscription cards will be
mailed to persons likely to be in
terested in the matter. If that
many tickets are subscribed for, the
management can guarantee a strong
er program next season and will not
have the worry of an additional de-
felt to hamper the work.
Clarksburg is a natural center for
Chautauqua assembly. If the in
stitution is made permanent, in a
few years thousands of people will
annually flock to the city, making it
social and educational center
This is not an idle dream, but GER
tainty based on the experiences of
other cities where this experiment
has been tried.
Whenever an institution of a COM
mercial nature is offered to the peo-
pie of Clarksburg, the financial sup
psf necessary for it's establishment
is always forthcoming and as a re-
suit Clarksburg is already the lead
ing commercial city of the State.
An institution of a different ma
ture is now offered to the city. It's
dividends are not payable in silver
or gold. 1t will not employ hund-
reds of people at good salaries. 1t
will not add to the commercial
standing of the city. The men who
will control it's destiny are not cap
tains of industry, but humble citi-
Zezns with high ideals. Its object is
not to increase the wealth of any in
dividual, but rather to divert for a
splendid purpose, wealth already ac-
cumulated. 1t stands for all that is
best in the social, intellectual and
moral life of the community.
The ultimate worth to any COM
munity of Chautauqua assembly
can never be estimated 1t works
in the hearts of men and women.
When it brings to us men whose at
terances are shaping the sentiments
of the people of great nation, we
can know with absolute certainty
that good seed is being sown which
will eventually produce a better and
higher form of civic life here. And
for those who are not reached by the
lecturer and speaker, there is left
the soft sweet touch of the human
voice divine, speaking in the Ian
guage of the soul-music. And If
these were not enough there would
still remain those rare interpreta-
tions of every human emotion,
which is the peculiar field of the
reader and impersonator.
In this way and in other ways, the
Chautauqua assembly aims to reach
every mind and heart. 1t has moth
In gto do with the commercial life of
the community, but it may. and does
transform and elevate and ennoble
the intellectual, moral and social life
of all of those who come under its
refining influence.
What will Clarksburg do with this
institution?