The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-02-20
FAIR AND
CHAUTAUOUA
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Men Here Are Arranging For Big
Events This Simmer and
Fall
(From wednesday, spally.l

that j. II, Avery had this morning,
Mr., Avery has been chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce committee
which has been working on the Pan
handle fair proposition add also on
the plan for chautauqua here next
summer. Plans for these enterprises
have been under way for a number
OF weeks and much OF tho prellmi-
nary work toward Dotn undertakings
is already accomplished.
Combine Fair, Park and Chautauqua
1--WE have It about arranged now, "
continued Mr.. Avery, 80 that we
can have the fair, chautauqua and a
public park all on the same grounds.
That way the grounds and the build
lngs can be used all the year around
II these were not combined we would
have to put up lot Of money to get
a fair grounds ready and then the
grounds would only be used for a few
weeks every year. Then the Chau-
tauqua would have to have buildings
and grounds and they would only he
used during the summer. But the
proposition given by Mr.. Mobiles and
the men interested in the street rail-
way and in Glenwood will give us
grounds for both these enterprises in
a way that will save money for all
connected with it. You see they are
getting ready to put in an amusement
company out there and the buildings
and grounds used for the amuse-
ment company can be used also for
the fair and Chautauqua. A stock
company something like the Texas
State Fair association at Dallas will
be organized, to own the land and
the improvements.
Grounds Open without Charge.
Then most Of the year the
grounds will be open to the public
without charge. The amusement
company will only make charges for
its concessions and the Chautauqua
will charge for admission to the lee
lures and other special events. The
only time that there will be any
charge for admission to the grounds
will be during the fair. The stock
in the company will be offered for
sale to all who will take part in at.
The company doesn't intend to make
great deal of money but it doesn't
intend TO lose money either. The
main thing is to give a place for
fair and other things.
Accommodations for Chautauqua.
THE biggest question about the
chautauqua now Is to provide places
TO keep the people while they are
here. But we can make arrange
ments for that think and at rates
that will allow them to stay here
during the chautauqua without too
much expense. Besides the other
buildings which we can use we will
make arrangements to get tent
houses and provide some big build
Ing for the dining building. Lots
OF people that will come from off the
plains will like to have a kind of
camp life during the time they stay
here and we can make them COM
Portable that way and give them good
board at very reasonable rates"
What the Chautauqua Is.
Plans for the Chautauqua next
summer contemplate the most i'm
portant gathering Of educators ever
brought together in the Panhandle.
superintendent Foster of the city
schools has been working on the
proposition for over four months and
In that time he has conferred with
foremost educators in all parts OF
the state and with traffic men Of the
roads which will bring people TO the
chautauqua.
At Claude last fall the teachers OF
the Panhandle voted unanimously to
hold the regular summer normal at
Amarillo this summer and the teach
ers OF the Panhandle will thus form
a neuclus for the Chautauqua. But
the summET normal this year will be
on scale and of a nature more like
the Boulder Chautaqua at Boulder,
Colo, than like the regular summer
normals. Some Of the educators of
the state who have already been en-
listed in the work and who will take
part In the faculty OF the teachers
training school which will be the
main part Of the Chautauqua are A.
N. McAllum OF Austin. Arthur Lee
tevre, Victoria, ]. f. Kimball. Tenn
pie, ]. w. Cantwell, Corsicana, P.
w. Home, Houston, J. w. Hopkins, |
Galveston, all OF whom are superin-
tendents Of the schools in their re-.
pective cities. Others VINO will take