The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-26
CHAUTAUQUA CROWD
STANDS AGAINST
THE GLEN ROUTE
1t Is Shown the Present Sites
Of the Interurban Freight
Route Is Unpopular With
The Masses.
ONE MAN BRAVES
JEERING SHOUTS. |
In Face of Overwhelming Odds
Says He Is in Favor of Glen
Route When ZuebIin Sounds
Sentiment.


Yes it is" said loud voice. No
its not" cried a chorus Of a hundred
people, and the ehautauqua last night
sounded like the last democratic con-
vention held at the city. hall. DR..
Charles Zueblin who was addressing
the meeting on the Redemption of
Harrisburg" really the redemption OF
Richmond. had asked all who thought
it a good thing to run the freight line
across the park 20 say 60. A lone voices
yelled. Yes yes" No, no." came
tent poles tremble. DR.. Zuebiin then
asked those who thought it good:
thing to stana and the young Moses
of the big loud voice. stood up-alone.
sit down, sit down." yelled the crowd,
fairly boiling with wrath. and when
the speaker asked those who condemn
ed the Glen route to stand the great
crowd showed that 1t was for park pro-
lection, rising almost to a person.
The vote came as a climax to a Sc
ries of grueling statements In which
the speaker flayed the Glen route mer-
cilessly DO you suppose" he cried.
that when the people of Harrisburg
get their great series of parks COM
pleted they will run tunnels, or rail-
roads. or canals through them?"
During the course of his lecture, DIR.
Zueblin paid a high tribute TO the
Richmond art movement. declaring
that no city large or small in this
country, has anything to compare with
1t. The exhibit given each June is
known from ocean to ocean.
| DR.. Zueblin's lecture on Harrisburg.
was illustrated with views showing
what has been accomplished in Penn
| sylvania's capital. Harrisburg was n
conservative city of Pennsylvania.
| Dutch, Quakers and Scotch Presbyte-
rians. They had been living in filth
and dirt despite their beautiful loca-
| tion, polluting and defiling their river
| front despite the fact that nature had
made ii most beautiful. One woman
awoke to the citys possibilities; she
converted few men and they carried
! a reform election. The movement
grew and grew until II million dollars
was expended in making the city
| beautiful.
Spoke for River View.
DR.. Zueblin who went carefully over
grounds at the river front yesterday
evening believes that Richmond has
untold possibilities in its river front.
A dam should be built to create a.
body of water. new bridges erected
and the land along the river redeem
ed.
Program Well Received.
The Jubilee singers G2vc humor-
GUS program last evening which made
a hit with the audience. They sang
two medleys, and gave a number en-
titled the "Old Southland Band" The
Jubilee singers do not attempt the
higher class of music. but they render
their homely ballads. camp meeting
songs and plantation melodies remark
ably well. Nine. Ruth Holmes. So
prano, soloist; Mrs. Lena Wilson, So
prano; Nine. Mabelle II. Talbert. con-
, tralto: James Fl. Worsham, tenor So
losit; J. c. Anderson. baritone soloist;
. ]. z. Wilson. tenor and s. r. Over
street basso compose the personnel
of the sextette.
At seven O'Clock Miss Doyle who
has taken the place Of Wallace Bruce
Amsbury. for two days, gave some ex-
cellent impersonations of Irish char
acter. Miss Doyle's reading OF
'Dooley's Christmas" was happy hit
in time 10 read this evening.
Lightning and Toothpicks."
Lightning and Toothpfcks" was the
subject OF Sylvester Longs address
before the chautaucua at o'clock
yesterday. The lightning struck al
right and there were plenty Of tooth
picks manufactured by Mr.. Long be-
fore he was through. He had chosen
for his theme the statement nothing
Happens by chance. There is a uni
versal law. The relentlessness of this
Law and its workings upon humanity
is softened By love" Around this
theme Mr.. Long wove really beauti-
, full lecture. II ahounded in pathos.
wit and good sense.
The speaker Doked fun ar the man
= who plants his corn in the moon. will
> not begin a new task on Friday and
/. has a horror of the number Il. Every
time after one of thee sallies. he
came back to the statement which il
the backbone Of his lecturs. Nothing
happens by chance-thare is univer-
sal law" That law may look differ
ent an the different individual Is az
z fected, hut IL is always the same. III
; the man IS on the right side of that