The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-04
Goodwin Says Chautauqua
Management Is Well Pleas
ed With Talent Secured for
Next Year.
BUT FEW NATIONAL
FIGURES TO APPEAR
Steiner, Glenn, Stringer and
Dawson Most Noted Men
That Have Been Secured
Up to Present Time.

George NJ Goodwin, secretary of
the Richmond chautauqua, has return
ed from Chicago, where he attended
| the meeting of the International Chau-
| tauqua Alliance and he announces
that the program for the local chau-
| tauqua next August has already been
practically completed.
The meeting was crowned with
success. We went to the meeting to
secure a satisfactory program and
we accomplished what we went after"
stated Mr.. Goodwin this morning
| THE program that will be offered the
| local public next year will equal the
program of any other ten days chau-
| tauqua in the United States. The
bulk of the talent was secured through
the Alliance but some of the other
features We secured through the great
lyceum bureaus. We will be able to
save at least $500 on our program for
next year"
| He stated that the. date in organiz-
ing the Alliance was a handicap in
securing talent, but that the Alliance
had already appointed committee to
secure the best of talent for 1910.
! One of the greatest features on the
program for next year is DIR. Steiner,
of the University of Iowa. DR.. Stein
er is recognized as one of the greatest
sociologists in the United States and
has made a special study of the i'm
migration. He has crossed the Allan
tic forty-three times as a steerage pas
senger to study the immigrant at
''close range" He is a foreign born
Anne rican, but a firm believer in the
He is the author of that standard
work, "On the Trail of the Immi-
grant"
Another feature of the program will
be Charles Knapp Carpenter, the bird
expert He will deliver stereopticon
lectures and also use birds. nests and
eggs to illustrate his statements on
bird life
Another attraction will be Governor
Robert B. Glenn of North Carolina.
He is one of the most prominent men
in the south and has one great fame
as a chautauqua lecturer. He will not
tell the people of Richmond what 1.-The
Governor of North Carolina said to
the Governor of South Carolina but
he will talk on some of the most inter.
esting subjects of the day.
The Rev. Irl r. Hicks, Indiana S
famous weather pronosticator, is on
the program. Every newspaper read
er in this part of the country knows
who the Rev. Hicks is and he is sure
to be a great attraction.
The musical numbers will be by far
the best ever on a local program. The
Whitney Brothers string quartette, a
great local favorite. is included. The
Kellogg-HaineS Singing party, intro
ducing scenes from English and comic
opera in costume, will be a pleasing
feature. Another musical number is
rest d. Carr. basso cantante: Florence
Gertrude Smith, soprano: Earl j
Pfouts, violin; and Edwin M. Shonert
piano.
Charles r. Taggart will be one OF
the most entertaining performers on
the program. He is described as I'll
excellent story teller, a wonderful
mimic. a born actor. and exceptional
ventriloquist and prodigy with tne
violin. Phidelah Rice will be fea
ture. He is described as one of the
greatest readers in the country.
In Ernest Wray O'Neal the chautau
'qua management has secured one Of
the greatest platform lecturers in the
United States. He has won fame from
coast to coast.
Mary Agnes Doyle has been secured
and she is certain to entertain with hel
delightful Irish sketches. George r
. Vending will be a great attraction
| He abandoned brilliant political ca
reer to go on the lecture platform
where he has met with the creates
success. Another great lecturer VIII,
has been secured is DR. William ]
Dawson. OF London, England Til,
| Rev. Anna H. Shaw, one OF the fore
most women in America, will also lee
ture. Another lecturer of nationa
reputation is the Hon. L. b. Stringer
of Illinois, who received the democrat
ic nomination for q. s. senator at tn
primaries held last August In 1904
when 80 years old, he received tn
> democratic nomination for governo
. ct hi ststs, but was defeated.