Arizona republican., 1909-05-06
CHAUTAUQUA COURSE
 FOR COMING FALL
Notable Speakers and Entertainers to
 Be Brought Here by M. L. Stewart.

M. l.. Stewart of Neosho, Missouri. who has been in Phoenix since Jan. 31, says he has fully decided to make this his permanent home. in fact has been of that mind for some time and has been at work upon a pro ject that will afford him an agree able employment here for a portion of each year and most likely please lot of Phoenix people at the same time It is the establishing of an annual Chautauqua course of enter tainments for five towns in the south west, one of which will be Phoenix. The others will probably be Tucson. Bisbee. Douglas and Fl Paso.
 Mir. Stewart has arranged his dates Tor the 1909 course in Phoenix to cover nine days. September 21-29, ir- elusive, and has already secured most of his talent for the entertainments which will be of pleasingly varied nature Seven features have been secured for the nine evening enter tainments and he hopes to secure oth- CTS. There will probably be two fea- lures at least at most of the enter tainments. as for instance a musi- cal attraction and a lecture. In sub sequent years he hopes to enlarge on the plan to the extent of having afternoon entertainments also and possibly forenoon entertainments. For this year there will only be even ing programs.
 The talent he has secured thus far includes lectures by former Governor l. T-.T1- H. A. Buchtel of Colorado, Captain R. P. Hobson, A. A. (Sunshine) Hawks and Dr. T. w. Jeffrey of Iowa. Other features will be the Roy al Hungarian Orchestra of Cleveland, Nicola, the Magician. of Chicago. and a male quartet MT. Stewart expects to secure at least two additional at fractions.
 To insure the services of these fea- lures of a high order Mir. Stewart will require guarantee in each town. and will also have to make successful arrangements for enter tainments in at least five towns. To do this he has announced his prices and proposes to sell advance tickets. The prices will be g. for a season ticket. admitting one person to each of the nine entertainments, and sin gle admissions will be soc, 75c and $100. according to what the attraction is. The season tickets will be trans ferable and a plan has been worked out to insure the public that it will get what it has bought.
 The plan is to sell a sufficient number of season tickets in advance which ought to be 700, but must be 800, the tickets to be paid for on September 1st Some responsible business man. well known in the community and perfectly trustworthy, will be made the trustee. The con- tracts for the tickets sold will be turned over to him and he will col lect for them on September 1st and hold the money in his keeping until the Chautauqua entertainments have been fulfilled in accordance with the contract If the money is not col lected on September 1st there will be no Chautauqua The double reason for this arrangement is first that the people may not be asked to pay now for something they are to get next fall. and secondly to insure the guarantee which is very necessary in an undertaking that involves bring ing so many high class speakers and professional people clear across the country for a single week of enter tainment And the price would ap- pear reasonable enough, S3 1-3 cents per entertainment, for people of na- tional regulations as speakers and entertainers