The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
BIG TIME IN SIGHT
Topeka Will Have a Real Live
Chautauqua.
To Open on June "a and Close
July 4
AT GARFIELD PARK.
Will Be Located ON Banks of
Classic Soldier.
Many Well Known Speakers Are
Secured.

topeka is going to have real live
cnautduqua from June "a to July 4.
Ten days of this liberal education will
| be conducted at Garfield park and
the o1lcers of the association are put
| ting forth every effort to make it the
| most successful entertainment ever
produced in this city Mrs. Margaret
| Hill McCarter, secretary of the asso-
| citation, is full of new plans for the
out door meetings and she promises
many new features as the days go by
AT the present time the plans for
the coming event are elaborate in
| every detail. There will be good,
common sense spurts of oratory for
the more learned. little close to
| nature talks for the benefit of these
| who are pensfve and still have
ciate the more shallow, delicate
hints to those who are still unaware
| OF the best methods of living, music
to all and general good time to
everyone who attends.
There will be series of COM
binations at the Topeka chautauqua
from June "A to July which will be
of vital interest to every citizen in
the city. A person may erect his lit
tie tent in the cool shade of the big
elmS, on the bank Of the slowly
crawling Soldier and with his eyes
watching the sparkling waters he may
rest on the green grass and listen to
one of the greatest orators in
band and an orchestra of national
fame. During all of this time his
children can be tramping in freedom
over the grass or listening with
wondering eyes to the nature talks of
professors who will conduct nature
studies.
The chautauqua this year will be
a continual entertainment for the
benefit of the whole family. 1t will
be conducted along systematic lines
and will be within the reach of every
one. These are the general APP
pealing features of this years meet
ing.
In detail, the leading orators for
the occasion are Governor Hadley of
Missouri U S. Senator Bob Taylor,
Gilbert E1dridge. and Edmund Vance
Cook. Governor Hadley of Missouri
is really the leading light. Bob Tay-
lor of Kentucky is probably better
known throughout the United States
than Governor Hadley. He is lee
turer and entertainer of wide reputa-
ton. Gilbert E1dridge and Edmund
Vance Cook would not be called ora
tors but they are classed under the
head of platformists: Mr.. Eldridge is
an impersonator and Mr.. Cook is the
poet-lecturer who made such hit
in Topeka. last winter.
The chautauqua. will not lack
music. There will always be music
of some kind on the grounds Bands
will play the intermisSions, orchestras
will entertain at specified periods and
travelling musical organizations will
do special numbers. Much interest is
being taken in the chorus which is
now under the daily training of Will
liam Van Ness of North Topeka. Mr..
Van Ness is one of the most talented
musicians in the city and has led
chorus work for some time. The
singing of this chorus will be one of
the big features of the chautauqua.
The children's classes will also be
one of the big features of the
chautauqua- These classes will be
under the dictatorship and instruc-
ton of Professor Cameron of Kan
sas City The main subject for dis
cussion will be the nature study work.
Professor Cameron is a naturalist of
the most practical type. He used
hundreds of Illustrations in his work
and in some of his later talks to the
farmers he brings the forces of ma
| ture down to the most common
methods and the most practical end.
| His talks are simple and easily I'M
| derStood.
| The school children of the city of
| Topeka and the county of shawnee
| who have not been absent from
| school or made a tardy between last
| September and the end of school this
spring will receive a reward that they
have never dreamed o. llchelS VIII
be given them by the superintendent
| of the city schools l.. D. Whittemore,
and superintendent Ely of the county
| schools All they have to do is to
| prove their record and the ticket VIII
| be obtainable. The tickets given to
these children are good all over the
chautauqua grounds and will give
them the benefit of the whole ten
days entertainment.
The chautauQua association has re-
ceived the slogan habit and they have
invented q little slogan of their own
Meet Me at the Chautauqua" will
be the pass word of the people of the
city at the end of this month. All
the literature and buttons issued by
the association will be PROVIDED with
this slogan and it is hoped that the
real value of the saying will be car
ried out whenever you make an
engagement of any kind always make
your meeting place at the chau-
tauoua" instructed one of the MEM
bers of the association when seen by
a State Journal reporter TINS morn
ing.
The tent feature of the meeting
| this year will be encouraged to the
extreme The tent dealers state that
they have never had SO many orders
for tents 1t seems as though every
one is planning to camp on the
grounds during the week The large
trees. the cool breezes and the ex-
cellent boating makes the place an
ideal spot for out door recreation
ssWhy go to the lakes? is put forth
by another member OF the he COM M
attend the chautauqua-"
As the new plans are made and the
new features added to the ALREADY
elaborate programme they VIII pc
mentioned in the State Journal day
by day