Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-08-16
Writes about Chautauqua.
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me of Lake Willoughby, but the noun
tains are lacking.
There are very few extremely warm |
days, hardly any housefies and not
any mosquitoes. They call this a
warm day but as I write and at the
same time look after little candy !
booth at the trolley station. the !
breeze comes in cool and refreshing. |
It is in the midst of fine farming |
country and on our way here along the |
shores of Lake Erie we saw a great
many vineyards. Very little rain has
fallen this season. the drouth injuring
the crops to quite an extent.
ChautauQua Institution is situated
on the southwest side of the lake
three miles from it's head and at one
time was used as a camp meeting
ground and the idea grew in the mind
of Lewis Miller of Akron. Ohio. (The
people here pronounce it O-higher) to
take John H. Vincent's Normal class
of Sunday school teachers into the
woods. He died some years since and
| bell tower has been built, and this
afternoon dedicated to his memory
can hear the chimes ringing now,
elbow Gently Sweet Alton" calling
the people to the Old First Night ex-
ercises to be held in the amphitheater
this evening concentrating the open
ing of the original assembly thirty
seven years ago. They will have short
addresses, the annual roll call and
sing Chautauqua songs. Bishop John
H. Vincent, the present chancellor of
the institution and co-founder with
Mr.. Miller, is still able to assist at the
Sunday morning services and conduct
a Guo Tho bic
tory of the Institution is a part of
the history of the educational accom-
plishments of this country. It's OBJ
ject has always been to assist people
| to help themselves and the same
holds good today. There are lectures,
entertainments. recitals, concerts and
other kinds of instructive amuse-
ments to suit all conditions and class
es of people, who come from all parts
of the world to take advantage of the
various programs. The amphitheater
where the principal lectures and en-
tertainments are held accommodates
from six to eight thousand people.
| In it is a fifty thousand dollar pipe
organ. That, with an orchestra of
fifteen pieces, chorus of two hun
dred voices. some of the best soloists
to be found in the country make
Sunday evening song service worth
hearing. The price of gate ticket
seven dollars and half for the sea-
son, five dollars per month. one dollar
and half per week and fifty cents a
day, admits one to all these entertain
ments. It is another case of costing
fifty cents to get in and lot more to
get out. but where else can be found
so much that is helpful and uplifting
amid such beautiful surroundings as
at ChautauQua? | wish every mem
Der of the Book and Thimble club at
Orleans could be here.
There is a Mems club, a Woman's
club, a Boys club and a Girls club
and summer schools of all kinds. The
school of Physical education that at
tracted us here is the largest. 1t was
founded twenty years ago by DR.. Jay
w. Seaver, formerly of Craftsbury,
Vermont
The Institution controls every thing
within the grounds during the months
of July and August. To one man
they sell concession allowing him
to handle the milk, to another the
meat, another has a general store,
and the man / work for sells all the
candy, ice cream and soft drinks sold
on the grounds. 1t means something
Witch yOu tulilk O1 supplying fifteen
thousand people with all the good
things of that kind they want while
away on a vacation. The Institution
is incorporated under the laws of New
York as school and all money taken
above that needed to pay running ex-
penses is used in improvements.
Board and rooms are very reasonable
and if one cares to take room with
the privilege of doing light house
keeping it costs no more than at
home. They tell me that more people
are doing that every year. In addi-
tion to the markets within the
grounds there is street market just
outside the gate, where the farmers
and farmers wives come in every
morning and sell everything to eat, in
Guiding bread and pastry. We enjoy
the plums, pears and peaches that we
get fresh from the trees. They only
cost ten cents per quart but are small
! Ter than the California varieties. ]
could ramble on like this for some
time longer, but for fear of taxing
: your patience will close, with regards
to all my friends
L. E. Spafford.