The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
Special 10 The Tribune.

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crowd of several hundred people, who
came down from Morgan county in
special train with an excellent band
Of music, the attendance at the second
meeting of the Utah Chautauqua as
sembly at Glenwood park today num-
bered nearly 5000.
Having completed the organization
of most of the clubs and classes for
the study OF various subjects yeSter-
day work was begun IN systematic
manner today, At Q o clock Miss Nina
Lamkin, director of the gymnasium
work for boys and girls, divided hcf
charges up into four classes according
to size and began the instruction OF
healthful outdoor games, callsthenics
and fancy drills. The little tots and
the older ones, too, seemed to take
lively interest in the work, which they
have already learned 10 regard as play,
and Miss Lamkin's department prom
ises to be one of the most popular dur
ing the ten days of the Chautauqua as
sembly. Professor Pack of the uni;
versity of Utah with his ''rock CLUB
and the heads of other clubs and
classes, soon had their students enrolled
and got down TO work.
One of the interesting features of the
second day of the assembly were two
addresses by Professor Daniel W.
Howell of Chautauqua. n Y. His sub
ject at the morning session, 'Ihe age
of Slumber,n was directed chiefly to
parents. Explaining that the age of
slumber is the dormant period of
child's life, the speaker impressed upon
parents the necessity of exercising the
greatest care Of the little ones at that
particular age Professor Howell s af
ioIl ,f tha 4 iban .trOnn1
table, was on the subject America
Through an Englisbman Eyes"
Mrs. Dunford Talks.
Mrs Hazel Dunford head Of the do
mestic department of the State Agri.
cultural college at Logan, delivered an
interesting talk to the wives of the
farmers present. Economical housekeep-
ing and the simple methods used to
make homework easy and attractive
was the theme of Mrs, Dunford's ad-
dress. Many Of the women in the au-
dience asked number of questions,
which were answered by the speaker
to the satisfaction of the large mum
Der of women who appeared to be in
terested in this branch of the Chautau-
qua.
While Mrs. Dunford was speaking
Professor L. A. Merrill and his assist
ants held short meeting at the Audi
torium hall Professor Merrill s talks
to the farmers on soils, farming, breed
ing of cattle and matters of peculiar
interest to his auditors, was well re-
ceived T. S. Hutchinson annexed n
large number of amateur photographers
to his class. These were busy during
the day listening to the instructions of
Professor Hutchinson regarding dis
tances, light and other elements which
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Biography. The photography class spent
most of the afternoon on the edges OF
the park getting snapshots, which will
be developed under the supervision Of
their instructor.
Problem Of Criminality.
Frank S. Sadler one of the municipal
Judges of Chicago and one Of the fore
most students of criminology in the
United States, closed the second day
of the Chautauqua assembly with the
address, "The Criminal in the Max
ing"
Among other things he said that va
grancy is the training school Of the
criminal and idleness the cause of 9e
per cent of all the crimes, He quoted
idle people ms saying ''The world owe.
me living but that they were wrong
for the world owes no man living
The speaker divided vagrancy into
three grades-the artistic yeggmau, hi
tramp assistant and the plain hobo
"The latter he said, "is humanit,
on its last legs He spoke of the
minor crimes that gradually grow intt
larger ones. He mentioned the shop
lifters and the petty thieves who woulc
steal small things when they had mon
ey with which to buy them rather thar
part with their money and have t
work for more
Boys of the rural districts were dwell
upon TO considerable extent. the speak
er telling how they came into contac
with evil saloons, drug dives and othe
low places which worked their ruin
Yellow journalism was given a rap a
the speaker said that the young peopl
grab only at the sensational part of
criminal narration and do not see th
moral if there is one in the story.
Spanish festival at Saltair all thi
week. Two programmes tomorrow.