The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-03-29
COLUMBIA TO HAVE
SEVEN DAY SUMMER
CHATAUQUt COURSE
RiDPATH'S LYCEUM BUREAU
MAKES PROPOSITION TO
BOARD OF TRADE.
WILL Be GIVEN UNDER TENT
Guarantee Is Practically Completed
and Every Assurance That It viii
Matrialize-king's Daughters VIII
Undertake Sale of Tickets.

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| From the present outlook it seems
that Columbia will have a seven day
Chatauqua this summer. This mat
ter was presented to the board Of d.
lectors of the Board of Trade Thurs
day afternoon by Messrs. Cornelison
and ]. H. Sowerby, representatives
of the Ridpath Lyceum Bureau Of
Chicago. The proposition made by
these gentlemen was accepted by the
board and Mayor Dedman, who was
present, assured the president that
the city would do everything that
was required of them to make the
venture success. The chatauqua
will come about the middle of June If
the organization is perfected.
The Ridpath is the Oldest and
greatest lyceum bureau in the world
and is thoroughly responsible in
stitution financially These gentle
men asked for a meeting of the board
of directors of the Boad of Tade, and
after hearing their proposition, Col.
Hardy, PRECEDENT of the board, was
] only too glad to call the board to-
gether to grant them a hearing. The
matter was then also taken up with
the Kings Daughters and was ac-
cepted by them.
| The representatives of the Bureau
asked the Board of Trade to furnish
free OF charge location upon which
to erect their great auditorium tent,
to use their good offices with the city
authorities to have any license remit
ted and to be furnished with proper
police protection. The ladies of the
Kings Daughters undertake to sell
at least seven hundred and fifty sea-
son tickets to the assembly at $500
each. The bureaus proposition car
RES with it the further conditions
that on all season tickets the ladies
sell In excess of the $50, they re-
ceive one-half of the proceeds, and
that or all money received by the bu-
reau In excess of $4,000 they also
receive one-half, and have full con-
troll of all receipts which may be OBJ
tanned from refreshment privileges
during the assembly.
In order that the ladies might feel
that the business men are behind
them in the enterprise, the bureau
proposed that two men from the
Board of Trade accompany them and
get Fifty of the leading citizens to
guarantee any of the $50 tickets they
might fail to SELL No individual to
be liable for more than ten dollars
This was readily agreed to by both
bodies and as The Herald goes to
press word is received that the
whole guarantee is practically com.
p1ete. and this is rapid work on the
part Of the committee, appointed by
the board composed of Col. J. C. Har-
dy, ]. M. Dedman and W. F. Ander-
son snd the two representatives. |
fhe program to be presented includes
the following: Kryl's great band OF |
New York; the LeBrun Grand Opera
Quartette; the Ladies Spanish Or
caestra with noted singer; the AMI
tas Singing Orchestra; the Boyds;
The Musical Favorites; The Collegian
Male Quartette; and the following
lecturers, readers, etc.; Ex-Governor |
Hoch. of Kansas; ex-senator Frank |
Cannon, of Utah; Opie Read, of Ten |
nessee: DR.. College, Tahan, Blair, |
Fitzwilliams, Mary Agnes Doyle,
.Plumstead, Wilson, and Reno the ma
gician
Some of these attractions are !,
known to some Of our citizens and |
they express themselves as Icing |
highly pleased with the program Of
fared |