The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-26
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mrs. Berryhlll, Editor.

SCHOOL LedCHoIS anu preachers, Il uoLeH
or SO imposing looking class buildings
built after the Grecian style. One Of
these is surrounded by most pictur-
esque grape arbor, a thousand musicians
and artists, boys and girls athletic,
campfire, boating social clubs, huge
gymnasium, boat house, ball ground,
several hundred elderly women doing
crochet work on upstairs porches, motor
boats, women s clubs, suffragists, several
real men, huge red hotel, an immense
amphitheatre, a delightful press club.
from which the high brows are excluded,
All this set in great we'll kept forest
| filled with winding walks, and bound on
the north, south and west by rigid
wall containing only one well guarded
gate, where you have to have your sea-
son ticket clipped to get out, and bound
on the east by one of the most beautiful
lakes as blue as Turquoise and as shapely
and big as Reelfoot.
The place seems to be run by the
| Vincents. though one is told that it is
controlled by a board of trustees.
Bishop Vincent founded the place as
a sort of assembly spot for Methodist
Sunday school class study in the sum-
mer OF rs. Like Topsy, it "growed"
and now Bishop Vincent and his son,
George, president of he board of
trustees, may be seen rambling arm in
arm about the walks and looking, one
can't help thinking, perfectly amazed at
wonderful growth of the Chautauquan
system. A percentage of the ground
rents and all gate receipts 60 to its
keeping, which, of course, is splendid.
The bathing houses and peers take in
several hundred day. Boat rents for
the three months is $12. Art studio
rent is very high. Ten thousand and
something people were registered here
during last August. Gate tickets for a
month are So. This ticket entities one
to all lectures in the amphitheatre,
Philosophy Hall, Kellogg Hall, and
usually Higgins Hall, but it has no in
f1uence in the matter of having to pay
fifteen cents for a fve-cent soft drink
Greatly, they sell grape-juice and soda
ice cream here), or two dollars for ten
CT it looking schoolbook and so on, etc.
q aft But the most refined and re-
spectacle graft.
Everyone /on the grounds is per-
fectly respectable. Any other manner
of man would be perfectly idiotic to get
in here. Just to think, they might
lose their ticket and they would have to
stay in. Wouldn't that be what Sher-
man said? 1t is horrd dream. That
idea of losing ones ticket and having to
stay at Chautauqua forever. Perish the
thought
But there are people here whose
stockings are not blue. Upon arrival
Immediately took my foot in my hand
and rushed to the newspaper office, the
stronghold of the Chautauquans Daily,
There l burst in upon some real live
reporters, busy whacking away at their
machines on some exciting copy con-
corning Cannon Cody of Toronto's lat
est sermon, Mrs. Slla Hustled Harper's
address on Suffrage, and the latest
meeting of the Embroidery Club.s>
never saw such plain, simple, unadul-
terated news writing. There was Adrian
w. Mccoy, managing editor, large,
slow, untroubled man, familiar with
newspaper work over the States, es-
pecialIy under the late Mr.. DePriest oil
the Memphis Avalanche, perfectly sym,
pathetic, and extending most urgent
invitation to join the Press Club OF
which he is president There was Frank
Chamberlain, son of the famous Cham
berlain, of the New York Sun, Mr..
Deeter, a Gilbert Meade, Tom Garner,
of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Times, an
office boy and red headed reporter
who does the boys clubs and baseball
games from the assignment card pasted
on Mr.. McCoy's desk, one gets a fair
idea of the daily programme. Pity the
good little reporter who has to do the
Higgins Hall lecture at 500 a. M, fol
the earliness of it, but not for the lee
ture, for it is by George Vincent, most
wonderful speaker, college professor
and man who can be summed up in
the idea that he is a distinct satisfac-
ton to his good and useful father. Al