Evening journal., 1913-04-12
CHAUTAUQUA
FOR The CITY.
viii be Held Under West End
Auspices June 2S-
July 4
ASK SUPPORT FOR
EDUCATIONAL EVENT

Wilmington will have a Chautau-
qua this summer.
This announcement rs authoritative.
and the date of the ChautauQua will
be from June 2S to July 4. inclusive.
The place will be the playground Of
the West End Reading Room at Della
ware avenue and Union stree, and a
tent accommodating 5000 people will
be placed there.
why does a ChautauQua have to
have such a big tent? The answer
Is that in every town where there is
a chautauqua, everybody tries to get
inside the tent at once. and Whining
ton is not behind other towns in
knowing a good thing when it secs it.
The chautauQua furnishes the best
sort of recreation, TO begin with. Be
sides that, it is immensely inspiring.
On the opening day of the Whining
ton chautauqua, for example, there
VIII be a speech by some man like
William jennings Bryan, or Victor
Murdoch, or Senator Clapp. Besides
that there will be a hand concert. the
famous Florontne Band, with Miss
MelrOse soprano soloist, and some
fine moving pictures.
Every day of the week there will
be series lecture. such as Words
worth and Democracy" Burns, the
Peoples Poet" Robert Browning.
Exponent of Life" etc One one day.
Judge Ben Lindsey will speak, and on
another Newell Dwight Iliues. There
will be science lectures, concerts. mo-
lion pictures, jugglers, Dickens i'm
personations, an opera quart5tic, Ty-
rolean yodlers, and all sorts of other
things too numerous to mention.
OF course. all this cannot be done
without large expense. Tho West End
Reading room, which brings the
,hautauqua to this city. stands be-
hind il with guarantee. and this
alone makes it possible for it to come.
phe Reading Room is a pioneer in
community bottermcnt II started the
first free kindergarten and tho FIRST
Tree playground and ii s going to
be the pioneer in chautauqua work.
too
BY plodging itself for the amount
necessary to bring the chautauqua
to Wilmington CS1.400l the Reading
Room thus opens the way for all the
citizens of Wilmington to see it at a
lower cost than has ever been done
elsewhere. Tho chautauqua ticket in
other places, "A transferable ticket
Tor the week, which admits to 81 diff
ferent performances. is usually $500
In Wilmington. owing 10 the guaran-
tee Of the West End Reading Room
this price Will be- reduced to S150. a
little less than FIVE cents for each
performance
These course tickets will not be on
sale before June but the way for
them is now being prepared The
West End Reading Room is inviting a
selected number of influential people
throughout the city to take up this
1nattor among their friends and tc
secure the names and addresses OF
tthose who would like to have these
fcourse tickets None OF these ticket
will be sold after the chautauQua
has commenced There will he only
seDarato tickets of admission to the
different performances. and these win
run from thirN-fve to fifty cents
apiece. The immense value of the
transferable course ticket will thus
be seen, as il saves from thirty TO
forty-fve cents on each performance
and can be used by whole family
or by q group of people
A full program of tho chautauqna
and further accounts Of 1t will appear
from time to time. but this advance
statement of the plan and purpose
Of the thing will give Wilmingtonians
an idea of the treat that is I'm store
for them this summer