The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1914-02-10
NEARLY $4,000
SEE ROBERTSON
COMING HERE
Great Traveller Whom Sentinel Brings
Here. Closes Most Remarkable
Months Engagement in Dem
yer; That City Wants Him
Again.
BIG CROWDS EVERY DAY


= Sunday. the. famous world .,
s traveller. Frank r.. Robertson. :,
= who is soon to spend two weeks 3,
" In this city under the auspices 4,
= of The Sentinel. closed a most ..
v successful enlightenment in Dem q
yer under the Auspices of the g,
- Denver News and Denver Times. 4,
The Following is from yester- !
uays Denver News and will be !,
q OF interest to hundreds OF local i
people, who are eagerly antici- =
= pating AIR. Roberson's visit: J.
W0 u q Is % g 9 3 q q 9
Fifty-nine thousand seven hun
dred and three psople-more than
one-fourth of the Population of Dem
ver-Journeyed with Frank Il, Rob-
erson, traveloguer of the Rocky
Mountain News, during his four
weeks engagement which closed
yesterday at the First Baptist church,
The series of travelogues has been
the most successful of anything. of
the sort ever attempted In this city.
Through the opportunity accorded by
the News thousands of Denycr's res
idents We're able to visit in picture
the strange. wonderful and charming
places of the world. Besides being
a rare entertainment, the trave-
logues have been exceptionally edu-
cational.
The popularity of the traevlogues
has been largely fdue to their mex
pensiveness.
or all the tracylogues offered by
Robertson during the series. that on
the Panama canal was the most pop
nlar. This particular number was
offered eight different times. on
nearly every occasion to capacity
houses The number of persons who
viewed the wondsIs being done in
tfe colstruotidfi C$tha canal through
the eyes of Robertson was 5,145.
But in spite of the drawing power
of the canal as a travelogue subject,
honors for the biggest attended sin
gle number must go to the Passion
Play. All records for attendance
We're shattered yesterday afternoon
when this subject was presented to
house of 1910.
Third in order of popularity came
Japan which was offered twice. The
first house was 2,332 and the second
2.251. Scotland was also presented
twice to $3.50.
Total attendance for the week was
1896. The first week was l $50:
the second t6,424,an d the third ~
9G4.
Thirty-eight travelogues were pre-
sented in all This figure divided
into the total attendance of 50,703
shows 1.57l as the average.
The travelogue offered as a fare
well by Robertson was very much of
treat to every one of the great
number of people who packed the
church. 1t was a gripping story of
the worlds most intense and great
est tragedy-the life of the Christ
as presented once every ten years
by the peasants of the quaint little
Barvarian village. Oberammergau.
So great a place have the trave-
logues of the past four weeks filled
in the lives of many Denverites that
regret over their conclusion was
heard frequently among the great
number of people in the church yes
terday afternoon. 1t was suggested
repeatedly that Robertson be brought
back to Denver for another series
in larger place than the First Bap-
fist church, SO that q greater number
of people could be accommodated.