The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-07-08
Fairr1aont VIII
Be Flooded
VIlithB Banners
aERALDING FOR 3cHAUTAUQUA
Z WEEKSSEEN on MANY AID. q
VERTIsINGl DEVICES.
EVOLUTION OF MOVEMENT ONE,
OF THE WONDERS OF MOD 1E
~, ERN TIMES. - { Z.

ERN5 TIMES.
Within the next few hours Fair
mont will be flooded with banners
and advertising devices heraiding
Qhautauqna week, which will open
en- Wednesday, July / S, and contln-
ue to and including Tuesday, July
81. The big waterproof tent will
reach Fairmont on Tuesday Of next
week, and will be pitched in Loop
Park, adjacent to the street car line
and easy Of access from all parts Of
the city, WA
1.-The evolution OF the sCnautauqua
movement, said Colonel Hal p. Dem
ton, general press representatiyeeof
:lie Redpatl-Brockaway Chautauquat
company, who Is in the city today.
SIS one Of the wonders Of modern
times. Stripped Of narrowness and
religious sectism. the Chautauqua IS
doing more for lcsmoral7and spirit
ual ,plift of Rthe whole community
:iian perhaps any other agency.
1.-THE circuit Chautauqua move
ment. had its inception in thu west,
and III. was mot until two years ago
It.iat 1T inyaded the states east of the
mississippi river. Originally there
were what were known as the indie
pendent chautauauas, as distinguish-
edh from the modern isystematIged
Ghautauqua. " Under,the oldfand OBJ
soiete plansaif few men I'm q communi-;
itya would organize an independent
clitautauqua, set a date for its opera
Ttton. and negotiate for speakers.
READERS, musicians. magicians and
others that make up5the Ghautauqua
programs. In the Independent Chau-
tauQuas the talent were never at
their best after a week spent in siren
luous work and every night in a sleep
!tcr. And long jump railroad fares in
creased the price ofi'talent.!
ITO. Keith yawter. manager Of the
Redpatlip Bureau in Cedar Rapids,
Ia. mustfbe accorded tllehcredit Of
having conceived and worked out the
modern gsystematizedIGh autanQua.5 AT
the END oftsixIyears fof operation un=
der his system the :Redpathl people
were operating 500 schautauquas
west of the Mississippi river slgisii
Two Yeas ago they decided to
come east, and II. p! Harrison. of the
Chicago Redpath office, was Commits.
stoned to get contfaets. In 1875 the
contracts amounted to no, eleventh f
which We're lin 9Pd Pennsylvania. SO.
great has been fhel demand FOR Chan
Etauquas east the Mississippi river
that urisystems sard,being operated
this summerpin that territory, two
from Chicago one from columbus,
and the 'Redpath-Bro okwaygcompany
from Pittsburgh Smaking fandaggre-
gate of more than 400 Chautauquas.
The popularity Of the Chautauqua as
an institution affording amusement,
Instruction and diversion for the
masses is attcsted by the fact that 81
Iof the 80 towns that had one In 1919
contracted for a return in 1913, and.
j that this year los Chautauquas will
be held in110 towns that had one
in 1912.
System is the watchword of the
IRedpath- Brockway people. For in
stance. Fairmont is in a chain OF fiji!
Ity-six towns and cities in West Vir-.
ginia and western Pennsylvania that,
will inaugurate Chautauqua ills,
summer. Nine complete outfits, In
Guiding nine big waterproof audi.l
,torium tents, nine dressing ,tents and
nine sleepinggtents are required. The
auditorium tents are, equipped with
Ifolding;canyas seats OF the, latest Inn
proved design. These nine equip!
ments remain n seven days in each
town or icityGwhere a Chautauqua Il
held, thus giving two days for the.
movement of eacl, equipment from
cneHplace to another. lprI
Every days program during q
Chautauqua IS. complete I'M itself. No
entertainment repeats. The first
Gays. program in! one the first in
all. Underline new 6ispensation the
.talcnt' works all the time and con-
tinuously. There are all told about
100 persons on the official program
| Of the MISUNDERSTANDING chautau-
quaithisyear, making in.nll So differ
Ient, features. z y
fSalient among these features Is
ithe Ben Greet Players in Shakes
peare's The Twelfth Night, Sands
Regimental Band, the Deane Grand
!, Opera company In the garden seeie
and! final act OF Guonod's tunefal
Faust, the Carolineurs with their'
smellifluous silver bells, the Redpath
Grand Quartette, tho Quortette 81
the Central Church Of Chicago, the
2immer- Hayekotte Trio and the
sschumann's dies, Quartette, while
in the list of speakers may be mem
toned United States Senator Robert
L Owen, of Oklahoma, DR.. Thomas
barney Thompson, Judge Marcus a.
Kayanaugh Of Illinois. Or. Edgar T.
Daugherty, Chaplain Kiplinger OF
THE Indiana state prison, Hon. Geo.