Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-07-15
PlANN|HG FOR NEXT YEAR
Chautauqua May Come Again if
Enough Pledges Are Obtained.
Biggest Crowd Of the Week GreetE
Nitale's italian Band-Interestfng
Talk by II. &. HilI on "The
Ordinary Man."

larg~ audience attended Friday
afternoons program for the fourth day
Of the Community Chautauqua
Whales Marine band made its first APP
pearance here. II is under the direction
OF Master Angelo. said to be the worlds
youngest band director. Under his ca
pable, alert leadership the band played
program Of classical and popular num-
bers and won hearty applause The
pleresRiven included the prelude and quar-
'ette from Verdfs "Rigoetto" and sue.
popular numbers as ITS Long, Long
Way to 1ipperary" and the THE Amer
lcan Patrol" 10 mention a few The
young director was enthusiastically re-
ceived.
| The second part If the program vas
, taken up by DR. Harry G. Hill who
gave a talk on The Ordinary Man" The
real test OF ones character comes when
man becomes 30 or 80 Years of age. Up to
that time he has been SPOILED h, his par.
ents and perhaps sustained BIZ a sort Of
pseudo conceit. Here he traced the life
Of the average youngs ter from the dav Of
his birth to hts emergence from COLLEGE
when. William, as he dubbed his irnagi-
nary youth, who used to be Familiarity
known as Bllie-wil rest bit before
! accepting position" and who in fact
rests quite a bit before he condescends to
buckle down, saying in effect. Just
watch mo rise" And then at 81 or there
abouts comes a morning when he aWakes
to End himself Just an ordinary man. It
Is then that men begin to lose their grip
The speaker traced his only early aspira-
tons telling Of how he took up the min
| istrv and came to believe he would he L
veritable pulpit bird Of paradise. and Of
how Re finally saw that he vas only
'one-horse preacher in a two-horse town
before three donkey congregation
But IS II not true. he i'd that we for
get the heroism Of daily life. that men are
after al measured hv the respon sbilities
they hear. Of the faithful discharge Of
duty in quiet wav? He smoke If Prose
velts communicating railroad engineer.
and he spoke Of the work Of the brave
men behind Grant And he said that We
have raised the standard of living that
the dreams of our fathers have become
realities. and that II is therefore not a
small thing TO ne an ordinary man in
this advanced age
The largest crowd of the week greet
ed Whales italian Marine band at
night and the quality of it's work can
safely be compared with the best that
any musical organization in any large
city could offer. whale, the leader. in
only seventeen years old, but his work
equals that Of veteran The hand.
composed of seventeen pieces, equals in
volume and tone that of a much larger
organization. Such selections as the
National Emblem March," The Ros-
ary" The Mill in the Forest and the
seXtette from Lucia de Lan1uermoor',
were rendered, intermingled with pop
ular airs Of the day. In the FANTASY on
my Old Kentucky Home" each instru-
ment vas given chance to perform
separately. The evenings program
closed with The Star Spangled Ban
ner"
Mr.. whale has been at his work
since ne vas six years old, and his
played before many Of the crown heads
of Europe, besides all over this coun
try. He played for a time in one ot
the largest cafes IN san Francisco. and
a few years ago at Churchilrs in New
York, 20 say nothing of the largest or
chestras and organizations in New
York, Chicago and other cities in the
country. His cornet solo. "Rerceuse."
from Jocylen. last evening was fav-
orte.
During the intermission. Mr. Hill
the speaker of the afternoon. said a
few words to the effect that IL 500 sea-
son tickets were guaranteed for next
year, Burlington could have a Chau-
tauqua eQuallinG, If not lettering. the
one this year. and pledges were taken
through the audience. over one-half
the regular number was ped-ed