The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-30
Mrs. Pickett, StrOllers' Male
Quartet and Play the
Final Features
ANOTHER SERIES
HERE NEXT YEAR
Over 500 Course Tickets Pledged and
Chairman Smith Gives Assurance that
Necessary Number OF GuarantorS
Will Be Secured

The first season of Chautauqua in Brat
tleboro ended last night and the big tent
on the high school grounds was pulled
down at once after the evenings perform
ances. Additional subscriptions for sea-
son tickets for next years series were re-
ceived, and the aim TO obtain pledges for
500 tickets was realized, the total number
Of tickets pledged being sol. A number
Of men and women signifed their willing
ness by standing, to have their names put
down as guarantors for the sale of enough
more tickets to bring the total mp to 700,
the necessary number, and Chairman i.
Il. Smith Of the local Chautauqua commit
tee said he would guarantee to secure the
necessary number of guarantors, so it is
assured that Chautauqua will come again
next year
The program yesterday afternoon opened
with Pageant Of Average Town by
children who had attended the Junior
Chautaugua on tho. several mornings.
The junior Chautauqua WAS not so
largely attended as it will be year
hence for many mothers failed to real
ize the value of it and the interest
taken in the children by Miss Lucy
| Carvin. The pageant was very in
| teTesting.
The Strollers male quartet. one Of
| the famous male quartets of the coun-
| try, the members of which are also bell
| ringers of exceptional ability, were
| next on the program. Their program
was varied, including solos, duets and
quartets and some of the numbers
| they PLAYED their own accompaniments
on the bells. It was one of the~delight-
! full musical entertainments of the week.
/ La lto
ture by Mrs. Pickett and when that wo-
man, who, as mere giEl of 10. married
the famous Confederate general in the
stress and strife Of the Civil war, APP
pcared on the platform she received q
most cordial greeting. Prominent
among her auditors were several vet
Grams of the Federal army who had
sought front seats in their anxiety to
hear all she might say of life in tho
Confederacy during their years Of
strife
Gifted with remarkable stage
presence and blessed with a remarka
bic speaking voice for a woman, to say
nothing of woman who despite ap
pearances. has passed the alleged meri
ldian Of life every word she uttered wa:
distinctly audible in every part Of the
large tent. Her lecture was a treat
To those present who had read her re
Gently published articles ON which he
lecture is based there was the addi
tional appeal of a charming presence
and gracious personality that made he
f anecdotal story more appealing thar
any printed page could do
She told of her isolation from chill,
companionship because of an attack o
whooping cough and her sympathy 70
soldier whom she found in solitud
and her self introduction to her futur
: husband in an attempt to symPathiz
with him. From that notable day i
her life to the time when Presiden
and Mrs. Grant invited her husban
and his family to be their guests i
the White House because of persona
7 friendship for General Pickett in til
e days before the North and the Sout
separated, her lecture, lasting nearl
one hour and one-half, was punctuate
e with personal "reminiscences of me
E who loomed large in the public life 0
l the days of the Civil war.
Not once did she touch a chord th0
7 was discordant Naturally she told q
I the suffering and regret at the los
of the cause of the South, but eve
this, her auditors were made to fee
was OF Jnc past. 1nlS WOHdn VINO na
known Jefferson Davis, Robert f. lie
Stonewan'' Jackson, Abraham Lii
coin, T. S. Grant and others of almo,
l. equal prominence so welded little anc
dotes of her personal knowledge
those men into her lecture as to brir
If all of them nearer to her auditors tina
h had been ever the case before
ID Last evening the Strollers Male qua
y tet gave another concert the program b
10 ing materially varied from that of the d
in ternoon and the concluding part of the e
= tertainment was a production of Shab
/ pere's Twelfth Night by College Player
- production of this brilliant play tn
~ met with the full approval of a We
II large audience.
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