The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-19
CHAUTAUQUA Will
OPEN HERE TODAY
Excellent Music Will Be Rem.
dered For The Next Six
Days

tinueS IOf SIX udSS pioIiiScS " oe
one of the very best chautauqua's OF
other kind of entertainment ever pre-
sented to the people of Cape Girar-
deau. The event will be a session of
patriotism, inspiration and entertain.
ment and eminently appropriate te
this time of world turmoil and stir
ring events.
The tent where the various num-
bers of the program will be given will
be pitched on the vacant lot at the
corner of independence and Pacific
streets. The site is elevated and ir
a quite section of the city. This To-
cation has been utilized before for
public meetings and is considered one
of the best locations in the city.
Some of the best talent to be found
on the American platform will appear
in the series of lectures. A program
will be rendered each afternoon and
evening during the six days. A mus.
ical program and a lecture will be
given at each meeting.
The lectures will be given by Capt
Richard P. Hobson, the hero of the
Merrimac, George Eustace Pearson
of the Princess Pats, Canada's crack
regiment, William Jennings Bryan
orator, ex-secretary of state, and sew.
eral times candidate for president
DIR. Jay William Hudson, of the Uni
versity of Missouri, DR.. Roland A
Nichols, E. f. Violette, Kansas City
pulpit orator. Bob Seeds, humorist
and orator.
The musical program offered car
not be excelled. Among the musical
organizations furnishing the music
for the session will be the Nevassar
Orchestral band, Americas leading
organization of young lady musicians
and the Chautauqua's greatest must
cal offering. The Cecilian chorus
featuring old-tiine favorites, Vierra' s
royal Hawaiians, native singers, and
Blacks European orchestra.
The best number in the lecture pro-
gram will be George Eustace Pear
son, it is generally believed. Pear
son is one of less than thirty survi-
vors of the Princess Pats regiment of
Canada.
The regiment was composed of 1900
adventurous spirit from all over Can
ada and from the Arctic Circle to the
Gulf of Mexico. 1t was the rough
riders of Canada, though many of the
members of the regiment were from
other countries. 1t was one of the
regiments that held back the Ger
mans until the big English army was
organized and put in the field and of
all the 1900 men only 80 survived.
Mr.. Pearson is one of the best
known authors of war stories and
books now before the public. His
Princess Pats stories appearing in the
magazines are considered the very
best stories Of the war that have been
printed. His Chautauqua address
will recount the history of the Prin-
cess Pats, the most famous fighting
body of men of modern times. After
the regiment was annihilated Pearson
spent six months in hospital as a
result of combined shell shock and
cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Capt. Richard P. Hobson became
famous in the Spanish-American war,
in which he served in the navy as a
captain. He is the man that sank
the Merrimac in the mouth. of the
harbor at Santiago to prevent the es-
capeof the Spanish fleet. After the
war was over he made a tour of the
United States.
When he retired from the navy in
1908 he was elected to congress from
the 9th Alabama districst and was
reelected several times. Twenty
years ago in an article in the NAVAL
Institute" Hobson predicted the pre-
sent world war and Americas part in
it. While in congress he was an adj
vocate of preparedness.
DIR. J. William Hudson has Just re-
turned from a special mission from
Europe to see and observe conditions
and will lecture on American Ideals"
His lecture will be given tonight.
The other lecturers, Bob Seeds, Dr.
Roland A. Nichols, Clyde Wilson Nc
Cord are all well-known platform en-
tertainers and we'll worth hearing.