The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-06
COBB BRINGS
GREAT MESSAGE
FROM THE FRONT
Worlds Greatest War Correspondent
Tells Of Wonderful Experiences at
Battle Front and Greatly
Pleases Large Audience In
in Closing Address Of
1918 Chautauqua.

A glimpse across a surging winter
sea from the deck of the steamer Bal
tic at the sinking of the Tuscania, the
first American Transport sunk
by the German submarines; the
Germans charge on the village of
Noyon; the destruction of the Belgian
village of Louvaine; the volunteering
of an entire Battalion of 800 Ameri-
can soldiers at the first call for vol
unteers to go over the top and the
retiring of hundreds of thousands of
refugees from their despoiled coun-
tries, were among the many vivid de-
scriptions of the great war now rag
ing over there given at the Chautau-
qua tent last night by Irwin s. Cobb,
the worlds greatest war correspond
ent, in one of the greatest lectures on
the world war that the people OF
Northeastern Kentucky have yet been
privileged to hear.
Two hours before the great Ken
tuckian was scheduled to begin his
lecture Beechwood Park was well fill
ed with people who came from all
over this section of Kentucky and
from Southern Ohio and an hour be-
fore the lecture began no seat in the
big tent could be found.
To say that Mr.. Cobb's lecture
pleased would be putting it too mild.
The lecture was by far the biggest
feature of Chautauqua week and was
worth more than the amount charged
for an entire season ticket
From the time the great journalist
4 mounted the stage being introduced
by Mr.. Colt, general manager of the
Coit-Alber Chautauqua company, he
held his audience with descriptions OF
what he had seen on the fighting front
in France and Flanders as only Irwin
Cobb could do and just to make the
lecture sound like Cobb the humorist
as well as Cobb, the reporter, he
threw into 1t some of his wit which
always went for a hearty round o.
laughs and brought forth loud ap
plause.
As the first part of his lecture MI
Cobb told something about his frs
trip to the war front in 1914 when h
with a party of four other war cor
respondents had some very strenu
: GUS times in seeing the war at frs
hand and we're taken prisoner FINAL
" by the Germans to be turned fire
again after few days and welcome
e to the German fighting front for som
! time where he learned much abou
o the present day system of fighting.
The second part of the lecture wa
given over to his recent trip to tn
Western front and in this part of tn
lecture he came nearer home. H
told of the wonderful courage of tn
p. American soldiers at the front an
: told some interesting incidents whic
will live for long time in the mind
-. of those who were fortunate enoug
to hear him. He took special care
praise those men who make up tn
=. ammunition trains of our army an
was loud in his praise of the colore
American troopers who have bee
, giving such fine account of them
selves during the fighting now i
+, progress.
Wonderful were his many expert
ences in the war zone and interestin
have been his accounts of those e2
periences published in the newspa
/ pers and magazines but it takes Cob
o himself to tell the story and thos
t who heard him last night know NOR
: about what is going on over in north
e ern France than they could hay
learned in most any other way.
The Castle Court Singers gave
:. very beautiful program of Englls
songs in costume preceding M
Il Cobb's lecture. They are high elias
musicians and their program lai
night went big with the audience, b.
ing called back on several numbers
AS an added and unexpected fei
ture of the last nights program NJ
Colt, general manager of the Col
Alder Chautauqua Company, gave
short talk to the large audience. NJ
Colt and his company deserve tn
thanks of the people of this sectio
for such fine weeks program: Man
think it the best Chautauqua progral
Maysviile has ever had. At any raj
it has been first-class in every respe,
and the people of Maysville and con
munity have been made better for 4
coming, therefore 1t has been we
! worth while.