ENTERTAINMENT

FOR THE

Benefit of the Church and Sunday-School,

At Berean Baptist Church
On Thursday Eve Jan. 28, 1882

AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON THE
WONDERS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS!

PROFESSOR HAYDEN'S EXPLORATIONS
OF THE
Yellow-Stone Basin.

MAJOR POWELL'S
WILD BOAT-RIDE

OF
NINE HUNDRED MILES THROUGH THE CANYONS OF THE COLORADO RIVER.

A VISIT TO THE AZTEC CITIES
IN THE
DESERT OF ARIZONA.

THE DESCENDANTS OF THE MONTEZUMAS
INHABITING WALLED CITIES, BUILT UPON
THE TOPS OF HIGH MOUNTAINS.

LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS.

BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS COUNCILLORS!
SALT LAKE CITY AND THE MORMON TABERNACLE
THE YOSEMITE AND ITS GLORIES.

Spouting Geyser of the Yellow-Stone Basin.

Lineaweaver & Wallace, Steam-Power Rail Road Printers, 32 South Fourth St., Philadelphia.

NEWSPAPER NOTICES.

FROM THE NEW YORK SUN.

MR. E. O. BEAMAN, who accompanied Professor J. W. POWELL, in the geological and topographical survey of the Colorado river, undertaken by virtue of an act of Congress, has brought home with him a large and varied series of photographic views of the interesting scenes of the journey. The region explored is one of the most remarkable in North America, and Mr. BEAMAN enables us to admire its phenomena and enjoy its beauties, without any part of the trouble and labor which he and his associates have gone through. Next to the photographs devoted to the Colorado and its marvellous canons, the most striking are those which depict the houses of the Moquis. These edifices are like the famous Cases Grandes of New Mexico, consisting of vast series of tenements, surrounded by a doorless, common wall, and forming, in fact, one immense building, containing abodes for numerous families, accessible from the outside only by ladders, which can be drawn up. This system of construction affords to these peaceful and industrious Indians, complete protection against the marauding horsemen of wilder tribes. Mr. BEAMAN thinks the Moquis are descendants of the old Aztec race; but, whatever be their origin, their associated manner of living is perhaps the most curious fact, among all that we know respecting the original people of America. Mr. BEAMAN's photographs can be procured from Messrs. SUDDARDS & FENEMORE, 820 Arch St., Philadelphia.

FROM THE JERSEY CITY EVENING JOURNAL.

THE WEST SEEN THROUGH THE CAMERA.—The Trinity M. E. Church, in York Street, was crowded last night with a happy audience, to whom, the darkened room and the brilliant views, which were thrown on a huge white screen by a powerful magnesium light, was pleasure and joy. The entertainment in stereopticon views of the great canons, the cataracts, the rapids, and thousand and one features of the wildly grand scenery of the great West. Prof. E. O. Beaman, who accompanied Powell's expedition, and who took the original photographs, from which the views were taken, delivered an interesting, descriptive lecture on the pictures thrown upon the canyas. The magnificent scenery of the Green river, the head-long, perilous ride down twenty rapids into the canons of the Colorado, wild scenery on the plains, the cities of the Aztecs, and a hundred other views were given with rare fidelity, to the delight of the audience. The Trinity Sunday School will benefit materially by the proceeds of the exhibition.

FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE.

A CHOICE ENTERTAINMENT.—To-morrow evening, and in the Presbyterian Rooms, 398 Fulton street, Mr. E. O. Beaman, who accompanied Professor Powell's geological and topographical expedition to Colorado, will give an exhibition of the scenes of the journey. Mr. Beaman has brought home a large and varied series of photographic views of the region explored, which include the wonders of the Yellow-Stone Basin, the canons of the Colorado river, the picturesque Aztec cities of Arizona, the grand features of the Yosemite, and the strange sights in Salt Lake City, and Mormon home life. These pictures in the ordinary stereoscope, are marvels that make a spectator care to study them, but when enlarged on an immense canvas, projected by an oxyhydrogen stereopticon and pleasantly explained by Mr. Beaman, they form a fascinating entertainment. One traverses the magnificent country of this continent without fatigue, and creates the fairest memories for himself, as well as adds profitable stock to his general information. The entertainment is conceived in taste and consummated with tact, and all who go will spend a choice hour with choice spirits.

JERSEY CITY EVENING JOURNAL.

THE WONDERS OF THE WEST.—An illuminated "Wonders of the West," was given last night at the Simpson M. E. Church, on Central Avenue. A small but appreciative audience, looked on the excellent views, and listened to a description of the scenes of rivers, hid in the bowels of majestic mountains, piled in grand confusion, by the omni-

potent Architect of the universe, and whose rugged tops rise clear and well-defined above the battling elements, and the world below. Silvery streamlets that, increasing in volume, rend eternal hills and run giant rivers to the sea; the old man in his home, far removed from the threatening hand of civilization; the great American desert, whose barren aspect is relieved only by the forbidding cactus, the skeleton of the unfortunate buffalo, and the whitening bones, and wrecked remnants of some emigrant train, all monumental warnings to the daring white man, unprepared for such scenery, to retrace his steps before he, too, be added to the list of victims, and burning with thirst, and blinded by the hot sand, suffer the pangs of death for the sound of human voice, or the sympathetic look of human eye. The seven Indian cities. Castellated ruins, faint traces of a faded civili- zation, peopled with the sun-worshipping, followers of Montezuma, the remnant of a strange race who, before the ruthless scythe of progress, have vanished like the grass on the plain. The lecture will be con- tinued to-night.

BROOKLYN UNION.

STRIKING VIEWS OF WESTERN SCENERY.—MR. BEAMAN was with Major POWELL' Exploring Expedition, and his photographs were of subjects never before given to the public. From these views of the sublime mountain scenery of Colorado and Nevada, the tre- mendous cliffs, the awful gorges with their brawling rivers, the rocky deserts, the Yellow-Stone Geysers, and strange sand-stone formations, one can obtain much valuable information in regard to our great and almost unexplored West. One of the most striking views was that of the Colorado canyon, which was taken from the top of a cliff, a mile in height, looking down upon the Colorado river, which, though the size of the Ohio, seemed but a mere strip of white extending over the landscape. Upon the sides of these canyons the exploring expedition found

HIEROGLYPHICS ENGRAVED

in the stone, which Indian legends state were carved by "the wise men," now supposed to be Aztecs, or a branch of the ancient Mexi- cans. These vague traditions say that "the wise men" lived in houses, from which fact it is supposed that the "Moquis Pueblos" Indians are their descendants. Two or three of their houses and one of their cities were represented—great castles of rock and mortar, erected upon the summit of some vast cliff or mountain. The in- habitants obtain access to their domiciles by means of windows which are reached by ladders. They spent most of their time in open air sleeping on their house-tops and worshipping the sun—things strong!

SUGGESTIVE OF EASTERN CUSTOMS.

MR. BEAMAN delivered his discourse in a straight-forward man- and conveyed much valuable information. As he has large nun- er, of these interesting views, it is to be hoped that they may be exhi- ber, at some Hall or Church in this city. His pictures and his lect- are intensely interesting, and ought to be heard by every Su- 5 School, and every church in the land.

NEW YORK GRAPHIC. loud

EL CANYON DEL COLORADO. rt. 1

The lecture of MR. E. O. BEAMAN last evening in Robinson Hs. on Sixteenth street, was extremely interesting. His photograph, views, thrown on a screen, proved of the highest value in realizi- to his hearers the many wonderful features of the Colorado canyon. The descriptions and illustrations of this river accompanied with views of the Seven Cities of the Desert, and of the Geyser Springs, is the Yellow-Stone basin. The truthfulness of the camera produced with almost startling realism the rude three-story stone structures of the walled cities, as well as the hard, half-savage faces of their in- habitants. The lecture itself was filled with facts, and gave a vivid idea of the difficulty experienced by the artist. No better idea of the famous Major Powell expedition can be gained than from these views and their explanations. The series of lectures will be continued this evening, and to-morrow afternoon and evening.