The Four-Track News Volume 11, No. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...a movement for the people in the broadest and best sense. It includes all classes in its work, providing they have a desire to do something for their own and others' advancement. This was shown in a little incident that was related at Chautauqua by Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who met a mechanic on the train and, in conversation as they traveled together, the man told him that he had never been to Chautauqua, but that he was much interested in the place, as he was a member of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, and, said he: "Through its stimulation and direction I have read a score of the best of books which I should never have read had I not been induced to become a reader of the circle." The man then began and discussed in a most intelligent manner the topics he had studied in the books of the course. At the summer assembly on Chautauqua Lake one meets with the most quiet, studious, respectful and intelligent class of people to be found perhaps in any summer city in the United States. They come I could induce from all sections of this country, from Canto read a pre-ada, and from many countries of the Old World. Some 4,000 people constitute the "permanent" population--those who own cottages, or come regularly to Chautauqua, and to this is added the "floating" population to the number of many thousands. The people are an interesting study in themselves, representing as they do the very bone and sinew of the best Americanism. The most characteristic place on the grounds is the Amphitheater, where all the great and imposing functions are held, where lectures are delivered and the preachers and entertainers from all lands speak. It is the center of the popular features of Chautauqua, and is one of.the most excellent outdoo...